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 angusi
sp. nov.
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A1B4A3E6-D811-4560-87A1-D36B12D2391B
Fig. 63
Etymology
Named after my colleague Dr Robert
Angus
.
Material examined
Holotype
BRAZIL
•
♀
;
Bocaiuva
,
Parana
;
Dec. 1963
;
F. Plaumann
leg.;
FMNH
.
Paratypes
BRAZIL
•
4 ♀♀
; same collection data as for holotype; one mounted verso, one mounted as a slide;
MMUE
,
BMNH
.
Description
SIZE. Habitus (
Fig. 63A
), length
0.95 mm
.
COLOUR. Yellow brown, head slightly darker, pubescence, legs and antennae slightly paler.
HEAD. With a clearly marked linear depression behind the eyes, width across eyes
0.23 mm
; antennomeres III–XI length
0.42 mm
, III–IX length
0.25 mm
, X–XI length
0.17 mm
; mentum as
Fig 4E
though sides slightly more sinuous.
PRONOTUM. Length
0.24 mm
, width
0.32 mm
, pubescent, without foveae; side margins rounded and then concave to acute hind angles, bordered, the border extending along the posterior margin to the medial emargination opposite the scutellum (
Fig. 63B
).
ELYTRA. Length
0.55 mm
, width
0.47 mm
, pubescent, length of setae as pronotum.
MESOVENTRITE. Medial extension of collar widening posteriorly; anterior margin of mid-keel wider than posterior, posterior margin not reaching anterior margin of mesocoxal cavities; keel with a series of ± eight setae tapering to point above the interruption of the mesocoxal borders; mesoventral lateral margins without serrations; humeri toothed (
Fig. 63C
).
METAVENTRITE. Length
0.17 mm
, width across spines
0.13 mm
, with scattered setae, disc simple; posterior margins of mesocoxal cavities not serrate.
WINGS. Macropterous.
GENITALIA. Female spermatheca globular. Male not known.
Remarks
One of the three Brazilian species in this group, and distinguished by the parallel-sided median extension of the mesoventral keel together with the wide anterior angles of the mid-keel and the long tapering keel.