Cissidium murphyi, Darby, 2020
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.622 |
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publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9CD3B2CD-F072-4994-8CA9-24145D343401 |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3795596 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/486E11B8-F72A-4E20-A432-4AAFE32E6FB4 |
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taxon LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:act:486E11B8-F72A-4E20-A432-4AAFE32E6FB4 |
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treatment provided by |
Valdenar |
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scientific name |
Cissidium murphyi |
| status |
sp. nov. |
Cissidium murphyi View in CoL sp. nov.
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Figs 6E View Fig , 57 View Fig
Etymology
Johnson ms name, after the collector D.H. Murphy.
Material examined
Holotype
MALAYSIA • ♀; Selangor, Ulu Gombak ; 7 Nov. 1967; chloropierin extract of forest litter at stream side; D.H. Murphy leg.; no. 377; FMNH.
Paratypes
MALAYSIA • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; BMNH • 1 ♂; Selangor, Gombak, vicinity of University of Malaya Field Station , 9 th mile; 9 Feb. 1967; litter and debris over sand low forest flood plain; D.H. Murphy leg.; no. 327; BMNH • 2 ex.; same collection data as for preceding; litter on high level flood plain over sand in secondary forest; one missing antennae; MMUE .
Description
SIZE. Habitus ( Fig. 57A View Fig ), length 0.69 mm.
COLOUR. Yellow brown, antennae, legs and pubescence yellow, shining. HEAD. Without a linear depression behind the eyes, width across eyes 0.22 mm, ventral side of neck with a band of shallow, slightly elongate foveolae; antennomeres III–XI length 0.34 mm, III–IX length 0.19 mm, X–XI length 0.15 mm globular; mentum as Fig. 4A. View Fig
PRONOTUM. Length 0.19 mm, width 0.29 mm, densely pubescent and foveolate, with a pair of short, poorly formed linear depressions extending forwards from the base; lateral margins sharply angled medially then concave to acute hind angles, bordered, the border on the posterior margin enlarged convexly either side of the medial emargination opposite the scutellum which is well marked ( Fig. 57B View Fig ).
ELYTRA. Length 0.46 mm, width 0.41 mm, shallowly foveolate contrasting with the pronotum.
MESOVENTRITE. Collar with reticulation confined to a small median triangular area and on the parallelsided medial extension; mid-keel parallel-sided widening sharply before meeting collar, posterior angles effaced before joining mesocoxal anterior borders; keel foveolate with ± ten setae, parallel-sided to rounded termination between the mesocoxae; mesoventral lateral margins serrate in posterior half; humeri bluntly toothed ( Fig. 57C View Fig ).
METAVENTRITE. Length 0.16 mm, sparsely pubescent, disc simple, width across spines 0.12 mm, spines small, short; posterior margins of mesocoxal cavities serrate.
WINGS. Macropterous.
GENITALIA. Female spermatheca ( Fig. 6E View Fig ). Male aedeagus as Fig 6 View Fig Fa–b but a little longer.
Remarks
This is the only species of Cissidium recorded from Malaya in this group.
| FMNH |
USA, Illinois, Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History (also used by Finnish Museum of Natural History) |
| BMNH |
United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)] |
| MMUE |
United Kingdom, Manchester, The University, Manchester Museum |
| FMNH |
Field Museum of Natural History |
| MMUE |
Museum of Manchester University |
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