Cazeresia maquis, 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.15594266 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7F8FE1EF-C184-5CA7-8E37-539D02EDE8B0 |
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Cazeresia maquis |
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sp. nov. |
Cazeresia maquis sp. nov.
Figures 1 f View Figure 1 , 8 c View Figure 8 , 9 g View Figure 9
Material.
Holotype: Male, JGZC-5350 , Chute de la Madeleine , 22°14.2’S 166°51.7’E, 240 m, maquis, night coll. (lamp and beating), 24.xii.2006, M. Wanat and R. Dobosz leg., Holotype Cazeresia maquis sp. nov. Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso [red label] ( MNHW) GoogleMaps . — Paratypes: MNHW: 2 females ( JGZC-5388 and JGZC-5446 ), Chute de la Madeleine , 22°14.2’S 166°51.7’E, 240 m, maquis, night coll. (lamp and beating), 24.xii.2006, M. Wanat and R. Dobosz leg., Paratype Cazeresia maquis sp. nov. Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso [red label] GoogleMaps .
Other material.
MNHW: 1 male, JGZC-5374 , Rivière Bleue Parc, refuge , 22°05.9’S 166°38.3’E, 190 m, 20.xii.2006, night coll. (lamp and beating), M. Wanat and R. Dobosz leg. GoogleMaps
Description.
Body elongate oval, moderately convex. Mandibles, anterior part of head, pronotum, scutellum, elytra, ventral surfaces and most of legs dark reddish brown, with pronotum darker and faint blue metallic shine on pronotum and elytra; labrum, antennae, frons and tarsi testaceous, with slight bronze metallic reflection on frons; palpi ochre. Length: 6.8 mm; width: 3.6 mm.
Frons unpunctured, with supraocular sulci prolonged medially over most of weakly raised supraantennal calli; clypeus subtriangular, with few small punctures basally and with anterior border with very deep arched emargination. Eyes large, separate on frons by 1.85 × their transverse diameter. Relative proportions of antennomeres: 2.5-1.0 - 1.8 - 2.3 - 2.8 - 2. 6-3.0 - 2.7 - 2.7 - 2.6 - 3.0. Surface of pronotum very finely and minutely microreticulate, relatively glossy and lacking micropunctures. Prosternal process as wide as transverse diameter of procoxae. Elytra about 1.3 × as long as ensemble width at base, widest behind humeri; surface glossy, entirely glabrous except for tiny setae near sutural angle, with relatively large punctures, as wide as intervals, rather confused anteriorly on disc. Basitarsomeres enlarged, wider than third tarsomere and shorter than second and third tarsomeres combined in protarsi, and slightly narrower than third tarsomere and as long as second and third tarsomeres combined in meso- and metatarsi. Median apodeme of first abdominal ventrite about half as long as ventrite, arched, narrower than mesosternal process; all ventrites with fine microreticulation, sparse fine punctures and short fine, posteriorly adpressed pale yellow setae. Penis (Fig. 9 g View Figure 9 ) slender, regularly curved ventrally, with sides slightly concave in ventral view, slightly widened preapically; distal part elongate oval, round at apex, with weak transverse distal expansion; gonopore elongate elliptical, with distal end separated from apex of penis by distance shorter than maximum width of gonopore; dorsal flap subrectangular, longer than wide, covering about basal half of gonopore. — Females. Females show stronger punctation on clypeus and punctation more orderly aligned on disc of elytra. In C. maquis sp. nov., the frontoclypeus of females is not that different to that of males, unlike other species, where females have a wider transition between frons and clypeus. Spermatheca (Fig. 1 f View Figure 1 ) with cornu shorter than nodulus, bent more or less at right angle relative to nodulus; nodulus bulbous basally, with short protruding insertion of spermathecal gland submedially, opposite to cornu; spermathecal duct thick, inserted laterally near base of nodulus, oriented opposite to cornu and oblique relative to nodulus, shorter than nodulus, enlarged distally and weakly sclerotized at level with elongate coil.
Diagnosis.
In this species of the C. thyiana group (size> 6.0 mm, subparallel elytra, prosternal process as wide or wider than procoxae), the apical intervals of elytra are not convex and the apical curvature is more or less continuous with apical margin, which is somewhat expanded and has tiny setae along margin in sutural area. In other species of this group, interval convexity and a relatively thick, glabrous margin delimit the apex of elytra. Among the species of this group with setae apically on epipleura, it can be distinguished from C. clipeata sp. nov. because it lacks conspicuously serrate margins of fourth and fifth abdominal ventrites, and from C. petitpierrei sp. nov. because it is larger, and the shape of clypeus in females, similar to the clypeus in males in C. maquis sp. nov., may be useful to recognise this species too.
Derivatio nominis.
This species name is the noun maquis in apposition, derived from the name applied to a typical shrubland biome of the drier areas with ultramafic soils in New Caledonia, the maquis minier or mining maquis, where the species is found.
Distribution.
The species is known at present from three specimens collected within the Special Botanical Reserve of the Chutes de la Madeleine, and one in a nearby locality, all found at low elevation (Fig. 8 c 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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