Platynoptera carti OPITZ, nov.sp.

(Figs. 77, 125, 126, 163, 175)

Holotype: ♂. Panama: Pma Pr. Llano-Carti Rd. km 9, El. 350 m, 26-Apr.1986, H. Stockwell (MIUP).

Diagnosis: This is the only member of Platynoptera in which the basal third of the sutural margin is distinctly black.

Description: Size: Length 9.5.0 mm; width 3.5 mm. Form: As in Fig. 163. Color: Cranium mostly black, vertex with small flavotestaceous streak; cranial venter flavotestaceous; clypeus flavotestaceous; pronotum bicolorous, mostly flavotestaceous, lower sides narrowly black; disc with two narrow black lines; mesoscutellum flavotestaceous; elytra bicolorous, mostly flavotestaceous, black in distal third and along basal third of sutural margin. Head: Antennal capitulum long (Fig. 77), each capitular antennomere longer than combined length of funicular antennomeres; antennal carina very prominent; EW/FW 18/22. Thorax: Pronotum elongate, anterior margin not projected at middle, side margin of disc with shallow tubercle; PW/PL 57/64; elytral not strongly explanate at sides, carina faintly visible; EL/EW 240/67. Abdomen: Male pygidium not incised at distal margin; aedeagus (Figs. 125, 126); phallic apex notably small.

Natural history: The holotype was collected during April, at 350 m.

Distribution (Fig. 175): Known only from the type locality.

Etymology: The trivial name, carti, constitutes a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.