South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XIX: Overview of Cryptognathini and systematic revision of South American Cryptognatha Mulsant Author F, Guillermo González Author Hanley, Guy A. Author Gordon, Robert D. text Insecta Mundi 2019 2019-06-28 714 714 1 32 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.3674855 ac53680f-6358-4d6b-8880-ccf3dd73297e 1942-1354 3674855 F9BABD1C-B18B-47FD-9B87-F44C49FD9D30 4. Cryptognatha pam González and Hanley , new species Description. Male holotype . Length 2.6 mm , width 2.4 mm ; Dorsal surface shiny, elytron with faint trace of microsculpture. Color yellow; pronotum with 5 faint brown spots, 2 on disc, 3 along posterior margin, all spots small, round; elytron with single dark brown vitta extended from base across humeral angle to apex at suture on apical declivity ( Fig. 21 ). Head without punctures; pronotal punctures small, separated by less than a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by less than a diameter to twice a diameter; prosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; mesosternal punctures larger than on prosternum, separated by less than a diameter, metasternal punctures large, separated by 2 or 3 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. 22 ); eye canthus long, about 3/4 width of eye. Prosternum with lateral carina on each side extended from apex of intercoxal process nearly to slightly more than 1/3 length 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 nearly as long as paramere, parallel-sided with apical 1/8 narrowed to rounded apex; paramere slender, parallel-sided, apex rounded ( Fig. 24 ); penis lost. Female. Similar to male except head weakly depressed; median 1/3 of pronotum entirely light brown; genitalia with spermathecal capsule comparatively slender, tapered from wide ramus to acute apex of cornu. Variation. None observed. Type material. Holotype male: Venezuela , Aragua , Ocumare de la Costa , s.n.m, 25-VII-1974 , En Aspidiotus sobre Cocofaro. ( USNM ) . Paratypes : 2, 1 same data as holotype except collector C. J. Rosales ; 1, San Esteban, Ven. nr. Puerto Cabello, Dec. 1 to 20, 1939 , P. J. Anduze. ( USNM ) . Remarks. This species has an extremely distinctive dorsal color pattern unlike any other observed in Cryptognatha . The three specimens available for observation did not show color variation.