Cazeresia tricolor, 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.15594298 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6C1BB929-7D0B-50ED-8325-B8DCB3C188A3 |
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Cazeresia tricolor |
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sp. nov. |
Cazeresia tricolor sp. nov.
Figures 1 c View Figure 1 , 7 e View Figure 7 , 8 a View Figure 8
Material.
Holotype: Male, JGZC-5470 , Dzumac Mts., Mt. Ouin road junction , -22.03188 166.46738, 910 m, night, 28.x.2008, M. Wanat leg., Holotype Cazeresia tricolor sp. nov. Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso [red label] ( MNHW) GoogleMaps . — Paratypes: MNHW: 2 males and 4 females (two with, JGZC-5191 and JGZC-5225 ), Dzumac Mts., Mt. Ouin road junction , -22.03188 166.46738, 910 m, night, 28.x.2008, M. Wanat leg., Paratype Cazeresia tricolor sp. nov. Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso [red label] GoogleMaps ; 1 male ( JGZC-5458 ) and 1 female, Dzumac road , -22.08783 166.44643, 670 m, forest, night beating roadside, 31.x.2008, M. Wanat leg., Paratype Cazeresia tricolor sp. nov. Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso [red label] GoogleMaps .
Other material examined.
MNHW: 1 female ( JGZC-5694 ), Humboldt (S track) , -21.90491 166.35391, 580 m, 9.xi.2008, sifting litter, rainforest, M. Wanat leg., Cazeresia tricolor sp. nov. Gómez-Zurita & Cardoso, J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2024 GoogleMaps .
Description.
Body elongate elliptic, moderately convex. Mandibles and head black with faint bronze metallic reflection; pronotum and hypomera black with faint dark green metallic reflection; elytra and scutellum dark brown with faint blue metallic reflection; ventral surfaces dark brown; labrum, antennae and legs testaceous, with apical antennomeres except apex of antennomere 11 infuscate; palpi ocher. Length: 4.05 mm; width: 2.05 mm (range of male specimens: 4.0– 5.3 mm long, 2.0– 2.9 mm wide).
Frons with few small punctures anteriorly and supraocular sulci shortly prolonged medially to outer third of dorsal edge of supraantennal calli; clypeus with few small punctures basally and anterior border moderately emarginate. Eyes large, separate on frons by 1.6 × their transverse diameter. Relative proportions of antennomeres: 1.8-1.0 - 1.4 - 1.6 - 2.0 - 1.9 - 2.2 - 2.0 - 2.0 - 2.0 - 2.6. Very fine anterior margin of pronotum obsolete at middle; surface of pronotum similar to frons, without micropunctures. Prosternal process about 0.7 × as wide as transverse diameter of procoxae. Elytra about 1.3 × as long as ensemble width at base, widest behind humeri; surface rather smooth, shinier than pronotum, with relatively large punctures, smaller than intervals, rather confused anteriorly on disc. Basitarsomeres enlarged, as wide as third tarsomere in protarsi, narrower in meso- and metatarsi, shorter than second and third tarsomeres combined in protarsi, about as long in mesotarsi, and longer in metatarsi. Median apodeme of first abdominal ventrite about half as long as ventrite, subtrapezoidal, narrower than mesosternal process; all ventrites with fine microreticulation, sparse fine punctures and long fine, posteriorly adpressed pale yellow setae. Penis (Fig. 7 e View Figure 7 ) slender, regularly curved ventrally, with sides slightly concave in ventral view, as wide preapically as wide at base; apex elongate oval, arched distally with short blunt tooth; gonopore oval, with distal end separated from apex of penis by distance slightly longer than maximum width of gonopore; dorsal flap subtrapezoidal, longer than wide, covering about basal half of gonopore. — Females. Spermatheca (Fig. 1 c View Figure 1 ) shaped as question mark, 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 thin and weakly sclerotized near insertion, inserted laterally near base of nodulus, oriented obliquely opposite to cornu for short distance, markedly enlarged and sclerotized with less than one complete, elongate coil distally.
Diagnosis.
Among the brown species with testaceous appendages, the very peculiar shape of the spermatheca of this species is only found in C. parentalis sp. nov., with which it shares many similarities and they are probably sister (unfortunately it was not possible to obtain DNA sequences of this species to prove it). However, they can be distinguished by the very weak metallic tinge and lustrous appearance of dorsal surfaces in this species compared to the dull, brownish tones of C. parentalis .
Derivatio nominis.
The three different faint metallic tonalities of the type and other specimens in the type series is reflected in the chosen name, the Latin adjective (f.), tricolor , meaning three-coloured.
Distribution.
This species has been recorded from relatively high elevations (670–910 m a. s. l.) in the southern part of the Massif du Sud (Fig. 8 a 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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