Bambara secubita
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Ptiliidae
Genus: Bambara
Name
Bambara secubita Darby, Michael, 2014 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Bambara secubita Darby, Michael, 2014, Zootaxa 3895: 165-165.
Description
Male: Not known Female: spermathecae Figs. 32,33.
Etymology
Etymology. From the Latin secubitus meaning lying or sleeping alone and referring to the absence of males.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis. The form of the spermatheca which will quickly distinguish this species from all others.
Materials Examined
Type data: Holotype: ♀, Ambohitantely S.R., ABT/ Sept 2011 / 17, sifting forest litter, S. 18 ° 11 '04.8" E. 47 ° 17 ' 11.8 ", 1598 m, 4.ix. 2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina (BMNH). Paratypes: 8 exs [136] same data as holotype; 3 exs (one detroyed), Ambohitantely S.R., ABT/ Nov/ 2011 /02, sifting forest litter, S. 18 ° 11 ' 49.1 " E. 47 ° 17 '05.6", 1547 m, 16–17.xi. 2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina & P. Banar (BMNH); 1 ex., Ambohitantely S.R., ABT/ 18 / 2011, sifting forest litter, S. 18 ° 11 ' 43.9 " E. 47 ° 17 ' 16.1 ", 1613 m, 20.iv. 2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina & R. Raveloson (BMNH); 2 exs [61], Ambohitantely S.R., ABT/ Nov/ 2011 / 11, sifting forest litter, S. 18 ° 10 ' 52.6 " E. 47 ° 17 ' 22.5 ", 1497 m, 18.ix. 2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina (BMNH); 3 exs, Ambohitantely S.R., ABT/ 14 / 2011, sifting litter secondary forest, S. 18 ° 11 ' 25.2 " E. 47 ° 17 ' 36.1 ", 1632 m, 20.iv. 2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina & R. Raveloson (BMNH); 7 exs, Ambohitantely S.R., ABT/ 12 / 2011, sifting plant residues under palm tree, S. 18 ° 11 ' 48.9 " E. 47 ° 17 ' 10.5 ", 1602 m, 19.iv. 2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina & R. Raveloson (BMNH); 3 ♀, Ambohitantely S.R., ABT/ Nov/ 2011 / 16, sifting forest litter under Pandanus, S. 18 ° 11 ' 42.6 " E. 47 ° 17 ' 10.8 ", 1620 m, 21.xi. 2010, L.S.Rahanitriniaina (BMNH); ♀, Ambohitantely S.R., ABT/03/ 2011, sifting wet aluvia by stream, S. 18 ° 10 ' 51.7 " E. 47 ° 17 ' 21.6 ", 1593 m, 19.iv. 2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina (BMNH); 10 exs, Ambohitantely S.R., ABT/ Sept 2011 / 15, sifting forest litter, S. 18 ° 10 ' 57.3 " E. 47 ° 17 ' 17.2 ", 1565 m, 3.ix. 2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina (BMNH); 3 ♀, Ambohitantely S.R., ABT/ Nov 2011 / 15, sifting litter under Pandanus, S. 18 ° 11 '32.0" E. 47 ° 17 '08.7", 1634 m, 21.xi. 2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina (BMNH); 4 exs, Ambohitantely S.R., ABT/ Sept 2011 /08, sifting forest litter under Pandanus, S. 18 ° 11 '02.2" E. 47 ° 17 ' 13.4 ", 1565 m, 4.ix. 2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina (BMNH); ♀, Ambohitantely S.R., ABT/ Sep 2011, sifting forest litter, S. 18 ° 11 ' 42.9 " E. 47 ° 17 ' 20.3 ", 1640 m, 17.ix. 2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina (BMNH); ♀, Ambohitantely S.R., ABT/ Sep 2011 / 13, sifting forest litter under Pandanus and by big tree, S. 18 ° 10 ' 58.4 " E. 47 ° 17 ' 22.6 ", 1525 m, 3.ix. 2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina (BMNH); 2 ♀, Ambohitantely S.R., ABT/01/ 2011, sifting forest litter under Pandanus very dry material, S. 18 ° 10 ' 51.7 " E. 47 ° 17 ' 21.6 ", 1593 m, 19.iv. 2011, P. Banar & R. Raveloson (BMNH); 4 exs, Ambohitantely S.R., ABT/ Sept 2011 /04, sifting forest litter under Pandanus, S. 18 ° 11 ' 46.4 " E. 47 ° 17 '09.9", 1570 m, 1.ix. 2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina (BMNH); 1 ex, Ambohitantely S.R., ABT/ Nov 2011 / 12, sifting forest litter, S. 18 ° 10 ' 53.3 " E. 47 ° 17 ' 22.4 ", 1482 m, 18.xi.. 2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina (BMNH); 2 exs, Ambohitantely S.R., ABT/ Sept 2011 /06, sifting forest litter under big rock by stream, S. 18 ° 10 ' 52.5 " E. 47 ° 17 ' 21.2 ", 1476 m, 2.ix. 2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina (BMNH); 3 exs (one destroyed) [49], Ankarafantsika N.P., AKF/05/ 2011, sifting forest litter, S. 16 ° 18 '05.1" E. 46 ° 49 '08.3", 89 m, 23.iv. 2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina & R. Raveloson (BMNH); ♀, Ranomafana N.P., RNF/ 12 / 2011, sifting litter, S. 21 ° 14 ' 51.3 " E. 47 ° 24 '09.1", 1118 m, 15.iv. 2011, P. Banar & Raveloson (BMNH).
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: 165-165. doi
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