Cregya petalosa, nov.sp.

Cregya petalosa OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 60, 112, 324)

Holotype: ♀. Type locality: ECUADOR: Orellana, 1 km S Okone Gare Camp, Reserva Etnica Waorani, 220-250 m, 25-VI-1994, T. L. Erwin (USNM).

D i a g n o s i s: The wide testaceous vitta on the elytral disc will distinguish the members of this species from congeners.

D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 4.5 mm; width 1.5 mm. Form: As in Fig. 324. Color: Cranium black. antenna bicolored, fundus and last antennomere yellow, antennomeres 8 and 9 brown; pronotum yellow, except pronotal arch black; mesosternum, femora, and abdomen yellow; metasternum, tibiae, and tarsi dark brown; elytra mostly dark brown, with broad testaceous vitta that extends from elytral posterior 2/3 rd to elytral basal margin; epipleural margin testaceous from humeral angle to posterior 2/3 rd. Head: Cranium finely punctate; antenna (Fig. 60) capitate, funicular antennomeres shorter towards capitulum, capitular antennomeres 8 and 9 large triangular, antennomere 10 ovoid; eyes large, coarsely facetted, eye narrower than frons (EW/FW 24/30). Thorax: Pronotum (Fig. 112) transverse (PW/PL 80/70), disc finely punctate, lateral tubercle well developed; elytra sculptured with 10 striae of asetiferous punctures that dissipate at elytral distal 3/4 th (EL/EW 220/65). Abdomen: Pygidium scutiform.

N a t u r a l H i s t o r y: The holotype was collected in June, by fogging tree canopy, at an altitude between 220- 250 m.

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

E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, petalosa, is a Greek adjective that stems from petalos (= broad); with reference to the wide testaceous vitta on the elytral disc.