Cissidium greensladei, 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 : 40-41

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.622

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3795562

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4F505BEE-816C-4B98-A537-37DA9480F89A

taxon LSID

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Valdenar

scientific name

Cissidium greensladei
status

sp. nov.

Cissidium greensladei View in CoL sp. nov.

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Figs 6L View Fig , 7C View Fig , 25 View Fig

Etymology

Johnson ms name, in recognition of the late P. Greenslade, collector of this and other Solomon Island specimens.

Material examined

Holotype

SOLOMON ISLANDS • ♂; Guadalcanal, Mt. Austen ; 22 Jul. 1963; no. 11278; P. Greenslade leg.; BMNH.

Paratypes

SOLOMON ISLANDS • 1 ♂; Guadalcanal, Kukum ; Jun.–Jul. 1966; no. 21759; P. Greenslade leg.; BMNH • 1 ♂; Mt. Austen ; 14 May 1963; no. 6048; P. Greenslade leg.; MMUE 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding but 29 Nov. 1963; no. 11031; MMUE 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding but 21 Sep. 1965; no. 19247; MMUE 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding but Feb. 1966; no. 21243; BMNH 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding but Mar. 1966; no. 21336; BMNH .

Description

SIZE. Habitus ( Fig. 25A View Fig ), length 0.67 mm.

COLOUR. Dusky yellow.

HEAD. Shallowly foveolate between eyes, width across eyes 0.21 mm; antennomeres III–XI 0.32 mm long, III–IX 0.16 mm long, X–XI 0.16 mm; mentum as Fig.4A. View Fig

PRONOTUM. Length 0.19 mm, width 0.29 mm, sparsely pubescent, base with a series of five or six foveae of approximately equal size and spacing but with a wider gap opposite the scutellum; sides sharply angled, slightly convexly curved to rectangular hind angles, front angles obtuse, not evenly rounded, conspicuously bordered, the border not continuing along the posterior margin which has a sinuous emargination before the scutellum ( Fig. 25B View Fig ).

ELYTRA. Length 0.43 mm, breadth 0.37 mm; foveolate, the foveolae more conspicuous and denser in the basal half.

MESOVENTRITE. Medial extension of collar short, pointed; mid keel wider anteriorly, hind angles with carinae to mesocoxae, medially raised with a ridge; keel narrow with ± three setae tapering to a point past the mid-point of the mesocoxae; mesoventral lateral borders serrate in posterior half; humeri toothed ( Fig. 25C View Fig ).

METAVENTRITE. Length 0.13 mm, no spines detected but two clear foveae may mark their insertion points if abraded, width across these 0.11 mm, with a large medial fovea on disc in front the mesocoxae ( Fig. 7C View Fig ), disc slightly depressed behind this; mesocoxal posterior margins serrate.

WINGS. Macropterous.

GENITALIA. Male aedeagus ( Fig. 6L View Fig ). Female spermatheca globular.

Remarks

Distinguished from other species from the Solomon Islands in this group by the narrower mesoventral mid-keel and the form of the male aedeagus.

BMNH

United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)]

MMUE

United Kingdom, Manchester, The University, Manchester Museum

MMUE

Museum of Manchester University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Ptiliidae

Genus

Cissidium

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