12. Cryptognatha celia González and Hanley, new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.3 mm, width 2.1 mm. Dorsal surface shiny with faint trace of microsculpture. Color black; head yellow; pronotum with anterior margin narrowly yellowish brown, lateral 1/4 yellow (Fig. 67); venter dark brown except legs reddish yellow; basal abdominal ventrite brown, ventrites 2–5 brownish yellow. Head without punctures; pronotal punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less, becoming gradually larger toward lateral margin; prosternal punctures large, indistinct, separated by two to three times a diameter; mesosternal punctures larger than on prosternum, separated by less than a diameter, metasternal punctures large, separated by two or three times a diameter medially, entirely absent in lateral 1/3; basal abdominal ventrite with coarse punctures separated by about a diameter medially, lateral 1/3 of ventrite lacking punctation, ventrites 2–4 finely punctured, punctures separated by about a diameter, ventrite 5 with dense, fine punctation. Head with frons parallel-sided, medially depressed, 3 times as wide as eye, apex truncate medially, lateral 1/8 slightly retracted, angle acute (Fig. 68); eye canthus long, about 3/4 width of eye. Prosternum with lateral carina on each side extended from apex of intercoxal process more than 1/2 distance to apex of prosternum. Epipleuron moderately descending externally. Postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite evenly curved, extended 5/8 distance to rear margin of ventrite. Genitalia short, penis guide about as long as paramere, oval, slightly widened in apical 1/2, then narrowed to weakly emarginate apex; paramere long, slender, widened in apical 1/2 to rounded apex (Fig. 70, 71); penis long, robust, apical 1/3 attenuate; penis capsule slender, elongate, inner arm short, narrow, apex somewhat truncate, outer arm long, slender, sinuate (Fig. 72).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male: 558, Estado de Bahia, Brazil, G. Bondar leg., Predator on Aspidiotus destructor, Com Inst. Ent. Coll. No. 11290, 1= Pentilia discors Gorh . 2= P. egena Muls., D.J.Atkinson det. 1949, Pres by Com Inst Ent B M. (BMNH).

Remarks. This mostly black species is identified by its male genitalia, which distinguish it from other black species of Cryptognatha .