Nitela carinifrons, Li & Li & Ma, 2025
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https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.98.172249 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EF1A2444-5655-4AF0-9D0E-CFA25CE5B45E |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17407609 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3B7812F6-90D1-5BFA-BC6E-5FA976BCFEE3 |
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Nitela carinifrons |
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sp. nov. |
Nitela carinifrons View in CoL sp. nov.
Fig. 1 View Figure 1
Type material.
Holotype. ♀, China • Guangdong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen Fairy Lake Botanical Garden , 22.5775°N, 114.1825°E, 2020.III.31–IV.30, Jianwei Li collector GoogleMaps .
Paratypes. • 3 ♀, same data as holotype GoogleMaps ; 4 ♀, same location as holotype, 2020.VI.3–29 ( 1 ♀), 2019.XII.7–I.6 ( 1 ♀), 2020.IV.30–VI.5 ( 1 ♀), 2020.X.31–XII.3 ( 1 ♀), Jianwei Li collector GoogleMaps ; 2 ♀, Dongguan, Dongguan Botanical Garden , 22.9494°N, 113.7714°E, 2020.IV.30–VI.3, Fei Ye collector GoogleMaps ; • 2 ♀, Dongguan, Dongguan Yinping Mountain , 22.9139°N, 114.2156°E, 2020.VIII..30–X.5 ( 1 ♀), 2020.X.5–30 ( 1 ♀), Fei Ye collector GoogleMaps ; 5 ♀, Zhaoqing, Dinghu Mountain National Nature Reserve , 22.5775°N, 114.1825°E, 2021.IV.1–V.1 ( 2 ♀), 2021.V.10–25 ( 2 ♀), 2021.IX.19–X.9 ( 1 ♀), Longlong Chen collector GoogleMaps .
Diagnosis.
This species is similar to N. bifida Menke, 1969 in having convex portion of frons with median carina reaching anterior ocellus; inner orbit straight and converging above, and lateral ocellus almost touching inner orbit, but differs by the following characteristics (characters of N. bifida in parentheses): clypeal anterior margin evenly arched (clypeal anterior margin projecting); propodeal posterior surface without lamellate projections on lateral margin (propodeal posterior surface with lamellate projections); mesoscutum slightly shiny, densely, coarsely rugose (mesoscutum dull, densely finely punctate); pronotal lobe black (pronotal lobe yellow).
Description of female.
Body length 3.2–3.6 mm. Body black. Mandible basally dark brown, apex yellowish-brown; maxillary palpus and labial palpus mostly silvery. Scape and pedicel dark brown; stigma and tegula yellowish-brown; wing veins pale brown. Apical margin of gastral terga yellowish-brown. Trochanters and tibiae yellowish-brown, tarsi pale yellow; mid and hind coxae apically yellowish-brown. Body covered with silvery pubescence.
Head. Inner margin of mandible subapically with one tooth. Clypeus conspicuously convex medially; with complete midclypeal carina slightly surpassing frontoclypeal sulcus; anterior margin of clypeus with triangular smooth area, truncate anteriorly (Fig. 1 B View Figure 1 ). Frons coriaceous, densely punctate, swollen medially, depressed laterally; upper part of convex portion with median carina reaching anterior ocellus, laterally coriaceous up to carina; frontal concavity shallow (Fig. 1 B View Figure 1 ). Ocellar triangle coriaceous (Fig. 1 C View Figure 1 ). Gena and vertex finely coriaceous (Fig. 1 C View Figure 1 ). Eyes converging above; OOD: POD: ODD = 1: 4: 4 (Fig. 1 C View Figure 1 ). Flagellomere I approximately as long as pedicel.
Mesosoma. Pronotal collar stepped, with narrow transverse groove containing inconspicuous short longitudinal ridges, antero-lateral angle rounded; anterior carina conspicuous (Fig. 1 D View Figure 1 ). Mesoscutum convex; basal median area with dense, small punctures; laterally with irregular, coarse coriaceous reticulation; posterior margin with row of short longitudinal ridges, between ridges dull; scutal lateral sulcus crenulate, with conspicuously defined inner margin, its internal transverse carinae connected to transverse carinae of scutellum (Fig. 1 D View Figure 1 ). Mesoscutellum with median carina flanked by several fine curved rugae; anterior margin crenulate (Fig. 1 D View Figure 1 ). Mesopleuron sparsely punctate except episcrobal area (Fig. 1 F View Figure 1 ); episcrobal area and central circular depression smooth, polished; episternal sulcus crenulate, internal longitudinal ridges not exceeding border; hypersternaulus well-developed, broadened, shallowly crenulate (Fig. 1 F View Figure 1 ). Mesosternum densely, finely punctate. Metanotum coriaceous. Metapleuron conspicuously separated from propodeal lateral surface; metapleuron smooth, without carina (Fig. 1 F View Figure 1 ). Propodeal dorsum with conspicuous longitudinal ridges from base to apex, between ridges with inconspicuous, irregular, short transverse carinae forming reticulate pattern (Fig. 1 E View Figure 1 ); posterior surface with median sulcus narrowing from base to apex, forming subtriangular zone; laterally to median sulcus with parallel regular, transverse ridges (Fig. 1 E View Figure 1 ); lateral surface of propodeum with irregular, oblique carinae (Fig. 1 F View Figure 1 ).
Wings. Recurrent vein with extremely short stub of vein just before its junction with submarginal cell (Fig. 1 G View Figure 1 ).
Metasoma. Metasoma spindly; terga polished, with very sparse punctures. Sternum I with keeled projection, laterally to keel without conspicuous ridges. Basal third of sternum II with deep transverse groove, groove surface coriaceous.
Male. Unknown.
Distribution.
China ( Guangdong).
Etymology.
The specific epithet carinifrons is derived from the Latin “ carina - ” and “ frons ”, referring to the presence of a conspicuous median longitudinal carina on frons of this species.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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