Cryptognatha celia 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 : 14-15

12. Cryptognatha celia González and Hanley , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.3 mm, width 2.1 mm. Dorsal surface shiny with faint trace of microsculpture. Color black; head yellow; pronotum with anterior margin narrowly yellowish brown, lateral 1/4 yellow ( Fig. 67 ); venter dark brown except legs reddish yellow; basal abdominal ventrite brown, ventrites 2–5 brownish yellow. Head without punctures; pronotal punctures large, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less, becoming gradually larger toward lateral margin; prosternal punctures large, indistinct, separated by two to three times 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 lacking punctation, ventrites 2–4 finely punctured, punctures separated by about a diameter, ventrite 5 with dense, fine punctation. Head with frons parallel-sided, medially depressed, 3 times as wide as eye, apex truncate medially, lateral 1/8 slightly retracted, angle acute ( Fig. 68 ); eye canthus long, about 3/4 width of eye. Prosternum with lateral carina on each side extended from apex of intercoxal process more than 1/2 distance to apex of prosternum. Epipleuron moderately descending externally. Postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite evenly curved, extended 5/8 distance to rear margin of ventrite. Genitalia short, penis guide about as long as paramere, oval, slightly widened in apical 1/2, then narrowed to weakly emarginate apex; paramere long, slender, widened in apical 1/2 to rounded apex ( Fig. 70, 71 ); penis long, robust, apical 1/3 attenuate; penis capsule slender, elongate, inner arm short, narrow, apex somewhat truncate, outer arm long, slender, sinuate ( Fig. 72 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male: 558, Estado de Bahia, Brazil, G. Bondar leg., Predator on Aspidiotus destructor, Com Inst. Ent. Coll. No. 11290, 1= Pentilia discors Gorh . 2= P. egena Muls., D.J.Atkinson det. 1949, Pres by Com Inst Ent B M. ( BMNH).

Remarks. This mostly black species is identified by its male genitalia, which distinguish it from other black species of Cryptognatha .

Figures

Figures 55–72. Cryptognatha spp. 55–61) Cryptognatha karla. 55) Habitus. 56) Frons. 57) Protibia. 58) Phallobase ventral. 59) Phallobase lateral. 60) Penis. 61) Spermathecal capsule. 62–66) Cryptognatha clarki. 62) Habitus. 63) Frons. 64) Phallobase ventral. 65) Phallobase lateral. 66) Penis. 67–72) Cryptognatha celia. 67) Habitus. 68) Frons. 69) Spermathecal capsule. 70) Phallobase ventral. 71) Phallobase lateral. 72) Penis.