Madoniella muralla, nov.sp.

Madoniella muralla OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 61, 149, 224, 297)

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: HONDURAS: Olancho, P.N. La Muralla, 25 May 1995. R. Turnbow (FSCA). Paratype: 1 specimen. Honduras: Departamento de Olancho, Parque Nacional La Muralla, 25-V-1955, R. H, Turnbow (RHTC).

D i a g n o s i s: The genus Madoniella PIC was revised in 2011 (OPITZ 2011b). This work included a key to species. Madoniella muralla specimens key out to M. kuhlorum OPITZ, from which M. muralla specimens differ by showing a much shorter aedeagus and the phallobasic lobes are significantly wider.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.5 mm; width 1.8 mm. Form: As in Fig. 297. Color: Cranium red-castaneous; antenna brown, except scape and pedicel testaceous; pronotum bicolored, mostly black, with red mark on pronotal arch; pterothorax black; elytra mostly dark brown, insignia well developed, all insignia components present, except anterocentral extension of anterior block and posterolateral extension of posterior block absent; legs and abdomen brown. Head: Cranium coarsely punctate; antenna (Fig. 61) capitate, funicular antennomeres filiform, progressively shorter towards capitulum, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 triangular, antennomere 10 ovoid; eyes large, ommatidia small, eye notch large, eye narrower than frons (EW/FW 25/30). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 149) slightly transverse, coarsely punctured (PW/PL 70/63), disc deeply concave paralaterally near pronotal collar; discal and lateral trichobothria prominent; elytral asetiferous punctures striate (EL/EW 260/60); anterior margin of protibia with 10 spines. Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 224.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimens were collected during May.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: This species is known from Honduras.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, muralla, is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.