Afidentula manderstjernae bahraini, Tomaszewska, Wioletta & Szawaryn, Karol, 2013
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.2 |
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publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A55C3EDC-F159-4A4B-9820-011AED7B66E5 |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6157742 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0F24EF27-FFD2-A636-6184-8204226CB9AB |
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Plazi |
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scientific name |
Afidentula manderstjernae bahraini |
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subsp. nov. |
Afidentula manderstjernae bahraini ssp. nov.
( Figs. 41–46 View FIGURES 41 – 46 , 175 View FIGURES 164 – 176 )
Diagnosis. Very similar to the nominotypical form but has the body larger and slightly more elongate. The female genitalia ( Figs. 44, 45 View FIGURES 41 – 46 ) should be consulted for proper identification.
Description. Length 3.96 mm; TL/EW = 1.4; PL/PW = 0.42; EL/EW = 1.04; EW/PW = 1.62.
Head, mouthparts, prosternum, mesoventrite and legs reddish-brown, metaventrite black. Pronotum brown, with black macula antero-medially; elytron brown with six large black spots arranged as 2–3–1, with apical spot transverse. Abdomen reddish-brown with black median part.
Abdomen with apical margin of female ventrite 5 weakly sinuate ( Fig. 41 View FIGURES 41 – 46 ). Female sternite and tergite VIII rounded ( Figs. 42, 43 View FIGURES 41 – 46 ).
Female genitalia ( Figs. 44, 45 View FIGURES 41 – 46 ). Proctiger (TX) weakly emarginate apically ( Figs. 45, 46 View FIGURES 41 – 46 ); coxites elongateoval. Spermatheca small, membranous, vermiform with small sclerotized appendix at apex; outlet of accessory gland distant from sperm duct.
Male not known.
Type material. Holotype, female: “ Bahrain 10.VIII.78 / C.P.B.C. EPi-8/78- 48-I / C.I.E. COLL. A. 10656/ Pres by Comm Inst Ent B.M. 1977-1/ Z613/ Afidentula manderstjernae (Ms.) det. E.A.J. Duffy 1978/ Adult on Zea mays ” (BMNH).
Etymology. The name is derived from the type locality of this subspecies.
Distribution. Bahrain.
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