Cissidium sakaii Sawada, 2008
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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.3795718 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039987A1-38A3-FF7D-2B29-F947FD7EFD1C |
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treatment provided by |
Valdenar |
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scientific name |
Cissidium sakaii Sawada, 2008 |
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Cissidium sakaii Sawada, 2008 View in CoL
Fig. 112 View Fig
Material examined
Paratypes
JAPAN • 1 ♂; Mt. Saragamine , Ehime Pref.; 29 May 1993; M. Sakai leg.; YS • 1 ♂; Kama , Yamaguchi Pref.; 8 Aug. 1999; Y. Nishikawa leg.; BMNH • 1 ♂; Shirasuna, Komatsujima City, Tokushima Pref.; 4 Nov. 1993; M. Sakai leg. ( BMNH); 1♂, Fall of Hiji , Kunigami-son, Okinawa Pref., 13 Apr. 1996, H. Hoshina leg.; YS .
Supplementary description
The following description amplifies the type description of Sawada (2008) in order to conform with the entries in the present paper.
SIZE. Habitus ( Fig. 112A View Fig ), length 0.69 mm.
COLOUR. Reddish brown, antennae, legs and pubescence dusky yellow. antennomeres III–XI 0.31 mm long.
HEAD. With a shallow uninterrupted transverse depression behind the eyes, width across the eyes 0.20 mm.
PRONOTUM. Length 0.18 mm, width 0.29 mm, sparsely pubescent, foveolate and foveate in basal half, the foveae being almost the same size as the foveolae; side margins rounded to almost parallel-sided, narrowly bordered to slightly acute hind angles, the border continuing along the posterior margin to the sinuate emargination in front of the scutellum ( Fig. 112B View Fig ).
ELYTRA. Length 0.48 mm, width 0.39 mm, pubescent and foveolate.
MESOVENTRITE. Median extension of collar tapering from wide base almost to a point; mid-keel with concave sides, hind angles almost reaching anterior borders of mesocoxae; keel narrow, parallel-sided
then tapering to between the mesocoxae; mesoventral lateral borders evenly rounded, serrate in posterior half; humeri toothed ( Fig. 112C View Fig ).
METAVENTRITE. Without pubescence, length 0.17 mm, distance across spines 0.11 mm, disc simple; mesocoxal posterior borders serrate.
GENITALIA. Male aedeagus as Fig. 6 View Fig Fa–b but beak more pointed and slightly raised at tip which is not so strongly bent. Females not known.
Remarks
This is the only Japanese species in this group.
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United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)] |
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