Studies of Madagascan Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) 3: The genus Acrotrichis including twenty seven new species
Author
Darby, Michael
text
Zootaxa
2014
3866
2
151
201
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3866.2.1
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1175-5326
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Acrotrichis tuberosa
sp. n.
(
Figs. 35A
–I)
Habitus
Fig. 35A
. Length
0.86 mm
. Dark yellowish brown species. Antennomeres 3–11
0.35 mm
long
Fig. 35
C. Mentum and submentum chaetotaxy
Fig. 35
G. Width across eyes
0.31 mm
. Pronotum
0.57 mm
wide,
0.28 mm
long, sides evenly rounded without a sinuation before the hind angle
Fig. 35
B. Elytra
0.47 mm
long,
0.56 mm
wide, with clear humeral angle. Mesoventral collar
Fig.
35
F. Metaventral posterior margin
Fig. 35
E.
Male
: ventrite six with a large group of blunt spines
Fig.
35
I; aedeagus
Fig. 35
E.
Female
: spermatheca Fig, 35D.
Etymology
. Named after the large group of short blunt protuberances on the sixth ventrite.
Remarks
. The large group of blunt protuberances on the male sixth ventrite which are clearly visible without dissection will quickly determine this species.
Type
data
.
Holotype
: ♂, Ambohitantely Spec. Res., ABT/03/2011, sifting wet alluvia by stream, Winkler app. extr., S.18˚10’51.7” E.47˚17’21.6”,
1593 m
,
19.iv.2011
, L.S.Rahanitriniana (
BMNH
).
Paratypes
:
1♂
3♀, same data as
holotype
.