Arsipoda yiambiae Samuelson

Figs 3B, 5F, 10C, 11R, 15A

Arsipoda yiambiae Samuelson, 1973: 132 .

Arsipoda yiambiae – Gómez-Zurita et al. 2010: 2560.

Type material examined

NEW CALEDONIA: holotype, ♂, Yiambi, NE, [- 20,47008164,70042], 500–700 m, 14 Oct. 1967 (BPBM).

Taxonomic notes

Arsipoda yiambiae and A. paniensis sp. nov. are the only species with a pronotum clearly convex laterally (Figs 4F, 5F), but they are clearly different in color and size: A. paniensis sp. nov. is dark green, metallic, and larger; A. yiambiae is yellow and smaller. Genitalia are also easily distinguishable (Figs 9D, 10C, 11K, R). Median lobe of aedeagus slender (Fig. 10C); parallel in ventral view, distinctly enlarged at basal third, with triangular apical part; ventral sulcus thin and shallow; in lateral view median lobe curved at basal third, then straight; dorsal ligula narrow, fusiform. Spermatheca (Fig. 11R) with rounded basal part; collum very elongate (as long as basal part); length of apical part about half as long as collum; ductus elongate, thickset, apically inserted.

Biometry

Male (holotype): LE = 1.65 mm; WE = 1.04 mm; LP = 0.48 mm; WP = 0.82 mm; LAN = 1.12 mm; LAED = 1.05 mm; LB = 2.15 mm; LE/LP = 3.44; WE/WP = 1.27; WP/LP = 1.71; WE/LE = 0.63; LAN/ LB = 0.52; LE/LAED = 1.58.

Distribution

Collected in Northern and Central Grande Terre (Fig. 15A).