Cazeresia clipeata, 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.15594247 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C5F5642B-B2E9-5612-B463-92B961C2A1D7 |
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Cazeresia clipeata |
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sp. nov. |
Cazeresia clipeata sp. nov.
Figures 1 e View Figure 1 , 8 c View Figure 8 , 9 f View Figure 9
Material.
Holotype: Male, JGZC-5343 , Mandjélia (subsummit), 20°23.9’S 164°32.0’E, 700–750 m, night beating, 11.i.2007, M. Wanat leg., Holotype Cazeresia clipeata sp. nov. Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso [red label] ( MNHW) GoogleMaps . — Paratypes: MNHW: 2 females ( JGZC-5198 and JGZC-5459 ), Mandjélia (summit), 20°23.9’S 164°31.9’E, 750–780 m, night coll. (lamp and beating), 10.i.2007, M. Wanat and R. Dobosz leg., Paratype Cazeresia clipeata sp. nov. Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso [red label] GoogleMaps ; 2 males ( JGZC-5340 and JGZC-5477 ) and 2 females ( JGZC-5379 and JGZC-5450 ), Mandjélia (subsummit), 20°23.9’S 164°32.0’E, 700–750 m, night beating, 11.i.2007, M. Wanat leg., Paratype Cazeresia clipeata sp. nov. Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso [red label] GoogleMaps .
Description.
Body elongate oval, moderately convex. Mandibles, head, pronotum, scutellum, elytra, ventral thoracic surfaces and most of first abdominal ventrite dark reddish brown, with darker diffuse areas on dorsal surfaces and slight purplish metallic shine on pronotum and elytra; labrum, antennae, legs and posterior abdominal ventrites testaceous; palpi ochre. Length: 6.6 mm; width: 3.6 mm (range of males: 6.2–6.6 mm long, 3.4–3.6 mm wide).
Frons unpunctured with supraocular sulci prolonged medially to middle of dorsal edge of supraantennal calli; clypeus with few small punctures basally and anterior border with very deep arched emargination. Eyes large, separate on frons by 2.1 × their transverse diameter. Relative proportions of antennomeres: 2.2-1.0 - 2.0 - 2.4 - 2.8 - 2.5 - 3.0 - 2.7 - 2.7 - 2.6 - 3.1. Posterior border of pronotum with tiny seamed punctures laterally on marginal furrow; narrow lateral gutter of pronotum slightly widened posteriorly; surface of pronotum apparently 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, with relatively large punctures, nearly as wide as intervals, rather confused anteriorly on disc. Epipleura with sparse, minuscule setae near apex. Basitarsomeres enlarged, wider than third tarsomere in protarsi and narrower in meso- and metatarsi, shorter than second and third tarsomeres combined in pro- and mesotarsi, and about as long as these in metatarsi. Median apodeme of first abdominal ventrite about half as long as ventrite, arched, narrower than mesosternal process; margins of abdominal ventrites 4 and 5 strongly serrate; all ventrites with fine microreticulation, sparse fine punctures and short fine, posteriorly adpressed pale yellow setae. Penis (Fig. 9 f View Figure 9 ) slender, regularly curved ventrally, with sides slightly concave in ventral view, slightly widened preapically; apex elongate oval, arched distally with short projecting blunt tip; 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. Spermatheca (Fig. 1 e 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 recurved parallel and slightly longer than nodulus, enlarged distally with one complete, elongate coil.
Note.
Colour is apparently variable in both males and females of this species, ranging from reddish brown as in the type to dark brown, and with pronotum and elytra more or less concolor or with elytra paler.
Diagnosis.
This species belongs to the complex of C. thyiana (Jolivet, Verma & Mille) , species larger than 6.0 mm with wide prosternal process, and it is almost indistinguishable from its relatives. In this case, the species has tiny setae apically on epipleura, a trait only shared with C. petitpierrei sp. nov. and C. maquis sp. nov. (and some females of C. holosericea sp. nov.), but it can be distinguished from these species by the clearly serrate margins of fourth and fifth abdominal ventrites in both males and females, while in the other species only the fifth is finely serrulate in females and the fourth also in males, but less strongly.
Derivatio nominis.
The species name is the participle (f.), clipeāta, of the verb clipeō, to protect with a shield, thus meaning shielded, but in this case just calling the attention to the clypeus of males with the peculiar deep anterior indentation of the species in this group (see Fig. 4 c View Figure 4 ).
Distribution.
Species only known from relatively high elevations in the Mont Mandjélia, in the north of Grande Terre. It is the species of the genus with the northernmost range, isolated from the rest of species, mostly in the southern half of Grande Terre (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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