Pseudomelactus kraussi, Kuschel, 2008
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publication ID |
978-2-85653-605-6 |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5492910 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039F87B5-FFDE-4733-FF7D-F94FFE46FCE6 |
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treatment provided by |
Felipe |
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scientific name |
Pseudomelactus kraussi |
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sp. nov. |
Pseudomelactus kraussi View in CoL n. sp.
Fig. 12
DESCRIPTION. — Female: piceous black. Vestiture dense, squamose, dense also on middle of last three ventrites; some setae on interstriae 3-6 erect, rather long, others recumbent or nearly so.
Rostrum with sharp median carina, this extending from frontal fovea to epistome without interruption, sides of dorsal surface subcarinate. Segment 2 of funicle longer than 1. Prothorax subcylindrical, showing some minute black dots. Elytra lacking granules; interstria 7 distinctly costate; suture ending in two contiguous spines; apical declivity, in lateral view, with a distinct hump on suture. Fore tibiae on lower edge slightly asperous, not denticulate; fore tarsi relatively narrow.
Length: 7.0 mm.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype female, 7.0 x 2.9 mm, data as above, BPBM.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — New Caledonia. 1 female, Col des Roussettes , 450-550 m, 4-6.II.1963, N. Krauss. 1 specimen .
HOSTPLANTS. — Unknown.
ETYMOLOGY. — The species is named after its collector N. H. L. Krauss of Honolulu, a member of a 1963 Bishop Museum expedition to New Caledonia.
REMARKS. — Distinguishable in the main from the similar species P. grevilleae by the characters mentioned in the key to species.
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Bishop Museum |
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