Lophocoryza araticeps omanica, Balkenohl, 2001
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13272697 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C8DB24-FFBC-DD69-9078-1D29104CFCC1 |
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treatment provided by |
Felipe |
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scientific name |
Lophocoryza araticeps omanica |
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subsp. nov. |
Lophocoryza araticeps omanica View in CoL ssp. nov.
( Figs 2 View Figs 1-8 , 10, 22)
ETYMOLOGY. The subspecies is named according to the country recorded.
TYPE MATERIAL. Holotype: ♀, with labels and data: white, printed “ Oman: Shinass 2443N, 5628E to light 9.VI.94 leg. M.D.Gallagher ” / “between mangrove Avicennia marina scrub + sea/8602” ( CBB).
Remark: The specimen shows slight damage at the reflexed lateral margin of the pronotum just before the tooth of the posterior angle.
DIAGNOSIS. Somewhat more slender than the nominotypical subspecies and distinguished by the pronotum with the basal part of the reflexed lateral margin running from posterior angle to base as a straight line. Moreover the eyes are subglobose in contrast to the convex eyes of the nominotypical subspecies.
DESCRIPTION.
Measurements: Body length 3.35 mm, width 0.94 mm, ratio length/width of pronotum 0.82, ratio length/width of elytra 1.84.
The subspecies differs from the nominotypical subspecies in the following characters:
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Colour: Somewhat more pale as the nominotypical subspecies.
Head: Eyes subglobose.
Pronotum ( Figs 2 View Figs 1-8 , 10): Reflexed lateral margin nearly smooth, with three to four indistinct scar-like notches (100 times), margin running from posterior angle to base as straight line. Bilateral carina at median line running just beyond middle of pronotum. The rough coreaceate-like wrinkles on the surface are slightly smoother in basal half as in the nominotypical subspecies.
Elytra ( Fig. 2 View Figs 1-8 ): Lateral margin slightly more parallel as in the nominotypical subspecies.
Male genitalia: Unknown.
Female genitalia (Fig. 22): Coxostyli hyaline, slender, flattened, boomerang-like shaped, with three long nematiform setae, one of them in the middle part and two situated more towards apex, with one minute pilus at tip of apex.
DISTRIBUTION: Known from one record in Shinas located in the North of Oman close to the United Arab Emirates.
REMARK: If the subspecies deserves elevation to species level this should be determined when more material and both sexes are available.
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