Aeoloides crassus, 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.12765923 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CD2B58-FF9E-FFB6-4880-ABF62F7DFA67 |
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Felipe |
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scientific name |
Aeoloides crassus |
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sp. nov. |
Aeoloides crassus n. sp. ( Figs. 30 View Figs , 45 View 52 53 )
Material examined. Holotype ♂ - Pakistan: Trai , Lower Dir , 3.VIII.2014 ( CPG); 2 Paratypes ♀ - Tharparkar distr., Mi thi, 18.IX.2012 ( CPG; ZACP).
Diagnosis. A species compa rable to A. filipponii Platia & Schi mmel, 1997 f rom Arabic Peninsula, it can be separated for the stouter body, subparallel sides of pronotum and the more developed spine at base of the sa me.
Description.
Male. Not shiny; entirely ferruginous with blackish undefined shadings on the disk of pronotum and elytra; antenna e and legs yellowish; covered with very dense, d eclined, yellowish pubescence.
Head with the eyes as wide as the anterior margin of pronotum, frons flat, anterior margin moderately thickened, subarcuate, directed downwards and a little protruding above the clypeus, punctuation very dense and double, larger punctures are mixed more or less regularly with very fine.
Antennae short just exceeding the middle of pronotum, very slightly serrated from the fourth article on; second and third article subcylindrical, with the third 1,5x longer than the second; second and third, taken together notably longer than fourth; fourth longer than the following, sub triangular, last subellipsoidal constric ted a t the apical ex tremi ty.
Pronotum as long as wide, widest at middle and at apices of posterior angles, very convex; b asal slope at base with a a short and laterally compressed spine; sides subparalllel from base to near the anterior margin, posterior angles long, acuminate not divergent, with a short and sharp carina slightly divergent from the lateral margins, this clearly visible in a dorsal view only in the first third; punctuation dense and double; larger punctures are more or less regularly mixed with extremely fine punctures.
Scutellum shield shaped, flat, punc tured, sloping very obliquely.
Elytra 1,95x longer than pronotum and a little narrower than it at base, convex, sides subparallel from base to the middle then gradually and regularly tapering to the apices; striae regularly ma rked and punc tured, interstriae flat, densely and finely punctured.
Tarsal article decreasing regularly in length and si mple.
Female. Ex tremely si milar to the male; distinc t only after exa mina tion of geni talia.
Size. Length 6.7-7.1 mm; width 2.10-2.15 mm.
Etymology. The name is derived from the stout body, with elytra particularly short co mpared to prono tu m.
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