Spertor solus Kasalo & Skejo, 2025

Damien, Niko Kasalo, Laure, Damien Brouste, Christophe, Laure Desutter-Grandcolas, Domagoj, Christophe Hervé, Josip, Domagoj Bogić & Skejo, Josip, 2025, Atlas of New Caledonian Tetrigidae with preliminary suprageneric classification of Batrachideinae, Zoosystema 47 (18), pp. 327-397 : 372

Spertor solus Kasalo & Skejo , n. sp.

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TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. New Caledonia • 1 ♂; Touho TV tower; 20°47’23”S, 165°15’0”E; 27.XI.2003 - 30.I.2004; Monteith leg.; flight intercept; MNHN-EO-CAELIF11318.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Province Nord, Touho TV tower area.

DISTRIBUTION. — Known only from a single specimen from the type locality.

ETYMOLOGY. — The specific epithet is the Latin adjective sōlus , meaning “alone, only”. The name references the fact that only a single specimen of this species is known.

DIAGNOSIS. — Currently inseparable from the generic diagnosis.

Figures

FIG. 36. — Spertor solus Kasalo & Skejo n. gen., n. sp., male holotype: A, dorsal view; B, lateral view; C, frontal view; D, vertex in frontal view; E, antenna, head, and prozona of pronotum enlarged in lateral view. Scale bars: 1 mm. Photo: N. Kasalo.