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Aradosyrtis sexmaculatus Heiss & Eckelt, 2025, nov.sp.

Description

Aradosyrtis sexmaculatus nov.sp. (Figs 19-22)

Holotype: ♁. MALAYSIA - Sabah / Kinabalu Nat. Park / Headqu. env. / 8-10 VII 92 E.Heiss //. Paratypes: 2♀♀ collected with holotype (CEHI). Types are labelled accordingly.

E t y m o l o g y: Refers to its pattern of six lighter coloured spots on scutellum.

D i a g n o s i s:Recognized and distinguished by the pattern of scutellum.

D e s c r i p t i o n. Habitus elongate oval, about 2.4 times as long as wide; colouration yellowish brown with lighter parts and patches; scutellum with a pattern of six ill defined lighter oval spots.

H e a d. Slightly longer than wide, clypeus bulbous beset with tubercles; antennae longer than width of head; vertex with larger tubercles.

P r o n o t u m. Anterior lobe raised and beset with larger tubercles, separated from posterior lobe by a transverse furrow; lateral margins strongly converging anteriorly, humeri rounded; posterior lobe with four tuberculate carinae.

S c u t e l l u m. Basal elevation with 4 larger and two smaller tubercles; lateral margins, median ridge and exposed corium beset with long spaced tubercles; disk with flat round punctures.

A b d o m e n. Lateral margins of deltg II-VII with a double row of large round tubercles, disk granulate; lateral margin of tergal disk carinate.

F e m a l e. Basic structures as male, but abdomen is wider and more rounded.

M e a s u r e m e n t s. Holotype: ♁. Length of body 2.70 (2.90 with pygophore produced); head width/length 0.55/0.60 (ratio 1.09); pronotum width/length 1.05/0.50 (ratio 2.10); width of abdomen across tergite IV 1.10; length of antennae/width of head 1.16. Paratypes: 2♀♀. Length of body 3.00, 3.15; head width/length 0.57/0.60 (ratio 1.05), 0.60/0.65 (ratio 1.08); pronotum width/length 1.1/0.55 (ratio 2.00), 1.15/0.60 (ratio 1.91); width of abdomen across tergite IV 1.37, 1.40; length of antennae/width of head 1.06/1.04 (ratio 1.02).

Notes

Published as part of Heiss, Ernst & Eckelt, Andreas, 2025, Review of the subfamily Calisiinae from Borneo, with description of two new genera and seven new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae), pp. 47-63 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 57 (1) on pages 58-60, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16956692

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Heiss & Eckelt
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Aradidae
Genus
Aradosyrtis
Species
sexmaculatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Aradosyrtis sexmaculatus Heiss & Eckelt, 2025