Agnesiella (A.) polita Huang & Zhang, 2022
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5094.2.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:72945796-D3AC-4B14-99BB-8874FAD383CD |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6301502 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A6F124-2F57-FFD8-91C3-FA25FD43FDDE |
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Plazi |
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Agnesiella (A.) polita Huang & Zhang |
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sp. nov. |
Agnesiella (A.) polita Huang & Zhang View in CoL sp. nov.
( Figs 4, 8, 12, 16 View FIGURES 1–16 , 89–96 View FIGURES 89–96 )
Measurement. Male, 3.25 mm (including wings).
Vertex and upper side of thorax yellow ( Figs 4, 8 View FIGURES 1–16 ). Face with dark brown transverse streaks on brown frontoclypeal area, anteclypeus and lorum brown, gena black-brown ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 1–16 ). Vertex with a brown stripe anteriorly connecting 2 lateral round black-brown patches. Pronotum with a central oval patch blackish and 2 pairs of lateral patches blackish, 2 brown bands between central and lateral patches. Scutum with 2 small light ochre patches on central area, triangles blackish brown. Scutellum with central area brownish, both sides of basal half yellow ochre and distal half brown ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 1–16 ). Forewing yellowish with 2 patches on clavus that one at base black-brown and the other brown band extended from central part to corium; patch at distal end of CuA vein brownish; brochosome field yellowish ( Figs 4 View FIGURES 1–16 , 89 View FIGURES 89–96 ).
Abdomen blackish, abdominal apodemes reaching center of 6th abdominal sternite ( Fig. 90 View FIGURES 89–96 ). Male pygofer side subquadrate with a long digitiform appendage directed backwards on posterior margin ( Figs 91, 92 View FIGURES 89–96 ). Subgenital plate without subapical protrusion ( Fig. 93 View FIGURES 89–96 ). Paramere with apical 1/4 curved laterad nearly at right angle, subapical protrusion absent ( Fig. 95 View FIGURES 89–96 ). Connective with stem nearly 2 times as long as lateral arms, central lobe absent ( Fig. 94 View FIGURES 89–96 ). Aedeagal shaft arched and slightly expanded dorsally near base, with an arcuate dorsal extension subapically and a narrow ridged ventral appendage approximately on apical 1/2 ( Fig. 96 View FIGURES 89–96 ).
Specimens examined. Holotype: ♂, CHINA, Hubei Province, Xingshan, Longmen river , 1300m, 13-IX-1994, coll. Fasheng Li. Paratype: 2♂, CHINA, Guangxi Province, Guilin Huaping National Nature Reserve , 500m, 10- VII-2019, coll. Junjie Wang.
Etymology. The specific name is derived from Latin word “politus which means “smooth, referring to the paramere without a subapical protrusion ( Fig. 95 View FIGURES 89–96 ).
Notes. The new species resembles Agnesiella (A.) recurva sp. nov., but differs in the male pygofer side with a long digitiform appendage directed backwards and without rigid microsetae ( Figs 91, 92 View FIGURES 89–96 ), and in the aedeagal shaft with a longer ridged ventral appendage ( Fig. 96 View FIGURES 89–96 ).
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