taxonID	type	description	language	source
B085568FC3B6609686D16EDEC00558D7.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Distinguished from other Brasiella species on Hispaniola by the following combination of characters: 1) head shiny black brown, blue brown, or copper; 2) pronotum shiny black brown to copper, color not contrasting with duller elytral color; 3) proepisterna shiny black green to copper; 4) eyes prominent, not bulging laterally; 5) elytral apices evenly rounded with sutural spine feebly withdrawn from apex; 6) elytral markings tawny, narrow, slightly contrasting with the darker elytral ground color; humeral lunule and middle band narrow, thinned or broken medially ending in an enlarged spot on disc; apical lunule narrow; 7) male genitalia with long aedeagus neck and a short, recurved apex; 8) aedeagus apical spine field forming a long and narrow pad; 9) aedeagus inner sac stylet short, tip bent and unevenly tapered to a broad point rounded in some specimens or sharply pointed in others; 10) large tooth short, broad and rounded at tip; shield rounded distad; arched piece long and thin; 11) lateral gibbosities on 6 th female sternum large.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
B085568FC3B6609686D16EDEC00558D7.taxon	description	Description. General. Figs 1 A, 2 A. Body. Formelongate; head broad, eyes prominent, not bulging laterally; pronotum square; elytra broadened distad, apices evenly and separately rounded. Size. Males, length 6.3 - 6.8 mm, width 2.1 - 2.2 mm; females, length 6.7 - 7.2 mm, width 2.2 - 2.4 mm. Head. Figs 1 B, 1 D, 2 D, 2 F. Shiny dark black brown, blue brown or copper dorsally, shiny black green ventrally; entire surface glabrous except for two pairs of supraorbital sensory setae. Frons finely and longitudinally rugose. Vertex more coarsely rugose, transverse rugae along anterior margin narrow and irregularly arranged, 13 - 16 more or less complete longitudinal rugae between eyes and middle where rugae converge into an arcuate pattern; rugae transition abruptly into a posterior area with a finely and irregularly granulate surface. Eyes prominent, not bulging laterally, less prominent in female than male. Genae longitudinally rugose. Clypeus finely and irregularly granulate, narrowed mesad. Labrum testaceous with a dark brown margin, subrectangular, width to length ratio 3 in holotype male, ratio 2.5 in allotype female; anterior margin slightly sinuate, medial tooth minute or absent, sinuation larger, more prominent at middle in female than in male; posterior margin distinctly arcuate mesad; medial carina broad and distinctly raised; 6 - 9 setae in an irregular row near middle arranged on either side of medial carina. Maxillae and labium mainly testaceous, only distal palpal segments dark brown with metallic blue green reflections. Mandibles sexually dimorphic; in male, surface mainly testaceous, only teeth metallic green; in female, surface only testaceous in basal half, apical half and teeth shiny brown; mandibles symmetrical, four teeth distad of molar, apical tooth longest, first and third tooth coequal in length, second tooth shortest; gaps between teeth wider in female than in male; first and second teeth without a gap between them in male. Antennae 11 segmented; scape dorsall y shiny green and ventrally pale yellow, occasionally pale yellow with a single subapical sensory seta; antennomeres 2 - 4 shiny green, glabrous except for a few, short erect setae along their length and distally; antennomeres 5 - 11 dull brown, sheathed with dense short sensory setae. Prothorax. Figs 1 C, 1 D, 2 C, 2 D. Pronotum shiny black brown to copper. Proepisterna shiny black green to copper, surface wrinkled dorsad. Prosternum shiny green. Pronotum glabrous except for short, decumbent, white setae distributed in several, irregular rows medially directed, originating close to and lying in a narrow band distinctly removed from lateral suture, in a sparse narrow band transversely and anteriorly oriented within broad anterior margin, and in a sparse narrow band laterally oriented on each side of midline extending nearly to the narrow posterior margin; transverse submarginal sulci distinct, anterior sulcus shallow, posterior sulcus deeper and deepest at posterior angles; transverse rugae within broad anterior margin irregular and shallow, interrupted at middle by an irregularly arranged pattern, within posterior margin more distinctly and deeply engraved especially medially and extending onto midline; surface sculptured by fine, transverse rugae angled on disc and interrupted by a finely engraved longitudinal midline, and more finely and irregularly sculptured elsewhere. Proepisterna glabrous except for white, erect and appressed setae arising from small setigerous punctures scattered over most of the surface in males, only in ventral half in females. Prosternum glabrous, surface smooth. Pterothorax. Figs 1 C, 2 C. Mesepisterna glabrous except for appressed setae near ventral margin; female coupling sulcus represented by a shallow, circular depression medially situated with a slightly deeper center, a distinct groove extends only dorsally from center, surface smooth below center. Mesepimeron with sparse appressed setae. Metepisterna with scattered appressed setae, more abundant in male than female. Prosternum and mesosternum glabrous, smooth to slightly wrinkled; metasternum glabrous except for long, dense white appressed setae laterad, surface smooth mesad and coarsely sculpted laterad where setae originate. Scutellum triangular, cupreous. Legs. Figs 1 A, 2 B. Segmentstestaceous brown with metallic brown green reflections. Coxae shiny metallic brown green; trochanters testaceous or dark brown; femora and tibiae testaceous with metallic green reflections anteriorly in most specimens, metallic green except for testaceous distal end of each segment in other specimens; tarsomeres dark metallic violet black or brown; white, appressed setae on front and middle coxae, and laterally on hind coxae; erect setae and suberect closely spaced forming several regular and irregular rows on all femora; setae widely spaced in a few rows on all tibiae; middle tibiae with patch of appressed setae dorsally along distal half; tarsomeres with short scattered setae on ventral surface; distal tarsomeres with two asymmetrical rows each with a few to several small, erect setae; an erect subapical seta present only on front trochanter, absent on middle and hind trochanters; males with dense pad of erect setae ventrally on proximal three tarsal segments; tarsal claws small. Elytra. Figs 1 A, 2 A. Form narrow in male, broadened distad and broadest at outer apical angle in female; evenly curved along posterior margins with apices separately rounded; sutural spine small and inconspicuous, feebly withdrawn from apex; posterior margins finely microserrulate. Surface finely granulate, impunctate, numerous small, irregular, metallic green or blue green flecks of various sizes scattered over a dull, dark copper brown background; elytral pattern thin, narrow slightly contrasting with the darker elytral ground color; setigerous punctures with short, erect, transparent setae indistinct in subsutural rows on disc, but distinct at elytral base, and at inner humeral angles, each surrounded by a metallic fleck slightly larger than flecks elsewhere on elytra; surface slightly depressed in humeral area and on disc creating a slight but distinct raised area basally. Elytral markings tawny, forming pattern of narrow markings reduced in width in most specimens, or partially missing in other specimens; pattern consisting of a narrow humeral lunule thinned medially and broken before terminating as a spot on disc in most specimens, or reduced to a small dot in other specimens; middle band sinuate with irregular margins, thinned medially or broken, slightly enlarged near suture, slightly expanded along lateral margin in most specimens, or reduced to small terminal spots in a few specimens; apical lunule narrow and broadened along suture in all specimens examined. Elytral epipleura testaceous except for a narrow, metallic green to copper green band along dorsal margin. Abdomen. Figs 2 B, 2 E. Surface of 1 st- 5 th sterna shiny black with green reflections, 6 th sternum entirely shiny black to black brown; posterior margins of male 3 rd- 5 th sterna and female 3 rd- 4 th sterna narrowly black; posterior margin female 5 th sternum broadly black; 3 rd- 5 th sterna medially smooth with scattered, fine, erect setae in both sexes; male 1 st- 6 th sterna and female 1 st- 5 th sterna laterally covered with dense, scattered, appressed white setae and roughened from setal punctures; male 6 th sternum glabrous medially with a broad, deep concave notch; female 5 th abdominal sternum with moderately raised transverse wrinkles and a wide membranous band at midline extending anteriorly along most of the sternum from a large membranous wedge along posterior margin; female 6 th sternum entirely glabrous, posterior margin with a row of 6 - 10 erect spines and with a large lateral gibbosity on each side. Male Genitalia. Figs 1 E, 1 F, 1 G. Shape narrow near base, broad in middle half, slim distally with neck short and narrow, apical hook evenly rounded, tip shortened and at acute angle to aedeagus, aedeagus apical spine field forming a long and narrow pad. Aedeagus inner sac sclerites: stylet tip short and bent; shield rounded distad; large tooth short, broad and rounded at tip with large root and small dark fields; arched piece long and thin.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
B085568FC3B6609686D16EDEC00558D7.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Fig. 22. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: La Vega Province, El Convento, Rancho Guaraguao, and Constanza. This species likely occurs in suitable habitats throughout the Constanza Valley and surrounding mountainous areas of the central portions of the Cordillera Central.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
B085568FC3B6609686D16EDEC00558D7.taxon	etymology	Etymology. This Latinized plural eponym, genitive case, based on the family name of Ross T. Bell honors both Ross and his wife, Joyce, for their entomological careers and contributions as world authorities on the Rhysodidae. Ross and Joyce have been friends, colleagues, and mentors to a multitude of entomologists and taxonomists specializing in Carabidae. Both Ross and Joyce Bell were honorees of the Bell Fest Symposium held in Burlington, Vermont, June 2010, and this Festschrift is dedicated to them.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
