Pyticara frontegalba OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 39, 182, 217, 283)

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: Chapada, Brazil. Acc. No. 2966. A second label reads: Nov. A third label reads: Chapada Campo (CMNH) . Paratypes: 4 specimens. Brazil: Estado do Bahia, Chapada (WOPC, 2) ; Estado do Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso (MNHN, 1) ; Estado do Pará, Pará (CMNH, 1) .

D i a g n o s i s: The genus Pyticara SPINOLA was revised in 2015 (OPITZ 2015a). This work included a key to species. Pyticara frontegalba specimens key out to P. championi GORHAM from which P. frontegalba specimens differ by showing a longer combined length of the funicular antennomeres. In P. frontegalba specimens the combined length of the funicular antennomeres are longer that 1/2 of the length of the basal capitular antennomeres. In P. championi specimens, the combined length of the funicular antennomeres are shorter than 1/2 the length of the basal antennomere of the capitulum.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 13.0 mm; width 6.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 283. Color: Cranium and prothorax yellow; antenna black; pterothorax brown; elytra bicolorous, anterior 1/4 th yellow, posterior 3/4 th black; prothoracic and mesothoracic legs bicolorous, femora yellow, tibiae and tarsi brown, metathoracic legs brown; abdomen black. Head: Eyes small, coarsely facetted, eye much narrower than frons (EW/FW 52/70); funicular antennomeres (Fig. 39) transverse, very setose; capitular antennomeres 9 and 10 long rectangulate, antennomere 11 very oblong ovate. Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 182) transverse; pronotal tubercles absent (PW/PL 210/180), disc finely punctate; elytral disc without asetiferous punctures, elytra notably flared in posterior 1/2 (EL/EW 700/200). Abdomen: Pygidium transverse/scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 217.

Variation: Length 13.0- 16.5 mm; width 3.5-7.0 mm. The extent of the yellow region on the elytral base varies.

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

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

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, frontegalba, is a Latin compound name that stems from frontis (= forepart) and galbus (= yellow); with regard to yellow color of the anterior dorsal 1/2 of this beetle.