Cissidium obsoletum, 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.3795682 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3D695B00-2863-4F4B-BDCA-C24906A26BBB |
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taxon LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:act:3D695B00-2863-4F4B-BDCA-C24906A26BBB |
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treatment provided by |
Valdenar |
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scientific name |
Cissidium obsoletum |
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sp. nov. |
Cissidium obsoletum View in CoL sp. nov.
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Fig. 98 View Fig
Etymology
Johnson ms name, from the Latin adjective ‘ obsoletus ’, meaning ‘worn out’ or ‘shabby’ and probably referring to the poor condition of the insect.
Material examined
Holotype
ZIMBABWE • ♀; “N. RHODESIA ”, Mwinilunga District , Helenga , nr. Kalene, Zambesi Rapids; 3 May 1963; MV light trap; E. Pinhey leg.; BM 1963-742; BMNH. The specimen was found damaged, with one antenna and one elytron missing, and mesoventrite broken.
Description
SIZE. Habitus ( Fig. 98A View Fig ), length 0.65 mm.
COLOUR. Yellow brown, shining, antennae, legs and pubescence yellow.
HEAD. Without an impressed line behind the eyes, width across eyes 0.21 mm; antennomeres III–XI length 0.31 mm, III–IX length 0.16 mm, X–XI length 0.17 mm, antennomere XI without a median constriction; mentum obscured.
PRONOTUM. Length 0.20 mm, width 0.29 mm, sparsely pubescent; sides evenly rounded anteriorly, slightly sinuate posteriorly before the rectangular hind angles, sides bordered, the borders continuing along the posterior margin where they are enlarged with convex anterior margins before terminating at the median emargination opposite the scutellum ( Fig. 98B View Fig ).
ELYTRA. Length 0.45 mm, width 0.34 mm, sparsely pubescent, barely foveolate.
MESOVENTRITE. Anteriorly too damaged to make out clearly; keel wide, parallel-sided, termination unclear; mesoventral lateral margins strongly angled, without serrations; humeri with small tooth ( Fig. 98C View Fig ).
METAVENTRITE. Length 0.18 mm, scattered sparse pubescence, disc simple, width between spines 0.10 mm; margins of mesocoxal borders not serrate.
WINGS. Macropterous.
GENITALIA. Female spermatheca globular. Males not known.
Remarks
The only species of Cissidium to have been described from Zimbabwe (given as Northern Rhodesia).
| BMNH |
United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)] |
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