Trichadenotecnum species from Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore (Insecta: Psocodea: ' Psocoptera': Psocidae)
Author
Yoshizawa, Kazunori
Systematic Entomology, School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060 - 8589, Japan.
Author
Lienhard, Charles
Muséum d'histoire naturelle, C. P. 6434, CH- 1211 Genève 6, Switzerland
Author
Abd, Idris
Center for Insect Systematics, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Malaysia
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Zootaxa
2014
2014-07-14
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Trichadenotecnum malayense
New
(
Figs 1M
,
16
,
17
)
Trichadenotecnum malayense
New, 1975: 257
;
New & Lee, 1992: 156
;
Endang, Thornton & New, 2002: 156
;
Endang & New, 2005: 24
.
Specimens examined
.
[
Malaysia
]
1 female
, Fraser's Hill,
Pahang
,
5.iii.2003
, KY (UKM);
2 males
(KY334),
Endau Rompin National Park
,
Johor
,
7.vii.2003
, KY (
UKM
&
SEHU
)
;
1 female
,
University Forest
of UKM,
Bangi
,
Selangor
,
6.iii.2005
, NT (
SEHU
)
.
FIGURE 16.
Male terminalia of
Trichadenotecnum malayense
. Note that illustration of the epiproct is unavailable because the epiproct was destroyed during dissection. A: terminalia, lateral view; B: hypandrium, ventral view; C: phallosome, ventral view.
FIGURE 17.
Female genitalia of
Trichadenotecnum malayense
, ventral view. A: subgenital plate; B: gonapophyses; C: spermapore plate.
Remarks
.
This species was originally described only on female specimens from
Malaysia
, and the male of this species was later identified from
Sumatra
,
Indonesia
by
Endang & New (2005)
. The female genital structures examined here (
Fig. 17
) are in complete agreement with those described by
New (1975)
, and male terminal structures of the specimens examined here (
Fig. 16
) agree very well with the description given by
Endang & New (2005)
except for the difference of the phallosome [illustrated as if it were closed in
Endang & New (2005
: fig. 16) whereas it is widely opened in the presently examined specimen (
Fig. 16C
)]. Based on the densely spotted forewings, the presence of a basal process on the male paraproct, and the short ventral valve of the gonapophyses, assignment of this species to the
spiniserrulum
group is unquestioned (
Yoshizawa, 2001
). However, male and female terminal structures are quite distinct from the other species of this group. Complete absence of the posterior lobe of the external valve of gonapophyses may indicate close affinity between
T. malayense
and
T. pardus
, treated above, or
T. godavarense
New, 1971
(see
Yoshizawa
et al.
, 2007
for taxonomic status of the latter species).