Heteroderes longithorax, Platia & Ahmed, 2016
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.12765875 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E2D32182-58D9-4F87-AAC3-41B226EE3DFF |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12765951 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CD2B58-FF9B-FFB2-4880-AE3D2A01FE04 |
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Felipe |
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scientific name |
Heteroderes longithorax |
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sp. nov. |
Heteroderes longithorax n. sp. ( Figs. 9 View Figs , 34 View Figs , 51 View 52 53 )
Material examined. Holotype ♂ - Pakistan: Tharparkar distr. , Mithi, 18.IX.2012 ( CPG).
Diagnosis. Species comparable with H. sabatinellii Platia, 2015 for the similar size, it is easily separated by the more elongate pronotum and the lighter colour of the integuments.
Description.
Male. Moderately shiny; entirely ferruginous with undefined blackish shadings on pronotum and elytra, antennae and legs yellowish; covered with very dense, declined, yellow golden pubescence.
Head with the eyes just narrower than the anterior margin of prono tum, frons convex, anterior margin substraight, protruding above the clypeus; punctuation dense, punctures simple, deep, approximately of the same size with very short intervals.
Antennae not reaching for about two articles the apices of posterior angles o f pronotum, very slightly serrate from fourth article on; second and third articles subcylindrical, subequal in lenght, taken together 1,25x longer than fourth; fourth-tenth subconical, last subellipsoidal.
Pronotum 1,17x longer than wide, widest at the middle and at the apices of the posterior angles, moderately convex; sides nearly subparallel, very slightly sinuate before the posterior angles, the latter, short, acute, very slightly divergent, very finely carinate, lateral margins entire, visible in a dorsal view only in the first third; punctuation uniformly distributed, double; larger, deep and simple punctures are more or less regularly mixed with very fine, intervals between the finer punctures smooth and subshiny.
Scutellum shield -shaped, convex, ridged at base, punctured.
Elytra 2x longer than pronotum and as wide as it, moderately convex, rather flattened on the disk; sides subparallel from the base to the middle then very gradually tapering to the apices; striae regularly marked and punctured, inte rstriae subconvex with very fine punctures.
Fourth tarsal segment with a long and narrow lamella.
Male genitalia as in the Fig. 9 View Figs (length 0.62 mm).
Female. Unknown.
Size. Length 5.6 mm; width 1.5 mm.
Etymology. The name is referred to the elongate pronotum of the species.
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