New Species and Records of Costa Rican Featherwing Beetles (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae)
Author
Darby, Michael
text
Zootaxa
2016
4184
1
41
51
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4184.1.2
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1175-5326
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Seminis factiosum
sp. n.
(
Figs 7A–K
)
Habitus,
Fig. 7A
. Length
0.89 mm
. Colour dark brown. Pubescence, antennae and legs dusky yellow. Antennomeres 3–11 length
0.34 mm
,
Fig. 7B
. Mentum and submentum chaetotaxy
Fig. 7G
. Width across eyes
0.38 mm
. Pronotum
0.60 mm
wide,
0.43 mm
long. Elytra
0.41 mm
long,
0.57 mm
wide, detached elytron
Fig.
7I
. Mesoventrum with strong downwardly projecting keel between mesocoxae in dorsal view,
Figs. 7E,F
. Metascutellum
Fig. 7K
. Metaventrum clearly reticulate, posterior margin between metacoxa +/– 1/4 the width of the sclerite, straight with two sharp points at corners,
Fig.
7F
. Abdominal reticulation with alternate cells of single setae and microtrichiae,
Fig. 7H
. Pygidium,
Fig. 7J
. Wings of usual Ptiliid
type
.
Male: aedeagus, Figs. Ca/b. Ventrite VI with semicircular incision, ventrite VII with anteriorly projected apodeme,
Fig. 7D
.
Female: unknown.
Etymology
. From the Latin adjective
factiosus
meaning intriquing.
Type
data
.
Holotype
:
♂
,
Costa Rica
, Osa Peninsula, Road, Bahia Drake to
Rincon de Osa
, forest and plantations,
car net
devart, 8.41–42
N 83.29
–40W,
0–400m
,
9.x.2012
, 1500–1700 hrs, Schülke & Grünberg (
INBio
).