Cissidium foveolatum Johnson, 1982

Darby, Michael, 2020, A revision of Cissidium Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with seventy seven new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 622, pp. 1-188 : 38-39

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.622

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9CD3B2CD-F072-4994-8CA9-24145D343401

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3795566

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Cissidium foveolatum Johnson, 1982
status

 

Cissidium foveolatum Johnson, 1982 View in CoL

Figs 3D View Fig , 24 View Fig

Material examined

Paratypes

NEW ZEALAND • 1 ex.; Ratoma Reserve ; 2 Dec. 1980; fungi and rotten wood; E.W. Aubrook; MMUE • 1 ex.; Lynfield Ak., Tropicana Drive ; 18 Jan.–29 Mar. 1975; G. Kuschel leg.; BMNH 1 ex.; Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Te Aroba; 1400 ft a.s.l.; 22 Oct. 1956; R.A. Crowson leg.; BMNH 2 ex.; Northland, Western Hills, Whangarei ; 2 Nov. 1956; leaf litter; R.A. Crowson leg.; MMUE .

Additional material

NEW ZEALAND • 1 ex.; Hapuakohe Range , Maungakawa; 500 m a.s.l.; 3 Jan. 1984; Nikau leaf bases on ground; P.M. Hammond leg.; BMNH 1 ex.; Waitakere Range, Cascades Kauri Park ; 6 Nov. 1983; P.M. Hammond leg.; BMNH .

Supplementary description

The description below concentrates in particular on amplifying Johnson’s description with more details of the meso- and metaventral characters in order to conform with the entries in the present paper.

SIZE. Habitus ( Fig.24A View Fig ), length 0.76 mm.

COLOUR. Dark red brown, legs and antennae dusky yellow.

HEAD. With a median fovea between the eyes ( Fig. 3D View Fig ), width across eyes 0.21 mm; antennomeres III– XI 0.44 mm long, II–IX 0.24 mm long, X–XI 0.20 mm long.

PRONOTUM. Length 0.21 mm, width 0.28 mm with four basal foveae on each side the two outer ones being much smaller and shallower than the inner ones which are slightly elongate and tending to join together to become one large fovea, sides rounded then shallowly concave to rectangular hind angles,

evenly rounded anteriorly, bordered, the borders not continuing along the posterior margin, medial emargination opposite the scutellum sinuate ( Fig. 24B View Fig ).

ELYTRA. Length 0.51 mm, breadth 0.43 mm, strongly foveolate, particularly in basal half. MESOVENTRITE. Median extension of collar very short, pointed; mid-keel parallel-sided, the hind angles almost meeting the mesocoxal border, raised portion before keel ridged.; keel narrow, with ± four setae, tapering to a point at the base of the mesocoxae; mesoventral lateral margins serrate in posterior half; humeri toothed ( Fig. 24C View Fig ).

METAVENTRITE. Glabrous, disc simple. Hind margins of mesocoxal borders without serrations.

WINGS. Macropterous.

GENITALIA. Male aedeagus as Fig. 6 View Fig Fa–b. Female spermatheca globular.

Remarks

Described by Johnson on the basis of specimens collected in New Zealand, North Island. Distinguished from C. crowsoni , the only other Cissidium reported from New Zealand, by the four large foveae on the pronotum.

MMUE

United Kingdom, Manchester, The University, Manchester Museum

BMNH

United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)]

MMUE

Museum of Manchester University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Ptiliidae

SubFamily

Ptiliinae

Tribe

Discheramocephalini

Genus

Cissidium

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