Cissidium pauxillum Darby, 2019
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https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.622 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9CD3B2CD-F072-4994-8CA9-24145D343401 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3795594 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039987A1-3849-FF92-2B19-FA32FC15FC40 |
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Valdenar |
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Cissidium pauxillum Darby, 2019 |
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Cissidium pauxillum Darby, 2019 View in CoL
Fig. 59 View Fig
Material examined
Holotype
MALAYSIA • Sarawak, 4 th division, Gunung Mulu National Park ; May–Aug. 1978; base comp, alluvial forest litter near laboratory; P.M. Hammond and J.E. Marshall leg., BM 1978-49; BMNH.
Supplementary description
The following description amplifies the type description of Darby (2019), by adding more details of the meso- and metaventral characters, in order to conform with the entries in the present paper.
SIZE. Habitus ( Fig. 59A View Fig ), length 0.68 mm.
COLOUR. Yellow, antennae, legs and pubescence paler yellow. HEAD. Distance across eyes 0.18 mm; antennomeres III–XI, length 0.25 mm, III–IX, length 0.15 mm, X–XI length 0.10; mentum as Fig. 4A. View Fig
PRONOTUM. Length 0.17 mm, width 0.27 mm, densely foveolate and pubescent throughout, without foveae; side margins evenly curved to rectangular hind angles, lateral margins continued along base to the angulate medial emargination opposite the scutellum ( Fig. 59B View Fig ).
ELYTRA. Length 0.37 mm, width 0.30 mm, foveolate and pubescent throughout.
MESOVENTRITE. Short, collar without reticulation though with a little medial coarse sculpturing, medial extension broadening posteriorly; mid-keel short, anterior angles almost reaching collar, posterior angles not reaching mesocoxal anterior borders, setose before junction with keel; keel tapering then narrow and parallel-sided before pointed termination at interruption of mesocoxal margins; humeri with sharply projecting teeth; mesoventral lateral margins serrate ( Fig. 59C View Fig ).
METAVENTRITE. With scattered pubescence, length 0.11 mm, disc simple, width across spines 0.09 mm, spines long, sharply pointed.
Remarks
This is the only species from Malaysia in this group which has strongly concave margins to the mesoventral mid-keel. The genitalia have not been dissected.
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United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)] |
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