C1A3984969146BAA3C61DE05FB76F1DD.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Distinguished from other Brasiella species on Hispaniola by the following combination of characters: 1) elytral markings a humeral lunule reduced to its extremities, a middle lunule terminating near the suture in a broad hook, never anteriorly recurved, a narrow apical lunule; 2) eyes prominent, not bulging laterally; 3) males with a long, acutely curved aedeagus apex with an inner sac having a recurve d terminal tip of the stylet; 4) females with a short, wide membranous band anterior to a wide membranous band along posterior margin of 5 th abdominal sternum.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
C1A3984969146BAA3C61DE05FB76F1DD.taxon	description	Description. General. Figs 3 A, 4 A. Body. Formelongate; head wide, eyes prominent, not bulging laterally; pronotum wide, square; elytra slender, slightly broadened distad, apices separately rounded. Size. Males, length 6.4 - 6.6 mm, width 2.0 - 2.1 mm; females, length 6.6 - 6.9 mm, width 2.1 - 2.2 mm. Head. Figs 3 B, 3 D, 4 D, 4 F. Shiny green bronze with copper reflections dorsally and black green ventrally; entire surface glabrous except for two pairs of supraorbital sensory setae. Frons finely and longitudinally rugose. Vertex more coarsely rugose, rugae along anterior margin irregularly arranged, 15 - 18 more or less complete longitudinal rugae between eyes and middle where rugae merge to form a circular pattern at middle of vertex, rugae transition abruptly into a posterior area with a finely and irregularly granulate surface. Eyes prominent, not bulging laterally. Genae longitudinally rugose. Clypeus finely and irregularly granulate, narrowed mesad. Labrum testaceous with a dark brown margin, rectangular, width to length ratio 3 in holotype male, ratio 3.1 in allotype female; anterior margin nearly straight to feebly protruding mesad with a tiny medial tooth in both sexes; posterior margin broadly arcuate mesad; medial carina distinctly raised with a slight depression on each side near posterior margin; 6 setae symmetrically arranged, anterior setae in a row, lateral setae closer to clypeus. Maxillae and labium mainly testaceous, only distal palpal segments dark brown with metallic blue green reflections. Mandibles sexually dimorphic; in male, surface mainly testaceous, only teeth metallic green; in female, surface only testaceous in basal half, apical half and teeth shiny brown; mandibles symmetrical, four teeth distad of molar, apical tooth longest, first and third tooth coequal in length, second tooth shortest; gaps between three intermediate teeth equally wide in both male and female. Antennae 11 segmented; scape dorsally shiny green, ventrally testaceous with a single subapical sensory seta; antennomeres 2 - 4 shiny green, glabrous except for a few, short erect setae along their length and distally; antennomeres 5 - 11 dull brown, sheathed with dense short sensory setae. Prothorax. Figs 3 C, 3 D, 4 C, 4 D. Pronotum shiny, dark copper brown. Proepisterna shiny, dark copper brown, surface wrinkled dorsad. Prosternum shiny green. Pronotum glabrous except for short, decumbent, white setae distributed in several, irregular rows medially directed, originating close to, and lying in a narrow band distinctly removed from lateral suture, in a sparse narrow band transversely and anteriorly oriented within broad anterior margin, and in a sparse narrow band laterally oriented on each side of midline extending only to the middle, surface glabrous from middle to posterior margin and along this margin; transverse submarginal sulci distinct, anterior sulcus shallow, posterior sulcus deeper and deepest at posterior angles; transverse rugae within broad anterior margin irregular and shallow, interrupted at middle by an irregularly arranged pattern, within posterior margin more distinctly and deeply engraved especially medially and extending onto midline; surface sculptured by fine, transverse rugae angled on disc and interrupted by a finely engraved longitudinal midline, and more finely and irregularly sculptured elsewhere. Proepisterna glabrous except for white, erect and appressed setae arising from small setigerous punctures scattered over most of the surface in males, only in ventral half in females. Prosternum glabrous, surface smooth. Pterothorax. Figs 3 C, 4 C. Mesepisterna glabrous except for appressed setae near ventral margin, more abundant in male than female; female coupling sulcus represented by a shallow, circular depression medially situated with a slightly deeper center, a distinct groove extends only dorsally from center, surface smooth below center. Mesepimeron with sparse appressed setae. Metepisterna with scattered appressed setae, more abundant in male than female. Prosternum and mesosternum glabrous, smooth to slightly wrinkled; metasternum glabrous except for long, dense white appressed setae laterad, surface smooth mesad and coarsely sculpted laterad where setae originate. Scutellum triangular, cupreous green. Legs. Figs 3 A, 4 B. Segmentsmetallic green with copper reflections and testaceous areas. Coxae shiny metallic brown green; trochanters shiny testaceous; femora metallic green with copper reflections except for testaceous distal ends; tibiae testaceous with metallic green reflections; tarsomeres brown with metallic violet reflections; white, appressed setae on front and middle coxae, and laterally on hind coxae; erect setae and suberect closely spaced in several regular and irregular rows on all femora; setae widely spaced in a few rows on all tibiae; middle tibiae with patch of appressed setae dorsally along distal half; tarsomeres with short scattered setae on ventral surface; distal tarsomeres with two asymmetrical rows each with a few to several small, erect setae; an erect subapical seta present only on front trochanter, absent on middle and hind trochanters; males with dense pad of erect setae ventrally on proximal three tarsal segments; tarsal claws small. Elytra. Figs 3 A, 4 A. Form narrow in male, broadened distad and broadest at outer apical angle in female; evenly curved along posterior margins with apices separately rounded, more pronounced in female; sutural spine small in female, indistinct in male, feebly withdrawn from apex; posterior margins finely microserrulate. Surface finely granulate, impunctate, numerous small, irregular, shiny green or blue green flecks of various sizes scattered over a dull, dark copper brown background; fully developed elytral pattern of narrow, white markings contrasting with the darker elytral ground color; setigerous punctures with short, erect, transparent setae indistinct in subsutural rows on disc, but distinct at elytral base, and at inner humeral angles, each surrounded by a metallic fleck slightly larger than flecks elsewhere on elytra; surface slightly depressed in humeral area and on disc creating a slight but distinct raised area basally. Elytral markings white forming an broken pattern consisting of partial humeral, complete apical lunules and middle band; humeral lunule reduced to its extremities, discal spot as a small, circular dot; middle band complete, narrow, terminating near the suture in a broad hook only slightly enlarged in most specimens without the posterior end recurved anteriorly, or the lateral end expanded along lateral margin; apical lunule complete and narrow along entire elytral apex to suture. Elytral epipleura testaceous except for narrow, metallic green to copper green band along dorsal margin. Abdomen. Figs 4 B, 4 E. Surface of 1 st- 5 th sterna shiny black with green reflections, sterna 6 entirely shiny black to black brown; posterior margins of male 3 rd- 5 th sterna and female 3 rd- 4 th sterna narrowly black; posterior margin female 5 th sternum broadly black; 3 rd- 5 th sterna medially smooth with scattered, fine, erect setae in both sexes; male 1 st- 6 th sterna and female 1 st- 5 th sterna laterally covered with dense, scattered, appressed white setae and roughened from setal punctures; male 6 th sternum glabrous medially with a broad, deep concave notch; female 5 th sternum with slightly raised transverse wrinkles interrupted by a short, wide membranous band along midline extending anteriorly to middle of sternum from a wide transverse membranous wedge along posterior margin; female 6 th sternum entirely glabrous, posterior margin with a row of 6 - 10 erect spines and a small lateral gibbosity on each side. Male Genitalia. Figs 3 E, 3 F, 3 G. Shape wide near base, uniformly broad to short wide distal neck, apical hook abruptly rounded, tip long and at acute angle to aedeagus; aedeagus inner sac apical spine field in neck short and wide, forming a distinct pad. Aedeagus inner sac sclerites: stylet tip recurved forming a sharp point; shield rounded distad; large tooth short and rounded at tip with root and dark fields large; arched piece short and thin.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
C1A3984969146BAA3C61DE05FB76F1DD.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Fig. 22. HAITI: Departement du l'Ouest, Massif de la Selle. Kenskoff [Kenscoff], Furcy, and La Visite are localities on the labels of the type specimens collected by P. J. Darlington in 1934. This species likely occurs in suitable habitats from Kenscoff to the northwestern boundary of Parc de La Visite along Highway 101. This highway from Furcy southward to La Visite traverses a series of long ridges at about 5000 feet elevation before rising abruptly to 6000 feet where it crosses over to the southern slopes of the Massif de la Selle.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
C1A3984969146BAA3C61DE05FB76F1DD.taxon	etymology	Etymology. This Latinized eponym, genitive case, is based on the family name of the late Philip J. Darlington, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The species name acknowledges his contributions as the preeminent American carabidologist during the Mid- 20 th Century. During his 1934 expedition to Haiti, Darlington was the first coleopterist to collect in the Massif de la Selle, the highest mountains in Haiti. Darlington collected the types of this new species along the autoroute taken by his expedition across the Massif de la Selle in the vicinity of La Visite, now designated as Parc de La Visite, a National Park in this southeastern Haitian mountain range.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
