Cardiodactylus muiri Otte 2007

Cardiodactylus muiri Otte, 2007a

(Figs. 4, 6B, 10B, 12B, 13L, 15B, 41)

Cardiodactylus muiri Otte, 2007a: 349; 2007b: 30 (confirmation of depository).

Type material. Male holotype: Indonesia: Malaka Province, Ceram, Piroe [Seram I., Piru], II.1909, F. Muir (BPBM) (not examined).

Type locality. Indonesia, Seram Island, Piru.

Material examined. Indonesia. Malaka Province, Ceram, Piroe [Seram I., Piru], 1♂ (MNHN); Ceram [Seram I.], Januar-Februar [I–II.]1910, 1♀ (MNHN); Ceram I. [Seram I.], 1♀, determined Cardiodactylus novaeguineae by L. Chopard (MZB. ORTH10448); Seram [I.], Ruhuwa, 30 km E. of Amahai, 16.VI.1970, R. F. Ellen (BMNH1972-282).

Distribution. Indonesia, west and south of Seram Island.

Diagnosis. Species of large size, close to C. buru n. sp., characterized by coloration of male FW with lateral field whitish (brown to dark brown in C. muiri) and with yellowish base and wide yellowish band posterior to mirror; characteristic male genitalia made of 3 levels in lateral view, the most anterior level of dorsal ridges, the highest, forming small triangular carinae in dorsal view.

Redescription. In addition to the few characters given by Otte (2007a): size large for the species group, coloration brown with contrasted yellowish patterns (Fig. 41). Head dorsum almost entirely dark brown, with 4 wide brown bands almost fused together (Fig. 6B); fastigium dark brown; yellow lines posterior to eyes. Scapes dark brown. Face mostly brown, with sometimes a yellow transverse band (not visible in some old specimens). Pronotum: Dorsal disk yellow laterally, median area mottled symmetrical orange brown patterns, its posterior edge dark brown; lateral lobes mostly dark brown, their ventral margin yellowish, the anterior region with a wider yellow margin. Legs yellow brown, femora mottled with orange brown, tibiae with orange brown rings; FIII knees dark brown. Cerci yellow brown, faintly mottled with brown.

Male: FW coloration brown with the following large yellowish areas (Fig. 10B): base of FWs including bases of anal veins, CuA, M, R and Sc veins, region anterior to file near plectrum, part of chords, harp veins and a wide band posterior to mirror. Bases of chords with an orange brown sclerotization. Lateral field whitish, M/R/Sc area and cells orange brown; posterior region of Sc and its rojections and more ventral veins whitish, the membrane between them translucent. FW venation (Fig. 10B): 1A slightly bisinuated. CuP absent. Harp with 2 w-shaped veins (variably in shape, the male from south Seram having angular veins and the male from Piru having sinuated veins). Mirror area: mirror (d1) oval, twice longer than wide, its posterior region made of a variable number of small cells; d2 not distinctive from the rest of D aligment. Apical field with 4 or 5 (n = 2) cell alignments posterior to mirror. Lateral field with 8–9 projections of Sc (n = 2) and 5 more ventral veins (n = 2).

Male genitalia: Pseudepiphallus narrowed at mid-length with clear lateral shoulders; posterior region widened preapically; apex rounded. In lateral view, pseudepiphallus made of 3 levels, the most anterior level of dorsal ridges, the highest, forming small triangular carinae in dorsal view; posterior part of dorsal ridges forming parallel crests slightly divergent and assymetrical.

Female: FW coloration mostly brown with a whitish spot at mid-length. Base of FWs yellow brown, including bases of anal veins, CuA and anterior half of M. CuA/M/R/Sc areas brown, including veins; Sc apex and projections whitish. R/Sc area and veins orange brown. Projections of Sc and more ventral veins yellow, the cells between them translucent. FW venation (Fig. 12B): 11 (n = 2) strong longitudinal veins on dorsal field; lateral field with 11 (n = 2) longitudinal veins including 6–7 projections of Sc and 4–5 more ventral veins. Ovipositor long, apex with both dorsal and ventral edges slightly denticulate (Fig. 13L).

Female genitalia (Fig. 15B): Copulatory papilla trapezoidal, with large baso-lateral sclerites; apex rounded, slightly sclerotized and finely plicate, slightly folded ventrally.

Juvenile: unknown.

Measurements. See Table 10.

Remark. The male specimen from the south of Seram (BMNH) is smaller than the males from Piru in western Seram (HT and male examined in MNHN), but it differs otherwise only by the more angular shape of the harp veins; both general coloration and male genitalia are consistent with the holotype of the species.