Madoniella selvanegra, 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 : 984

Madoniella selvanegra OPITZ nov.sp. ( Figs 100 , 138 , 225, 299)

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: Nicaragua: Matagalpa, Selva Negra , 16-22-IV-2002, beating tree branches, bushes, cloud forest edge, 1280 m, Weston Opitz ( FSCA) . Paratypes: 16 specimens. Nicaragua: Departamento de Matagalpa, Selva Negra , 16-22-IV-2002, beating tree branches, bushes, cloud forest edge, 1280 m, Weston Opitz ( WOPC, 8) ; idem, 7-VI-2018, R. Turnbow ( RHTC, 1) ; idem, 9-VI-2018, R. Turnbow ( RHTC, 1) ; idem, 10-VI-2018, R. Turnbow ( RHTC, 2) ; idem, 11-VI-2018, R. Turnbow ( RHTC, 3) ; idem, 14-VI-2018, R. Turnbow ( RHTC, 1) .

D i a g n o s i s: The genus Madoniella PIC was revised in 2011 ( OPITZ 2011b). This work includes a key to species. Madoniella selvanegra specimens key out to M. orosiensis OPITZ, from which M. selvanegra specimens differ by showing an anterocentral extension of the anterior insignal block. Such an extension is absent in M. orosiensis specimens.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 4.2 mm; width 1.3 mm. Form: As in Fig. 299 . Color: Cranium red-castaneous; antenna brown, except scape and pedicel testaceous; pronotum black; pterothorax black; elytra mostly dark brown, insignia well developed, all insignia components present, except posterolateral extension of anterior block and anterolateral extension of posterior block absent; legs testaceous, tibiae infuscated; abdomen brown. Head: Cranium coarsely punctate; antenna ( Fig. 100 ) capitate, funicular antennomeres filiform, progressively shorter towards capitulum, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 triangular, antennomere 10 ovoid; eyes large, ommatidia small, eye notch large, eye narrower than frons (EW/FW 18/25). Thorax: Pronotum ( Fig. 138 ) slightly transverse, coarsely punctured (PW/PL 55/50), disc deeply concave paralaterally near pronotal collar; discal and lateral trichobothria prominent; elytral asetiferous punctures striate (EL/EW 200/45); anterior margin of protibia with 5 spines. Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 225.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimens were collected during April, by beating tree branches intertwined with bush branches, at a cloud forest edge, at 1280 m.

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

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

Figures

Figs 92-100: Antennae; (92) Pyticeroides desodes; (93) Ichnea cerinis; (94) Agnatis vaurieae; (95) Ampleris amazon; (96) Nepsudia guenda; (97) Isoparis cassidilis; (98) Pelonium atrigonatium; (99) Aphelocerus yaguare; (100) Madoniella selvanegra.

Figs 134-152: Pronota; (134) Pujoliclerus catie; (135) P. mexicoensis; (136) P. convexus; (137) P. testudinatus; (138) Madoniella selvanegra; (139) Cregya entrerios; (140) Pujoliclerus trunculus; (141) P. sentus; (142) P. meloinus; (143) Sicamus suprus; (144) Nepsudia guenda; (145) Nanoclerus fuscus; (146) Topainca pachacutii; (147) Eurycaulis anaxeis; (148) Kataspinula puebla; (149) Madoniella muralla; (150) M. nota; (151) M. acicula; (152) M. baja.

Figs 298-301: Habitus; (298) Madoniella nota; (299) M. selvanegra; (300) Megaphloeus imparilus; (301) M. yasuni.

Figs 225-230: Aedeagi; (225) Madoniella selvanegra; (226) Megaphloeus imparilus; (227) Pyticeroides brevitubulus; (228) Kataspinula puebla; (229) Nelsopelonium aspikelum; (230) N. cuspidis.