Cissidium puncticolle, Darby, 2020

Darby, Michael, 2020, A revision of Cissidium Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with seventy seven new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 622, pp. 1-188 : 95-97

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.622
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3795598
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A871108B-C662-4087-A519-031E0CD92BEE
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treatment provided by	Valdenar
scientific name	Cissidium puncticolle
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Cissidium puncticolle View in CoL sp. nov.

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Fig. 61 View Fig

Etymology

Johnson ms name after the dense foveolae on the dorsum.

Material examined

Holotype

NEPAL • ♂; Ulleri ; 83°44′ E, 28°21′ N; 6000–7000ft a.s.l.; 18 May 1954; dry soil in deciduous forest; K.H. Hyatt leg.; BMNH.

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NEPAL • 1 ♀, same collection data as for holotype; MMUE • 4 ex.; Barahbise geg, Ting-Sang-La; H. Franz leg.; MMUE, BMNH .

There is also a slide of the genitalia of a male in the BMNH: “ NEPAL, Sikha, 83°40’E 28°26’N, 24– 26.v.1954, 8000ft ”.

Description

SIZE. Habitus ( Fig. 61A View Fig ), length 0.59 mm.

COLOUR. Yellow brown, antennae, legs and pubescence yellow. HEAD. Antennomeres III–XI length 0.30 mm, III–IX length 0.15 mm, X–XI length 0.15 mm; width across eyes 0.21 mm; mentum as Fig. 4A. View Fig

PRONOTUM. Length 0.16 mm, width 0.24 mm, densely pubescent and foveolate the foveolae less pronounced medially at base and one or two enlarged almost foveae; lateral margins rounded straightening to obtuse hind angles, bordered, the border continuing along the posterior margin to the angulate medial emargination opposite the scutellum ( Fig. 61B View Fig ).

ELYTRA. Length 0.42 mm, width 0.33 mm, pubescent and foveolate as pronotum.

MESOVENTRITE. With a narrow, parallel-sided median extension; mid-keel with two carinae anteriorly joining collar to create two large depressions, collar at this point not reticulate, widening slightly posteriorly, hind angles meeting mesocoxal anterior borders; keel tapering to a sharp point just below interruption of mesocoxal margins; mesoventral lateral margins without serrations; humeri with large prominent teeth ( Fig. 61C View Fig ).

METAVENTRITE. Sparsely pubescent, disc simple, length 0.15 width between spines 0.11 mm; margins of posterior mesocoxal cavities serrate.

WINGS. Male apterous? No trace of wings found in dissection. Female macropterous.

GENITALIA. Male aedeagus as Fig. 6 View Fig Fa–b.

Remarks

The only species of Cissidium recorded from Nepal in this group.