83491B4249207F15E241B5E967EDB277.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Distinguished from other Brasiella species on Hispaniola by the following combination of characters: 1) elytral markings exhibiting a humeral lunule reduced to its extremities; middle lunule terminating near the suture in a broad hook, never anteriorly recurved; apical lunule entire or broken into marginal band and subapical dot; 2) eyes small, neither prominent nor bulging laterally; 3) male genitalia with aedeagus neck broadly and distinctly bowed, its apex terminating in an extremely short, blunt curved tip; 4) male aedeagus inner sac stylet with distal apex distinctively hooked at tip; 5) females completely lack the longitudinal membranous band and membranous wedge mesad on the female 5 th abdominal sternum developed to various degrees in the other Brasiella species on Hispaniola.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
83491B4249207F15E241B5E967EDB277.taxon	description	Description. General. Fig. s 5 A, 6 A. Body. Formslender; head wide, eyes small, neither prominent nor bulging laterally; pronotum square, sligthly wider than long; elytra in both sexes narrow only slightly wider distad, apices separately rounded. Size. Males, length 5.6 - 5.8 mm, width 1.7 - 1.8 mm; females, length 6.2 - 6.5 mm, width 1.8 - 1.9 mm. Head. Fig. s 5 B, 5 D, 6 D, 6 F. Shiny dark copper black, back green or violet green dorsally and black green ventrally; entire surface glabrous except for two pairs of supraorbital sensory setae. Frons finely and longitudinally rugose. Vertex more coarsely rugose, transverse rugae along anterior margin narrow and irregularly arranged, 11 - 14 more or less complete longitudinal rugae between eyes and middle where rugae converge into an arcuate pattern; rugae transition abruptly into a posterior area with a finely and irregularly granulate surface. Eyes small, neither prominent nor bulging laterally. Genae longitudinally rugose. Clypeus finely and irregularly granulate, narrowed mesad. Labrum testaceous with a dark brown margin, subrectangular, width to length ratio 3.1 in holotype male, ratio 2.4 in allotype female; anterior margin protruding broadly mesad with a small medial tooth, both protruded margin and tooth larger in female; posterior margin very broadly arcuate mesad; medial carina broadly raised, very slight depression on each side near posterior margin; 6 - 7 setae in an irregular row near middle, most often symmetrically arranged. Maxillae and labium mainly testaceous, only distal palpal segments dark brown with metallic blue green reflections. Mandibles sexually dimorphic; in male, surface mainly testaceous, only teeth shiny brown with metallic green; in female, surface only testaceous in basal half, apical half and teeth shiny brown with metallic green; mandibles symmetrical, four teeth distad of molar, apical tooth longest, first and third tooth coequal in length, second tooth shortest; gaps between three intermediate teeth wide in both sexes. Antennae 11 segmented; scape dorsally shiny green, ventrally testaceous with a single subapical sensory seta; antennomeres 2 - 4 shiny green, glabrous except for a few, short erect setae along their length and distally; antennomeres 5 - 11 dull black, sheathed with dense short sensory setae. Prothorax. Figs 5 C, 5 D, 6 C, 6 D. Pronotum shiny, dark copper black. Proepisterna shiny, dark copper black, surface wrinkled dorsad. Prosternum shiny, dark copper black, surface wrinkled dorsad. Pronotum glabrous except for short, decumbent, white setae distributed in several, irregular rows medially directed, originating close to, and lying in a narrow band distinctly removed from lateral suture, in a sparse narrow band transversely and anteriorly oriented within broad anterior margin, and in a sparse narrow band laterally oriented on each side of midline extending nearly to the narrow posterior margin; transverse submarginal sulci distinct, anterior sulcus shallow, posterior sulcus deeper and deepest at posterior angles; transverse rugae within broad anterior margin irregular and shallow, interrupted at middle by an irregularly arranged pattern, within narrow posterior margin more distinctly and deeply engraved especially medially and extending onto midline; surface sculptured by fine, transverse rugae angled on disc and interrupted by a finely engraved longitudinal midline, and more finely and irregularly sculptured elsewhere. Proepisterna glabrous except for white, erect and appressed setae arising from small setigerous punctures scattered over ventral and posterior surfaces in males, only in ventral half in females. Prosternum glabrous, surface smooth. Pterothorax. Figs 5 C, 6 C. Mesepisterna glabrous except for appressed setae near ventral margin; female coupling sulcus represented by a small, shallow depression medially situated, a distinct groove extends only dorsally from pit, surface smooth below pit. Mesepimeron with sparse appressed setae. Metepisterna with scattered, appressed setae, more abundant in male than female. Prosternum and mesosternum glabrous, smooth to slightly wrinkled; metasternum glabrous except for long, dense white appressed setae laterad, surface smooth mesad and coarsely sculpted laterad where setae originate. Scutellum triangular, copper black. Legs. Figs 5 A, 6 B. Segmentstestaceous brown with metallic brown green reflections. Coxae shiny metallic brown green; trochanters shiny testaceous; femora and tibiae testaceous with metallic green reflections anteriorly; tarsomeres dark metallic brown; white, appressed setae on front and middle coxae, and laterally on hind coxae; erect setae and suberect closely spaced in several regular and irregular rows on all femora; setae widely spaced in a few rows on all tibiae; middle tibiae with patch of appressed setae dorsally along distal half; tarsomeres with short scattered setae on ventral surface; distal tarsomeres with two asymmetrical rows each with a few to several small, erect setae; an erect subapical seta present only on front trochanter, absent on middle and hind trochanters; males with dense pad of erect setae ventrally on proximal three tarsal segments; tarsal claws small. Elytra. Figs 5 A, 6 A. Form narrow in male, only slightly wider distad in female; posterior margins rounded, apices more evenly curved and separately rounded in female; sutural spine tiny, feebly withdrawn from apex; posterior margins finely microserrulate. Surface finely granulate, impunctate, numerous small, irregular, shiny green or blue green flecks of various sizes scattered over a dull, dark copper brown background; elytral pattern broad, broken, contrasting with the darker elytral ground color; setigerous punctures with short, erect, transparent setae indistinct in subsutural rows on disc, but distinct at elytral base, and at inner humeral angles, each surrounded by a metallic fleck slightly larger than flecks elsewhere on elytra; surface slightly depressed in humeral area and on disc creating a slight but distinct raised area basally. Elytral markings tawny, reduced pattern consisting of four or five isolated markings; humeral lunule broken into two widely separated terminal dots, humeral angle spot very small, discal spot small and oval; middle band sinuate, uniformly wide, not expanded laterally nor recurved anteriorly near suture; apical lunule entire or narrowly broken into marginal band and subapical dot. Elytral epipleura testaceous except for narrow, metallic green to copper green band along dorsal margin. Abdomen. Figs 6 B, 6 E. Surface of 1 st- 5 th sterna shiny black with green reflections, sterna 6 th entirely shiny black to black brown; posterior margins of male 3 rd- 5 th sterna and female 3 rd- 4 th sterna narrowly black; posterior margin female 5 th sternum broadly black; 3 rd- 5 th sterna medially smooth with scattered, fine, erect setae in both sexes; male 1 st- 6 th sterna and female 1 st- 5 th sterna laterally covered with dense, scattered, appressed white setae and roughened from setal punctures; male 6 th sternum glabrous medially with a broad, deep concave notch; female 5 th sternum with slightly raised transverse wrinkles, longitudinal membranous band and membranous wedge absent; female 6 th sternum entirely glabrous, posterior margin with a row of 6 - 10 erect spines and a small lateral gibbosity on each side. Male Genitalia. Figs 5 E, 5 F, 5 G. Shape broad near base, gradually tapering and uniformly broad to long, broad distal neck evenly curved, its apex terminating in an extremely short, blunt curved tip. Aedeagus inner sac sclerites: stylet long and straight, small hook at terminal tip; shield tapered distad; large tooth long and pointed at tip with large root and large dark fields; arched piece long and broad at base; spine field within aedeagus neck short and narrow.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
83491B4249207F15E241B5E967EDB277.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Fig. 22. HAITI: Departement du l'Sud, Morne Formon, and Departement du Grand'Anse, Desbarriere, in the Massif de la Hotte on the Tiburon Peninsula of western Haiti. This species is likely to be encountered in suitable habitats at the higher elevations throughout the Massif de la Hotte.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
83491B4249207F15E241B5E967EDB277.taxon	etymology	Etymology. This Latinized eponym, genitive case, is based on the family name of Robert L. Davidson, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Robert is a recognized taxonomic expert on Carabidae and, for several decades, has been my mentor for studying these beetles and a close friend. I am honored to name this species for him, not only because he collected this new species, but also for his outstanding efforts to acquire specimens of several other new Brasiella species described in this revision. Although Philip J. Darlington collected specimens of this new species in the Massif de la Hotte during his 1934 expedition to Haiti, earlier workers did not consider these to be distinct from either Brasiella argentata (Fabricius) or Brasiella dominicana (Mandl). The conspecificity of the Darlington specimens with Brasiella davidsoni was established in this revision. The Darlington specimens fall within the range of variation exhibited by this new species as documented by the large series of specimens collected by Robert L. Davidson and CMNH colleagues.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
