Menoscelis flava Santos, Churata-Salcedo & Almeida, 2016, sp. nov.

Menoscelis flava sp. nov.

(Figures 3, 7, 9, 11)

Material examined. “ Guyane Française,/ 4º44’56”N 2º26’28”W,/Montagne des Chevaux/ 14.I.2012,/malaise SLAM,/ SEAG col.” “Female” [white label]. “ HOLOTYPE / Menoscelis flava /Santos, Almeida & Churata-Salcedo, 2015” [red label]. [MNHN].

Description (female). Length 4.5, width 4.17 mm. Body rounded, strongly convex (Figs 3 A–C). Head yellowish with one triangular black spot; clypeus with anterior margin brownish, labrum dark yellowish. Pronotum black with yellowish anterior and lateral margins (Figs 3 A–C). Eyes finely faceted, not emarginate; interfacetal setae absent. Antennal insertion exposed. Antennae 10-segmented; scape with convex external suface; pedicel distinctly narrower than scape; antepenultimate antennomere about 2.5 times longer than other segments (Fig. 7 G). Clypeus short, transverse, anterior clypeal margin emarginate medially, with small blunt lateral projections. Labrum exposed. Mandibles bifid, with basal tooth. Maxillary palps securiform. Labial palps 3-segmented. Mentum cordiform. Prosternal process with complete carinae, joined anteriorly forming a triangle, with long stem, reaching anterior margin of prosternum (Fig. 9 A). Each elytron yellowish with narrow black lateral margin; three black spots: first quadrangular, on humeral callus; second on elytral disc, joined at suture; third at apex (Figs 3 A, C). Epipleura yellowish with black lateral margins, explanate and excavated to receive femoral apices. Middle part of pro-, meso- and metasternum black. Legs black, except apices of femora yellowish. Protibia slightly angulate near base and emarginate. Abdomen yellowish with yellow pubescence (Figs 3 D–E). Abdominal postcoxal lines recurved and incomplete, joined from hind margin of ventrite, oblique line absent (Figs 3 D–E). Genital plate transverse (Fig. 3 F). Spermatheca with rounded cornu, and wide, sinuate apical projection, base slender (Figs 3 F–G). Coxites with spoon–shaped setae and style with well-developed apical setae; tergite with long setae curved at apex (Fig. 3 H).

Male. Unknown.

Etymology. This species is named after the color of its body pubescence, flava L., yellow. Geographical Distribution: French Guiana (Roura, Montagne des Chevaux) (Fig. 11). Remarks. Menoscelis flava sp. nov. differs from all other species of the genus. The elytral color pattern of

Menoscelis flava sp. nov. resembles M. stephani and M. angeloi sp. nov., but differs in the size of the discal and

lateral spots, and the shape of the spermatheca.