Cissidium crowsoni Johnson, 1982

Darby, Michael, 2020, A revision of Cissidium Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with seventy seven new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 622, pp. 1-188 : 32-33

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.622

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3795520

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scientific name

Cissidium crowsoni Johnson, 1982
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Cissidium crowsoni Johnson, 1982 View in CoL

Fig. 20 View Fig

Material examined

NEW ZEALAND • 1 ex.; Northland, Waipoua forest station ; 120 m a.s.l.; 10–11 Dec. 1983; Kauri forest litter; P.M. Hammond leg.; BMNH 1 ex.; Auckland, Waitakere Range, Cascades Kauri Park ; 8 Jan. 1984; wet litter by stream; P.M. Hammond leg.; BMNH 1 ex.; Waikato: Hakarimata ; ca 100– 300 m a.s.l.; 20 Nov. 1983; native forest litter; P.M. Hammond leg.; BMNH 3 ex.; Hapuakohe Range, Maungakawa ; 500 m a.s.l.; 3 Jan. 1984; Nikau leaf bases on ground; P.M. Hammond leg.; BMNH .

Supplementary description

The description below concentrates in particular on amplifying Johnson’s description with more details of the meso- and metaventral characters in order to conform with the present paper.

SIZE. Habitus ( Fig. 20 A View Fig ), length 0.78 mm.

COLOUR. Dusky yellow.

HEAD. With a shallow linear depression and short medial longitudinal depression between the eyes, width across eyes 0.21 mm; antennomeres III–XI length 0.39 mm, III–IX 0.23 mm, X–XI length 0.16 mm globular; mentum and prementum as Fig.4 A. View Fig

PRONOTUM. Length 0.20mm, width 0.30 mm, widest along the posterior margin, pubescent, with a row of eight foveae along the base, the outer two on each side smaller than the inner four; lateral margins evenly rounded anteriorly and slightly concave posteriorly before the acute hind angles, bordered, the border

continuing for a short distance along the posterior margin which has a sinuous emargination before the scutellum ( Fig. 20 B View Fig ).

ELYTRA. Length 0.53 mm, width 0.43 mm, pubescent, foveolate.

MESOVENTRITE. Medial extension of collar widening posteriorly; mid-keel short with concave sides, posterior corners with narrow carinae to mesocoxal anterior margins, raised sharply to keel base; keel with ± two setae, narrow, tapering to termination between the mesocoxae; mesoventral lateral margins serrate in posterior half; humeri strongly toothed ( Fig. 20 C View Fig ).

METAVENTRITE. Length 0.19 mm, width across spines 0.14 mm; posterior margins of mesocoxal cavities not serrate.

WINGS. Micropterous.

GENITALIA. Male aedeagus as Fig. 6 View Fig Fa–b. Female spermatheca globular.

Remarks

Described by Johnson on the basis of a single female from New Zealand, North Island, Northland, Parahaki, Whangerei, mixed leaf litter, 8. xi.1956, leg. R.A. Crowson (NZAC). Distinguished from C. foveolatum Johnson, 1982 , the only other Cissidium reported from New Zealand, by the smaller foveae on the basal margin of the pronotum.

BMNH

United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)]

A

Harvard University - Arnold Arboretum

B

Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universitaet

C

University of Copenhagen

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Ptiliidae

Genus

Cissidium

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