Obesoconnus guyanensis, Jałoszyński, Paweł, 2014
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3794.3.9 |
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publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:89145012-C411-4DD5-A255-BBB52E7C7714 |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6132456 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DF25660D-0E16-2720-25C4-3F9DFCF4087A |
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Plazi |
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scientific name |
Obesoconnus guyanensis |
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sp. nov. |
Obesoconnus guyanensis View in CoL sp. n.
( Figs. 1 View FIGURES 1 – 2 , 3–13 View FIGURES 3 – 8 View FIGURES 9 – 11 View FIGURES 12 – 15 , 16–17 View FIGURES 16 – 19 , 20 View FIGURE 20 )
Type material. Holotype: French Guyana: ♂, two labels: “Guyane française / Cabarson / Ile de Cayenne / N. Degallier XI-78 ” [white, printed and handwritten in black ink]; “ OBESOCONNUS / guyanensis m. / det. P. Jałoszyński ’14 / HOLOTYPUS” [red, printed] ( MHNG). Paratype: ♂ (disarticulated), same data as holotype, except for yellow “ paratypus ” label (cPJ).
Diagnosis. Male: frons between eyes nearly as broad as 1/3 HW; pronotal median antebasal pit small but distinct; elytral apices unmodified; aedeagus in ventral view strongly narrowing from middle to apex, with apices of parameres not reaching apical margin of median lobe ( Figs. 16–17 View FIGURES 16 – 19 ). Diagnostic characters of females unknown.
Description. Body of male ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1 – 2 ) strongly convex, dark brown, covered with silverish vestiture; BL 1.01 mm.
Head ( Figs. 1 View FIGURES 1 – 2 , 3–4 View FIGURES 3 – 8 ) broadest at strikingly large, strongly convex but moderately coarsely faceted eyes, HL 0.18 mm, HW 0.25 mm; vertex and frons confluent, anterior part of vertex and posterior part of frons with sharply marked short median longitudinal groove; frons between eyes nearly as broad as 1/3 HW; supraantennal tubercles indistinct. Punctation on frons and vertex inconspicuous, fine; setae short, sparse and suberect. Antennae slender but short, AnL 0.35 mm, as in Fig. 4 View FIGURES 3 – 8 .
Pronotum ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1 – 2 ) semi-oval, broadest near anterior third but barely noticeably narrowing posteriorly; PL 0.26 mm, PW 0.35 mm. Anterior margin strongly and broadly rounded; lateral margins slightly rounded; posterior corners indistinct, strongly obtuse and blunt; posterior margin distinctly arcuate. Pronotum near base with shallow and narrow but distinct transverse groove connecting pair of small and shallow lateral pits, and with small median pit; additionally area between lateral pit and lateral pronotal margin bearing shallow and large subtriangular impression. Punctation on pronotal disc small and shallow but relatively distinct and dense, separated by spaces comparable to puncture diameters; setae sparse, short and suberect.
Elytra ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1 – 2 ) oval, broadest between middle and anterior third; EL 0.58 mm, EW 0.50 mm, EI 1.15 mm; humeri developed as prominent longitudinal protuberances; elytral apices unmodified, separately rounded. Punctation on elytra dense but superficial, less distinct than those on pronotum; setae short, sparse and suberect. Hind wings well developed.
Legs moderately long and slender, without modifications.
Aedeagus ( Figs. 12–13 View FIGURES 12 – 15 , 16–17 View FIGURES 16 – 19 ) in ventral view strongly narrowing toward base and apex; AeL 0.23 mm; apical projection tapering; orifice at base of parameres located subbasally; apices of parameres not reaching apical margin of median lobe; each paramere with one long apical seta.
Female. Unknown.
Distribution. Northern part of French Guyana ( Fig. 20 View FIGURE 20 a).
Etymology. Locotypical; after the country name Guyana.
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Museum d'Histoire Naturelle |
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