Cissidium subfoveolatum Darby 2019
Creators
- 1. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW 7 5 BD, UK
Description
Cissidium subfoveolatum Darby, 2019
Fig. 44
Material examined
Holotype MALAYSIA • ♂; Sarawak, 4 th division, on Mulu NP; May–Aug. 1978; comp 5 alluvial forest litter; P.M. Hammond and J.E. Marshall leg.; BM 1978-49; mounted ventral side uppermost; BMNH.
Supplementary description
The following description amplifies the description of Darby (2019) in particular by adding more details of the meso- and metaventral characters, in order to conform with the present paper.
SIZE. Habitus (Fig. 44A), length 0.59 mm.
COLOUR. Dark brown, antennae, legs and pubescence yellow.
HEAD. Distance across eyes 0.23 mm; antennomeres III–XI, length 0.39 mm; mentum and submentum as Fig. 4C.
PRONOTUM. Length 0.22 mm, width 0.32 mm, sparsely pubescent, with a row of eight foveae along the posterior margin, the four medial ones tending to form two large ones, the outer two smaller; lateral margins rounded, concave before the acute hind angles, rounded anteriorly, bordered, the border not continuing along the posterior margin, medial emargination in front of scutellum sinuous (Fig. 44B).
ELYTRA. Length 0.49 mm, width 0.55 mm, pubescent, shallowly foveolate, contrasting with the pronotum.
MESOVENTRITE. Medial process of collar broad, tapering, almost meeting raised portion of mid-keel; mid keel broad, sides parallel, hind angles with carinae to anterior margins of mesocoxal borders; keel broad, parallel-sided, with ± four setae, terminated at interruption of mesocoxal margins; mesoventral lateral margins serrate in posterior half; humeri sharply toothed (Fig. 44C).
METAVENTRITE. Length 0.19 mm, sparsely pubescent, disc simple, width across spines 0.15 mm, spines short.
GENITALIA. Not dissected.
Remarks
This is the only species of Cissidium from Sarawak in this group.
Notes
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH
- Family
- Ptiliidae
- Genus
- Cissidium
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Darby
- Species
- subfoveolatum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cissidium subfoveolatum Darby, 2019 sec. Darby, 2020
References
- Darby M. 2019. New Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) from Sarawak in the spirit collection of the Natural History Museum, London. European Journal of Taxonomy 512: 1 - 50. https: // doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2019.512