Microbrachida gilvicornis Bierig 1939

Microbrachida gilvicornis Bierig, 1939 (Figs 1–5) Type material. Holotype deposited in FMNH (Figs 1–5). Labels: 1) “Microbr./gilvicornis/Brg” [white label with submarginal green square, handwritten]; 2) “ La Caja, San. José /(Schmidt?)/ Costa Rica ” [white label, handwritten]; 3) “Field Mus. Nat. Hist./1966/ A. Bierig Colln./Acc. Z-13812" [white label, printed]; 4) “HOLOTYPE/teste A.Westrich2015/GDI Imaging Project” [purple label, printed]; 5) [unreadable, black label, handwritten?]; 6) “GENOTYPUS” [old yellow label, handwritten]; 7) “(QR Code)/FMNHINS/3048034/FIELD MUSEUM/Pinned” [white label, printed]; 8) “PHOTOGRAPHED/A. Westrich 2015/EMu Catalog” [blue label, printed]. Diagnosis. Microbrachida gilvicornis differs from M. perniciosae in having body rusty brown, with abdominal segments V to VI slightly darker; antennomeres with the same color; body with pubescence, more conspicuous on pronotum and elytra (Fig. 1); tergum VIII with posterior margin emarginate (Fig. 5). Distribution. Costa Rica (San José: La Caja). Remarks. Bierig (1939) questioned the sex of the specimen and suggested that the holotype is a female. Currently, it is not possible to determine its sex. According to Bierig (1939), Heinrich J. C. Schmidt collected the holotype in 1936.