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Prosthetops pronotus Perkins & Balfour-Browne 1994, sp. nov.

Description

Prosthetops pronotus Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994

Additional record: 23/ix/2009 Western Cape, Tsitsikamma National Park, De Vasselot Section, small rockpool beside Salt River upstream of Keurpad (Fig. 12 A)—abundant.

Description of female, based on 7 specimens from the above locality (Fig. 2 B). As male (see Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994) with the exception of the following features: Microreticulation on head and pronotum more strongly marked, and more granular in appearance. Labrum smaller and shorter. Head with elongate concavity between ocelli, and arcuate sulci running from just in front of each ocellus towards the lateral corners of the frontoclypeal suture shorter and deeper (these also shorter and deeper than in the female of P. wolfbergensis sp. nov.). Pronotal grooves deeper and more marked (also in comparison with female of P. w o l f b e rg e n s i s sp. nov.). Elytra with broadly explanate side margins, and a deeper saddle than in male. Explanate margins in most specimens wider than in most females of P. wolfbergensis sp. nov. (see Fig. 2).

Notes

Published as part of Bilton, David T., 2013, Prosthetops wolfbergensis sp. nov. — a giant amongst the ' minute moss beetles', with new data on other members of the genus (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae), pp. 345-357 in Zootaxa 3666 (3) on pages 354-355, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3666.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/222583

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Biodiversity

Family
Hydraenidae
Genus
Prosthetops
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Perkins & Balfour-Browne
Species
pronotus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Prosthetops pronotus Perkins, 1994 sec. Bilton, 2013