F7A57A95061FB13C407F043BE7CD5433.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Distinguished from other Brasiella species on Hispaniola by the following combination of characters: 1) head, pronotum and proepisterna shiny dark copper; 2) elytral pattern complete, markings broad, bold, cream to pale white, contrasting with the darker copper brown and blue green flecked elytral ground color; 3) posterior elytral margins obliquely curved with apices separately rounded and sutural spine distinctly not retracted (more pronounced in females); 4) pronotum slender, narrower than long; 5) head and prontoum shiny dark copper brown contrasting with duller elytral ground color; 6) legs with large testaceous regions, especially the femora of females; 7) male genitalia with a long aedeagus neck and a short apical hook; 8) aedeagus apical spine field forming a long and narrow pad; 9) aedeagus inner sac stylet long, tip slightly bent and evenly tapered to a narrow point; 10) female 5 th abdominal sternum with with transverse wrinkles, a wide membranous band at midline along most the sternum, and a large membranous wedge along posterior margin.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
F7A57A95061FB13C407F043BE7CD5433.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Fig. 22. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Peravia Province, Bani vicinity along Rio Bani. The town of Bani lies in the coastal plain on the southcentral coast of the Dominican Republic. The Rio Bani emerges from the southeastern end of Cordillera Central and flows along the eastern edge of the town. This species likely occurs elsewhere along the Rio Bani further southward toward the coast and northward into the Cordillera Central.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
92072CF9F2D9BEB4A49D2333463D5B5C.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Distinguished from other Brasiella species on Hispaniola by the following combination of characters: 1) body size, males> 6.5 mm, females> 7.0 mm; 2) head longer than pronotum in female, similar in length in male; 3) eyes large, prominent and slightly bulging laterally; 4) head and pronotum shiny copper red, elytra dull cupreous to copper brown; 5) elytra with a complete pattern of pale, tawny markings in most specimens, especially females, or inconspicuous and obscured by ground color in others; 6) male genitalia apex short and wide, tip acutely bent and tapering gradually to an elongated point; 7) aedeagus inner sac stylet broad, tip recurved; 8) female 6 th abdominal sternum lateral gibbosities small, posterior margin broadly rounded; 9) female 8 th abdominal sternum median notch wide and deep.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
92072CF9F2D9BEB4A49D2333463D5B5C.taxon	description	Description. General. Figs 9 A, 10 A. Body. Formelongate; head long and broad, eyes large, prominent and slightly bulging; pronotum square; elytra elongate only sightly broadened distad, apices separately rounded. Size. Males, length 6.6 - 6.7 mm, width 1.9 - 2.0 mm; females, length 7.1 - 7.5 mm; width 2.1 - 2.2 mm. Head. Figs 9 B, 9 D, 10 D, 10 F. Shiny copper red dorsally and copper blue green ventrally; entire surface glabrous except for two pairs of supraorbital sensory setae. Frons finely and longitudinally rugose. Vertex more coarsely rugose, transverse rugae along anterior margin narrow and irregularly arranged, 15 - 18 more or less complete longitudinal rugae between eyes and middle where rugae converge into an arcuate pattern; rugae transition abruptly into a posterior area with a finely and irregularly granulate surface. Eyes large, prominent and slightly bulging in both sexes. Genae longitudinally rugose. Clypeus finely and irregularly granulate, narrowed mesad. Labrum testaceous with a dark brown margin, subrectangular, width to length ratio 3.5 in holotype male, ratio 2.8 in allotype female; anterior margin in female slightly sinuate, protruding at middle with a small bulge on either side of a small tooth; anterior margin in male less sinuate, not protruding and tooth minute in some specimens or indented mesad in others; posterior margin broadly arcuate mesad; medial carina narrowly and distinctly raised, very slight depression on each side near posterior margin; 6 - 10 setae in an irregular row near middle most often symmetrically arranged. Maxillae and labium mainly testaceous, only distal palpal segments dark brown with metallic blue green reflections. Mandibles sexually dimorphic; in male, surface mainly testaceous, only teeth metallic green; in female, surface only testaceous in basal half, apical half and teeth shiny brown; mandibles symmetrical, four teeth distad of molar, apical tooth longest, first and third tooth coequal in length, second tooth shortest; gaps between three intermediate teeth narrow in male, wide in female. Antennae 11 segmented; scape dorsally shiny green, ventrally testaceous with a single subapical sensory seta; antennomeres 2 - 4 shiny green, glabrous except for a few, short erect setae along their length and distally; antennomeres 5 - 11 dull brown, sheathed with dense short sensory setae. Prothorax. Figs 9 C, 9 D, 10 C, 10 D. Pronotum shiny copper. Proepisterna shiny, dark copper brown, surface wrinkled dorsad. Prosternum shiny green. Pronotum glabrous except for short, decumbent, white setae distributed in several, irregular rows medially directed, originating close to, and lying in a narrow band slightly impinging on lateral suture, in a sparse narrow band transversely and anteriorly oriented within broad anterior margin, and in a sparse narrow band laterally oriented on each side of midline extending nearly to the narrow posterior margin; transverse submarginal sulci distinct, anterior sulcus shallow, posterior sulcus deeper and deepest at posterior angles; transverse rugae within broad anterior margin irregular and shallow, interrupted at middle by an irregularly arranged pattern, within posterior margin more distinctly and deeply engraved especially medially and extending onto midline; surface sculptured by fine, transverse rugae angled on disc and interrupted by a finely engraved longitudinal midline, and more finely and irregularly sculptured elsewhere. Proepisterna glabrous except for white, erect and appressed setae arising from small, setigerous punctures scattered over ventral and posterior surfaces in males, only near ventral margin in females. Prosternum glabrous, surface wrinkled. Pterothorax. Figs 9 C, 10 C. Mesepisterna glabrous except for appressed setae near ventral margin; female coupling sulcus represented by an elongate depression medially situated with a slightly deeper center, a distinct groove extends only dorsally from center, surface smooth below center. Mesepimeron with sparse appressed setae. Metepisterna with scattered appressed setae, more abundant in male than female. Prosternum and mesosternum glabrous, smooth to slightly wrinkled; metasternum glabrous except for long, dense white appressed setae laterad, surface smooth mesad and coarsely sculpted laterad where setae originate. Scutellum triangular, cupreous. Legs. Figs 9 A, 10 B. Segmentstestaceous brown with metallic brown green reflections. Coxae shiny metallic brown green; trochanters shiny testaceous brown; femora and tibiae entirely metallic green to partially metallic green except for testaceous distal ends and posterior margin; tarsomeres dark metallic brown; white, appressed setae on front and middle coxae, and laterally on hind coxae; erect setae and suberect closely spaced in several regular and irregular rows on all femora; setae widely spaced in a few rows on all tibiae; middle tibiae with patch of appressed setae dorsally along distal half; tarsomeres with short scattered setae on ventral surface; distal tarsomeres with two asymmetrical rows each with a few to several small, erect setae; an erect subapical seta present only on front trochanter, absent on middle and hind trochanters; males with dense pad of erect setae ventrally on proximal three tarsal segments; tarsal claws small. Elytra. Figs 9 A, 10 A. Form elongate, narrow in male, broadened distad and broadest at outer apical angle in female; obliquely curved along posterior margins with apices separately rounded; sutural spine feebly withdrawn from apex; posterior margins finely microserrulate. Surface finely granulate, impunctate, numerous small, irregular, shiny green to copper green flecks of various sizes scattered over a dull, cupreous to copper brown background; pale elytral markings barely contrasting with the darker elytral ground color in most marked female specimens, or obscured by ground color in others of both sexes; setigerous punctures with short, erect, transparent setae indistinct in subsutural rows on disc, but distinct at elytral base, and at inner humeral angles, each surrounded by a metallic fleck slightly larger than flecks elsewhere on elytra; surface slightly depressed in humeral area and on disc creating a slight but distinct raised area basally. Elytra marked with a complete pattern of pale, tawny lunules and bands in most specimens, especially females, or inconspicuous and obscured by ground color in others; complete pattern consisting of humeral and apical lunules and middle band, but pattern wide or thin or broken or obscured depending on the specimen; in marked specimens humeral lunule complete terminating on disc in a slightly enlarged end or isolated spot, middle band slightly sinuate and slightly enlarged near suture and slightly expanded along lateral margin; apical lunule wide, complete and broadened along suture. Elytral epipleura testaceous except for narrow, metallic green to copper green band along dorsal margin. Abdomen. Figs 10 B, 10 E. Surface of 1 st- 5 th sterna shiny black with green reflections, sterna 6 th entirely shiny black to black brown; posterior margins of male 3 rd- 5 th sterna and female 3 rd- 4 th sterna narrowly black; posterior margin female 5 th sternum broadly black; sterna 3 rd- 5 th medially smooth with scattered, fine, erect setae in both sexes; male 1 st- 6 th sterna and female 1 st- 5 th sterna laterally covered with dense, scattered, appressed white setae and roughened from setal punctures; male 6 th sternum glabrous medially with a broad, deep concave notch; female 5 th sternum with moderately raised, transverse wrinkles interrupted by a membranous band along midline extending anteriorly from a short transverse membranous wedge along posterior margin; female 6 th sternum entirely glabrous, posterior margin with a row of 6 - 10 erect spines and a small lateral gibbosity on each side. Male Genitalia. Figs 9 E, 9 F, 9 G. Shape narrow near base, gradually wider and uniformly broad along most of its length, distally ending in a short, wide apical neck; apical tip acutely bent and tapering evenly to an elongated point. Aedeagus inner sac sclerites: stylet broad, tip wide and recurved; shield rounded distad; large tooth short, bluntly rounded at tip with large root and dark fields; arched piece short and wide; spine field within aedeagus neck long and narrow.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
