Cryptognatha hannah González and Hanley, 2019

F, Guillermo González, Hanley, Guy A. & Gordon, Robert D., 2019, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XIX: Overview of Cryptognathini and systematic revision of South American Cryptognatha Mulsant, Insecta Mundi 714 (714), pp. 1-32 : 11

7. Cryptognatha hannah González and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 3.1 mm, width 2.9 mm. Dorsal surface shiny, pronotum with distinct microsculpture, elytron with faint trace of microsculpture. Color black; head yellow; pronotum with lateral 1/3 yellow, anterior margin of median black macula deeply indented with yellow at apex, lateral angle; elytron with wide yellow border extended from base to apex (Fig. 40); venter reddish brown except epipleuron, abdomen yellow. Head without punctures; pronotal punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than a diameter to twice a diameter; prosternal punctures small, barely visible, separated by less than a diameter; mesosternal punctures larger than on prosternum, separated by less than a diameter, metasternal punctures large, separated by two or three times a diameter medially, entirely absent in lateral 1/3; basal abdominal ventrite with coarse punctures separated by about a diameter medially, lateral 1/3 of ventrite and ventrites 2–4 lacking punctation, ventrite 5 with dense, fine punctation. Head with frons parallel-sided, medially depressed, twice as wide as eye, apex truncate medially, lateral 1/8 slightly retracted, angle acute (Fig. 41); eye canthus long, about 3/4 width of eye. Prosternum with lateral carina on each side extended from apex of intercoxal process to midpoint of prosternum. Epipleuron strongly descending externally. Postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite evenly curved, extended 3/4 distance to rear margin of ventrite. Genitalia long, penis guide about 3/4 as long as paramere, parallel-sided with apical 1/8 narrowed to rounded apex; paramere slender, parallel-sided, apex rounded (Fig. 42, 43); penis lost.

Female. Similar to male except head weakly depressed; pronotum with apex of black macula not indented medially; genitalia not examined.

Variation. None observed.

Type material. Holotype male: Peru, Loreto, Iquitos, Padre Isla, 100 m., 3-XI-2006, Leg. R. Westerduijn, Annually flooded wetland. ( MUSM) . Paratype; 1, same data as holotype. ( MUSM) .

Remarks. A black elytron with yellow lateral border is thus far a unique pattern in Cryptognatha and will distinguish C. hannah from other species of the genus.