Szeptyckitheca vanderdrifti (Delamare-Deboutteville & Massoud, 1964)
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Szeptyckitheca vanderdrifti (Delamare-Deboutteville & Massoud, 1964) View in CoL
Sphyrotheca vanderdrifti Delamare-Deboutteville & Massoud, 1964b: 64.
Diagnosis.
Yellowish ground color, with indistinct pigmented fields and purplish spots on the dorsum, antennae purplish. Ant. IV with ~ 10 subsegments; Ant. III with 19 chaetae other than the sensory clubs; Ant. II with 14 chaetae, two or three of them clearly longer than the others; Ant. I with six chaetae. Eyepatches with two interocular chaetae modified into strong spines each. Head vertex with a total of 16 large spines, two of them unpaired; unpaired chaeta A1 absent; secondarily reduced chaeta near the spines present. Trochanters I-III with 1,1,1 spines, respectively, trochanter I spine acuminate and III capitate; trochanter III with four regular chaetae other than the spine. Ungues with a single inner tooth, with tunica and strong pseudonychia; unguiculus I with the internal tooth; unguiculus III filament thin and not reaching the tip of the unguis III. Large abdomen lacking capitate mac. Female with a long subanal appendage (surpassing the ventral anal valves), acuminate, and apically or almost entirely serrated on its both edges. Dens ventral chaetotaxy formula from the apex to the base as: 2,1 … 1, dorsal chaetotaxy with 16 chaetae; mucronal notch discrete (adapted from Delamare-Deboutteville and Massoud 1964b).
Habitat.
Specimens were found on marshy wood on sandy loam and shrubs on a ridge ( Delamare-Deboutteville and Massoud 1964b).
Known distribution.
Suriname ( Delamare-Deboutteville and Massoud 1964b).
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