Polyplectropus palma, Oláh & Johanson, 2010
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2435.1.1 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0393CE26-FFDC-FFDF-7CFB-8B66FADBFF32 |
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treatment provided by |
Felipe |
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scientific name |
Polyplectropus palma |
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sp. nov. |
Polyplectropus palma , new species
Figures 53–55 View FIGURES 53–55
Diagnosis: This species is easily distinguished from the other species in the P. fijianus diagnostic species group by the apical part of the phallic apparatus being downwardly directed; the ventral lobe of the cerci being serrated; and the gonopod apices each splitting the dorsal lobe into 3 small processes.
Description: Male. Body uniformly brown. Maxillary palp formula (I,II)-IV-III-V, 3rd segment of each maxillary palp originating subapically on lateral face of segment 2. Forewing length 5.4 mm; each with discoidal cell and median cell closed; apical forks 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 present. Hind wings each with discoidal cell open; apical forks 1, 2, and 5 present.
Male genitalia. Sternite IX elongated obliquely on each side to fulcrum, with broad basal part and long, slender mesoapical projection ( Fig. 53 View FIGURES 53–55 ); sclerotized part of tergum IX absent above fulcra; fulcra comprising bases of cerci and paraproctal complexes, membranous band of segment IX connecting fulcrum with membranous segment X. Segment X transparent, membranous, continuous with tergum IX; segment X and sclerotized part of tergite VIII covering dorsal part of phallic apparatus. Cerci nearly triangular and geniculate, each with dorsal lobe; apicoventral lobe ventrally serrate; cerci as long as gonopods. Paraproctal complexes fused to cerci, projecting slightly anterad before fulcra; dorsal paraproctal processes slender, arising from anterad-projecting bases of paraprocts, S-shaped, bending downwards to gonopods; paraproctal subphallic sclerite modified into pair of clavate processes with setose apices and with enlarged setal alveoli, each apex with 4 short processes in lateral view. Gonopods ( Fig. 54 View FIGURES 53–55 ) horizontal, each with bilobed apex in lateral view; dorsal lobe divided into 3 small processes scarcely visible in lateral view ( Fig. 54 View FIGURES 53–55 ); backward-directed basomesad pair of spines visible through gonopod in cleared preparation. Phallic apparatus ( Fig. 55 View FIGURES 53–55 ) located dorsally in genitalia, guided by dorsal paraproctal processes and modified processes of subphallic sclerite. Phallic apparatus comprising straight, tube-like sclerotized phallotheca; distal 1/3rd directed downwards, supplied with upcurving dorsal lobe; membranous endotheca or endophallus located ventrally, additional sclerites not visible.
Holotype male: FIJI ISLANDS: Vanua Levu : Nuivanda Forest , 3–5.ix.1975 [H. S. Robinson & P. A. Maddison]—( BMNH).
Paratypes: same data as holotype— 5 males ( BMNH) , 3 males ( OPC) ; Niuvudi Navonu forest area, 3– 6.ix.1975, M.V. light FUA 1255 [P.A. Maddison]— 2 males ( BMNH) ; Govenors Pool Navonu Ck. , ca 5 km W. of Buca Bay, 8.ii.1971, M.V. light [G.S. Robinson]— 1 male ( OPC) .
Distribution: Fiji Islands.
Etymology: Palma, hand in Latin, referring to the hand-shaped bilobed gonopods in lateral view.
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