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same data as holotype (
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Much less variable and usually smaller (&lt;3.0 mm) than
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, differing from the latter species in orange-testaceous head with rostrum, antennae and legs, sparser and all golden-yellowish erect setae on entire body, longer and weaker curved rostrum, narrower head, not enlarged junction of elytral striae 3+8, penis narrowly rounded apically, female having sinuous spiculum ventrale, common oviduct at base with peculiar 3-lobate expansion. It can be distinguished from the uniformly brown
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="05E48647E84FCD56FBC22B0BFB8F6E55" box="[1086,1149,583,609]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
by the presence of darker fasciae on elytra, more numerous long setae on the whole body, longer and narrower rostrum and elytra, and narrower penis. Moreover,
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<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FE5F2BC3FE306E9D" box="[419,450,655,681]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Rh</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FE2C2BC3FDC66E9D" box="[464,564,655,681]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">pallidum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="05E48647E84FCD56FDC72BC3FD886E9D" box="[571,634,655,681]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
is distinct from both congeners in having by far the thinnest tarsi (basal protarsomere well over 3 × as long as wide) and having frena as the only sclerites in endophallus.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2C1CE72EE84FCD56FF3B2B9BFD1F6EC5" blockId="15.[151,1437,150,2013]" box="[199,749,727,753]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
See also the key to
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<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FE5C2B9BFDB16EC5" box="[416,579,727,753]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Rhynchitapion</emphasis>
species
</taxonomicName>
below.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="64B9B4A5E84FCD4BFF3B2BB6FBE76D29" lastPageId="18" lastPageNumber="19" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="description">
<paragraph id="2C1CE72EE84FCD56FF3B2BB6FD2C6FFD" blockId="15.[151,1437,150,2013]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FF3B2BB6FEAB6F20" bold="true" box="[199,345,762,788]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Description.</emphasis>
Body
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long, together with appendices light testaceous; elytra lighter than pronotum, pale testaceous or yellowish, with more or less distinctly darkened suture (but not entire sutural intervals), basal twothirds of intervals 9 and 10, and shorter median portions of intervals 7 and 8, additionally each with a variably sized darker fleck in middle of intervals 35; intervals 2 and 6 always remaining entire not darkened (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE84FCD56FB372A2BFAED6FB5" box="[1227,1311,870,897]" captionStart="FIGURES 5774" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1864,1888]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-16@17.[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 5774. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499042/files/figure.png" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Fig. 57</figureCitation>
). Antennae entirely light testaceous, concolorous with rostrum and legs. Erect hair-like setae fine, all golden-yellow, on elytra not longer than combined breadth of three intervals.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2C1CE72EE84FCD56FF3B2A9FFEF868DD" blockId="15.[151,1437,150,2013]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
Morphological indices (n=11):
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FDD72A9EFD956FD8" bold="true" box="[555,615,978,1004]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">rl/pl:</emphasis>
<specimenCount id="3AA52CA7E84FCD56FD8D2A9FFD746FD9" box="[625,646,979,1005]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="male"></specimenCount>
1.151.38 (M: 1.28),
<specimenCount id="3AA52CA7E84FCD56FC792A9FFC686FD9" box="[901,922,979,1005]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="female"></specimenCount>
1.371.68 (M: 1.54);
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FB662A9EFAF76FD8" bold="true" box="[1178,1285,978,1004]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">rl/mxrw:</emphasis>
<specimenCount id="3AA52CA7E84FCD56FAF22A9FFAD16FD9" box="[1294,1315,979,1005]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="male"></specimenCount>
3.434.40 (M: 3.91),
<specimenCount id="3AA52CA7E84FCD56FEF32ABBFED66825" box="[271,292,1015,1041]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="female"></specimenCount>
4.105.15 (M: 4.59);
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FDE52ABAFD7E6824" bold="true" box="[537,652,1014,1040]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">scl/msrw:</emphasis>
<specimenCount id="3AA52CA7E84FCD56FD6F2ABBFD5A6825" box="[659,680,1015,1041]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="male"></specimenCount>
1.331.74 (M: 1.50),
<specimenCount id="3AA52CA7E84FCD56FC602ABBFC436825" box="[924,945,1015,1041]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="female"></specimenCount>
1.461.77 (M: 1.64);
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FB5A2ABAFACE6824" bold="true" box="[1190,1340,1014,1040]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">msrw/mtrw:</emphasis>
<specimenCount id="3AA52CA7E84FCD56FABE2ABBFAA56825" box="[1346,1367,1015,1041]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="male"></specimenCount>
1.03 1.10 (M: 1.06),
<specimenCount id="3AA52CA7E84FCD56FEB52D57FEAC6801" box="[329,350,1051,1077]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="female"></specimenCount>
1.101.12 (M: 1.11);
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FDA92D56FD2A6800" bold="true" box="[597,728,1050,1076]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">msrw/arw:</emphasis>
<specimenCount id="3AA52CA7E84FCD56FD232D57FD066801" box="[735,756,1051,1077]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="male"></specimenCount>
1.031.15 (M: 1.06),
<specimenCount id="3AA52CA7E84FCD56FC102D57FBF36801" box="[1004,1025,1051,1077]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="female"></specimenCount>
0.951.03 (M: 1.00);
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FB052D56FA6E6800" bold="true" box="[1273,1436,1050,1076]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">msrw/minrw:</emphasis>