92072CF9F2D9BEB4A49D2333463D5B5C.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Fig. 22. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Pedernales Province, Las Abejas, ca. 35 km N Cabo Rojo, 1250 m, in moist ravines at higher elevations on the southern slopes of the Sierra de Baoruco.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
92072CF9F2D9BEB4A49D2333463D5B5C.taxon	etymology	Etymology. This Latinized eponym, genitive case, is based on the family name of Michael A. Ivie, Department of Entomology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana. Ivie collected the first series of Brasiella specimens in 1988 from the Sierra de Baoruco, Pedernales Province, Dominican Republic, as part of his West Indian Beetle Fauna Project (WIBP). He previously considered these specimens to be only variants of Brasiella dominicana (Mandl). I am grateful for the opportunity he has provided for me to examine these WIBP specimens because it has led to the discovery of Brasiella iviei, and other related new species in the Sierra de Baoruco, an area in the Dominican Republic known for its high endemism (Woodruff 2004).	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
192D806E16118D34A5F887AEFD9BB96B.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Distinguished from other Brasiella species on Hispaniola by the following combination of characters: 1) small body size of males; 2) head and pronotum shiny, shiny copper; 3) proepisterna shiny copper; 4) elytral markings bold and complete, pale tan to white against a duller cupreous ground color with metallic blue and green flecks scattered randomly over the unmarked portions of their surface; 5) male genitalia with a long aedeagus neck and a apical hook rounded nearly at a right angle and tip short; 6) aedeagus inner sac stylet short with recurved tip; 7) aedeagus inner sac large tooth short, narrowly pointed at tip; 8) aedeagus inner sac shield angled distad.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
192D806E16118D34A5F887AEFD9BB96B.taxon	description	Description. General. Fig. 11 A. Body. Formelongate; head broad, eyes slightly bulging; pronotum broad and square; elytra slender. Size. Males, length 5.8 - 5.9 mm, width 1.8 - 1.9 mm; female unknown. Head. Figs 11 B, 11 D. Shiny, shiny copper dorsally, copper green laterally, blue green ventrally; entire surface glabrous except for two pairs of supraorbital sensory setae. Frons finely and longitudinally rugose. Vertex more coarsely rugose, transverse rugae along anterior margin narrow and irregularly arranged, 16 - 18 more or less complete longitudinal rugae between eyes and middle where rugae converge into an arcuate pattern; rugae transition abruptly into a posterior area with a finely and irregularly granulate surface. Eyes prominent, slightly bulging laterally. Genae longitudinally rugose. Clypeus finely and irregularly granulate, anterior margin broadly arcuate. Labrum testaceous with a dark brown margin, subrectangular, width to length ratio 3 in holotype male; anterior margin sinuate, prominent at middle, a small bulge on either side of a tiny tooth; medial carina broadly and distinctly raised; 7 setae in an irregular row near middleasymmetrically arranged. Maxillae and labium mainly testaceous, only distal palpal segments dark brown with metallic blue green reflections. Mandibles in male with surface mainly testaceous, only teeth metallic green; mandibles symmetrical, four teeth distad of molar, apical tooth longest, first and second tooth coequal in length, both shorter than third tooth; gaps between three intermediate teeth narrow in male. Antennae 11 segmented; scape entirely to partially shiny green and slightly testaceous ventrally; scape with a single subapical sensory seta; antennomeres 2 - 4 shiny green to slightly testaceous, glabrous except for a few, short erect setae along their length and distally; antennomeres 5 - 11 dull brown, sheathed with dense short sensory setae. Prothorax. Figs 11 C, 11 D. Pronotum shiny, shiny copper. Proepisterna shiny copper, surface wrinkled dorsad. Prosternum shiny green. Pronotum glabrous except for short, decumbent, white setae distributed in several, irregular rows medially directed, originating close to, and lying in a narrow band nearly impinging on lateral suture, in a sparse narrow band transversely and anteriorly oriented within broad anterior margin, and in a sparse narrow band laterally oriented on each side of midline extending nearly to the narrow posterior margin; transverse submarginal sulci distinct, anterior sulcus shallow, posterior sulcus deeper and deepest at posterior angles; transverse rugae within broad anterior margin and within posterior margin parallel, distinctly and deeply engraved, extending onto midline; surface sculptured by finer, transverse rugae angled on disc and interrupted by a finely engraved longitudinal midline, and more finely and irregularly sculptured elsewhere. Proepisterna glabrous except for white, erect and appressed setae arising from small setigerous punctures scattered over most of the surface in males. Pterothorax. Fig. 11 C. Mesepisterna glabrous except for appressed setae near ventral margin; female coupling sulcus represented by a small depression medially situated, a distinct groove extends only dorsally from pit, surface smooth below pit. Mesepimeron with sparse appressed setae. Metepisterna with scattered appressed setae, more abundant in male than female. Prosternum and mesosternum glabrous, smooth to slightly wrinkled; metasternum glabrous except for long, dense white appressed setae laterad, surface smooth mesad and coarsely sculpted laterad where setae originate. Scutellum triangular, cupreous. Legs. Fig. 11 A. Segmentsentirely shiny, metallic yellow green to partially testaceous brown with metallic green reflections. Coxae shiny, dull metallic brown green; trochanters shiny testaceous; femora and tibiae entirely metallic green to partially testaceous with metallic green reflections anteriorly; tarsomeres dark metallic brown; white, appressed setae on front and middle coxae, and laterally on hind coxae with one (rarely two) sensory setae mesad; erect setae and suberect closely spaced in several regular and irregular rows on all femora; setae widely spaced in a few rows on all tibiae; middle tibiae with patch of appressed setae dorsally along distal half; tarsomeres with short scattered setae on ventral surface; distal tarsomeres with two asymmetrical rows each with a few to several small, erect setae; an erect subapical seta present only on front trochanter, absent on middle and hind trochanters; males with dense pad of erect setae ventrally on proximal three tarsal segments; tarsal claws small. Elytra. Fig. 11 A. Elytra elongate, narrow, sides nearly parallel, only slightly broader at outer apical angle; evenly curved along posterior margins with apices separately rounded; sutural spine very small, prominent, feebly withdrawn from apex; posterior margins finely microserrulate. Surface finely granulate, impunctate, numerous small, irregular, shiny green or blue green flecks of various sizes scattered over a dull, dark copper brown background; fully developed elytral pattern of broad, bold markings contrasting with the darker elytral ground color; setigerous punctures with short, erect, transparent setae indistinct in subsutural rows on disc, but distinct at elytral base, and at inner humeral angles, each surrounded by a metallic fleck slightly larger than flecks elsewhere on elytra; surface very slightly depressed in humeral area and on disc creating only a very slight raised area basally. Elytral markings tawny, bold and distinct, forming a complete pattern consisting of humeral and apical lunules and middle band; humeral lunule complete terminating as a slightly enlarged end on disc in holotype, slightly broken before enlarged posterior end in paratype; middle band distinctly sinuate, complete, edges irregular, slightly enlarged near suture and slightly expanded along lateral margin; apical lunule complete broadened at suture. Elytral epipleura testaceous except for narrow, metallic green to copper green band along dorsal margin. Abdomen. Not Fig. d. Male surface of 1 st- 5 th sterna shiny black with green reflections, 6 th sternum entirely shiny black green; posterior margins of male 3 rd- 5 th sterna dark brown; male 3 rd- 5 th sterna medially smooth with scattered, fine, erect setae in both sexes; male 1 st- 6 th sterna laterally covered with dense, scattered, appressed white setae and roughened from setal punctures; male 6 th sternum glabrous medially with a broad, deep concave notch. Male Genitalia. Figs 11 E, 11 F, 11 G. Shape narrow near base, uniformly broad in middle half, slim distally with neck long and narrow, apical hook evenly rounded nearly at a right angle, tip short. Aedeagus inner sac sclerites: stylet short, tip recurved; shield angled distad; large tooth short, narrow and pointed at tip with root and small dark fields; arched piece short and thick; spine field within aedeagus neck short and narrow.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
192D806E16118D34A5F887AEFD9BB96B.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Fig. 22. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Peravia Province, Las Carreras vicinity along Rio Ocoa flood plain south of Highway 2. This species likely occurs elsewhere along the Rio Ocoa south toward the coast and further north into the Cordillera Central.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
