Agnesiella (A.) recurva Huang & Zhang, 2022
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5094.2.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:72945796-D3AC-4B14-99BB-8874FAD383CD |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6301500 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A6F124-2F57-FFDB-91C3-FE7DFC94FABC |
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Plazi |
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Agnesiella (A.) recurva Huang & Zhang |
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sp. nov. |
Agnesiella (A.) recurva Huang & Zhang View in CoL sp. nov.
( Figs 3, 7, 11, 15 View FIGURES 1–16 , 80–88 View FIGURES 80–88 )
Measurement. Male, 3.0 mm (including wings).
Body dirty yellowish ( Figs 3, 7 View FIGURES 1–16 ). Face with brown transverse streaks on brownish frontoclypeal area, anteclypeus brownish, lorum dark brown and gena black-brown ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 1–16 ). Vertex with a brown strip anteriorly connecting 2 lateral round black-brown patches. Pronotum with a central oval patch and 2 pairs of lateral round patches black-brown, between central and lateral patches with 2 arched brown bands connecting with lateral lower patches. Scutum brownish with triangles brown. Scutellum with basal half brownish and distal half dark brown ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 1–16 ). Forewing yellowish with 2 brownish patches on clavus, one at base and the other near center of commissural margin; a broad brownish band extended from base of corium to cross vein along MP longitudinal vein; brochosome field brownish ( Fig. 80 View FIGURES 80–88 ).
Abdominal apodemes nearly reaching end of 5th abdominal sternite. Posterior margin of male pygofer side with a short horn-like appendage bearing a few rigid microsetae, a longitudinally banded sclerite tuberculate terminally and directed cephalad from its lower end ( Figs 81, 82 View FIGURES 80–88 ). Subgenital plate with some fine setae terminally ( Fig. 84 View FIGURES 80–88 ). Paramere with caudal part thickened subapically and bent laterad nearly at right angle, subapical protrusion absent ( Fig. 85 View FIGURES 80–88 ). Connective with stem nearly three times long as lateral arms and central lobe indistinct ( Fig. 86 View FIGURES 80–88 ).Aedeagal shaft arched and slightly expanded dorsally near middle, with an arched dorsal extension subapically and a narrow ridged ventral appendage approximately on apical 1/4 ( Figs 87, 88 View FIGURES 80–88 ).
Specimens examined. Holotype: ♂, CHINA, Hunan Province, Mt. Hengshan , 30-VIII-1980, coll. Xinwang Tong. Paratype: 1♂, CHINA, Hunan Province, Sangzhi , 6-IX-1981, coll. Xinwang Tong ; 1♂, CHINA, Hunan Prov- ince, Chenzhou , 27-VII-1985, coll. Yalin Zhang and Xinwang Tong ; 1♂, CHINA, Hunan Province, Sangzhi, Mt. Tianping , 1250m, 14-VIII-2001, coll. Qiang Sun.
Etymology. The specific name is derived from Latin word “recurvus, referring to the terminally recurved longitudinal sclerite on the posterior margin of the pygofer side ( Figs 81, 82 View FIGURES 80–88 ).
Notes. The new species resembles Agnesiella (A.) polita sp. nov., but differs in the male pygofer side with rigid microsetae on a horn-like appendage and the tuberculate end of the ventral appendage ( Figs 81, 82 View FIGURES 80–88 ), and in the aedeagal shaft with a shorter ridged ventral appendage ( Fig. 87 View FIGURES 80–88 ).
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