1.031.20;
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FEEB2D72FE7F686C" bold="true" box="[279,397,1086,1112]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">msrw/eyl:</emphasis>
0.730.87;
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FDE92D72FD9E686C" bold="true" box="[533,620,1086,1112]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">brl/eyl:</emphasis>
<specimenCount id="3AA52CA7E84FCD56FD892D73FD78686D" box="[629,650,1087,1113]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="male"></specimenCount>
1.552.22 (M: 1.85),
<specimenCount id="3AA52CA7E84FCD56FC7A2D73FC69686D" box="[902,923,1087,1113]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="female"></specimenCount>
1.712.30 (M: 2.12);
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FB642D72FB10686C" bold="true" box="[1176,1250,1086,1112]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">eyl/hl:</emphasis>
0.580.73;
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FA962D72FF106849" bold="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">frw/ mtrw:</emphasis>
<specimenCount id="3AA52CA7E84FCD56FF162D2FFF0D6849" box="[234,255,1123,1149]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="male"></specimenCount>
0.901.05 (M: 0.99),
<specimenCount id="3AA52CA7E84FCD56FE012D2FFDE06849" box="[509,530,1123,1149]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="female"></specimenCount>
1.001.15 (M: 1.07);
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FCEC2D2EFCAE6848" bold="true" box="[784,860,1122,1148]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">hl/hw:</emphasis>
0.680.81;
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FC192D2EFBA76848" bold="true" box="[997,1109,1122,1148]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">mpw/hw:</emphasis>
1.101.23;
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FB222D2EFAA76848" bold="true" box="[1246,1365,1122,1148]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">bpw/apw:</emphasis>
0.95 1.07;
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FF1A2DCAFEB86894" bold="true" box="[230,330,1158,1184]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">pl/mpw:</emphasis>
1.101.24;
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FE242DCAFDAE6894" bold="true" box="[472,604,1158,1184]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">mew/mpw:</emphasis>
1.721.95;
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FD162DCAFCD46894" bold="true" box="[746,806,1158,1184]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">el/pl:</emphasis>
2.773.14;
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FC492DCAFBE06894" bold="true" box="[949,1042,1158,1184]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">el/mew:</emphasis>
1.742.00;
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FB5C2DCAFAEB6894" bold="true" box="[1184,1305,1158,1184]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">mew/bew:</emphasis>
1.291.48;
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FF6B2DE6FEE668F0" bold="true" box="[151,276,1194,1220]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">bew/mpw:</emphasis>
1.251.45;
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FE6B2DE6FDFC68F0" bold="true" box="[407,526,1194,1220]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">pft/msrw:</emphasis>
1.061.28;
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FD6D2DE6FD1868F0" bold="true" box="[657,746,1194,1220]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">ptbl/pl:</emphasis>
1.131.31;
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FC922DE6FBF168F0" bold="true" box="[878,1027,1194,1220]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">ptbl/ptbmw:</emphasis>
<specimenCount id="3AA52CA7E84FCD56FBF52DE7FBEC68F1" box="[1033,1054,1195,1221]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="male"></specimenCount>
6.867.25 (M: 6.99),
<specimenCount id="3AA52CA7E84FCD56FAED2DE7FAD468F1" box="[1297,1318,1195,1221]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="female"></specimenCount>
8.559.83 (M: 9.33).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2C1CE72EE84FCD56FF3B2DBFFCB869F5" blockId="15.[151,1437,150,2013]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
Rostrum parallel-sided, without expansion at antennal insertion, weakly dilated at base (
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), in profile slightly regularly arched (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE84FCD56FE402C5BFDB56905" box="[444,583,1302,1329]" captionStart="FIGURES 5774" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1864,1888]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-16@17.[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 5774. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499042/files/figure.png" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Figs. 58, 65</figureCitation>
); entire rostrum finely punctate, on metarostrum also with obsolescent fine dorsal median rib, often incomplete; on sides upper margin of scrobe extended towards rostrum base as fine darker carina (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE84FCD56FF102C13FEB2694D" box="[236,320,1374,1401]" captionStart="FIGURES 5774" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1864,1888]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-16@17.[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 5774. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499042/files/figure.png" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Fig. 65</figureCitation>
); prorostrum ventrally with thin flat median keel not associated with regular sulci, punctures unordered, partly contiguous, with short, half-erect setae; septum of scrobes flat, vanishing well before head venter; the extreme base of rostrum ventrally with fine irregular furrows.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2C1CE72EE84FCD56FF3B2C87FCB46A41" blockId="15.[151,1437,150,2013]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
Antennae 0.80.9 × as long as elytra, entirely unicolorous and with protruding setae (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE84FCD56FB5B2C87FB0C69D2" box="[1191,1278,1483,1510]" captionStart="FIGURES 5774" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1864,1888]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-16@17.[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 5774. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499042/files/figure.png" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Fig. 66</figureCitation>
