Cregya triguttula OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 75, 164, 326)

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: Bahia, Brazil, D. Davis (WFBM).

D i a g n o s i s: The three black spots on the elytron, amidst an otherwise yellow elytral color, will distinguish the members of this species from congeners.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.5 mm; width 3.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 326. Color: Yellow, except pterothorax brown, and each elytron with three small black spots, one on humeral angle, one adjacent to mesoscutellum, and one near middle of elytral disc. Head: Antenna (Fig. 75) capitate, funicular antennomeres get shorter towards capitulum, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 triangular, antennomere 10 ovoid; eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye slightly wider than frons (EW/FW 20/18). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 164) quadrate (PW/PL 120/120), disc finely punctate, lateral tubercle well developed; elytra sculptured with 10 striae of asetiferous punctures that dissipate at elytral distal 3/4 (EL/EW 260/70). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: ThisspeciesisknownfromBrazil.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, triguttula, is a Latin compound name that stems from the prefix tri- (= three) and gutta (= spot); with reference to the three black spots on each elytron.