Malaymetopidea maculata Taszakowski & Kim, 2025
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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5725.4.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1A8F5305-9EE1-4048-9137-4B644869D175 |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17869294 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E087EF-FF81-FFEC-7681-F96D0EE0F983 |
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Plazi |
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scientific name |
Malaymetopidea maculata Taszakowski & Kim |
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sp. nov. |
Malaymetopidea maculata Taszakowski & Kim , sp. nov.
Diagnosis.
See the generic diagnosis.
Description. Coloration. Brown with yellowish macula ( Fig. 1A, B View FIGURE 1 ). Head: vertex brown; compound eyes silvery; frons, clypeus and gena dark brown; scape, pedicel and flagellomeres brown ( Fig. 1A–B View FIGURE 1 ); labium brownish. Thorax: pronotum mostly brown, anterior part dark brown, posterior one brown, lateral margin pale, posterior margin narrowly pale; exposed part of mesoscutum dark brown; scutellum brown, with apex and lateral angles yellowish; thoracic pleura brown; ostiolar peritreme and evaporative brown; hemelytra generally brown, clavus with pale spot in posterior half, endocorium with pale spot, embolium pale, brownish in distal part, semitransparent, hypocostal lamina whitish with brown spot in 1/3 length and brownish distal part; cuneus pale brown, with large whitish spot medially; membrane brownish; coxae pale, femora brown with pale apex, pro- and mesotibiae yellowish, metatibiae brown, lighter in the distal part, tarsi yellowish. Abdomen: dark brown. Surface and Vestiture. Body shiny, densely punctate, covered with pale, long setae; head punctate and wrinkled, frons and vertex with scattered setae, posterior margin with reclining setae; antennae covered densely with long, erect setae; pronotal collar with row of setae; pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum distinctly and densely punctate, covered with setae; thoracic pleura deeply, unevenly punctate, and covered in places with scattered setae; hemelytra covered densely with long setae, unevenly punctate, clavus deeply punctate, corium shallowly punctate, embolium and cuneus impunctate; membrane covered with microtrichia; legs with short, adherent, pale setae; abdomen covered with brown setae. Structure. Body oval, length 2.82. Head: flattened, hypognathous, wider than high, head high 0.78x as width across eyes, dorsally slightly protruding pronotal collar; posterior margin of vertex convex, protruding above eye level; compound eye 0.65x as high as head high; vertex wide, 0.35x as head width; ocelli large, convex, touching compound eyes; fovea antennalis positioned directly below ventral margin of compound eye; antenna short, total antennal length equal to maximal pronotal width; scape short, as thick as pedicel; pedicel cylindrical, subequal to head width, longer than combined lengths of flagellomeres; flagellomeres short and thin; basiflagellomere slightly longer than scape, almost as long as distiflagellomere; proportion of scape to distiflagellomere 0.15:0.62:0.18:0.17; labium short, reaching mesocoxa. Thorax: pronotum trapeziform in broad sense, posterior margin broadly convex, nearly straight medially, angled near posterolateral corners, leading midline longer than lateral margin length, midline length 0.56x as posterior width; pronotal collar thin, as thin as diameter of distiflagellomere; exposed part of mesoscutum short; scutellum slightly tumid, medium-sized, 0.68x as long as pronotal length, flat; scent gland evaporative area triangular; lateral margin of hemelytra slightly rounded; outer cuneal margin 0.28 x as long as embolial margin. Abdomen: elongate, not reaching apex of cuneus. Genitalia: left paramere scythe-shaped with long apical process and well-developed sensory lobe, apical process vertically curved with depressed part medially, sensory lobe with few setae ( Figs 1D View FIGURE 1 , 2H View FIGURE 2 ); right paramere 0.79x as long as left one, with knee-shaped sensory lobe, apical process short, broad ( Figs 1E View FIGURE 1 , 2H View FIGURE 2 ); endosoma sacciform and membranous ( Fig. 1F View FIGURE 1 ).
Measurements. Body. Length, clypeus-apex of membrane: 2.82; width 1.25. Head. Length: 0.16; width, including compound eyes: 0.69; vertex width: 0.24; eye dorsal width: 0.23; height in frontal view: 0.54. Antenna. Total length: 1.12; length of scape: 0.15, pedicel: 0.62, flagellomere I: 0.18, flagellomere II: 0.17. Labium. Total length: 1.23; length of segment I: 0.33; II: 0.30; III: 0.26; IV: 0.37. Pronotum. Mesal length: 0.63; posterior maximal width (straight): 1.12. Mesoscutum. Mesal length: 0.11. Scutellum. Anterior width: 0.51; mesal length: 0.43. Hemelytron. Length: 2.08; claval commissure length: 0.35; outer embolial margin length (straight): 1.28; outer cuneal margin length (straight): 0.36; cuneus width: 0.36. Metatarsus. Total length: 0.27; length of tarsomeres I:II: 0.10:0.25.
Etymology. From Late Latin maculâta (‘stained, spotted’).
Type material. Holotype ( ♂): ’ MALAYSIA – Pahang \ Cameroon Highlands \ Tanah Rata cca 1600 m \ J. Horák lgt. 11 – 27 Febr. 2000 \’ ( ZJC).
Distribution. Malaysia, Malay Peninsula ( Fig. 3L View FIGURE 3 ).
Biology. Unknown.
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