); antennal insertion sexually different (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE84FCD56FE382CA3FDB46A3E" box="[452,582,1519,1546]" captionStart="FIGURES 5774" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1864,1888]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-16@17.[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 5774. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499042/files/figure.png" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Fig. 63, 64</figureCitation>
),
<specimenCount id="3AA52CA7E84FCD56FDA02CA3FD866A3D" box="[604,628,1519,1545]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="male"></specimenCount>
: 0.500.55,
<specimenCount id="3AA52CA7E84FCD56FCFE2CA3FCEB6A3D" box="[770,793,1519,1545]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" type="female"></specimenCount>
: 0.440.49 from rostrum base; length/width ratio: scape 5.56.8, fun1 3.64.0, fun2 3.33.9, fun6 2.22.6, fun7 2.02.4, club 5.96.8; length of scape/fun1 1.61.9, fun1/ fun2 1.01.1, fun3fun7 all similar, 0.60.7 × as long as fun1; club longer than combined length of four most distal funicular segments, with denser and weaker protruding setae.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2C1CE72EE84FCD56FF3B2F33FEE16B45" blockId="15.[151,1437,150,2013]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
Head narrower than in
<taxonomicName id="EBA39CADE84FCD56FE312F33FD836AAD" authority="Wanat, 2021" authorityName="Wanat" authorityYear="2021" box="[461,625,1663,1689]" class="Insecta" family="Brentidae" genus="Rhynchitapion" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="variiforme" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FE312F33FE1E6AAD" box="[461,492,1663,1689]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Rh</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FE072F33FD836AAD" box="[507,625,1663,1689]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">variiforme</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE84FCD56FD852F33FD486AAD" bold="true" box="[633,698,1663,1689]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="05E48647E84FCD56FD852F33FD486AAD" box="[633,698,1663,1689]" pageId="15" pageNumber="16" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
(
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); eyes almost semi-globular; epifrons between eyes slightly concave, with five short longitudinal sulci not much wider than single ommatidium; genae with several fine protruding setae, often arranged in a sparse subocular fringe; temples with a single row of setiferous punctures along posterior margin of eyes, then with several flattened wrinkles (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE84FCD56FC6E2FA7FC166B31" box="[914,996,1770,1797]" captionStart="FIGURES 5774" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1864,1888]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-16@17.[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 5774. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499042/files/figure.png" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Fig. 65</figureCitation>
); vertex in middle with small setiferous punctures, on sides in front with punctures bearing long erect setae, posteriorly with few wrinkles continued from temples; gular sector convex, impunctate, between eyes with several blurred transverse wrinkles extending upwards to temples.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2C1CE72EE84FCD49FF3B2E37FAA26CCD" blockId="15.[151,1437,150,2013]" lastBlockId="16.[151,1437,151,2014]" lastPageId="16" lastPageNumber="17" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">
Pronotum shaped as in
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE84FCD56FE322E37FDED6BA1" box="[462,543,1915,1941]" captionStart="FIGURES 5774" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1864,1888]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-16@17.[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 5774. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499042/files/figure.png" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Fig. 60</figureCitation>
, widest in middle, shiny; punctuation differentiated, in front and middle of disc very fine, with few punctures smaller than ommatidium, bearing long erect setae, in basal half and on sides with punctures a few times larger and much denser, some lateral ones arranged in oblique rows, bearing setae 34 × shorter and semi-recumbent (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FE1E29DBFDC56C86" box="[482,567,151,178]" captionStart="FIGURES 5774" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1864,1888]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-16@17.[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 5774. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499042/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 61</figureCitation>
); basal edge of pronotal disc slightly raised; prosternum elevated on anterior margin and declining posterad, about 3 × shorter than hypomeron; prosternellum small, prominent as a conical tubercle; hypomeron with a complete raised rim of procoxae, bare, with irregular elongate punctures on sides.
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<paragraph id="2C1CE72EE850CD49FF3B284FFD686D29" blockId="16.[151,1437,151,2014]" box="[199,666,259,285]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Scutellar shield minute, flat, subquadrate.</paragraph>
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Elytra regularly convex, with indistinct caudal part, broadest in middle or slightly behind (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FB2A286BFA7D6D76" box="[1238,1423,294,322]" captionStart="FIGURES 5774" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1864,1888]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-16@17.[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 5774. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499042/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Figs. 57, 58, 62</figureCitation>
); striae shallowly impressed, not sharply edged, with small and distant punctures having minute semi-recumbent setae shorter than double diameter of ommatidium, surrounded with visible internal elongate integumental chambers forming catenulate rows darker than pale integument of elytron; intervals gently convex, polished, impunctate, in middle several times broader than striae, in basal parts with sparse minute setae beside the long erect ones; interval 1 weakly raised along suture along middle third of its course; erect setae golden-yellowish, at most 3 × as long as breadth of intervals, gently bent posterad, more distant from each other than double intervals breadth.
