Studies of Peruvian Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) 4: Peruvium a new subgenus of Ptenidium with seven new species
Author
Darby, Michael
text
Zootaxa
2016
4107
3
392
402
journal article
39155
10.11646/zootaxa.4107.3.7
c5700bff-ef25-4766-abe5-5671c263fdf9
1175-5326
266247
AC6925B2-F917-42B4-9500-517F44C97622
Ptenidium capillatum
sp. n.
(Figs. 2, 20, 30)
Habitus Fig. 2. Length
0.99 mm
. Colour black, shining, with sparse fine grey pubescence and very fine punctulation; antennae and legs dusky yellow. Antennomeres 3–11
0.28 mm
long. Pubescence on head longer on forehead than frons but not as long as that on the pronotum and elytra. Width across eyes
0.29 mm
. Pronotum with a narrow raised border extending along the posterior and lateral margins to the front angles,
0.43 mm
wide,
0.27 mm
long. Elytra
0.65 mm
long,
0.51 mm
wide. Scutellum with a short median keel and two depressions spaced as
brevissimum
and
inornatum
Figs. 24, 25. Proventral keel between procoxae smoothly rounded dorsally Fig. 20.
Male
: not known.
FIGURES 1–8
. Habitus. 1.
P. brevissimum
;
2.
P. capillatum
; 3.
P. carinatum
; 4.
P. contractum
; 5.
P. grande
; 6.
P. inornatum
; 7.
P. gibbosum
female; 8.
P. gibbosum
male head.
FIGURES 9–11
. Dorsal surface of head. 9.
P. inornatum
x 625. 10.
P. gibbosum
x 910. 11.
P. contractum
x 690.
FIGURES 12–15
. Setae on pronotal hind angle. 12.
P. brevissimum
x 1480; 13.
P. carinatum
x 2140; 14.
P. gibbosum
x 1840; 15.
P. contractum
x 2040.
Female
: spermatheca Fig. 30.
Etymology
. After the Latin
capillatus
meaning hairy.
Diagnosis
. The pronotal and elytral pubescence will quickly distinguish this species.
Type
data
:
Holotype
: ♀,
PERU
: Cusco Dept.: Wayqecha Field Station, cafeteria ~
1 km
west, research plot,
13.17588°S
71.59487°W
,
2825m
,
10–12.V.2011
, D.J. Bennett & E. Razuri, blue pan trap, PER-11-PTB-001 (
MUSM
).