Minicorydia maoxiana Qiu, Che and Wang, 2018

Qiu, Lu, Che, Yan-Li & Wang, Zong-Qing, 2018, Contributions to some Corydiinae genera (Blattodea: Corydioidea: Corydiidae) from China, Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 52 (21 - 22), pp. 1433-1461 : 1455-1457

Minicorydia maoxiana Qiu, Che and Wang sp. nov.

( Figures 2g –h , 9 )

Type material

1 female. Holotype: CHINA: Sichuan: female, Mt . Xiaomiaoshan (a mountain near Maoxian County town ), Maoxian County Aba Prefecture, 1600 m, 22 August 1999, Guo-Dong Ren leg . ( SWU, ex MHBU).

Diagnosis

See under the diagnosis of Minicorydia Qiu, Che and Wang gen. nov.

Description

Female. Body length 10.3 mm; pronotum length × width 3.3 × 5.3 mm; tegmen length: 6.8 mm. Body brown, heavily pubescent. Head dark chestnut; vertex with yellowish-brown pubescence, eyes small, lateral, vertex heavily pubescent, ocelli white, small, not protruding, two yellowish spots situated next to the antennal sockets, antennae brown; clypeus brownish yellow, small, anteclypeus yellowish white, postclypeus yellow, oval, smooth, median with a distinct longitudinal line; labrum wide, basal part white narrowly, distal portion brown, maxillary and labial palpi brown with joint parts white ( Figure 9a ). Pronotum brown, with yellowish-brown pubescence ( Figure 9b ). Tegmina thick, brown, short, just reaching to the base of supra-anal plate, apex round ( Figure 9g ), surface densely covered with yellowish- brown pubescence, Sc swelling wide; wings small, reduced, Sc long, RA single, long, RP with about four branches, M slender, CuA with about five branches, CuP slender, AA thick, gradually thinner towards apical portion ( Figure 9f ). Legs short, brown, arolia small ( Figure 9e ), tibial spines short, yellow, with apex reddish brown. Abdomen yellowish brown, pubescent, supraanal plate suboval, with a median longitudinal line, cerci spinous ( Figure 9c ); subgenital plate large, apex protruded ( Figure 9d ).

Male. Unknown.

Distribution

China: Sichuan.

Etymology

The species epithet comes from the type locality Maoxian County, in Sichuan .

Figures

Figure 2. Habitus of Corydiinae species. (a–d) Ergaula nepalensis, male: (a) dorsal, from Hainan, China; (b) ventral, same; (c) dorsal, from Da Nang, Vietnam; (d) dorsal, from Myitkyina, Myanmar. (e– f) Ctenoblatta impubis gen. et sp. nov., male holotype from Hubei, China: (e) dorsal; (f) ventral. (g–h) Minicorydia maoxiana gen. et sp. nov., female holotype from Sichuan, China: (g) dorsal; (h) ventral. Scale bars = 1 cm. d photographed by Gunvi Lindberg, Copyright Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NRM).

Figure 9. Minicorydia maoxiana gen. et sp. nov., female holotype from Maoxian, Sichuan: (a) head; (b) pronotum; (c) supra-anal plate; (d) subgenital plate; (e) pretarsus and arolia; (f) left hind wing; (g) left tegmen. Scale bars: e = 0.1 mm; a–d, f, g = 1 mm.