Pixipterus Desutter-Grandcolas, 2016
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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2016n4a1 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039187CE-C602-7128-FCBB-FA4C16969857 |
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Pixipterus Desutter-Grandcolas, 2016 |
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Genus Pixipterus Desutter-Grandcolas, 2016 View in CoL
Pixipterus Desutter-Grandcolas in Anso et al., 2016: 55.
TYPE SPECIES. — Pixipterus punctulatus Desutter-Grandcolas & Anso, 2016 by original designation.
ILLUSTRATIONS. — Habitus: Fig. 13G View FIG . Male genitalia: Anso et al. 2016a: fig. 24D-G, 26E-H.
DIAGNOSIS. — See Table 5. Small, elongate species without a tympanum on both TI sides, and without a stridulum or even a file in males. General coloration uniform and dull, without highly coloured spots or lines. TIII with six (rarely seven) inner and six outer subapical spurs; serrulation regular and abundant; three inner and three outer apical spurs, as in other New Caledonian genera. HWs longer than FWs in males and females.
Male. Subgenital plate elongate, but not acute; with a transverse furrow at mid length; distal part narrowed from transverse furrow to
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Holotype 0.7 1.5 1.3 2 10.2 14.3 7.8 1.4 8.3 0.9
apex, broadly triangular, with a longitudinal furrow. Male genitalia as in Adenopterus , but pseudepiphallic sclerite very long and narrow, somewhat oval; pseudepiphallic apex single, raised and more or less flattened toward pseudepiphallic sclerite; with a pair of lateral lobes raised dorsally, one on each side of pseudepiphallic apex; pseudepiphallic anterior margin raised dorsally, but not plicated, and widened laterally; ectophallic fold and pseudepiphallic parameres very small, located close to pseudepiphallic sclerite distal margin.
Female. Subgenital plate concave distally, as in Calscirtus . Ovipositor straight, somewhat flattened dorso-ventrally and not widened laterally before apex; with numerous, parallel longitudinal striae ( Anso et al. 2016a: fig. 24J). Female genitalia: copulatory papilla very small and little sclerotized, having the shape of a low ring.
DISTRIBUTION. — Endemic to New Caledonia.
HABITAT. — Shrubland vegetation in Southern New Caledonia.
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