Platypalpus septentrionalis Shamshev & Sinclair & Khruleva 2020, sp. nov.
Platypalpus septentrionalis Shamshev & Sinclair sp. nov. (Figs 69–72) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 67F5F184-B4CB-4F4E-895D-491D576A1A5E Type material. HOLOTYPE ♂, labelled: [RUSSIA. Chukotka AO (Wrangel Island)] “bukh. [=bukhta, bay] Somnitelnaya,/ south o. [=ostrov, island] Wrangel/ Gorodkov 22.vi...
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| Summary: | Platypalpus septentrionalis Shamshev & Sinclair sp. nov. (Figs 69–72) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 67F5F184-B4CB-4F4E-895D-491D576A1A5E Type material. HOLOTYPE ♂, labelled: [RUSSIA. Chukotka AO (Wrangel Island)] “bukh. [=bukhta, bay] Somnitelnaya,/ south o. [=ostrov, island] Wrangel/ Gorodkov 22.vii.[1966]”; “dol. r. [=dolina reki, valley of river] Somnitelnaya,/ Mineev Mountains, 150 m,/ shingle”; “on flower of Potentilla emarginata ”; “ Holotypus / Platypalpus / septentrionalis / Shamshev, Sinclair sp. nov. [red label]” (INS_DIP_0000619, ZIN, pinned on one pin with a female). PARATYPES. RUSSIA. Chukotka AO (Wrangel Island): Pinned on one pin with the holotype male (1 ♀, ZIN); same data as holotype (1 ♂, 4 ♀, ZIN; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, CNC); same data as holotype, 19.vii.1966 (1 ♀, ZIN). Diagnosis. Small robust blackish species of the P. longicornis group; 2 pairs of black vertical setae; postpedicenearly 2.5X longer than wide and 2X longer than stylus; legs extensively dark brown, mid tibia with very short apical spur; halteres brown. Description. Body holotype 1.9 mm, wing 2.0 mm. Male (Fig. 69). Head black. Occiput entirely densely greyish pollinose; with 2 pairs of long, black vertical setae (inner pair proclinate and slightly inclinate; outer pair lateroclinate); very short dark setae on upper part and longer pale setae on lower part. Ocellar tubercle concolorous with occiput, with 2 long, black lateroclinate anterior setae and 2 minute posterior setae. Frons broad on upper part, narrowed toward antennae, below ocellar tubercle broader than distance between outer margins of posterior ocelli; densely greyish brown pruinose (anterior view). Face rather broad, nearly as broad as frons above antennae, concolorous with frons; clypeus shiny.Antenna uniformly dark brown; postpedicel conical, moderately long, nearly 2.5X as long as basal width; stylus short, nearly 2X shorter than postpedicel. Gena very narrow, shiny. Proboscis dark brown, short. Palpus black, small, oval, pale pubescent, with 2 pale setae apically. Thorax ... |
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