Bambara hammondi, Darby, Michael, 2019

Darby, Michael, 2019, New Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) from Sarawak in the spirit collection of the Natural History Museum, London, European Journal of Taxonomy 512, pp. 1-50 : 6-7

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2019.512

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5941253

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BBB2BBCB-2BB3-4D5F-996A-FF538DCFD659

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:BBB2BBCB-2BB3-4D5F-996A-FF538DCFD659

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Bambara hammondi
status

sp. nov.

Bambara hammondi View in CoL sp. nov.

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Fig. 3A, D View Fig

Diagnosis

Determined by the form of the spermatheca.

Etymology

Named after Peter Hammond, the collector of these specimens and of many other Sarawak species.

Type material

Holotype MALAYSIA-BORNEO • ♀; Sarawak, 4 th division, Gunung Mulu National Park , May–Aug. 1978; P. M. Hammond and J. E. Marshall leg., BM 1978 -49 ; comp. 5 alluvial forest litter; BMNH.

Paratype

MALAYSIA-BORNEO • ♀; same data as for holotype (mounted disarticulated on the slide); BMNH .

Description

SIZE. Habitus ( Fig. 3A View Fig ), length 0.65 mm.

COLOUR. Dark brown species, closely covered with very fine pale pubescence.Antennae very pale yellow almost translucent, antennomeres III–XI, length 0.23 mm.

HEAD. Eyes small not prominent, distance across eyes 0.23 mm.

PRONOTUM. Length 0.17 mm, width 0.36 mm, hind corners projected rearwards in dorsal view.

ELYTRA. Length 0.38 mm, width 0.40 mm.

FEMALE GENITALIA. Spermatheca simple ( Fig. 3D View Fig ).

MALE GENITALIA. Not known.

P

Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) - Vascular Plants

M

Botanische Staatssammlung München

J

University of the Witwatersrand

E

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

BM

Bristol Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Ptiliidae

Genus

Bambara

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