Cazeresia globosa altitudinalis, Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso, 2025
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https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.83.e143543 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15594254 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/79119078-5137-5E5B-906C-61DB3ECE4968 |
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Cazeresia globosa altitudinalis |
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subsp. nov. |
Cazeresia globosa altitudinalis ssp. nov.
Figures 1 l View Figure 1 , 7 d View Figure 7 , 8 d View Figure 8
Material.
Holotype: Male, JGZC-5094 , Humboldt (S track), Col du Vulcain (refuge) , -21.90319 166.38305, 980 m, night beating, 9.xi.2008, M. Wanat leg., Holotype Cazeresia globosa altitudinalis n. ssp. Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso [red label] ( MNHW) GoogleMaps . — Paratypes: 1 male ( JGZC-5220 : mounted with female left hind leg in place of its missing left middle leg) and 4 females ( JGZC-5095 , JGZC-5221 to JGZC-5223 ), Humboldt (S track), Col du Vulcain (refuge) , -21.90319 166.38305, 980 m, night beating, 9.xi.2008, M. Wanat leg., Paratype Cazeresia globosa altitudinalis ssp. nov. Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso [red label] ( MNHW) GoogleMaps .
Description.
Body short elliptic, moderately convex. Dorsum, venter, coxae and mandibles very dark brown, almost black; labrum, antennae and legs testaceous, with base of tibiae and femora infuscate; palpi and apex of antennomeres 11 ochre. Length: 5.4 mm; width: 3.0 mm (male paratype: 5.1 mm long, 3.0 mm wide; female paratypes: 4.9–5.4 mm long, 2.9–3.3 mm wide).
These specimens are in principle indistinguishable morphologically from the nominal taxon, C. globosa sp. nov., and the same description given for the previous species applies, both to males and females, except in the case of the male genitalia. But they are given subspecific rank based on their genetic differentiation and phylogenetic species delimitation (Fig. 3 View Figure 3 ), allopatric distribution, and supposed ecological divergence based on their distributions, with this subspecies being putatively adapted to high elevations in the southwestern part of the Massif du Sud and the nominal subspecies to lowlands northeast and east of this Massif.
Diagnosis.
The same diagnosis as for the nominal subspecies also applies in this case, with this subspecies presenting serrate margins of fourth and fifth abdominal ventrites in both sexes, while the nominal subspecies has the fifth ventrite irregularly serrulate. The penis of C. globosa altitudinalis ssp. nov. diverges from the nominotypical species in the distance between apex of gonopore and distal end of penis being longer than the width of gonopore (Fig. 7 d View Figure 7 ), and it is more similar to that of C. australis sp. nov., although this species lacks serrate lateral margins of distal abdominal ventrites. The spermatheca of this subspecies (Fig. 1 l View Figure 1 ) is similar to the spermathecae of C. australis and C. globosa , with long, thin duct gradually curved basally.
Derivatio nominis.
The name of the subspecies refers to the high elevation where it was found, by adjectivizing the noun (f.) altĭtūdo, elevation.
Distribution.
At present, C. globosa altitudinalis ssp. nov. is only known from high elevations (980 m a. s. l.) in the southwestern slopes of the Massif du Sud (Fig. 8 d View Figure 8 ).
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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