192D806E16118D34A5F887AEFD9BB96B.taxon	etymology	Etymology. This Latinized eponym, a noun in aposition, is derived the Rio Ocoa, a major river that originates in the southern end of the Cordillera Central, flows across the southwestern coast of Peravia Province, and empties into the Caribbean Sea along the border with Azua Province in the Dominican Republic.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
722FBDBE91FB1891E0DA4A1E222F95F7.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Distinguished from other Brasiella species on Hispaniola by the following combination of characters: 1) elytral lunules tawny, fully developed, wide and contrasting with darker, dull copper brown background; 2) middle band of nearly uniform width and distinctly recurved anteriorly near suture; 3) male genitalia bulky, aedeagus distal neck short and broadly, apical hook evenly rounded, tip elongated and nearly at right angle to aedeagus; 4) aedeagus inner sac stylet tip recurved, tapering to sharp point; 5) aedeagus inner sac shield tapered distad; 6) aedeagus inner sac apical spine field in neck short and wide, forming a distinct pad; 7) female 5 th abdominal sternum with transverse wrinkles, a narrow membranous band along the midline, and a small membranous wedge along posterior margin; 8) female 6 th abdominal sternum with large lateral gibbosities.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
722FBDBE91FB1891E0DA4A1E222F95F7.taxon	description	Description. General. Figs 12 A, 13 A. Body. Formelongate; head narrow, eyes prominent, slightly bulging laterally; pronotum subarcuate, wider than long; elytra broadened distad, each slightly rounded. Size. Males, length 6.0 - 6.4 mm, width 1.9 - 2.0 mm; females, length 6.4 - 6.7 mm, width 2.0 - 2.1 mm. Head. Figs 12 B, 12 D, 13 D, 13 F. Shiny dark copper brown to dark brown dorsally and blue green ventrally; entire surface glabrous except for two pairs of supraorbital sensory setae. Frons finely and longitudinally rugose. Vertex more coarsely rugose, transverse rugae along anterior margin narrow and irregularly arranged, 15 - 18 more or less complete longitudinal rugae between eyes and middle where rugae converge into an arcuate pattern; rugae transition abruptly into a posterior area with a finely and irregularly granulate surface. Eyes prominent, slightly bulging laterally. Genae longitudinally rugose. Clypeus finely and irregularly granulate, narrowed mesad. Labrum testaceous with a dark brown margin, subrectangular, width to length ratio 2.2 in holotype male, ratio 2.6 in allotype female; anterior margin sinuate, a small bulge on either side of a tiny medial tooth in most specimens, tooth absent in others specimens; posterior margin broadly arcuate mesad; medial carina narrow, distinctly raised with a broad depression on either side; 6 - 8 setae in an irregular row near middle, most often symmetrically arranged. Maxillae and labium mainly testaceous, only distal palpal segments dark brown with metallic blue green reflections. Mandibles sexually dimorphic; in male, surface mainly testaceous, only teeth metallic green; in female, surface only testaceous in basal half, apical half and teeth shiny brown; mandibles symmetrical, four teeth distad of molar, apical tooth longest, third and first tooth coequal in length, second tooth shortest; gaps between three intermediate teeth narrow in male, wide in female. Antennae 11 segmented; scape dorsally shiny green with a single subapical sensory seta; antennomeres 2 - 4 shiny green, glabrous except for a few, short erect setae along their length and distally; antennomeres 5 - 11 black green, sheathed with dense short sensory setae. Prothorax. Figs 12 C, 12 D, 13 C, 13 D. Pronotum shiny dark copper brown. Proepisterna shiny copper black, surface wrinkled dorsad. Prosternum shiny green. Pronotum glabrous except for short, decumbent, white setae distributed in several, irregular rows medially directed, originating close to, and lying in a narrow band distinctly removed from lateral margin, in a sparse narrow band transversely and anteriorly oriented within broad anterior margin, and in a sparse narrow band laterally oriented on each side of midline extending nearly to the narrow posterior margin; transverse submarginal sulci distinct, anterior sulcus shallow, posterior sulcus deeper and deepest at posterior angles; transverse rugae within broad anterior margin irregular and shallow, interrupted at middle by an irregularly arranged pattern, within posterior margin more distinctly and deeply engraved especially medially and extending onto midline; surface sculptured by fine, transverse rugae angled on disc and interrupted by a finely engraved longitudinal midline, and more finely and irregularly sculptured elsewhere. Proepisterna glabrous except for white, erect and appressed setae arising from small, setigerous punctures scattered over ventral half and along posterior margin in males, only near ventral margin females. Prosternum glabrous. Pterothorax. Figs 12 C, 13 C. Mesepisterna glabrous except for appressed setae near ventral margin; female coupling sulcus represented by a small depression medially situated, a distinct groove extends only dorsally from pit, surface smooth below pit. Mesepimeron with sparse appressed setae. Metepisterna with scattered appressed setae, more abundant in male than female. Prosternum and mesosternum glabrous, smooth to slightly wrinkled; metasternum glabrous except for long, dense white appressed setae laterad, surface smooth mesad and coarsely sculpted laterad where setae originate. Scutellum triangular, copper to dark cupreous black. Legs. Figs 12 A, 13 B. Segmentsmetallic green with copper reflections or metallic green and testaceous. Coxae shiny metallic brown green; trochanters shiny testaceous; femora and tibiae testaceous with metallic green reflections anteriorly along most of their lengths except distal ends; tarsomeres dark metallic violet black; white, appressed setae on front and middle coxae, and laterally on hind coxae; erect setae and suberect closely spaced in several regular and irregular rows on all femora; setae widely spaced in a few rows on all tibiae; middle tibiae with patch of appressed setae dorsally along distal half; tarsomeres with short scattered setae on ventral surface; distal tarsomeres with two asymmetrical rows each with a few to several small, erect setae; an erect subapical seta present only on front trochanter, absent on middle and hind trochanters; males with dense pad of erect setae ventrally on proximal three tarsal segments; tarsal claws small. Elytra. Figs 12 A, 13 A. Form narrow in male, broadened slightly distad and broadest at outer apical angle in female; evenly curved along posterior margins with apices separately rounded; sutural spine small, feebly withdrawn from apex; posterior margins finely microserrulate. Surface finely granulate, impunctate, numerous small, irregular metallic blotches comprised of shiny green or blue green flecks of various sizes scattered over a dull, dark copper brown background; fully developed elytral pattern of bold markings contrasting with the darker elytral ground color; setigerous punctures with short, erect, transparent setae indistinct in subsutural rows on disc, but distinct at elytral base, and at inner humeral angles, each surrounded by a metallic fleck slightly larger than flecks elsewhere on elytra; surface slightly depressed in humeral area and on disc creating a slight but distinct raised area basally. Elytral markings tawny, fully developed, wide and contrasting with darker, dull copper brown background; pattern consisting of humeral and apical lunules and middle band; humeral lunule complete terminating as a slightly enlarged end on disc in most specimens, slightly broken at posterior end in a few specimens; middle band of nearly uniform width, distinctly recurved anteriorly near suture, and slightly expanded along lateral margin; apical lunule wide, complete and broadened near suture in all specimens examined. Elytral epipleura testaceous except for narrow, metallic green to copper green band along dorsal margin. Abdomen. Figs 13 B, 13 E. Surface of 1 st- 5 th sterna shiny black with green reflections, 6 th sternum entirely shiny black to black brown; posterior margins of male 3 rd- 5 th sterna and female 3 rd- 4 th sterna narrowly black; posterior margin female 5 th sternum broadly black; 3 rd- 5 th sterna medially smooth with scattered, fine, erect setae in both sexes; male 1 st- 6 th sterna and female 1 st- 5 th sterna laterally covered with dense, scattered, appressed white setae and roughened from setal punctures; male 6 th sternum glabrous medially with a broad, deep concave notch; female 5 th sternum with moderately raised, transverse wrinkles and a membranous band at midline extending anteriorly along most of the sternum from a small, transverse membranous wedge along posterior margin; female 6 th sternum entirely glabrous, posterior margin with a row of 6 - 10 erect spines and a large lateral gibbosity on each side. Male Genitalia. Figs 12 E, 12 F, 12 G. Shape bulky, narrow only basally, uniformly broad along most of its length, distal neck short and broad, apical hook evenly rounded, tip elongated and nearly at right angle to aedeagus. Aedeagus inner sac sclerites: stylet tip recurved, tapering to sharp point; shield tapered distad; large tooth long and pointed at tip with large root and large dark fields; arched piece long and thin; spine field within aedeagus neck short and and wide, forming a distinct pad.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
722FBDBE91FB1891E0DA4A1E222F95F7.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Fig. 22. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, Santiago Province, and La Vega Province, on the north slopes of the Cordillera Central. This species likely will be found in suitable habitats distributed over the entire northern slopes of the Cordillera Central.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
722FBDBE91FB1891E0DA4A1E222F95F7.taxon	etymology	Etymology. This Latinized eponym, genitive case, is based on the first name of the late Philip J. Darlington, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Darlington was the distinguished American carabidologist who pioneered studies of Carabidae island biogeography in the Mid- 20 th Century. The first specimens of this new species were collected by Darlington during his 1938 expedition to the Dominican Republic. Brian Farrell, also from MCZH, in 2008 collected additional specimens with more precise locality data, while retracing the route of Darlington's expedition 50 years earlier.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
