Ichnea paraguayensis, Opitz, Weston, 2019

Opitz, Weston, 2019, Descriptions of new genera and new species of Western Hemisphere checkered beetles (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2), pp. 959-1076 : 980

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.

Figures

Figs 28-42: Antennae; (28) Neorthopleura thomasi, male; (29) N. thomasi, female; (30) N. subfasciata, male; (31) Artoadenus atrafinus; (32) Neorthopleura subfasciata, female; (33) Akonesis atraordinis; (34) Pelonium erudiatum; (35) Neorthopleura cuspidis, female; (36) Agnatis curvabilis; (37) Ichnea paraguayensis; (38) Neorthopleura quintana, male; (39) Pyticara frontegalba; (40) Platynoptera potaro; (41) Neorthopleura cuspidis, male; (42) Nanoclerus fuscus.

Figs 194-200: Pronota; (194) Perilypus izabal; (195) P. apunctus; (196) Neorthopleura thomasi; (197) Ampleris itaituba; (198) Cregya fuscomacula; (199) Ichnea paraguayensis; (200) Pujoliclerus tuxtlas.

Figs 290-293: Habitus; (290) Epiphloeus prolixicornus; (291) Ichnea cerinis (292) I. paraguayensis; (293) Madoniella acicula.