Cryptorhopalum vegaensis Háva, 2025

Cryptorhopalum vegaensis Háva , sp. nov.

( Fig. 6-8)

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Holotype, ♂, Dominican Republic, La Cienaga [La Vega prov., 10 km NE of Constanza], 18.9952861N, 70.8361256W, 18.6.2023, J. Pirkl lgt., ( MCSN-VD). GoogleMaps

Description of the holotype

Body. – Body measurements (in mm):TL3.2, EW 1.9. Dorsal integument black ( Fig. 6), with decumbent yellow and black setation. Ventral integument black, with yellow decumbent setation.

Head. – Shiny brown, finely punctate, covered with yellow decumbent setation. Palpomeres light brown. Median frontal ocellus present. Eyes large, bearing scarcely visible short microsetae. Antennae brown with yellow setation, consisting of 11 antennomeres and a 3-segmented antennal club ( Fig. 7).Antennal fossa closed.

Pronotum. – Black with yellow decumbent setation; finely punctate.

Scutellum . – Black, shiny, small, triangular, without punctation or setation.

Elytra . – Blackwithbothblackandyellowsetae.Yellow setaeform anarrow transversefascia nearthepronotum,extendingfrom thehumerustothescutellum; elsewhere predominantly black decumbent setation. Elytra more densely and finely punctate than the pronotum.Each elytron with a small humeral bump.

Epipleuron. – Short, black, with some yellow decumbent setation.

Ventral surface. – Mesoventrum and metaventrum black, coarsely punctate, with yellow decumbent setation. Visible abdominal ventrites shiny, black, densely and coarsely punctate, with yellow decumbent setation. Pygidium brown, covered with yellow setation.

Legs. – Tarsilight brown,tibiaelight brown,femorabrown.Allsparsely covered with short, fine, decumbent setae, intermixed brown and yellow. Anterior tibiae with black spines along the shaft.

Male genitalia. – ( Fig. 8).

Female. – Unknown.

Etymology. – The species is named after its type locality in La Vega Province

Differential diagnosis. – The new species closely resembles C. delacruzi Kadej & Háva, 2013 , but can be distinguished from that species and other Dominican representatives by the diagnostic traits provided in the following key.