C17DFFCB39CB5E7B6E2B75532C375A11.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Distinguished from other Brasiella species on Hispaniola by the following combination of characters: 1) head and pronotum of similar length in both sexes; 2) eyes small, not prominent nor bulging laterally; 3) head and pronotum shiny copper red, elytra dull cupreous or coppery green; 4) elytra unmarked in most specimens or only faintly marked in others or marked more distinctly in a few; 5) cupreous or coppery green elytral ground color and faint elytral markings infuscated with metallic blue and green flecks; 6) male genitalia apical neck short and wide, apex inner and outer angles evenly rounded, tip acutely bent and terminating in a short point; 7) aedeagus inner sac stylet thin and straight to slightly bent distad.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
C17DFFCB39CB5E7B6E2B75532C375A11.taxon	description	Description. General. Figs 14 A, 15 A. Body. Formslender; head large, eyes proportionally small, not prominent nor bulging laterally; pronotum square, width equals length; elytra narrow, slightly broadened distad, posterior margins evenly rounded, apices separately rounded. Size. Males, length 5.8 - 6.5 mm, width 1.8 - 2.1 mm; females, length 6.5 - 7.0 mm, width 2.0 - 2.2 mm. Head. Figs 14 B, 14 D, 15 D, 15 F. Shiny copper brown dorsally with green reflections, and black green ventrally; entire surface glabrous except for two pairs of supraorbital sensory setae. Frons finely and longitudinally rugose. Vertex more coarsely rugose, transverse rugae along anterior margin narrow and irregularly arranged, 15 - 18 more or less complete longitudinal rugae between eyes and middle where rugae converge, forming an arcuate to slightly circular pattern; rugae transition abruptly into a posterior area with a finely and irregularly granulate surface. Eyes small, neither prominent nor bulging laterally. Genae longitudinally rugose. Clypeus finely and irregularly granulate, narrowed mesad. Labrum testaceous with a dark brown margin, rectangular in male with width to length ratio 4 in holotype male, subrectangular in female with widt h to length ratio 2 in allotype female; anterior margin transverse in male with a minute tooth mesad, very slightly protruding at middle in female with a small tooth mesad; posterior margin broadly arcuate mesad; medial carina very broadly, slightly raised, without an obvious depression on either side; 4 - 8 setae in an irregular row near middle most often symmetrically arranged, fewer setae in male. Maxillae and labium mainly testaceous, only distal palpal segments dark brown with metallic blue green reflections. Mandibles sexually dimorphic; in male, surface mainly testaceous, only teeth shiny green; in female, surface only testaceous in basal half, apical half and teeth shiny to violet green; mandibles symmetrical, four teeth distad of molar, apical tooth longest, first and third tooth coequal in length, second tooth shortest; first and second teeth without a gap between them in male, gaps between three intermediate teeth wide in female. Antennae 11 segmented; scape dorsally shiny green, ventrally testaceous with a single subapical sensory seta; antennomeres 2 - 4 shiny green, glabrous except for a few, short erect setae along their length and distally; antennomeres 5 - 11 dull brown, sheathed with dense short sensory setae. Prothorax. Figs 14 C, 14 D, 15 C, 15 D. Pronotum metallic copper brown with green reflections. Proepisterna shiny copper, surface wrinkled dorsad. Prosternum shiny green. Pronotum glabrous except for short, decumbent, white setae distributed in several, irregular rows inside lateral margin medially directed, originating close to and lying in a narrow band nearly impinging on lateral suture, in a sparse narrow band transversely and anteriorly oriented distinctly removed from anterior margin, and in a sparse narrow band laterally oriented on each side of midline extending nearly to the narrow posterior margin; transverse submarginal sulci distinct, anterior sulcus shallow, posterior sulcus deeper and deepest at posterior angles; transverse rugae within broad anterior margin irregular and shallow, interrupted at middle by an irregularly arranged pattern, within posterior margin more distinctly and deeply engraved especially medially and extending onto midline; surface sculptured by fine, transverse rugae angled on disc and interrupted by a finely engraved longitudinal midline, and more finely and irregularly sculptured elsewhere. Proepisterna glabrous except for white, erect and appressed setae arising from small setigerous punctures scattered over the surface near ventral margin in female, over ventral half of the surface and near the posterior margin in males. Prosternum glabrous. Pterothorax. Figs 14 C, 15 C. Mesepisterna glabrous except for a few appressed setae near ventral margin; female coupling sulcus represented by a small depression medially situated, a distinct groove extends only dorsally from pit, surface smooth below pit. Mesepimeron with a few sparse appressed setae. Metepisterna with scattered appressed setae, more abundant in male than female. Prosternum and mesosternum glabrous, smooth to slightly wrinkled; metasternum glabrous except for long, dense white appressed setae laterad, surface smooth mesad and coarsely sculpted laterad where setae originate. Scutellum triangular, shiny cupreous. Legs. Figs 14 A, 15 B. Segmentstestaceous brown with metallic brown green reflections. Coxae shiny metallic brown green; trochanters shiny testaceous; femora and tibiae testaceous with metallic green reflections anteriorly; tarsomeres dark metallic brown; white, appressed setae on front and middle coxae, and laterally on hind coxae; erect setae and suberect closely spaced in several regular and irregular rows on all femora; setae widely spaced in a few rows on all tibiae; middle tibiae with patch of appressed setae dorsally along distal half; tarsomeres with short scattered setae on ventral surface; distal tarsomeres with two asymmetrical rows each with a few to several small, erect setae; an erect subapical seta present only on front trochanter, absent on middle and hind trochanters; males with dense pad of erect setae ventrally on proximal three tarsal segments; tarsal claws small. Elytra. Figs 14 A, 15 A. Form narrow in male, broadened slightly distad and broadest at outer apical angle in female; posterior margins evenly rounded, apices separately rounded; sutural spine tiny in male, small in female, feebly withdrawn from apex; posterior margins finely microserrulate. Surface finely granulate, impunctate, numerous small, irregular, metallic flecks of various sizes comprised of blue or blue green flecks scattered over a cupreous or coppery green background; setigerous punctures with short, erect, transparent setae indistinct in subsutural rows on disc, but distinct at elytral base, and at inner humeral angles, each surrounded by a metallic fleck slightly larger than flecks elsewhere on elytra; surface slightly depressed in humeral area and on disc creating a slight but distinct raised area basally. Elytra unmarked in most specimens, only faintly marked in others, or marked with more distinct tawny lunules in a few; elytral ground color cupreous in most specimens, coppery green in others or green in others; faint elytral markings infuscated with metallic blue green flecks; specimens with the most extensive infuscated markings appear immaculate, while others have faint and indistinct markings; faint markings comprised of a humeral lunule reduced to its extremities, a middle lunule terminating near the suture in a broad hook never anteriorly recurved, and an apical lunule usually reaching the suture. Elytral epipleura testaceous except for narrow, metallic green to copper green band along dorsal margin. Abdomen. Figs 14 B, 15 E. Surface of 1 st- 5 th sterna shiny black with green reflections, 6 th sternum entirely shiny black to black brown; posterior margins of male 3 rd- 5 th sterna and female 3 rd- 4 th sterna narrowly black; posterior margin female 5 th sternum broadly black; 3 rd- 5 th sterna medially smooth with scattered, fine, erect setae in both sexes; male 1 st- 6 th sterna and female 1 st- 5 th sterna laterally covered with dense, scattered, appressed white setae and roughened from setal punctures; male 6 th sternum glabrous medially with a broad, deep concave notch; female 5 th sternum with moderately raised, transverse wrinkles interrupted by a short, wide membranous band along midline extending anteriorly to middle of sternum from a wide transverse membranous wedge along posterior margin; female 6 th sternum entirely glabrous, posterior margin with a row of 6 - 10 erect spines and a large lateral gibbosity on each side. Male Genitalia. Figs 14 E, 14 F, 14 G. Shape narrow near base, widening gradually and uniformly broad in middle three-quarters, narrowing gradually distally with neck short and wide, apical hook inner and outer angles evenly rounded, tip short and acutely angled to aedeagus. Aedeagus inner sac sclerites: stylet thin and straight to slightly bent distad; shield rounded distad; large tooth wide and pointed at tip with large root and large dark fields; arched piece short and narrow; spine field within aedeagus neck short and thin.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
C17DFFCB39CB5E7B6E2B75532C375A11.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Fig. 22. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Pedernales Province, Sierra de Baoruco at higher elevations in grass and pine habitats typical of the locality known as Aceitillar. Localities include: 37 km N Cabo Rojo at 1500 m (more precisely 1560 m); El Aceitillar ca. 35 km NNW Cabo Rojo at elevations from 1250 m to 1430 m. This species in likely distributed throughout the Sierra de Baoruco at higher elevations in areas of red, bauxite soils in habitats with pines and grasslands.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
C17DFFCB39CB5E7B6E2B75532C375A11.taxon	etymology	Etymology. This Latinized eponym, genitive case, is based on the family name of John E. Rawlins, Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The species name honors John for his encouragement and the assistance he provided to move this revision toward its completion. He also has been a colleague and friend for several decades while the author has been associated with the CMNH. Dr. Rawlins organized the several expeditions to inventory the insect fauna of Hispaniola that resulted in the collections of several of the new Brasiella species described in this revision.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
