Madoniella baja OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 65, 152, 295)

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: GUAT. Baja Verapaz, 14.5 km N. Salamá on Patín Rd., 1620 m, 23.V.1991, H. & a. Howden (CMNC).

D i a g n o s i s: The genus Madoniella PIC was revised in 2011 (OPITZ 2011b). This work included a key to species. Madoniella baja specimens key out to M. punctata (GORHAM), from which the available M. baja specimen differs by showing a dark brown region on the elytral humerus.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 3.2 mm; width 1.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 295. Color: Forebody dark castaneous; antennae bicolorous, fundus testaceous, capitulum brown; pterothorax black; elytra mostly dark brown, insignia partially developed, anterior block not connected to posterior block, small punctiform testaceous spot near posterocentral extension of posterior block. Head: Antenna (Fig. 65) capitate, funicular antennomeres filiform, progressively shorter towards capitulum, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 triangular, antennomere 10 ovoid; eyes large, ommatidia small, eye narrower than frons (EW/FW 15/23). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 152) transverse, coarsely punctured (PW/PL 48/36), disc deeply concave paralaterally near pronotal collar; discal and lateral trichobothria prominent; elytral asetiferous punctures striate (EL/EW 155/40); anterior margin of protibia with 6 spines. Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimen was collected during May, at 1620 m.

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

E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname, baja, is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.