Description of four new species of the genus Ptilocerembia Friederichs, 1923 (Embioptera: Ptilocerembiidae) from Thailand
Author
Poolprasert, Pisit
Author
Edgerly, Janice S.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3852
3
359
372
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3852.3.5
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1175-5326
250841
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Key to
Thai
species of
Ptilocerembia
(adult females)
1. Head and prothorax unicolorous...........................................................................
2
- Head clearly darker than prothorax......................................................................... 3
2. Head and thorax blackish; abdomen mostly dark with white stripe on lateral plate, basal three abdominal terga blackish in contrast with the next four brown terga; terminal three abdominal segments dark brown; coxae and trochanters whitish, strongly contrasted by the dark femora tibia and tarsi.............................................
P. thaidina
sp. n
- Head and thorax dark. Abdomen with white stripe lateral on plate and conspicuous pale longitudinal mark on a dark background; tibia and tarsi darker than other part of legs...........................................
P. catherinae
sp. n
3 Head light brown; prothorax yellowish; meso- and metathorax brown to dark; legs largely yellow; abdominal terga 1–3 dark, terga 4–7 yellowish, and terga 8–10 dark brown...................................................
P. rossi
sp. n.
- Head brown to dark; prothorax yellowish with two longitudinal brown bars; coxae and trochanters yellowish; femora and tibia, except for short basal and terminal yellow area, as darkly colored as tarsi; abdominal terga 1 and 2 dark, tergum 3 with wide pale colored patch on a dark background, terga 4–6 yellowish, terga 7–10 dark brown............
P. senathami
sp. n.