Pseudolaryngodus spectabilis, Malipatil & Gao, 2019
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4565.1.9 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5930202 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CB2736-FF8D-0623-FF66-F8C2FB1EFCD0 |
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Plazi |
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Pseudolaryngodus spectabilis |
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sp. nov. |
Pseudolaryngodus spectabilis sp. nov.
( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 , 2 View FIGURE 2 )
Type specimens: Holotype male, “ AUSTRALIA, Victoria: Little Desert National Park, McDonald Highway ,
190m, 36.34.952’S, 141.38.507’E, 5 Nov 2002, Cassis, Schuh, Schwartz, Silveira, [TAS02-LT3]”; “ MYRTACEAE : Melaleuca wilsonii F. Muell. , NSW658111 [PBI_TAS02-H31]’. Paratype male, same data as holotype, dissected. Both type specimens deposited in Australian Museum, Sydney.
Description. Body generally dark brown ( Fig. 1a, b View FIGURE 1 ); ground colour of corium and clavus pale with scattered brown spots and patches; median areas of tibiae slightly paler than remainder of leg; extreme apices of femora slightly paler; coxae yellowish brown; posterior lobe of pronotum paler than uniformly dark anterior lobe, and with broad fuscous patches; connexiva alternating with broad pale and narrow fuscous areas; apical two segments of labium darker than basal two segments.
Body covered with fine adpressed silky pubescence; in addition body and appendages with scattered erect bristly setae, particularly on abdominal venter, legs, pronotum and dorsum of head.
Measurements are of holotype male.
Body: Linear, parallel sided for most part ( Fig. 1a, b View FIGURE 1 ); length including wings 5.16; maximum width across abdomen 1.27.
Head: Narrow, long, between eyes corrugated and coarsely punctate; ocelli raised; eyes slightly raised above surface of head; tylus rounded, well exceeding juga; head length 0.88; width across eyes 0.89; inter-ocular space 0.43; inter-ocellar space 0.27; eye-ocellar space 0.06; eye length 0.29; eye width 0.23; distance from base of head to antennal insertion: 0.96. Antennae short, 2 nd and 3 rd slightly incrassate towards apices, 4 th uniformly incrassate throughout except apex and base which are narrowed; length of segments: 0.30, 0.77, 0.61, 0.95. Labium long, slender, length of segments: 0.77, 0.72, 0.84, 0.33.
Thorax: Pronotum long, dorsally almost impunctate, posterior lobe with several coarse sparse fuscous punctures in median area, pronotum median length 1.40; anterior lobe: posterior lobe =1.03: 0.37; width at anterior margin 0.55; width at transverse impression: 0.53; width at posterior margin 1.17. Scutellum with a few coarse fuscous punctures in apical half; length 0.74, width 0.60. Legs short, robust, fore femora heavily incrassate for middle 2/3 area, more narrowed at base than at apex, in apical ½ ventrally armed with spines, in 2 indistinct series, inner series with 1or 2 large and several minute spines, and outer series with 2 large and several minutes spines. Hemelytral membrane with fuscous patches and areas between veins; length of hemelytra 2.89; length of corium 1.79; claval commissure 0.40.
Abdomen: Dorsum with tergites I–II fused, tergites III–IV indistinctly fused; sutures between tergites II–III, VI–VII straight, with scent gland scars between III–IV, IV–V and V–VI well developed. Outer laterotergite (connexivum) II triangular; apical margin of outer laterotergite III oblique, and outer laterotergites IV & VI elongate rectangular; apical one third of outer laterotergite VII & tergite VII fused ( Fig. 1c View FIGURE 1 ). Sternites I–III fused; trichobothria with middle one on sternite III slightly behind other two and almost linear on sternite IV ( Fig. 1d View FIGURE 1 ).
Male genitalia: Pygophore as in Fig. 2a View FIGURE 2 ; paramere with dorsal and ventral lobes, and blade sickle-shaped as in Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 b–e; aedeagus as in Fig. 2f, g View FIGURE 2 .
Etymology: The species name Latin “ spectabilis ” adjective, alludes to this insect’s remarkable and showy general facies.
Distribution. Little Desert National Park, Victoria, Australia.
Notes. The only two specimens available of this species, and the udeocorine Laryngodus luteomaculatus Slater, Schuh, Cassis, Johnson & Pedraza-Penalosa ( Figs. 3 View FIGURE 3 , 4 View FIGURE 4 ), were found to occur sympatrically at the Little Desert National Park, Victoria. However the former species was collected associated with Myrtaceae : Melaleuca wilsonii F. Muell. , (Violet honey-myrtle), while the latter species, widely distributed in South Australia and Victoria, with Casuarinaceae : Allocasuarina pusilla (Macklin) L. A. S. Johnson. (Slater et al. 2009) .
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