Madoniella selvanegra, Opitz, Weston, 2019

Opitz, Weston, 2019, Descriptions of new genera and new species of Western Hemisphere checkered beetles (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2), pp. 959-1076 : 984

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3746744

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3809194

persistent identifier

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Valdenar

scientific name

Madoniella selvanegra
status

nov.sp.

Madoniella selvanegra OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 100 View Figs 92-100 , 138 View Figs 134-152 , 225, 299)

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: Nicaragua: Matagalpa, Selva Negra , 16-22-IV-2002, beating tree branches, bushes, cloud forest edge, 1280 m, Weston Opitz ( FSCA) . Paratypes: 16 specimens. Nicaragua: Departamento de Matagalpa, Selva Negra , 16-22-IV-2002, beating tree branches, bushes, cloud forest edge, 1280 m, Weston Opitz ( WOPC, 8) ; idem, 7-VI-2018, R. Turnbow ( RHTC, 1) ; idem, 9-VI-2018, R. Turnbow ( RHTC, 1) ; idem, 10-VI-2018, R. Turnbow ( RHTC, 2) ; idem, 11-VI-2018, R. Turnbow ( RHTC, 3) ; idem, 14-VI-2018, R. Turnbow ( RHTC, 1) .

D i a g n o s i s: The genus Madoniella PIC was revised in 2011 ( OPITZ 2011b). This work includes a key to species. Madoniella selvanegra specimens key out to M. orosiensis OPITZ, from which M. selvanegra specimens differ by showing an anterocentral extension of the anterior insignal block. Such an extension is absent in M. orosiensis specimens.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 4.2 mm; width 1.3 mm. Form: As in Fig. 299 View Figs 298-301 . Color: Cranium red-castaneous; antenna brown, except scape and pedicel testaceous; pronotum black; pterothorax black; elytra mostly dark brown, insignia well developed, all insignia components present, except posterolateral extension of anterior block and anterolateral extension of posterior block absent; legs testaceous, tibiae infuscated; abdomen brown. Head: Cranium coarsely punctate; antenna ( Fig. 100 View Figs 92-100 ) capitate, funicular antennomeres filiform, progressively shorter towards capitulum, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 triangular, antennomere 10 ovoid; eyes large, ommatidia small, eye notch large, eye narrower than frons (EW/FW 18/25). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 138 View Figs 134-152 ) slightly transverse, coarsely punctured (PW/PL 55/50), disc deeply concave paralaterally near pronotal collar; discal and lateral trichobothria prominent; elytral asetiferous punctures striate (EL/EW 200/45); anterior margin of protibia with 5 spines. Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 225. View Figs 225-230

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimens were collected during April, by beating tree branches intertwined with bush branches, at a cloud forest edge, at 1280 m.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from Nicaragua.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, selvanegra, is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Madoniella

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