Capaciphrynidius, Bezark & Santos-Silva, 2022
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.11606/1807-0205/2022.62.053 |
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publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1B180266-16E7-4593-89AE-A733B0C6E0FA |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D4A741-FFE6-FFCF-FC68-F877B2CFFC42 |
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treatment provided by |
Felipe |
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scientific name |
Capaciphrynidius |
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gen. nov. |
Capaciphrynidius View in CoL gen. nov.
Type species: Capaciphrynidius extensus View in CoL sp. nov., here designated.
Etymology: Latin, “capax” (wide), used in genitive case (capacis), plus the name of the genus Phrynidius (wide Phrynidius ), allusive to the wide distance between the antennal tubercles. Masculine gender.
Description
Female: Moderately small sized; body strongly convex and widened; without long and erect setae. Head not retractile. Antennal tubercles distinctly more distant from each other than maximum diameter of scape. Antennae about as long as body, not strongly narrowed toward distal segments; without long and erect setae; scape subpiriform, without apical cicatrix; antennomere III longer than scape and antennomere IV. Eyes not divided or subdivided. Prothorax without lateral tubercles. Elytra sub-ovoid; irregularly, strongly tuberculate; humerus not strongly projected; apex rounded. Metathorax strongly reduced.
Remarks: The general appearance of Capaciphrynidius gen. nov. is similar to that of Phrynidius Lacordaire, 1869 , but differs noticeably by the antennal tubercles being widely separated, as opposed to them being very close to each other in Phrynidius .
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