Ichnea paraguayensis OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 37, 199, 292)

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: PARAGUAY: Canindeyu, Mbaracay Reserve, 1-5-XII- 2017, 165 m, J.B. Heppner Malaise trap (FSCA).

D i a g n o s i s: The genus Ichnea LAPORTE was revised in 2010 (OPITZ 2010). That work included a key to Ichnea species. Ichnea paraguayensis specimens key out to I. marginella GORHAM, from which I. paraguayensis specimens differ by showing a pronotum that is more narrowed in its anterior 1/3, and the elytra and legs are completely black.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 292. Color: Black, except frons, cranial venter, and prothoracic sternum yellow. Head: Frons plane, extraordinarily narrow; antenna (Fig. 37) capitate, funicular antennomeres transverse and densely setose, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 rectangulate, antennomere 10 oblong; eyes large, finely facetted, eye wider than frons (EW/FW 30/7). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 199) slightly oblong (PW/PL 70/80) sides without tubercle, disc concave paralaterally near pronotal collar; discal and lateral trichobothria well developed; elytral asetiferous punctures small, profusely distributed (EL/EW 375/65); anterior margin of protibia with 11 spines. Abdomen: Pygidium transverse.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The holotype specimen was collected during December.

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

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