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FIGURE 1. Protozantaena species. A in A distinctive new species of Protozantaena Perkins, 1997 from lowland Namaqualand, South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae)

  • 1. School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK & Department of Zoology, University of Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa
  • 2. Department of Freshwater Invertebrates, Albany Museum, and Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa

Description

FIGURE 1. Protozantaena species. A) P. labrata Perkins, 1997, paratype, Namibia, Naukluft, habitus; B) P. birdi Bilton, 2022., holotype habitus; C) P. gigantea sp. nov. holotype habitus; D) P. labrata, paratype, Namibia, Naukluft, aedeagus; E) P. birdi, holotype aedeagus; F) P. gigantea sp. nov. holotype aedeagus. Scale bars A–C) = 0.5 mm; D–F) = 100 μm. Note that the exact curvature of the aedeagal flagellae differs between specimens of all three species.

Notes

Published as part of Bilton, David T. & Mlambo, Musa C., 2024, A distinctive new species of Protozantaena Perkins, 1997 from lowland Namaqualand, South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae), pp. 383-388 in Zootaxa 5424 (3) on page 385, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5424.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/10821407

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