Dampierella, Tatarnic, Nikolai J., 2009
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.187769 |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6212496 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/655E6C37-BA6E-7616-1795-909BFB3DFB39 |
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Plazi |
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scientific name |
Dampierella |
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gen. nov. |
Dampierella View in CoL gen. nov.
Figures 1–4 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURE 3 View FIGURE 4
Type Species: Dampierella schwartzi sp. nov., by original designation
Holotype: AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 27.6 km N of Coral Bay Rd on Cardabia–Ningaloo Rd, 22.90198°S 113.8167°E, 25 m, 29 Oct 2004, Cassis , Wall, Weirauch, Tatarnic, Symonds, Dampiera incana var. incana R.Br. (Goodeniaceae) , det. PERTH staff PERTH 6989314, 13 ( AMNH _ PBI 00030304) ( WAMP). Diagnosis: Similar to Halticus but readily distinguished by the following combination of characters: gena height less than eye height; male with well-developed endosoma and single spinelike spicule; both sexes Description: Macropterous, body length 2.27–2.6 mm (Table 1). Coloration ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ): Dark brown and black with yellow or yellow-brown markings. Surface and Vestiture ( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 , 2 View FIGURE 2 ): Head mostly smooth and impunctate; pronotum punctate; thorax, hemelytra and abdomen impunctate; head with a few hairlike setae, antennae with closely adpressed hairlike setae, segment I with a few thin spinelike setae, body clothed in white, adpressed scalelike setae and adpressed to semi-erect yellow-brown hairlike setae, legs with decumbent hairlike setae, metafemora with a few spinelike setae, metatibia spinose; both parameres with spinelike setae.
Structure ( Figs. 1–3 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURE 3 ): Body elongate and slightly ovate. Head ( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 , 2 View FIGURE 2 A–D): Transverse, short, wider than tall; eyes large and substylate, touching pronotum; height of gena subequal to height of eye; posterior margin of vertex raised as a thin carina, head wraps around pronotum; clypeus not projecting forward beyond frons; buccula small, narrow. Antennae ( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 , 2 View FIGURE 2 A–D): Insertion in line with lower margin of eye; shorter than body length, segment I shorter than height of eye, somewhat swollen, segment III longer than IV. Labium ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 C–D): Extending just beyond metacoxae, segment I slightly longer than gena height. Thorax ( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 , 2 View FIGURE 2 A, C–F): Pronotum trapezoidal, shallowly inclined, collar thin, obscured by head, callosite region obsolete, humeral angles rounded, post-humeral angles depressed, posterior margin medially concave and deflected; mesoscutum obscured by pronotum, rarely visible as a thin strip; metathoracic spiracle a narrow slit, without evaporative bodies; metathoracic scent gland external efferent system small, peritreme broad and rounded, located directly above ostiole. Hemelytra ( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 , 2 View FIGURE 2 A, C): Costal margin gently convex, weakly laterally declivent; cuneus broad; membrane with single cell, extends beyond abdomen, not deflected downwards at cuneal fracture. Legs ( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 , 2 View FIGURE 2 C): All femora moderately swollen; metatibia elongate; pretarsi with lamellate, apically convergent parempodia and fleshy pulvilli. Abdomen ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 C): Elongate-ovoid. Male genitalia ( Figs. 2 View FIGURE 2 G–I, 3A–C): Pygophore short, without modifications or processes; both parameres projecting from pygophore, right paramere longer than left; left paramere with large, broad, projecting sensory lobe, arm apically bifid; right paramere basally thicker than left, with apical club deflected laterally; phallotheca with apex laterally compressed, dorsally keeled; ductus seminis short with flexible ribbing, section prior to secondary gonopore lacking ribbing; secondary gonopore scoop-shaped, opening ventrally, with faint scalelike texturing; endosoma with single, curved, spinelike spicule. Female genitalia ( Figs. 3 View FIGURE 3 D–F): sclerotized rings thin, weakly sclerotized, subcontiguous, elongate-elliptical, with lateral margins and adjacent portion of dorsal labiate plate moderately upturned; margin of ventral labiate plate adjoining rami forming a very weakly sclerotized band; posterior wall medially divided, laterally with paired, apically converging sclerotized bands, medially weakly sclerotized and swollen, bearing fields of spines, posterior of each lateral plate a moderately sclerotized, declivent, concave triangulate plate; vestibulum with bilaterally symmetrical sclerotization.
Distribution: Dampierella is a monotypic genus; all specimens were collected from two localities in northwest Western Australia ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 ).
Etymology: This genus is named for its host affiliation with the plant genus Dampiera .
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American Museum of Natural History |
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