Cregya livida OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 81, 113, 322)

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz, Amboro Rd. above Achira Campo, 5-580' 11/10/2004, Morris & Wappes (FSCA).

D i a g n o s i s: In this beetle, the elytral disc is blue and the pronotum is mostly yellow-red and shows a transverse marking on the pronotal arch. This combination of characteristics will distinguish the members of this species from congeners.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.0 mm; width 1.8 mm. Form: As in Fig. 322. Color: Cranium, prothorax yellow-red, except pronotal arch with transverse brown macula and pronotal collar infuscated at middle; antenna black, except scape testaceous; elytra dark blue; pterothorax, legs, and abdomen black. Head: Cranium finely punctate; antenna (Fig. 81) capitate, funicular antennomeres shorter towards capitulum, funicular antennomere 6 slightly expanded; capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 triangular, antennomere 10 ovoid; eyes small, coarsely facetted, eye narrower than frons (EW/FW 22/30). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 113) subquadrate (PW/PL 73/67), disc finely punctate, lateral tubercle well developed; elytra sculptured with 10 striae of asetiferous punctures that dissipate near elytral apex (EL/EW 200/60). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The holotype was collected during October, at an altitude that ranges from 1,524 to 1,768 m.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from Bolivia.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, livida, is a Latin adjective that stems from lividus (= bluish); with reference to the dark blue body color of this beetle.