Cissidium werneri sp. nov.

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Fig. 62

Etymology

Named after the collector, Dr Floyd G. Werner.

Material examined

Holotype PHILIPPINES • ♂; Mindanao, Burungket, Upi, Cotobato Prov.; 1500 ft a.s.l.; 1–6 Jan. 1949; by waving fine meshed net over forest floor in late afternoon; F.M. Werner leg.; (HD) # 47; FMNH.

Description

SIZE. Habitus (Fig. 62A), length 0.72 mm.

COLOUR. Dark red brown, pubescence antennae and legs dusky yellow.

HEAD. Strongly foveolate with a setose linear depression between eyes, width across eyes 0.22 mm; antennomeres III–XI length 0.27 mm, III–IX length 0.13 mm, X–XI length 0.14 mm.

PRONOTUM. 0.18 mm long, 0.31 wide; pubescent, strongly foveolate throughout, without basal foveae; lateral margins rounded then shallowly concave to rectangular hind angles, sides conspicuously bordered, the border continued along the lateral margin to the sinuous median emargination opposite the scutellum (Fig. 62B).

ELYTRA. Length 0.51 mm, width 0.41 mm; pubescent with shallow foveolae contrasting strongly with the pronotum.

MESOVENTRITE. Median process of collar onto mid-keel broad, widening posteriorly; mid-keel wide, sides concave, anterior margin slightly wider than posterior which has well marked flat carinae joining the mesocoxal margins, raised medially to a point before the keel; keel with ± four setae, tapering to a rounded point at the interruption of the mesocoxal border; mesoventral lateral margins serrate; humeri toothed (Fig. 62C).

METAVENTRITE. Length 0.13 mm, disc simple, distance across spines 0.07 mm; posterior margins of mesocoxae serrate.

WINGS. Macropterous.

GENITALIA. Male aedeagus as Fig. 6 Ia–b. Females unknown.

Remarks

One of the only two species of Cissidium in this group from the Philippines. Distinguished from C. mindanao sp. nov. by the less densely foveolate pronotum.