Ecoporanga wallacei, Monné & Monné, 2014
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2014.909063 |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4607575 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F487D4-B07F-FFE1-CC42-8FACFC35A023 |
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treatment provided by |
Carolina |
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scientific name |
Ecoporanga wallacei |
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sp. nov. |
Ecoporanga wallacei View in CoL sp. nov.
( Figure 1B View Figure 1 )
Description
Male. Integument of head, prothorax and mesothorax orange-brown. Antennae, legs metasternum and abdomen black, with slight metallic reflection. Scutellum and elytra dark blue with metallic reflections. Head sparsely punctate. Antennae reaching beginning of fifth elytra; scape sparsely punctate; antennomeres III–IV with minute spiniform projection at inferior face of distal extremity; antennomeres III–V with sparse long setae at inferior face; antennomeres V–XI covered with dense greyish pubescence. Pronotum shiny, sparsely punctate at anterior half; posterior half without punctures, with lateral depression and minute median tubercle near posterior margin. Sides of prothorax densely punctate; prosternum with transverse wrinkles, covered with whitish pubescence with silvery reflections. Mesosternum, metasternum and abdomen covered with sparse long setae. Elytra parallel-sided from base to distal fifth; apex transversely truncate; outer angle projected in curved spine; sutural angle unarmed; surface densely, coarsely punctate, sparsely setose; each elytron with obsolete longitudinal carina from basal fourth to distal declivity.
Femora and tibiae with sparse long setae. Mesofemora and metafemora with moderately long spine at outer apex.
Etymology
The epithet is an homage to Alfred Russel Wallace in the centenary of his death.
Measurements in mm, holotype male
Total length, 8.2; prothorax length, 1.5; prothorax width, 1.2; elytral length, 5.1; humeral width, 1.6.
Type material
Male holotype, Ecuador, Tungurahua: Baños , 2250 m. 1.IX.1984, M. Cooper col. ( BMNH) .
Comments
Ecoporanga wallacei sp. nov. differs from E.achira and E.cooperi by the presence of lateral depressions and tubercles in the posterior half of the pronotum and by the apex of the elytra with a curved spine at the outer angle. In E.achira and E.cooperi the surface of the pronotum is smooth and the apex of the elytra is unarmed.
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