Damalis tamdaoensis, Tomasovic & Constant & Rasmont, 1802
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13272459 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AB3B2105-FFB2-FFD6-CB37-FF29FAB7F7E7 |
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treatment provided by |
Felipe |
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scientific name |
Damalis tamdaoensis |
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sp. nov. |
Damalis tamdaoensis sp. nov.
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DIAGNOSIS. The new species can be easily separated from D. saigonensis by its larger size (20 mm), black legs and wings hyaline apically (smaller size (11 mm), legs reddish and wings with an apical dark marking in D. saigonensis ).
ETYMOLOGY. The species epithet refers to Tam Dao National Park , the location where the type series was collected in North Vietnam .
TYPE MATERIAL. Holotype ♂ ( Fig. 15 View Fig ): Vietnam, Tam Dao N.P. 21°31’N 105°33’E, 25- 30.VII.2011, day collecting. Leg J. Constant & J. Bresseel. I.G. 31.993. GoogleMaps
Paratype: 1 ♀ ( Fig. 16 View Fig ): same data as holotype GoogleMaps .
DESCRIPTION
Length: ♂, body: 20 mm.
Head: ( Fig. 15 A–B View Fig ) broader than thorax. Face convex, shiny black and slightly protruding. Mystax with transversal row of 4 black bristles. Frons with dark brown tomentum. Frontal and ocellar bristles absent. Ocellar tubercle slightly protuberant. Occiput with greyish tomentum; hairs sparse and white. Antennae black; scape, pedicel and postpedicel small, of equal length; scape and pedicel with black setae; arista four times as long as three basal segments combined. Palpi black with black setae. Proboscis black with two fine, long, black setae on ventral part.
Thorax: ( Fig. 15 A, C–D View Fig ) pronotum with white hairs. Scutum very strongly elevated and rounded, with greyish tomentum laterally; presutural area of scutum with short black hairs; postsutural area of scutum with longer black hairs. Scutellum black with greyish tomentum and white hairs on disc; very fine, black scutellar bristles.
Legs: ( Fig. 15 A, D View Fig ) entirely black. Metatrochanters markedly longer and thicker than others, with numerous black setae. Femora with fine, black setae and hairs. Tibiae with longer setae. Tarsi black with black setae.
Wings: ( Fig. 15 A, D View Fig ) iridescent, slightly whitish with base slightly infuscate; veins black.
Abdomen: ( Fig. 15 A, D View Fig ) black and dorsoventrally flattened. Tergites with short black hairs on central part; tergites I–II with lateral tuft of white and black hairs; other ones with lateral tuft of black hairs. Sternites with greyish tomentum and sparse short, white hairs.
Male genitalia: ( Fig. 17 View Fig ) black. Epandrium not divided, with long posterior processes rounded at apex; proctiger with two lobes and fine hairs apically ( Fig. 17 A View Fig ). Gonocoxites large with strong lateral bristles; dististylus broad at base and with narrow, rounded apical part ( Fig. 17 B View Fig ). Phallus short with flattened apical part; sheat forming a large bulge above the basal part; apodeme large; distiphallus missing ( Fig. 17 C View Fig ).
Female very similar to male ( Fig. 16 View Fig ).
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