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Wings as in
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<paragraph id="2C1CE72EE850CD49FF3B2B0BFF1C6F21" blockId="16.[151,1437,151,2014]" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Mesoventrite with a pair of small punctured fields, partly covered by prothorax; anapleural sutures well seen as dark lines; mesepimeral furrow narrow, with a single row of shortly setiferous punctures. Metaventrite smooth, very finely and sparsely punctate, on sides with long semi-recumbent setae; posterior rim of mesocoxae separated with distinct line. Abdomen elongate, 1.251.30 × as long as wide; ventrites 12 and 5 with minute and sparse setiferous punctures; ventrites 34 microreticulate; ventrite 5 with setiferous punctures denser on sides and close to apical margin.</paragraph>
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Legs long and thin. Femora slender, 2.83.0 × as long as high, with shiny integument, around with semi-erect setae, scale-like microsculptured only near articulations. Protibia on inner side sharply edged in distal half (more distinctly in males), and along distal one-third with appressed setae, not forming a distinct stripe; apical comb of golden setae inconspicuous. Protarsus as in
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FD772AC7FD2C6F91" box="[651,734,907,933]" captionStart="FIGURES 5774" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1864,1888]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-16@17.[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 5774. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499042/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 68</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FD172AC7FCCD6F91" box="[747,831,907,933]" captionStart="FIGURES 115" captionStartId="10.[151,264,1863,1887]" captionTargetBox="[180,1408,181,1839]" captionTargetId="figure-25@10.[180,1408,181,1839]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="FIGURES 115. Rhynchitapion variiforme sp. n. Examples of colour forms and variation in size (all in the same scale): female, Komga (1); female, Karkloof (2); female, Tsitsikamma (3); male, Mariepskop (4); female, Wakefield (5); male, Karkloof (6). Holotype, male, dorsal habitus (7); male, Wakefield, habitus (8) and pronotum (9) in lateral views. Examples of pronotum, dorsal view: holotype, male (10); female, Karkloof (11). Rostrum in lateral view, male (12), female (13). Rostrum in dorsal view, male (14), female (15)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499028" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499028/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">4.24.8</figureCitation>
× as long as wide; tarsomere 1 cylindrical at least in basal half, tarsomere 2 weakly widened apicad, both with a minute black median dot on apical margins; length/ width ratio of tarsomeres: 1st—3.24.5, 2nd—1.62.0, 3rd—0.91.1; onychium protruding beyond tarsomere 3 by 0.400.55 own length; claws with small triangular teeth (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FCEB2ABBFC996825" box="[791,875,1014,1041]" captionStart="FIGURES 5774" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1864,1888]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-16@17.[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 5774. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499042/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 59</figureCitation>
).
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Male. Protibia slightly bent inwards apically (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FD2D2D57FCD46802" box="[721,806,1051,1078]" captionStart="FIGURES 5774" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1864,1888]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-16@17.[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 5774. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499042/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 69</figureCitation>
); meso- and metatibial mucro as in
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FB3C2D57FAE16801" box="[1216,1299,1051,1077]" captionStart="FIGURES 5774" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1864,1888]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-16@17.[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 5774. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499042/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 67</figureCitation>
. Abdominal ventrite 5 subtruncate apically, about 2.0 × as broad as long (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FCB32D73FC57686D" box="[847,933,1087,1113]" captionStart="FIGURES 5774" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1864,1888]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-16@17.[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 5774. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499042/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 74</figureCitation>
). Posterior margin of tergite VII with a very short fringe of microchaetae (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FE1D2D2FFDC66849" box="[481,564,1123,1149]" captionStart="FIGURES 5774" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1864,1888]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-16@17.[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 5774. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499042/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 73</figureCitation>
). Pygidium more rectangular in outline (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FC0B2D2FFBBA6849" box="[1015,1096,1123,1149]" captionStart="FIGURES 5774" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1864,1888]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-16@17.[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 5774. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499042/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 70</figureCitation>
) and more globose than in
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, with apical declivity nearly vertical (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FD462DCBFCFC6895" box="[698,782,1159,1185]" captionStart="FIGURES 5774" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1864,1888]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-16@17.[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 5774. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499042/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 71</figureCitation>
