Cissidium losbanos, 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.3795680 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A843A921-A7D6-460C-8D0E-143329B50207 |
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taxon LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:act:A843A921-A7D6-460C-8D0E-143329B50207 |
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treatment provided by |
Valdenar |
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scientific name |
Cissidium losbanos |
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sp. nov. |
Cissidium losbanos View in CoL sp. nov.
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Figs 4D View Fig , 95 View Fig
Etymology
Named after the Mount Makiling National Reserve, in the Municipality of Los Banos, in Laguna Province of the Philippines, where the insects were collected. Noun in apposition.
Material examined
Holotype
PHILIPPINES • ♀; Los Banos , Makiling Forest; 27–28 Sep. 1981; in rotten wood; M. Darby leg.; BMNH.
Paratypes
PHILIPPINES • 7 ex.; same collection data as for holotype; two mounted verso; BMNH.
Description
SIZE. Habitus ( Fig. 95A View Fig ), length 0.94 mm.
COLOUR. Yellow brown, antennae, legs and pubescence paler.
HEAD. With a sharply defined transverse depression behind the eyes, width across eyes 0.27 mm; antennomeres III–XI length 0.46 mm, III–IX length 0.30 mm, X–XI length 0.16 mm globular; mentum and prementum with distinctive sculpturing ( Fig. 4D View Fig ).
PRONOTUM. Length 0.28 mm, width 0.44 mm, densely pubescent, without foveolae and foveae; lateral margins shallowly angled, bordered, the borders extending narrowly along the entire posterior margin, hind angles sharp, acute, posterior border without emargination opposite the scutellum ( Fig. 95B View Fig ).
ELYTRA. Length 0.58 mm, width 0.49 mm, pubescent, foveolate contrasting with the pronotum. MESOVENTRITE. Collar with tapering medial extension onto mid-keel; mid-keel and keel fused without projecting anterior and posterior corners, strongly and coarsely sculptured, tapering to a point posterior to the mid-point of the mesocoxae; mesoventral lateral margins evenly rounded in posterior half without serrations; humeri a clear extension of the collar, narrow, barely toothed ( Fig. 95C View Fig ).
METAVENTRITE. Length 0.18 mm, sparsely pubescent, disc simple, width across spines 0.14 mm; posterior margins of mesocoxal borders without serrations.
WINGS. Macropterous.
GENITALIA. Female spermatheca globular. Male aedeagus as Fig. 6 View Fig Ia–b.
Remarks
The only species of Cissidium in this group from the Philippines.
| BMNH |
United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)] |
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