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Rhotana fera Zelazny & Webb 2011, sp. nov.

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Description

Rhotana fera Zelazny, sp. nov.

(Fig. 215)

Description. Forewings about 5.9 mm long with Ms1 branched slightly distad of apex of basal median cell. Hindwings mutilated. Pygofer with lateral projections inconspicuous. Male genitalia with apical part of aedeagus ending in two long, flat processes, each with two short, pointed tips.

Note. Externally like Rhotana ramosa sp. nov. The description above has been shortened, due to this similarity.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective (ferus, -a, -um = wild).

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 5.0 mm), MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO; labels: 1) BRITISH N. BORNEO / W. Coast Residen-/ cy, Ranau, 500m / IX-28 – X-7-1958 2) T. C. Maa / Collector / BISHOP (BPBM).

Distribution. North Borneo.

Diagnosis. Rhotana fera is externally indistinguishable from R. ramosa sp. nov. from Sumatra and R. tridentata sp. nov. from Borneo and West Malaysia. The males can be easily recognized by the aedeagus ending in two long and flat processes which are furcate at the ends.

Notes

Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on page 82

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Biodiversity

Collection code
BORNEO, T, BISHOP, BPBM
Event date
1958-09-28
Verbatim event date
1958-09-28/10-07
Scientific name authorship
Zelazny & Webb
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Derbidae
Genus
Rhotana
Species
fera
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Rhotana fera Zelazny, 2011