Acrotrichis hova, Darby, Michael, 2014

Darby, Michael, 2014, Studies of Madagascan Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) 3: The genus Acrotrichis including twenty seven new species, Zootaxa 3866 (2), pp. 151-201 : 177-178

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2165AC20-3607-4CF2-A1A6-DB4CA45D7E22

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6131033

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F3388D27-5136-3C3E-E6EB-F9ED4F136E44

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Acrotrichis hova
status

sp .n.

Acrotrichis hova View in CoL sp.n.

( Figs. 18A View FIGURE 18. A –G)

Habitus Fig. 18A View FIGURE 18. A . Length 0.77 mm. Colour Pale yellowish brown, antennae and legs yellowish brown. Antennomeres 3–11 0.31 mm long Fig. 18 View FIGURE 18. A C. Mentum and submentum chaetotaxy Fig. 18 View FIGURE 18. A E. Width across eyes 0.30 mm. Pronotum 0.50 mm wide, 0.26 mm long, sides strongly rounded in posterior half Fig. 18 View FIGURE 18. A B. Elytra 0.45 mm long, 0.48 mm wide. Posterior margin of mesoventral collar sloped at shoulders and with a shallow median excision Fig. 18 View FIGURE 18. A F. Posterior margin of metaventrum between metacoxae long Fig. 18 View FIGURE 18. A G; metacoxal plates Fig. 18 View FIGURE 18. A G.

Male: not known.

Female: spermatheca Fig. 17 View FIGURE 17. A D.

Etymology. Johnson ms name.

Remarks. Most likely to be confused with heissi and separable by the form of the spermatheca. Type data. Holotype: ♀, Forêt de Sakahara, 23.iv.1969, leg. H. Franz (MM). Paratypes: 9♀, same data as holotype. (Johnson ms indicates that a further 7 specimens may have been placed in the collection of H. Franz).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Ptiliidae

Genus

Acrotrichis

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