Pseudovelia sexualis ( PAIVA 1917)

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Pseudovelia sexualis ( PAIVA 1917)

Microvelia (Kirkaldya) sexualis PAIVA 1917: 77-79 .

Microvelia sexualis: LUNDBLAD 1933: 308 .

Microvelia crassipes LUNDBLAD 1933: 331-333 (syn. ANDERSEN 1983).

Pseudovelia (s.str.) sexualis: ANDERSEN 1983: 256-259 .

Pseudovelia sexualis: ANDERSEN et al. 2002: 232 , 247, 248.

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Indonesia: Holotype (apt.) of M. crassipes , Sumatra, Lake Toba, Balige , 2 Apr. 1929 ( NRMS).

D i a g n o s i s: Body length 2.0- 2.2 mm (apt.), 2.5 mm (macr.), 2.5-2.8 mm (apt.), 3.2 mm (macr.); pronotum length to pronotum width as 0.6-0.7: 1 (apt.,

); length of antenna to body length as 0.5-0.6: 1, relation of antennal segments 1-4 as 1.6: 1: 1.0: 1.6; length of metatarsus to metatibia as 0.5-0.6: 1 (,), length of first metatarsal segment to second as 0.9: 1 (), 0.7: 1 (); length of grasping comb on male protibia to length of protibia as 0.6: 1; vertex without patch of silvery hairs; eye densely pilose; ventral lobe of head not produced caudad; structure of male and female genital segments as figured by ANDERSEN (1983: figs. 13-17).

G e n e r a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, northern and southern Thailand, Sumatra ( ANDERSEN 1983, HECHER 2005).