Sirpa acara OPITZ, nov.sp.

Sirpa acara OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 79, 128, 257, 353)

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: Brazil; Espirito Santo, Linhares, IX-1973, Moacir Alvarenga (FSCA). Paratype: 1 specimen. Brazil: Estado do Espirito Santo, Linhares, IX-1973, Moacir Alvarenga (WOPC).

D i a g n o s i s: The small size of these beetles (3.0 mm) will distinguish them from congeners. The genus Sirpa OPITZ was introduced by OPITZ (2016).

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 3.0 mm; width 1. 0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 353. Color: Forebody red, remainder piceous. Head: Eye coarsely facetted, narrower than frons (EW/FW 13/20); antenna capitate (Fig. 79), funicular antennomeres subfiliform, gradually shorter to capitulum, capitular antennomeres 9 and 10 triangular, antennomere 11 ovoid. Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 128) slightly oblong, pronotal tubercles well defined (PW/PL 47/52), disc coarsely punctate; asetiferous punctures substriate, profusely distributed throughout elytral disc, epipleural margin prominent, narrows to elytral apex (EL/EW 235/65). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 257.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimens were collected from the type locality during September.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: ThisspeciesisknownfromBrazil.

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, acara, is a Greek name with a meaning of "tiny"; with reference to the small size of these beetles.