Bambara verecunda
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Ptiliidae
Genus: Bambara
Name
Bambara verecunda Darby, Michael, 2014 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Bambara verecunda Darby, Michael, 2014, Zootaxa 3895: 169-169.
Description
Male: aedeagus Figs. 49 a–b. Female: spermatheca Fig. 31.
Etymology
Etymology. From the Latin verecundus meaning modest, shy, diffident, and referring to the species unassuming appearance and apparent range restriction presumably resulting from blindness and aptery.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis. The form of the spermatheca which will quickly it from all other species. The shape of the elytra which are widest at the humeral angle (viewed detached) will also separate it from all other Madagascan species except lanquidula from which it may be distinquished by its darker colour and smaller size. Additionally verecunda is the only Bambara described to date lacking both wings and eyes (but possibly a polymorphic species, see above).
Materials Examined
Type data: Holotype: ♀, Andasibe N.P. border, ASB/ Nov 2011 /01, sifting leaf litter, 29.xi. 2011, L.S.Rahanitriniaina (BMNH). Paratypes: 8 exs [14] (some fragmentary), 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: 169-169. doi
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