Prespelea enigma Caterino & Vasquez-Velez
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.688.19867 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/90333F47-56DC-4539-866F-AA6868E7EE45 |
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Prespelea enigma Caterino & Vasquez-Velez |
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Prespelea enigma Caterino & Vasquez-Velez View in CoL sp. n.
Type material.
Holotype male: USA: NC: Macon Co., Jones Gap, 35.0785°N, 83.2923°W, S. Myers, vii.22.2015, sifted litter (CUAC000026531, DNA Extract MSC-2403); deposited in FMNH. Other material: 4 males & 6 females, NC: Macon Co., 11 mi. SW Franklin, Back Country info center, VIII-17/21-1990, hardwood litter nr. dead logs, S. O’Keefe; UNHC, FMNH, CUAC. 1 female: NC: Macon Co. Highlands, vi.8.1973, Coker Rhododendron Trail, litter under rhododendron, W. Suter; FMNH.
Diagnosis.
This species is externally indistinguishable from P. copelandi except in the following male characters: metaventrite elevated anteromedially to form small but distinct median tubercle about one-fourth metaventral length behind mesocoxae (Fig. 21), metaventrite moderately flattened behind; posteroapical corner of male metatrochanter produced to form short, incurved flange (Fig. 32), the whole trochanter being somewhat parallelogram-shaped; aedeagus with sides weakly sinuate toward apex, apicodorsal ridges weakly divergent to apical corners; apical margin subtruncate to weakly emarginate; internal sac with broad band of about 18 short, sclerotized teeth. Female not definitely associated. TL 1.76-1.88mm; Max. width (EW) 0.61-0.71mm.
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Pselaphinae |
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Speleobamini |
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