A revision of Cissidium Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with seventy seven new species
Author
Darby, Michael
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2020
2020-04-02
622
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journal article
22458
10.5852/ejt.2020.622
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Cissidium latum
Sawada, 2008
Fig. 52
Material examined
Paratypes
JAPAN
•
1 ♂
;
Okinawa
,
Ryukyu
,
Gaji
rindo,
NE of Mt Terukubi
;
290 m
a.s.l.
;
21 Oct. 1987
;
Y. Nishikawa
leg.;
BMNH
•
1 ♂
;
Hiji
,
Kunigami-son
,
Okinawa Pref.
;
12 Apr. 1997
;
Y. Sawada
leg.;
YS
.
Supplementary description
The following description amplifies the
type
description of
Sawada (2008)
to conform with the entries in the present paper.
SIZE. Habitus (
Fig. 52A
), length
0.76 mm
.
COLOUR. Reddish brown to dark brown, antennae, legs and pubescence paler.
HEAD. With a transverse row of indistinctly formed foveolae between the eyes.
PRONOTUM. Length
0.21 mm
, width
0.37 mm
, densely pubescent and very shallowly foveolate throughout; side margins rounded to concave before rectangular hind angles, narrowly bordered, the border continuing along the entire posterior margin, which is without an emargination opposite the scutellum (
Fig. 52B
).
ELYTRA. Length
0.47 mm
, width
0.42 mm
, pubescent more widely distributed than pronotum.
MESOVENTRITE. Collar with 3 projecting setae along the posterior margin opposite the mid-keel, median extension widest anteriorly then slightly tapering posteriorly, with very short setae; mid-keel strongly sculpted and pubescent, widest medially; keel long, pointed, terminating past the mid-point of the mesocoxae; lateral margins very shallowly rounded, without serrations; humeri toothed (
Fig. 52C
).
METAVENTRITE.
0.15 mm
long, reticulate towards lateral margins, sparsely pubescent, disc simple, distance between spines
0.10 mm
; mesocoxal posterior borders serrate.
GENITALIA. Male aedeagus as
Fig. 6
Fa–b but beak not so strongly bent.
Remarks
This is one of three species in this group from
Japan
and differs from them and from all other Japanese
Cissidium
in
having wider and more rounded elytra.