Zarcosia barclayi, Gompel, 2020

Gompel, Nicolas, 2020, Synopsis of the Asian species in the genus Zarcosia Collado & Alonso-Zarazaga 1996 with new combinations and descriptions of fourteen new species, Zootaxa 4838 (2), pp. 151-178 : 153-154

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0AD43D95-7508-466C-980F-CBEF38CA1198

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4404243

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/53576D0D-137B-49A7-A58C-C3B7BC8B191B

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:53576D0D-137B-49A7-A58C-C3B7BC8B191B

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Plazi

scientific name

Zarcosia barclayi
status

sp. nov.

Zarcosia barclayi n. sp.

( Figures 1 View FIGURE 1 ; 3i,j View FIGURE 3 ; 4a View FIGURE 4 ; 6g View FIGURE 6 )

Etymology. The species is named after Max Barclay in acknowledgment of his unflagging support over two decades to guide me through the insect research collections of the British Museum of Natural History.

Type locality. Malaysia: Sarawak, Gunung Mulu National Park , Deer Cave [04°05’’ N 114° 53’ E] .

Distribution. Malaysia ( Figure 1 View FIGURE 1 ).

Description. ( Figure 3i,j View FIGURE 3 ). Body length. ♂: 1.74± 0.02 mm (n=2); ♀: 1.96± 0.13 mm (n=7). Dark brown, densely covered with silver applied pubescence. Appendages orange to brown.

Head. Wider than pronotum in males, as wide as pronotum in females. Palpi orange, last article securiform. Integument mat, finely rugose.

Antennae. A fourth to a third longer than elytra in males, shorter than elytra in females, orange, slightly and progressively thicker toward apex. Antennomere 4 and higher with a slight serration.

Pronotum ( Figure 6g View FIGURE 6 ). Subcylindrical, convex, slightly longer than wide, marked by a strong lateral constriction on each side.

Elytra. Length: ♂: 1.20± 0.07 mm (n=2); ♀: 1.21± 0.08 mm (n=7). Finely and densely punctuated, covered with double pubescence. Moderately convex, depressed on disc.

Legs. No notable sexual characters. Male foretibia with a faint sinuation of their inner side.

Aedeagus ( Figure 4a View FIGURE 4 ). Simple, narrow, progressively tapered, slightly and regularly bent in lateral view. Appendages visible near apex.

Type material. Holotype (♂, BMNH). Malaysia: Sarawak, Gunung Mulu National Park , Deer Cave, 04°07’’ N 114° 53’ E (360 m) (P. M. Hammond & J. E. Marshall leg.) 6.V.1978 . Paratypes. Malaysia: Sarawak, Gunung Mulu National Park , Deer Cave, 04°07’’ N 114° 53’ E (360 m) (P. M. Hammond & J. E. Marshall leg.) 6.V.1978 (3 ♀ paratypes, BMNH) . Sarawak, Gunung Mulu National Park , Clearwater Cave, 04°07’ N 114°55’ E (360 m) (P. M. Hammond & J. E. Marshall leg.) 13.V.1978 (1 ♀ paratype, BMNH) GoogleMaps , 20.V.1978 (2 ♀ paratypes, BMNH; 1 ♀ paratype, 1 ♂ paratype, NGPC) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Aderidae

Genus

Zarcosia

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