New Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) from Sarawak in the spirit collection of the Natural History Museum, London
Author
Darby, Michael
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2019
2019-04-04
512
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50
journal article
27392
10.5852/ejt.2019.512
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Erro brookei
sp. nov.
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081834
E13585
Fig. 4
Diagnosis
Separated fom
E. impiger
and
E. angolensis
by the foveolate pronotum with acute hind angles.
Etymology
Named after James Brooke, the British explorer who became the first Rajah of
Sarawak
in 1841 and whose descendants continued to govern the kingdom until 1946.
Type material
Holotype
MALAYSIA-BORNEO • ♂;
Sarawak
, 4
th
division,
Gunung Mulu National Park
, comp 5; May–Aug. 1978;
P.M. Hammond
and
J.E. Marshall
leg.,
BM 1978-49
; alluvial forest litter;
BMNH
.
Paratype
MALAYSIA-BORNEO • ♂; same data as for holotype; BMNH.
Fig. 4.
Erro brookei
sp. nov.
A
. Habitus.
B
. Aedeagus.
C
. Head and pronotum ×460.
D
. Mentum and submentum ×1420.
E
. Mesoventrum ×610.
Description
SIZE. Habitus (
Fig. 4A
), length
0.84 mm
(including abdomen)
0.68 mm
(excluding abdomen).
COLOUR. Dark brown antennae and legs dusky yellow; dorsal surface pubescent.
HEAD. Antennomeres III–XI, length
0.34 mm
. Width across eyes
0.26 mm
. Head with a pair of foveolae on a level with the front of the eyes (
Fig. 4C
) and a longitudinal fossa behind the eyes. Mentum and submentum chaetotaxy (
Fig. 4D
).
PRONOTUM. Strongly foveolate in posterior third the foveolate area extending forward into two shallow depressions either side of disc, lateral margins strongly sinuate before acute hind angles, median portion of hind margin projected slightly backwards, length
0.21 mm
, width
0.33 mm
.
ELYTRA. Pubescence arising from foveolae but no additional depressions as on the pronotum, widest about middle, hind margin slightly truncated. length
0.43 mm
, width
0.43 mm
.
VENTRUM. Mesoventrum coarsely reticulate medially and with sharply pointed teeth at the anterior angles, collar sinuate with a narrow medial ridge extending posteriorly to a sharply pointed keel between the contiguous mesocoxae, posterior margins sinuate (
Fig. 4E
). Metaventrum pubescent without evidence of epiventral sutures, metacoxae separated by ± ¼ the width of the sclerite.
ABDOMEN. Pygidium margins barely rounded, tip slightly flattened without a central tooth.
FEMALE GENITALIA. Not known.
MALE GENITALIA. Aedeagus difficult to make out (
Fig. 4B
).