Cissidium ishigakiense Sawada, 2008
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https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.622 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9CD3B2CD-F072-4994-8CA9-24145D343401 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3795578 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039987A1-383F-FFE0-2B70-FD30FAEBFB6F |
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Valdenar |
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scientific name |
Cissidium ishigakiense Sawada, 2008 |
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Cissidium ishigakiense Sawada, 2008 View in CoL
Fig. 29 View Fig
Material examined
Paratype
JAPAN • 1 ♂; Komi, Ishigaki Island , Okinawa Pref.; 9 May 1999; pile of straw; Y. Sawada leg.; mounted as a disarticulated slide; YS.
Supplementary description
The description below concentrates on amplifying Sawada (2008) with more details of the meso- and metaventral characters in order to conform with the entries in the present paper.
SIZE. Habitus ( Fig. 29A View Fig copied from Sawada 2008), length 0.7 mm.
COLOUR. Dark brown, antennae dusky yellow.
HEAD. Width across eyes 0.32 mm; mentum obscured; antennomeres III–XI, length 0.33 mm, III–IX length 0.17 mm, X–XI length 0.16 mm.
PRONOTUM. 0.17 mm long, 0.27 mm wide, lateral margins rounded then almost parallel sided to rectangular hind angles, bordered, the borders not continuing along the posterior margin, medial emargination opposite the scutellum shallowly sinuate ( Fig. 29B View Fig ).
ELYTRA. 0.42 mm long, 0.40 mm wide.
MESOVENTRITE. Medial extension of collar tapering from broad base to mid-point of mid-keel; mid-keel sides concave, hind angles not reaching mesocoxal anterior borders, raised medially before keel; keel long, narrow, terminating in a point between the mesocoxae; mesoventral lateral margins serrate in posterior half; humeri toothed ( Fig. 29C View Fig ).
METAVENTRITE. Sparsely pubescent, length 0.12 mm, disc simple, width across spines 0.08 mm; posterior margin of mesocoxae serrate.
GENITALIA. Male aedeagus as Fig. 6 View Fig Fa–b but slightly more elongate. Females not known.
Remarks
This is the only Japanese species into this group apart from C. matthewsi Johnson, 2007 . It may be distinguished from that species and all other Japanese species by the narrow almost parallel sided elytra.
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