Madoniella spilota Opitz, 2010

Opitz, Weston, 2010, New taxa of Epiphloeinae Kuwert (Cleridae) and Chaetosomatidae Crowson (Coleoptera: Cleroidea), Insecta Mundi 2010 (123), pp. 1-28 : 16

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5352832

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5450623

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scientific name

Madoniella spilota Opitz
status

sp. nov.

Madoniella spilota Opitz , new species

Figure 11 View Figure 1-15 , 56 View Figure 47-58 .

Holotype. Male. COLOMBIA Norte de Santander ANU Los Estoraques Bosque Piritama 8 o 14' N 73 o 15’S 1815 m Malaise 29.x-18.xi. 2003 J. Vargas & E. Bayona Leg. M. 4603. A second label reads, IavH-E 70315. A third label reads, Instituto Humbolt COLOMBIA ( IAVH). (Specimen point mounted, antenna and gender label affixed to paper point; locality label; specimen number label; repository label; IAVH acronymic label; Holotype label.)

Paratypes. None.

Diagnosis ( Fig. 56 View Figure 47-58 ): In the key of madoniellan species (Opitz, in press), the Holotype extends to couplet 11(4'), which accommodates Madoniella rubida Opitz. From the latter, M. spilota specimens may be distinguished by the spotted condition of the legs.

Description. Size: Length 4.8 mm; width 1.6 mm. Integumental Color: Cranium dark reddish-brown; pronotal disc dark brown, more reddish at sides; elytral disc with well-developed insignia, posterolateral extensions of posterior block missing, posterocentral extension of posterior block broadly confluent with yellow macula on elytral apex. Head: Vertex narrower than eyes in head dorsal view; antenna as depicted in figure 11. Thorax: Pronotal side margins very sinuous, anterior margin arcuate plane; elytral form oblong; elytral punctations large; anterior margin of protibia with 5 spines. Abdomen: Aedeagus not available for study.

Variation. One specimen examined.

Natural History. The primary type was collected at 1850 m sometime between October 29 th and September 18 th.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality.

Etymology. The specific epithet spilota stems from the Greek spilos (= fleck). I refer to the spotty infuscations on the legs.

IAVH

Instituto de Ivestigacion de los Recursos Biologicos Alexander von Humboldt

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Madoniella

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