A revision of Cissidium Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with seventy seven new species
Author
Darby, Michael
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2020
2020-04-02
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journal article
22458
10.5852/ejt.2020.622
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Cissidium ibicarense
sp. nov.
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2C9DAF49-AA1D-4D25-9365-428C13EAB2CC
Figs 3F
,
93
Etymology
Johnson ms name, after Ibicare, a municipality in
Santa Catarina
in the South region of
Brazil
, where the insect was found.
Material examined
Holotype
BRAZIL
•
♀
;
Ibicare
;
600 m
a.s.l.
;
Sep. 1960
;
F. Plaumann
leg.;
FMNH
.
Paratypes
BRAZIL
•
10 ex.
; same collection data as for holotype; one mounted verso;
FMNH
,
MMUE
,
BMNH
.
Description
SIZE. Habitus (
Fig. 93A
), length
0.78 mm
.
COLOUR. Yellow brown, shining, pubescence and antennae slightly paler.
HEAD. With a depression behind the eyes composed of foveae of different shapes, interrupted medially (
Fig. 3F
), width across eyes
0.22 mm
; antennomeres III–XI length
0.38 mm
, III–IX length
0.24 mm
,
X–XI length
0.14 mm
; mentum and prementum as
Fig. 4B
, base of mentum with a row of differently shaped foveolae interrupted by a narrow transverse depression.
PRONOTUM. Length
0.23 mm
, width
0.34 mm
, pubescent, without foveae, shallowly foveolate; lateral margins strongly bordered and sharply angled, concavely rounded to base, borders not continuing along posterior margin, hind angles sharply acute, posterior margin with emargination opposite the scutellum (
Fig. 93B
).
ELYTRA. Length
0.54 mm
, width
0.40 mm
, pubescent, setae same length as pronotum, foveolate the foveolae more strongly marked in basal half.
MESOVENTRITE. Collar with a median parallel-sided extension; mid-keel widest anteriorly, posterior corners effaced before reaching mesocoxal anterior borders, sharply raised at junction with keel with ± three setae from concave foveolae; keel tapering to pointed termination between the mesocoxae; mesoventral lateral margins rectangular without serrations; humeri toothed, posterior margins long and sinuous (
Fig. 93C
).
METAVENTRITE. Length
0.16 mm
, setose, disc simple, width across spines
0.11 mm
, spines long, sharply pointed; posterior margins of mesocoxae serrate.
Fig. 93.
Cissidium ibicarense
sp. nov.
A
. Habitus.
B
. Pronotum, × 505.
C
. Mesoventrite showing median process of collar, mid-keel and keel, × 1380.
WINGS. Macropterous.
GENITALIA. Female spermatheca globular. Males not known.
Remarks
One of the five Brazilian species in this group. Distinguished by the anterior angles of the mesoventral mid-keel which do not fuse with the collar.