Menoscelis flava, Santos, Paula B., Churata-Salcedo, Julissa M. & Almeida, Lúcia M., 2016

Santos, Paula B., Churata-Salcedo, Julissa M. & Almeida, Lúcia M., 2016, New species and records of Menoscelis Mulsant (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from French Guiana, Zootaxa 4078 (1), pp. 252-268 : 255-256

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4078.1.23
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:580E036E-043D-4581-8865-7FD15A33DE04
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6079013
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB87B7-FFB4-FFD1-FF01-81B521E9FEB3
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Menoscelis flava
status	sp. nov.

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Menoscelis flava sp. nov.

( Figures 3 View FIGURE 3 , 7 View FIGURE 7 , 9 View FIGURE 9 , 11 View FIGURE 11 )

Material examined. “ Guyane Française,/ 4º44’56”N 2º26’28”W,/Montagne des Chevaux/ 14.I.2012,/malaise SLAM,/ SEAG col.” “Female” [white label]. “ HOLOTYPE / Menoscelis flava /Santos, Almeida & Churata-Salcedo, 2015” [red label]. [ MNHN].

Description (female). Length 4.5, width 4.17 mm. Body rounded, strongly convex ( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 A–C). Head yellowish with one triangular black spot; clypeus with anterior margin brownish, labrum dark yellowish. Pronotum black with yellowish anterior and lateral margins ( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 A–C). Eyes finely faceted, not emarginate; interfacetal setae absent. Antennal insertion exposed. Antennae 10-segmented; scape with convex external suface; pedicel distinctly narrower than scape; antepenultimate antennomere about 2.5 times longer than other segments ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 G). Clypeus short, transverse, anterior clypeal margin emarginate medially, with small blunt lateral projections. Labrum exposed. Mandibles bifid, with basal tooth. Maxillary palps securiform. Labial palps 3-segmented. Mentum cordiform. Prosternal process with complete carinae, joined anteriorly forming a triangle, with long stem, reaching anterior margin of prosternum ( Fig. 9 View FIGURE 9 A). Each elytron yellowish with narrow black lateral margin; three black spots: first quadrangular, on humeral callus; second on elytral disc, joined at suture; third at apex ( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 A, C). Epipleura yellowish with black lateral margins, explanate and excavated to receive femoral apices. Middle part of pro-, meso- and metasternum black. Legs black, except apices of femora yellowish. Protibia slightly angulate near base and emarginate. Abdomen yellowish with yellow pubescence ( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 D–E). Abdominal postcoxal lines recurved and incomplete, joined from hind margin of ventrite, oblique line absent ( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 D–E). Genital plate transverse ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 F). Spermatheca with rounded cornu, and wide, sinuate apical projection, base slender ( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 F–G). Coxites with spoon–shaped setae and style with well-developed apical setae; tergite with long setae curved at apex ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 H).

Male. Unknown.

Etymology. This species is named after the color of its body pubescence, flava L., yellow. Geographical Distribution: French Guiana (Roura, Montagne des Chevaux) ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 ). Remarks. Menoscelis flava sp. nov. differs from all other species of the genus. The elytral color pattern of

Menoscelis flava sp. nov. resembles M. stephani and M. angeloi sp. nov., but differs in the size of the discal and

lateral spots, and the shape of the spermatheca.