Bambara opaca
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Ptiliidae
Genus: Bambara
Name
Bambara opaca Darby, Michael, 2014 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Bambara opaca Darby, Michael, 2014, Zootaxa 3895: 163-164.
Description
Male: aedeagus without any clear features to reliably distinguish it from other Bambara Fig. 50. Female: spermathecae Figs. 36–40.
Etymology
Etymology. From the Latin opacus meaning shady, obscure, and referring to the overall colouration.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis. The shape of the spermatheca. Most likely to be confused with the spermatheca of problematica but distinguishable by the more attenuated shape, particularly between the pump and gland insertion points. Also distinguished from that species by the presence of males.
Materials Examined
Type data:Holotype: ♀, Vohimana Reservation Experimentale, VOH/ Nov. 2011 /01, sifting forest litter, 27.xi. 2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina & P. Banar (BMNH). Paratypes: 9 exs [6], same data as holotype.
Taxon Treatment
- Darby, Michael; 2014: Studies of Madagascan Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) 4: The genus Bambara including eight new species and the first account of blindness and aptery in the genus, Zootaxa 3895: 163-164. doi
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