); internal tongue-like process isodiametric (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FB022DCBFAA16895" box="[1278,1363,1159,1185]" captionStart="FIGURES 5774" captionStartId="17.[151,264,1864,1888]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetId="figure-16@17.[151,1435,181,1840]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURES 5774. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499042" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499042/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 72</figureCitation>
). Sternite VIII with lateral arms shorter than in
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and with fine sclerotized lines along basal and apical margins (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FF292D83FED568DD" box="[213,295,1231,1257]" captionStart="FIGURES 7591" captionStartId="19.[151,264,1828,1852]" captionTargetBox="[166,1420,181,1803]" captionTargetId="figure-16@19.[166,1420,181,1804]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 7591. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. (7588). Male: penis in dorsal (75) and lateral (76) views; tegminal plate, dorsal view (77); tegmen, lateral view (78); aedeagus with inflated endophallus in lateral (79) and dorsal (80) views; sternite VIII (81); sternite IX and additional sclerites (82). Female: tergite VII, dorsal view (83); tergites VII and VIII in posterior view and spiculum ventrale (84); gonocoxites (85); tergite VIII in dorsal view and sternal plate of spiculum ventrale (86); inflated bursa with accessory lobes (87); abdominal ventrites in transmission light (88). Rh. usambarense sp. n., holotype, male (8991): sternite IX (89); tegminal plate in dorsal (90) and lateral (91) views." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499048" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499048/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 81</figureCitation>
). Paired additional sclerites in the membrane between sternites VIII and IX circular. Spiculum gastrale symmetrical with straight arms (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FE012DBFFDA26939" box="[509,592,1267,1293]" captionStart="FIGURES 7591" captionStartId="19.[151,264,1828,1852]" captionTargetBox="[166,1420,181,1803]" captionTargetId="figure-16@19.[166,1420,181,1804]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 7591. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. (7588). Male: penis in dorsal (75) and lateral (76) views; tegminal plate, dorsal view (77); tegmen, lateral view (78); aedeagus with inflated endophallus in lateral (79) and dorsal (80) views; sternite VIII (81); sternite IX and additional sclerites (82). Female: tergite VII, dorsal view (83); tergites VII and VIII in posterior view and spiculum ventrale (84); gonocoxites (85); tergite VIII in dorsal view and sternal plate of spiculum ventrale (86); inflated bursa with accessory lobes (87); abdominal ventrites in transmission light (88). Rh. usambarense sp. n., holotype, male (8991): sternite IX (89); tegminal plate in dorsal (90) and lateral (91) views." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499048" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499048/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 82</figureCitation>
). Tegmen with apodeme as long as basal piece arms (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FB642DBFFB1E6939" box="[1176,1260,1267,1293]" captionStart="FIGURES 7591" captionStartId="19.[151,264,1828,1852]" captionTargetBox="[166,1420,181,1803]" captionTargetId="figure-16@19.[166,1420,181,1804]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 7591. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. (7588). Male: penis in dorsal (75) and lateral (76) views; tegminal plate, dorsal view (77); tegmen, lateral view (78); aedeagus with inflated endophallus in lateral (79) and dorsal (80) views; sternite VIII (81); sternite IX and additional sclerites (82). Female: tergite VII, dorsal view (83); tergites VII and VIII in posterior view and spiculum ventrale (84); gonocoxites (85); tergite VIII in dorsal view and sternal plate of spiculum ventrale (86); inflated bursa with accessory lobes (87); abdominal ventrites in transmission light (88). Rh. usambarense sp. n., holotype, male (8991): sternite IX (89); tegminal plate in dorsal (90) and lateral (91) views." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499048" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499048/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 78</figureCitation>
); tegminal plate about twice as long as wide (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FE262C5BFDDF6905" box="[474,557,1303,1329]" captionStart="FIGURES 7591" captionStartId="19.[151,264,1828,1852]" captionTargetBox="[166,1420,181,1803]" captionTargetId="figure-16@19.[166,1420,181,1804]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 7591. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. (7588). Male: penis in dorsal (75) and lateral (76) views; tegminal plate, dorsal view (77); tegmen, lateral view (78); aedeagus with inflated endophallus in lateral (79) and dorsal (80) views; sternite VIII (81); sternite IX and additional sclerites (82). Female: tergite VII, dorsal view (83); tergites VII and VIII in posterior view and spiculum ventrale (84); gonocoxites (85); tergite VIII in dorsal view and sternal plate of spiculum ventrale (86); inflated bursa with accessory lobes (87); abdominal ventrites in transmission light (88). Rh. usambarense sp. n., holotype, male (8991): sternite IX (89); tegminal plate in dorsal (90) and lateral (91) views." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499048" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499048/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 77</figureCitation>
), widest subapically; suprafenestral sclerotizations asymmetrical, with straight basal margin, not fully marginal and surrounded apically with very short transparent membrane, bearing 56 long macrochaetae; transparent fenestral sector much smaller than in
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.
