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 hova
sp.n.
(
Figs. 18A
–G
)
Habitus
Fig. 18A
. Length
0.77 mm
. Colour Pale yellowish brown, antennae and legs yellowish brown. Antennomeres 3–11
0.31 mm
long
Fig. 18
C. Mentum and submentum chaetotaxy
Fig. 18
E. Width across eyes
0.30 mm
. Pronotum
0.50 mm
wide,
0.26 mm
long, sides strongly rounded in posterior half
Fig. 18
B. Elytra
0.45 mm
long,
0.48 mm
wide. Posterior margin of mesoventral collar sloped at shoulders and with a shallow median excision
Fig.
18
F. Posterior margin of metaventrum between metacoxae long
Fig. 18
G; metacoxal plates
Fig. 18
G.
Male
: not known.
Female
: spermatheca
Fig. 17
D.
Etymology
. Johnson ms name.
Remarks
. Most likely to be confused with
heissi
and separable by the form of the spermatheca.
Type
data
.
Holotype
: ♀, Forêt de Sakahara,
23.iv.1969
, leg. H. Franz (MM).
Paratypes
: 9♀, same data as
holotype
. (Johnson ms indicates that a further
7 specimens
may have been placed in the collection of H. Franz).