Cissidium pauxillum sp. nov.

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Figs 6B, 7D, 8B

Diagnosis

The densely foveolate pronotum, the sinuate border of the anterior margins of the keel and the sharply pointed keel between the mesocoxae distinguish this species.

Etymology

From the Latin adjective ‘ pauxillus ’, meaning ‘small’.

Type material

Holotype

MALAYSIA-BORNEO • Sarawak, 4 th division, Gunung Mulu National Park; May–Aug. 1978; P.M. Hammond and J.E. Marshall leg., BM 1978-49; base comp, alluvial forest litter near laboratory; BMNH.

Description

SIZE. Habitus (Fig. 6B), length 0.68 mm.

COLOUR. Yellow, antennae, legs and pubescence paler yellow.

HEAD. Distance across eyes 0.18 mm; antennomeres III–XI, length 0.25 mm; mentum widest anteriorly, anterior margin straight.

PRONOTUM. Length 0.17 mm, width 0.27 mm, densely foveolate and pubescent throughout, side margins evenly curved, hind angles right angled (Fig. 7D).

ELYTRA. Length 0.37 mm, width 0.30 mm, foveolate and pubescent throughout, evenly rounded, broadest at middle.

VENTRUM. Mesoventrum short, without pubescence, humeri with sharply projecting angles, lateral margins rounded to mesocoxae, serrate throughout, keel lateral margins sharply pointed with a sharply pointed posterior projection between the mesocoxae (Fig. 8B). Metaventrum with scattered pubescence, posterior margin between metacoxae concave, metacoxae separated by ± ¼ width of the sclerite.