identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03A087D7F931FFBBFEA6EAFC27163C94.text	03A087D7F931FFBBFEA6EAFC27163C94.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Schiodtella africana	<div><p>Schiodtella africana sp. n.</p><p>(Figs. 1 -3)</p><p>Diagnosis</p><p>The new species is very similar to Indonesian S. javana (J. A. LIS) in body habitus and its vestiture; both species have also almost identical head shape, ocular index, and length of tarsal segments.</p><p>They can easily be separated on the basis of a number of suhmargjnal spines (peg-like setae) on each paraclypeus (l l-I 2 in S. aﬁicana — Figs. l, 7- 9 in Sjavana — Fig. 4), and a number of setae on costal margins (5 › 6 in S. africana, 3 -4 in S. juvuna). Moreover, spines on the outer margin of middle tibia and on the corbicle of posterior tibia are more numerous and stouter in S. qnmna (Figs. 2 -3), whereas they are less numerous and slender in S. jızvana (Figs. 5 -6).</p><p>Additionally, female of S. afrícana is somewhat larger than females of S. javana (body length 6.54 mm and 5.25-6.25 mm, respectively).</p><p>Description</p><p>Body yellowish brown. with apices of anterior tibiae, tibial spines, and margins of head dark brown. Body length 6.54 mm, body width 3.86 mm.</p><p>Head slightly transversely grooved in its posterior half; clypeus narrowed apically, clearly shorter than paraclypei (Fig. l), subapically with a pair of spines (peg-like setae); each paraclypeus with 11 - 12 marginal crenulations bearing sharp spines (peg-like setae); eyes red, small, ocular index 5.33; ooelli yellow, interooellar distance about 5.8 times a distance of an oeellus from the eye, ocellar index 7.0; antennae 4-segmented, length of segments (in mm) 0.19 0.31 0.22 0.36; rostrum very short, only slightly surpassing anterior coxae.</p><p>Pronotum with numerous colourless punctures, calli impunctate, posterior pan of prenatal disc with shallow transverse rugae; anterior margins medially insinuated, lataally with 4 -5 setigerous punctures bearing hair-like setas; lateral margins with 14- 18 setigerous punctures bearing long hair-like same; margins of postero-lateral pronotal angles without submarginal setigerous punctures.</p><p>Scutellum very broad, only 1.1 times longer than broad, its surface almost impunctate, bearing weak, but clear visible transverse rugae, apical part punctured with few very small punctures.</p><p>Cerium sparsely and shallowly punctured; clavus with two hardly visible rows of shallow punctures. basally bearing 2 hair-like setae; mesocorium with two rows of shallow punctures paralleling clavmcorial suture; costal margins ﬂattened, and with 5 -6 setigerous punctures bearing long hainlike setae; membrane semihyaline. slightly embrowned, distinctly surpassing the tip of abdomen.</p><p>Anterior tibiae strongly reeurved apically, and bearing 6-7 long spines On vmrral margins; middle tibiae broadened. bearing numerous strong setae and spines on outer margins (Fig. 2); posterior tibiae with numerous long spines on the corhicle (Fig. 3); all tarsi present, long; ﬁrst tarsal segment of fore legs longer than the second and third segments together.</p><p>Type material</p><p>Holotype female: [Congo-Brazzaville]: Congo Franc., env. de Brazzaville,  M'Bamou, Montezer 1903, Muséum Paris (MNHN).</p><p>Remarks</p><p>The new species can easily be distinguished from another Afrotropical representative of the tribe  Scaptoeorini [Afrompus bocugei (DE CARVJ] on the basis of a presence of spines (peg-like setae) on head margins and hind tarsi (spines on head margins and hind tarsi are absent in the latter). A detailed key to all the gama of Cephalocteinae was presented in my previous paper (Lıs 1999 a).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A087D7F931FFBBFEA6EAFC27163C94	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Lis, Jerzy A.	Lis, Jerzy A. (2000): Schiodtella africana sp. n. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae), the ﬁrst African representative of the genus. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 69, No. 3: 263-266
