Cissidium nishikawai Sawada, 2008
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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.3795676 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039987A1-3885-FF59-2B0B-FCC4FC88F873 |
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Valdenar |
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Cissidium nishikawai Sawada, 2008 |
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Cissidium nishikawai Sawada, 2008 View in CoL
Fig. 96 View Fig
Material examined
Paratype
JAPAN • 1 ♀; Gaji-rindo, Kunigami-son , Okinawa Pref.; 21 Oct. 1987; Y. Nioshikawa leg.; YS. The specimen is thickly covered with glue and the details are difficult to make out, no attempt was made to turn it over to inspect the underside. Figure 96C View Fig is copied from Sawada (2008).
Supplementary description
The following description amplifies the type description of Sawada (2008) to conform with the entries in the present paper.
SIZE. Habitus ( Fig. 96A View Fig ), length 0.69 mm.
COLOUR. Reddish brown, antennae, legs and pubescence dusky yellow.
HEAD. With a transverse depression behind the eyes, width across eyes 0.18 mm; antennomeres III–XI, length 0.29 mm terminally globular.
PRONOTUM. Length 0.19 mm, width 0.28 mm, shallowly foveolate and sparsely pubescent; side margins rounded to rectangular hind angles, bordered, the border continuing along the entire posterior margin including the emargination in front of the scutellum ( Fig. 96B View Fig ).
ELYTRA. Length 0.45 mm, width 0.41 mm, pubescent.
MESOVENTRITE. Lateral margins serrate; humeri toothed ( Fig. 96C View Fig ).
METAVENTRITE. Mesocoxal posterior borders serrate
GENITALIA. Female spermatheca globular. Males not known.
Remarks
This is the only Japanese species in this group apart from C. shibatai Sabada, 2008 . It may be distinguished from that species by the much wider pronotal base.
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