Amboakis mitaraka, nov.sp.

Amboakis mitaraka OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 89, 161, 219, 287)

Holotype: ♂. Type locality: GUYANE FRANÇAISE, Massif du Mitaraka ca. 2°14'N- 54°27'O, 25.II-26.III.2015. A second label reads: La Planète Revisitée- MNHN.PNI Guyane, 2015 (APA- 973-1) (NMNH).

D i a g n o s i s: The genus name Amboakis OPITZ, and its 24 species, were made available in 2006 (OPITZ 2006). That work included a key to Amboakis species. Amboakis mitaraka specimens key out to A. rudis OPITZ, from which A. mitaraka specimens differ by showing two large flavotestaceous maculae on the elytral disc.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 3.5 mm; width 1.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 287. Color: Cranium bicolorous, frons castaneous, epicranium and cranial venter black; antennal fundus yellow, capitulum black; prothorax and pterothorax black; elytra bicolorous, disc with two large flavotestaceous maculae, one macula broad and extended backwards for elytral anterior margin, the other transverse slightly behind elytral middle, remainder of disc black; legs yellow; abdomen black. Head: Antenna (Fig. 89) capitate, 6 th funicular antennomeres slightly expanded, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 subquadrate, antennomere 10 slightly oblong; eyes large, finely facetted, ocular notch large, eye wider than frons (EW/FW 20/12). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 161) transverse (PW/PL 50/40), anterior transverse depression deeply impressed; disc finely punctate, lateral tubercle well developed, disc concave paralaterally near pronotal collar; discal and lateral trichobothria prominent; elytral asetiferous punctures profusely distributed, punctures substriate (EL/EW 160/36); anterior margin of protibia with 6 spines. Abdomen: Pygidium transverse / scutiform; aedeagus as in Fig. 219.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The available specimen was collected during a period from 25 February to 26 March 2015.

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

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