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, with anterior extensions of prostegial lateral sclerotization reaching suprafenestral sclerites, additionally each parameral lobe laterally with a short longitudinal sclerotized carina; median transparent stripe of fenestral sector with microchaetae; postfenestral plate short, its margin closer to parameral lobes blurred; prostegium with well delimited one-third wide lateral sclerotized stripes and median transparent one. Penis with apodemes slightly shorter than pedon; pedon about 3.23.3 × as long as wide, slightly sinuate apically in profile (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FD832F5FFCF46A1A" box="[639,774,1554,1582]" captionStart="FIGURES 7591" captionStartId="19.[151,264,1828,1852]" captionTargetBox="[166,1420,181,1803]" captionTargetId="figure-16@19.[166,1420,181,1804]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 7591. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. (7588). Male: penis in dorsal (75) and lateral (76) views; tegminal plate, dorsal view (77); tegmen, lateral view (78); aedeagus with inflated endophallus in lateral (79) and dorsal (80) views; sternite VIII (81); sternite IX and additional sclerites (82). Female: tergite VII, dorsal view (83); tergites VII and VIII in posterior view and spiculum ventrale (84); gonocoxites (85); tergite VIII in dorsal view and sternal plate of spiculum ventrale (86); inflated bursa with accessory lobes (87); abdominal ventrites in transmission light (88). Rh. usambarense sp. n., holotype, male (8991): sternite IX (89); tegminal plate in dorsal (90) and lateral (91) views." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499048" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499048/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Figs. 75, 76</figureCitation>
), in dorsal view regularly narrowing since about two-thirds length from base and narrowly rounded apically, apex poorly canaliculate and the lines not evidently radiate; endophallus with no sclerites but a pair of clavate frena situated at the pedon base in repose; inflated endophallus with a subtriangular apex having two pairs of v-like positioned dorsal conical lobes laying above each other, additional pair of finger-like latero-ventral lobes based at about the level of gonopore, bent apically; additional low median lobe present between the ventral lobes; ejaculatory duct entering in a deep dorsal depression before the inflated and lobate apex of endophallus (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FE2F2FA7FDAE6B31" box="[467,604,1771,1797]" captionStart="FIGURES 7591" captionStartId="19.[151,264,1828,1852]" captionTargetBox="[166,1420,181,1803]" captionTargetId="figure-16@19.[166,1420,181,1804]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 7591. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. (7588). Male: penis in dorsal (75) and lateral (76) views; tegminal plate, dorsal view (77); tegmen, lateral view (78); aedeagus with inflated endophallus in lateral (79) and dorsal (80) views; sternite VIII (81); sternite IX and additional sclerites (82). Female: tergite VII, dorsal view (83); tergites VII and VIII in posterior view and spiculum ventrale (84); gonocoxites (85); tergite VIII in dorsal view and sternal plate of spiculum ventrale (86); inflated bursa with accessory lobes (87); abdominal ventrites in transmission light (88). Rh. usambarense sp. n., holotype, male (8991): sternite IX (89); tegminal plate in dorsal (90) and lateral (91) views." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499048" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499048/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Figs. 79, 80</figureCitation>
); gonopore on a small, bipartite, densely microspinose internal lobe ended with a minute hook.
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Female. Abdominal ventrite 5 broadly rounded apically, about 1.7 × as long as wide, at inner side in a transmission light with sharply delimited bladal sclerotization, not margined by any rim or carina, just by a border line (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FF5C2E37FF046BA1" box="[160,246,1915,1941]" captionStart="FIGURES 7591" captionStartId="19.[151,264,1828,1852]" captionTargetBox="[166,1420,181,1803]" captionTargetId="figure-16@19.[166,1420,181,1804]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 7591. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. (7588). Male: penis in dorsal (75) and lateral (76) views; tegminal plate, dorsal view (77); tegmen, lateral view (78); aedeagus with inflated endophallus in lateral (79) and dorsal (80) views; sternite VIII (81); sternite IX and additional sclerites (82). Female: tergite VII, dorsal view (83); tergites VII and VIII in posterior view and spiculum ventrale (84); gonocoxites (85); tergite VIII in dorsal view and sternal plate of spiculum ventrale (86); inflated bursa with accessory lobes (87); abdominal ventrites in transmission light (88). Rh. usambarense sp. n., holotype, male (8991): sternite IX (89); tegminal plate in dorsal (90) and lateral (91) views." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499048" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499048/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Fig. 88</figureCitation>
). The fold of genital sheath encompassing ovipositor with dense transverse rows of strongly transverse microplates. Tergite VII narrowly rounded, with marginal rim (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FCA92ED3FC2F6B8D" box="[853,989,1951,1977]" captionStart="FIGURES 7591" captionStartId="19.[151,264,1828,1852]" captionTargetBox="[166,1420,181,1803]" captionTargetId="figure-16@19.[166,1420,181,1804]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 7591. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. (7588). Male: penis in dorsal (75) and lateral (76) views; tegminal plate, dorsal view (77); tegmen, lateral view (78); aedeagus with inflated endophallus in lateral (79) and dorsal (80) views; sternite VIII (81); sternite IX and additional sclerites (82). Female: tergite VII, dorsal view (83); tergites VII and VIII in posterior view and spiculum ventrale (84); gonocoxites (85); tergite VIII in dorsal view and sternal plate of spiculum ventrale (86); inflated bursa with accessory lobes (87); abdominal ventrites in transmission light (88). Rh. usambarense sp. n., holotype, male (8991): sternite IX (89); tegminal plate in dorsal (90) and lateral (91) views." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499048" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499048/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Figs. 83, 84</figureCitation>
