Telogmometopius rangoonensis, Liang & Jiang & Webb, 2006
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930601059082 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE26A23B-BF34-FFB0-FE1F-FE97FE6BFAD5 |
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treatment provided by |
Felipe |
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scientific name |
Telogmometopius rangoonensis |
| status |
sp. nov. |
Telogmometopius rangoonensis View in CoL sp. nov.
( Figures 33 View Figures 25–39 , 86–90 View Figures 83–93 )
Description
Small species, length: „ 5.0 mm.
General colour pale stramineous; ocelli suffused with red; callous areas on posterior area of vertex and anterior area of pronotum pale brown; pronotum with posterior area pale brown; body ventrally ochraceous.
Postclypeus with median keel very sharp. Vertex with a faint, fine, median longitudinal carina.
Male genitalia with subgenital plates ( Figures 86–88 View Figures 83–93 ) with expanded basal region moderately large and apical spine-like process elongate and fine, slightly longer than expanded basal region. Style as in Figure 90 View Figures 83–93 . Aedeagal shaft ( Figure 87 View Figures 83–93 ) relatively short and stout, with upper anteriorly directed part slightly arched in lateral view, apex expanded and slightly upturned, with an elongate, anterodorsally directed, sinuate, filamentous process arising from apical upper margin.
Female: unknown.
Material examined
Holotype: „, Burma: Churchill Rd , Rangoon, February 1927 (Miss Northup) ( USNM).
Distribution
Burma ( Myanmar).
Remarks
This species is similar to bifasciatus but has the subgenital plates tapering more abruptly and the aedeagal shaft shorter.
| USNM |
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History |
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