Conoderus mithiensis, Platia & Ahmed, 2016
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.12765875 |
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publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E2D32182-58D9-4F87-AAC3-41B226EE3DFF |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12765929 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CD2B58-FF99-FFB1-4880-ABF52D93FA57 |
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Felipe |
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scientific name |
Conoderus mithiensis |
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sp. nov. |
Conoderus mithiensis n. sp. ( Figs. 6 View Figs , 31 View Figs , 46 View 52 53 )
Material examined. Holotype ♂ - Pakistan: Tharparka r distr., Mi thi, 18.IX.2012 ( ZACP). 1 Para type ♀ - Noshero Feroz distr., 8.V.2013 ( CPG).
Diagnosis. Species comparable with Conoderus productus arabicus Chassain, 1979 from Arabic Peninsula and Iran, it is easily separated by the more elongate and flattened body and very fine punctua tion of prono tu m.
Description.
Male. Shiny; head and pronotum yellow-ferruginous, elytra yellowish with the two first interstriae longitudinally, after the middle also the third interstria, darkened; antennae and legs yellow testaceous; covered with dense, yellowish pubescence.
Head with the eyes as wide as the an terior margin of pronotum, frons moderately convex, anterior margin regularly arcuate, protruding above the clypeus; punctuation uniformly distributed, punc tures si mple, deep, on average of the sa me size, with very short, shiny intervals.
Antennae mutilated (only seven articles of the right antenna are present) not reaching for about two articles the apices of posterior angles of pronotum (estimated); second and third articles subcylindrical, subequal in length, second with a larger diameter than third, taken together 1,1x longer than fourth; fourth-seventh subconical, elongate, with the fourth longer than following, about 3,5x longer than wide.
Pronotum as long as wide, widest at the apices of the posterior angles, moderately and regularly convex, sides arcuate from behind the middle regularly narrowing to the anterior margin, very slightly sinuate before the posterior angles, the latter, short, acute, just divergent with a fine and short carina directed forwards; lateral margins complete, from base to middl e visible in a dorsal view; punctuation uniformly distributed, on the disk punctures approximately of the same size, deep, simple, with intervals shiny and on average equal to their own diameters, at base much more fine.
Scutellum rounded, convex, very finely punctured.
Elytra 2,27x longer than pronotum and as wide as it, moderately convex, ovaliform with sides widest a t middle, striae well ma rked and deeply punc tured, interstriae flat, very finely punc tured.
Male geni talia as in the Fig. 6 View Figs (length 0.62 mm).
Female. Very similar to the male but with elytra nearly entirely yellowish, the dark colour in the elytra is very reduced.
Size. Length 4.9-5.3 mm; width 1.43-1.55 mm.
Etymology. From Mi thi ci ty, where the Holotype was collected.
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