). Tergite VIII divided into a pair of thin, largely reduced hemitergites forming a semi-circle in repose (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE850CD49FC9D2E8FFC026BEA" box="[865,1008,1987,2014]" captionStart="FIGURES 7591" captionStartId="19.[151,264,1828,1852]" captionTargetBox="[166,1420,181,1803]" captionTargetId="figure-16@19.[166,1420,181,1804]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 7591. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. (7588). Male: penis in dorsal (75) and lateral (76) views; tegminal plate, dorsal view (77); tegmen, lateral view (78); aedeagus with inflated endophallus in lateral (79) and dorsal (80) views; sternite VIII (81); sternite IX and additional sclerites (82). Female: tergite VII, dorsal view (83); tergites VII and VIII in posterior view and spiculum ventrale (84); gonocoxites (85); tergite VIII in dorsal view and sternal plate of spiculum ventrale (86); inflated bursa with accessory lobes (87); abdominal ventrites in transmission light (88). Rh. usambarense sp. n., holotype, male (8991): sternite IX (89); tegminal plate in dorsal (90) and lateral (91) views." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499048" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499048/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Figs. 84, 86</figureCitation>
). Spiculum ventrale strongly sinuate, with obsolescent basal plate (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE852CD4BFE1C29DBFD986C86" box="[480,618,151,178]" captionStart="FIGURES 7591" captionStartId="19.[151,264,1828,1852]" captionTargetBox="[166,1420,181,1803]" captionTargetId="figure-16@19.[166,1420,181,1804]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 7591. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. (7588). Male: penis in dorsal (75) and lateral (76) views; tegminal plate, dorsal view (77); tegmen, lateral view (78); aedeagus with inflated endophallus in lateral (79) and dorsal (80) views; sternite VIII (81); sternite IX and additional sclerites (82). Female: tergite VII, dorsal view (83); tergites VII and VIII in posterior view and spiculum ventrale (84); gonocoxites (85); tergite VIII in dorsal view and sternal plate of spiculum ventrale (86); inflated bursa with accessory lobes (87); abdominal ventrites in transmission light (88). Rh. usambarense sp. n., holotype, male (8991): sternite IX (89); tegminal plate in dorsal (90) and lateral (91) views." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499048" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499048/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Figs. 84, 86</figureCitation>
). Gonocoxites as in
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE852CD4BFCB229DBFC526C85" box="[846,928,150,177]" captionStart="FIGURES 7591" captionStartId="19.[151,264,1828,1852]" captionTargetBox="[166,1420,181,1803]" captionTargetId="figure-16@19.[166,1420,181,1804]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 7591. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. (7588). Male: penis in dorsal (75) and lateral (76) views; tegminal plate, dorsal view (77); tegmen, lateral view (78); aedeagus with inflated endophallus in lateral (79) and dorsal (80) views; sternite VIII (81); sternite IX and additional sclerites (82). Female: tergite VII, dorsal view (83); tergites VII and VIII in posterior view and spiculum ventrale (84); gonocoxites (85); tergite VIII in dorsal view and sternal plate of spiculum ventrale (86); inflated bursa with accessory lobes (87); abdominal ventrites in transmission light (88). Rh. usambarense sp. n., holotype, male (8991): sternite IX (89); tegminal plate in dorsal (90) and lateral (91) views." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499048" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499048/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Fig. 85</figureCitation>
; styli long and narrow, more than 3 × as long as wide. Bursa large, simply membranous, subrectangular in profile when inflated. Common oviduct with a peculiar membranous accessory gland bearing three finger-like smaller lobes (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE852CD4BFC542993FC0E6CCD" box="[936,1020,223,249]" captionStart="FIGURES 7591" captionStartId="19.[151,264,1828,1852]" captionTargetBox="[166,1420,181,1803]" captionTargetId="figure-16@19.[166,1420,181,1804]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURES 7591. Rhynchitapion pallidum sp. n. (7588). Male: penis in dorsal (75) and lateral (76) views; tegminal plate, dorsal view (77); tegmen, lateral view (78); aedeagus with inflated endophallus in lateral (79) and dorsal (80) views; sternite VIII (81); sternite IX and additional sclerites (82). Female: tergite VII, dorsal view (83); tergites VII and VIII in posterior view and spiculum ventrale (84); gonocoxites (85); tergite VIII in dorsal view and sternal plate of spiculum ventrale (86); inflated bursa with accessory lobes (87); abdominal ventrites in transmission light (88). Rh. usambarense sp. n., holotype, male (8991): sternite IX (89); tegminal plate in dorsal (90) and lateral (91) views." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499048" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499048/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Fig. 87</figureCitation>
). Spermatheca narrow, with elevated bulbus receiving small gland and thin cornu abruptly bent subapically (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE852CD4BFC48284FFBFA6D29" box="[948,1032,258,285]" captionStart="FIGURES 4456" captionStartId="13.[151,264,1840,1864]" captionTargetBox="[188,1399,181,1816]" captionTargetId="figure-16@13.[188,1399,181,1816]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="FIGURES 4456. Rhynchitapion variiforme sp. n. (4455). Male, inflated endophallus in dorsal (44) and lateral (45) views. Female, Karkloof: tergite VIII (46); sternal plate of spiculum ventrale (47); tergite VII (48). Female, Wilderness, gonocoxites, tergite VIII and spiculum ventrale (49). Male and female in copulation, Katberg: whole abdomina, male right (50); terminalia, male left (51); female terminalia with male endophallus in bursa, dorsal (52) and lateral (53) views; male terminalia, showing position of endophallic sclerites (54). Spermathecae: Rh. variiforme sp. n. (55); Rh. pallidum sp. n. (56)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499038" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499038/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Fig. 56</figureCitation>
).
