Cissidium glabratum, 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.3795530 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/09C451E7-C2F0-4F98-AF07-2A6492B08B72 |
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taxon LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:act:09C451E7-C2F0-4F98-AF07-2A6492B08B72 |
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treatment provided by |
Valdenar |
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scientific name |
Cissidium glabratum |
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sp. nov. |
Cissidium glabratum View in CoL sp. nov.
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Fig. 10 View Fig
Etymology
Johnson ms name after the glabrous dorsal surface.
Material examined
Holotype
MADAGASCAR • ♂; Perinet, forest of transition; 928 m a.s.l.; 15 Apr. 1969; H. Franz leg. (Mg10); MMUE.
Paratypes
MADAGASCAR • 4 ♀♀, same collection data as for holotype; one mounted verso, two on one pin; MMUE, BMNH.
Description
SIZE. Habitus ( Fig. 10A View Fig ), length 0.90 mm.
COLOUR. Dark brown, appearing polished, antennomeres and legs dusky yellow.
HEAD. With a transverse depression interrupted medially behind the eyes, width across eyes 0.23 mm; antennomeres III–XI length 0.45 mm, III–IX length 0.21 mm, very thin and elongate, X–XI length 0.24 mm; mentum as Fig. 4A. View Fig
PRONOTUM. Length 0.23 mm, width 0.32 mm, glabrous with two large basal foveae; lateral margins rounded almost parallel in basal third, narrowly bordered to rectangular hind angles, not continued along the posterior border which has a sinuous emargination before the scutellum ( Fig. 10B View Fig ).
ELYTRA. Length 0.58 mm, width 0.44 mm, glabrous.
MESOVENTRITE. Collar with a broad medial extension lacking reticulation; mid-keel very short, anterior corners rounded, posterior corners joining mesocoxae with well-defined carinae, sharply raised prior to junction with keel; keel narrow, with ± four setae, slightly widening before termination at interruption of mesocoxal borders; mesoventral lateral margins serrate; humeri toothed ( Fig. 10C View Fig ).
METAVENTRITE. Length 0.18 mm, sparsely pubescent towards lateral margins, disc plain, width across the thin, sharply pointed spines 0.15 mm; posterior margins of mesocoxal cavities partially serrate.
WINGS. Macropterous in both sexes.
GENITALIA. Male aedeagus as Fig. 6 View Fig Fa–b. Female spermatheca globular.
Remarks
Lacks the two ancilliary foveae of C. franzi sp. nov. and distinguished from both that species and C. glabratum sp. nov. by the angulate pronotal side margins.
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