567C0F07415C186D755DC41F48AD948B.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Distinguished from Brasiella species on Hispaniola by the following combination of characters: 1) head small, eyes proportionally large, prominent and distinctly bulging laterally; 2) subglobose to subarcuate pronotum; 3) female legs and antennal scape primarily testaceous, male appendages dominated by dark metallic reflections; 4) female mesepisternal coupling sulcus a shallow, concentric depression with a small, central pit; 5) faint, nearly translucent elytral markings, forming a complete, but reduced pattern with humeral lunule divided into a humeral spot and a discal dot; 6) female 5 th abdominal sternum with a small, membranous wedge along the posterior margin and a wide, membranous band extending along midline only to middle; 7) female 8 th sternum median notch shallowly incised.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
567C0F07415C186D755DC41F48AD948B.taxon	description	Description. General. Figs 16 A, 17 A. Body. Formslender; head small, eyes proportionally large, prominent and distinctly bulging laterally; pronotum slender, subglobose to subarcuate, wider than long; elytra uniformly narrow, apices separately rounded in female, conjointly rounded in male; appendages primarily testaceous in female, mainly dark metallic in male. Size. Male, length 6.0 mm, width 1.7 mm; female, length 6.2 mm, width 1.8 mm. Head. Figs 16 B, 16 D, 17 D, 17 F. Shiny dark copper brown dorsally and blue green ventrally; entire surface glabrous except for two pairs of supraorbital sensory setae. Frons finely and longitudinally rugose. Vertex more coarsely rugose, transverse rugae along anterior margin narrow and irregularly arranged, 15 - 18 more or less complete longitudinal rugae between eyes and middle, in female rugae mainly parallel only slightly converge, in male rugae converge into an arcuate pattern; rugae transition abruptly into a posterior area with a finely and irregularly granulate surface. Eyes prominent and greatly bulging laterally in both sexes. Genae longitudinally rugose. Clypeus finely and irregularly granulate, narrowed mesad. Labrum testaceous with a dark brown margin, rectangular, width to length ratio 3 in holotype male, ratio 3 in allotype female; anterior margin nearly straight with a small tooth; posterior margin distinctly arcuate mesad; medial carina broadly raised; 8 setae in an irregular row near middle symmetrically arranged. Maxillae and labium mainly testaceous, only distal palpal segments dark brown with metallic green black reflections. Mandibles sexually dimorphic; in male, surface mainly testaceous, only teeth metallic green; in female, surface only testaceous in basal half, apical half and teeth shiny brown; mandibles symmetrical, four teeth distad of molar, apical tooth longest, first and third tooth coequal in length, second tooth shortest; gaps between three intermediate teeth narrow in male, wide in female. Antennae 11 segmented; scape in female entirely testaceous, in male dorsally shiny green, ventrally testaceous; scape with a single subapical sensory seta; antennomeres 2 - 4 shiny copper green, glabrous except for a few, short erect setae along their length and distally; antennomeres 5 - 11 dull brown, sheathed with dense short sensory setae. Prothorax. Figs 16 C, 16 D, 17 C, 17 D. Pronotum shiny, dark copper brown. Proepisterna shiny, dark copper brown, surface wrinkled dorsad. Pronotum glabrous except for short, decumbent, white setae distributed in several, irregular rows medially directed, originating close to, and lying in a narrow band inside and slightly impinging on lateral suture, in a sparse narrow band transversely and anteriorly oriented on anterior margin, and in a sparse narrow band laterally oriented on each side of midline extending nearly to the narrow posterior margin; transverse submarginal sulci distinct, anterior sulcus shallow, posterior sulcus deeper and deepest at posterior angles; transverse rugae within broad anterior margin irregular and shallow, interrupted at middle by an irregularly arranged pattern, within posterior margin more distinctly and deeply engraved especially medially and extending onto midline; surface sculptured by fine, transverse rugae angled on disc and interrupted by a finely engraved longitudinal midline, and more finely and irregularly sculptured elsewhere. Proepisterna glabrous except for white, erect and appressed setae arising from small setigerous punctures scattered over most of the surface in male, only ventrally and along anterior margin in female. Prosternum glabrous, surface slightly roughened. Pterothorax. Figs 16 C, 17 C. Mesepisterna glabrous except for appressed setae near ventral margin; female mesepisternal coupling sulcus a shallow, concentric depression with a small, central pit, indistinct groove extends only dorsally from pit, surface smooth below pit. Mesepimeron with a few appressed setae. Metepisterna with scattered appressed setae, more abundant in male than female. Prosternum and mesosternum glabrous, smooth to slightly wrinkled; metasternum glabrous except for long, dense white appressed setae laterad, surface smooth mesad and coarsely sculpted laterad where setae originate. Scutellum triangular, cupreous. Legs. Figs 16 A, 17 B. Appendages in female primarily testaceous and translucent except for slightly darker coxae and tarsomeres; appendages in male dominated by dark metallic reflections. Coxae shiny metallic brown green; tarsomeres shiny violet to green; white, appressed setae on front and middle coxae, and laterally on hind coxae; erect setae and suberect closely spaced in several regular and irregular rows on all femora; setae widely spaced in a few rows on all tibiae; middle tibiae with patch of appressed setae dorsally along distal half; tarsomeres with short scattered setae mainly on ventral surface; distal tarsomeres with two asymmetrical rows each with a few to several small, erect setae; an erect subapical seta present only on front trochanter, absent on middle and hind trochanters; males with dense pad of erect setae ventrally on proximal three tarsal segments; tarsal claws small. Elytra. Figs 16 A, 17 A. Form uniformly narrow in both sexes; apices separately rounded in female, conjointly rounded in male; sutural spine at apex small and distinct; posterior margins minutely microserrulate. Surface finely granulate, impunctate, numerous small, irregular, shiny green or blue green flecks of various sizes scattered over a dull, dark copper brown background; fully developed elytral pattern of broad, bold markings contrasting with the darker elytral ground color; setigerous punctures with short, erect, transparent setae indistinct in subsutural rows on disc, but distinct at elytral base, and at inner humeral angles, each surrounded by a metallic fleck slightl y larger than flecks elsewhere on elytra; surface slightly depressed in humeral area and on disc creating a slight but distinct raised area basally. Elytra dull cupreous ground color with metallic blue and green flecks scattered randomly over the unmarked portions of the surface. The markings faint, nearly translucent elytral markings, forming a complete, but reduced pattern with humeral lunule divided into a humeral spot and a discal dot, a complete middle lunule enlarged near the lateral margin and near the suture, and a complete apical lunule broadly reaching the suture. Elytral epipleura testaceous except for narrow, metallic green to copper green band along dorsal margin. Abdomen. Figs 17 B, 17 E. Surface of 1 st- 5 th sterna shiny black with green reflections, 6 th sternum entirely shiny black to black brown; posterior margins of male 3 rd- 5 th sterna and female 3 rd- 4 th sterna narrowly black; posterior margin female 5 th sternum broadly black; 3 rd- 5 th sterna medially smooth with scattered, fine, erect setae in both sexes; male 1 st- 6 th sterna and female 1 st- 5 th sterna laterally mainly covered with dense, scattered, appressed white setae and roughened from setal punctures; male 6 th sternum glabrous medially with a broad, deep concave notch; female 5 th sternum with moderately raised, transverse wrinkles interrupted by a wide, membranous band along midline extending anteriorly only to middle of sternum from a small, membranous wedge along posterior margin; female 6 th sternum entirely glabrous, posterior margin with a row of 6 - 10 erect spines and a small lateral gibbosity on each side; female 8 th sternum median notch shallowly incised. Male Genitalia. Figs 16 E, 16 F, 16 G. Shape narrow near base, uniformly broad in along most of its length, distally narrowed to a short and wide neck, apical hook inner angle acutely rounded and outer angles evenly rounded, tip long and acutely angled to aedeagus. Aedeagus inner sac sclerites: stylet long and straight ,, tip pointed; shield unevenly rounded distad; large tooth small and pointed at tip with very long root and large dark fields; arched piece long and thick; spine field within aedeagus neck short and forked.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
567C0F07415C186D755DC41F48AD948B.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Fig. 22. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Pedernales Province, 13.5 km to 26 km north of Cabo Rojo on the lower southern slopes of the Sierra de Baoruco in deciduous forest habitats at elevations from 130 to 730 m.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
567C0F07415C186D755DC41F48AD948B.taxon	etymology	Etymology. This Latinized eponym, genitive case, is based on the last name of Chen W. Young, Associate Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA, and world authority on the Diptera family Tipulidae. Chen participated in most of the expeditions by CMNH staff to the Dominican Republic and specifically the one that collected of this new Brasiella species. As a friend and colleague, I have the honor of naming this new species for him.	en	Acciavatti, Robert E. (2011): Taxonomic Revision of Hispaniola Tiger Beetles in the Genus Brasiella Rivalier 1954 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae). ZooKeys 147: 99-182, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.147.2012
