Cissidium bifoveolatum, Darby, 2020
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.622 |
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publication LSID |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3795516 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/793E71EC-48C7-4E7E-A407-98F783A8835D |
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taxon LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:act:793E71EC-48C7-4E7E-A407-98F783A8835D |
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treatment provided by |
Valdenar |
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scientific name |
Cissidium bifoveolatum |
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sp. nov. |
Cissidium bifoveolatum View in CoL sp. nov.
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Figs 5A View Fig , 17 View Fig
Etymology
Johnson ms name, presumably after the two large foveae on the pronotum.
Material examined
Holotype
MADAGASCAR • ♂; East, Baie d’Antongil , Ambohitsitondroina ; 500 m a.s.l.; roots of Asplenium ; Dec. 1959; J. Vadon leg.; identified as Camptodium by CJ; MMUE.
Paratypes
MADAGASCAR • 8 ex.; same collection data as for holotype; MMUE, BMNH .
Description
SIZE. Habitus ( Fig. 17A View Fig ), length 0.69 mm.
COLOUR. Yellow brown appearing polished, head darker, pubescence, legs and antennae paler. HEAD. With a shallow depression interrupted medially behind the eyes, width across eyes 0.21 mm; antennomeres III–XI length 0.35 mm, III–IX length 0.21 mm, X–XI length 0.14 mm, mentum and submentum as Fig. 4A View Fig , but with faint circular depressions.
PRONOTUM. Length 0.20 mm, width 0.27 mm, pubescence sparse, with four foveae in the posterior third the two medial ones much larger than the two close to the corners; side margins rounded then sinuate to rectangular hind angles, narrowly bordered, the border extending for a short distance along the posterior margin which has a sinuous emargination before the scutellum ( Fig. 17B View Fig ).
ELYTRA. Length 0.45 mm, width 0.38 mm, pubescence mainly confined to lateral margins.
MESOVENTRITE. Medial extension of collar narrow, short; mid-keel posterior and anterior corners of approximately same width, the posterior margin reaching anterior margin of the mesocoxal cavities, sharply raised medially to keel; keel narrow, parallel-sided, bearing ¾ setae, terminating between the mesocoxae ( Fig. 5A View Fig ); mesoventral lateral margins loosely serrate in posterior half; humeri strongly toothed ( Fig. 17C View Fig ).
METAVENTRITE. Length 0.14 mm, width across spines 0.09 mm, glabrous, disc plain. Posterior margins of mesocoxal cavities serrate.
WINGS. Macropterous.
GENITALIA. Female spermatheca globular. Male aedeagus as Fig. 6L View Fig but tip blunter.
Remarks
One of the five species of Cissidium recorded from Madagascar in this group, only likely to be confused with C. banari , but distinguished by its smaller size and longer pronotal pubescence.
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