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<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE851CD48FF6B2E04FEA46B54" bold="true" box="[151,342,1864,1888]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">FIGURES 5774.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE851CD48FEA22E04FDA76B54" box="[350,597,1864,1888]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Rhynchitapion pallidum</emphasis>
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Male, Tsitsikamma, dorsal habitus (57). Female, Lily Vlei: lateral habitus (58); tarsal claws (59); prothorax in dorsal (60) and lateral (61) views; elytra in postero-lateral view (62). Rostrum and head in dorsal view, female (63), male (64).Female: rostrum and head in lateral view (65); antenna (66). Male metatibial mucro (67). Female protarsus (68). Male: protibia with mucro (69); pygidium in dorsal (70), lateral (71) and ventral (72) views; tergite 7 (73); abdominal ventrites (74).
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<subSubSection id="64B9B4A5E852CD4BFF3B286AFD816D75" box="[199,627,294,321]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" type="biology_ecology">
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<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE852CD4BFF3B286AFED36D74" bold="true" box="[199,289,294,320]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Biology</emphasis>
unknown. Rainforest species.
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<subSubSection id="64B9B4A5E852CD4BFF3B2806FEFD6DBD" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="2C1CE72EE852CD4BFF3B2806FEFD6DBD" blockId="18.[151,1437,150,465]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE852CD4BFF3B2806FE936D50" bold="true" box="[199,353,330,356]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Distribution.</emphasis>
R.S.A. (
<collectingRegion id="EE6729CCE852CD4BFE3D2807FDA86D51" box="[449,602,331,357]" country="South Africa" name="Eastern Cape" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Eastern Cape</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingRegion id="EE6729CCE852CD4BFD992807FCF76D51" box="[613,773,331,357]" country="South Africa" name="Western Cape" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Western Cape</collectingRegion>
), from Port St Johns in the north to Harkerville in the south (
<figureCitation id="B498FBABE852CD4BFF5C2823FEF16DBD" box="[160,259,367,393]" captionStart="FIGURES 289296" captionStartId="50.[151,264,1880,1904]" captionTargetBox="[174,1412,181,1857]" captionTargetId="figure-25@50.[174,1412,181,1857]" captionTargetPageId="50" captionText="FIGURES 289296. Distribution in Africa: Rhynchitapion variiforme sp. n. (289); Rh. pallidum sp. n. (290); Rh. usambarense sp. n. (291); Apodytapion stepniewskii sp. n. (292); Turnerapion pondoense sp. n. (293); Lepanomus crinalis crinalis Balf.-Br. (294, circles); L. crinalis zuluensis ssp. n. (294, triangles); Lepanomidius ruthmuellerae sp. n., males (295, circles); Lepano- midius sp. cf. ruthmuellerae, female (295, triangle); Lepanomidius magdaloides sp. n. (296)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5499088" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5499088/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Fig. 290</figureCitation>
).
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<subSubSection id="64B9B4A5E852CD4BFF3B28DFFC206DE5" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="2C1CE72EE852CD4BFF3B28DFFC206DE5" blockId="18.[151,1437,150,465]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE852CD4BFF3B28DFFEBC6D99" bold="true" box="[199,334,403,429]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Etymology.</emphasis>
The name consisting of Latin adjective
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE852CD4BFCFA28DFFC926D99" box="[774,864,403,429]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">pallidus</emphasis>
—pale, with ending
<emphasis id="1ED73B3CE852CD4BFBB328DFFB836D98" box="[1103,1137,403,428]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">um</emphasis>
appropriate for neuter, and referring to generally light colour of the species, specifically of the elytra.
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