Contributions to some Corydiinae genera (Blattodea: Corydioidea: Corydiidae) from China
Author
Qiu, Lu
Author
Che, Yan-Li
Author
Wang, Zong-Qing
text
Journal of Natural History
2018
J. Nat. Hist.
2018-05-23
52
21 - 22
1433
1461
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2018.1463406
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2018.1463406
1464-5262
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Minicorydia maoxiana
Qiu, Che and Wang
sp. nov.
(
Figures
2g
–h
,
9
)
Type
material
1 female
.
Holotype
:
CHINA
:
Sichuan
: female,
Mt
.
Xiaomiaoshan (a mountain near
Maoxian County town
),
Maoxian County
Aba Prefecture,
1600 m
,
22 August 1999
,
Guo-Dong Ren
leg
. (
SWU
, ex
MHBU
).
Diagnosis
See under the diagnosis of
Minicorydia
Qiu, Che and Wang
gen. nov.
Description
Female.
Body length
10.3 mm
; pronotum length × width 3.3 ×
5.3 mm
; tegmen length:
6.8 mm
. Body brown, heavily pubescent. Head dark chestnut; vertex with yellowish-brown pubescence, eyes small, lateral, vertex heavily pubescent, ocelli white, small, not protruding, two yellowish spots situated next to the antennal sockets, antennae brown; clypeus brownish yellow, small, anteclypeus yellowish white, postclypeus yellow, oval, smooth, median with a distinct longitudinal line; labrum wide, basal part white narrowly, distal portion brown, maxillary and labial palpi brown with joint parts white (
Figure 9a
). Pronotum brown, with yellowish-brown pubescence (
Figure 9b
). Tegmina thick, brown, short, just reaching to the base of supra-anal plate, apex round (
Figure
9g
), surface densely covered with yellowish- brown pubescence, Sc swelling wide; wings small, reduced, Sc long, RA single, long, RP with about four branches, M slender, CuA with about five branches, CuP slender, AA thick, gradually thinner towards apical portion (
Figure 9f
). Legs short, brown, arolia small (
Figure 9e
), tibial spines short, yellow, with apex reddish brown. Abdomen yellowish brown, pubescent, supraanal plate suboval, with a median longitudinal line, cerci spinous (
Figure 9c
); subgenital plate large, apex protruded (
Figure 9d
).
Figure 9.
Minicorydia maoxiana
gen. et sp. nov.
, female holotype from Maoxian, Sichuan: (a) head; (b) pronotum; (c) supra-anal plate; (d) subgenital plate; (e) pretarsus and arolia; (f) left hind wing; (g) left tegmen. Scale bars: e = 0.1 mm; a–d, f, g = 1 mm.
Male.
Unknown.
Distribution
China
:
Sichuan
.
Figure 10.
Venation of tegmina (top) and hind wings (bottom): (a)
Polyphaga plancyi
; (b)
Ergaula nepalensis
; (c)
Ctenoblatta impubis
; (d)
Homoeogamia mexicana
(after
Rehn 1951
).
Etymology
The species epithet comes from the
type
locality
Maoxian County
, in
Sichuan
.