Austropeirates, Malipatil & Liu, 2024
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5514.2.2 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DD63A047-E3D5-4D8B-B9C8-3524BDF99B12 |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13863198 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7A3C7E6D-9136-4866-FF21-FCD5E242FAEE |
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Plazi |
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scientific name |
Austropeirates |
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gen. nov. |
Genus Austropeirates gen. nov.
Type species: Austropeirates maculipes sp. nov.
Diagnosis. This genus can be recognised among Peiratinae by the following combination of characters. Body small (about 10 mm long) and slender; macropterous male and micropterous female known. Antennal scape and pedicel subequal in width; labium with third visible segment distinctly longer than first segment. Metapleural sulcus indistinctly bicarinate and curved; fore and mid tibiae armed below with rows of small teeth, with a long bristle associated with each tooth; fore tibia with fossula spongiosa occupying about 1/4 its length in male and slightly less than 1/ 2 in female; mid tibia with fossula spongiosa occupying only apex of ventral surface. Male genitalia with basal plate bridge of phallus about 1.5 times as long as basal plate; pedicel extremely long and curved, about 2.5 times as long as basal plate; dorsal phallothecal sclerite concave with an elliptical concave notch on right side.
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