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Lasiacantha aemula Cassis & Symonds 2011, nov. comb.
No full textLasiacantha aemula (Drake, 1947), nov. comb. (Fig. 7b) Tingis aemula Drake, 1947: 115 (sp. nov.); Drake and Ruhoff, 1965: 390 (catalogue); Cassis and Gross, 1995: 435 (catalogue). Holotype. ♀, AUSTRALIA: South Australia: Ooldea, 30°27’S 13150’ E, A. M. Lea (USNM, Drake collection). Dorsal habitus photo of type (Fig. 7b). Diagnosis. Lasiacantha aemula is recognised by the following combination of characters: broadly uniform colouration, with medium to dark brown band across costal area; major setiferous tubercles on pronotum and hemelytra very short, terminal seta subequal or longer than tuberculate base and mostly recurved, except for anteriorly on the paranota where straight; anterior margin of pronotum, keel of collum and pronotal carinae with major setiferous tubercles; costal area with setiferous tubercles extending halfway along hemelytral margin; carinate margins of discoidal area with major setiferous tubercles, posterior angle without clump of setiferous tubercles; head with flattened, elongate scalelike setae; pronotum with hairlike setae only, moderately elongate, weakly thickened; hemelytra with sparsely distributed hairlike setae at base, in subcostal and costal areas; cephalic spines greatly elongate, medial spine straight; AIV weakly clavate apically; collum subtriangular; carinae mostly uniseriate; paranota two areolae wide; costal area uniformly two areolae wide; subcostal area two areolae wide; areolae on paranota and costal area moderately small and uniformly round shaped; areolae in discoidal and subcostal areas subequal in size to areolae in sutural area. Host plant. Unknown. Distribution. Known only from the type locality at Ooldea (Oldea [sic] in original description (Drake 1947)) in southern South Australia, on the eastern edge of the Nullarbor Plain. Remarks. Lasiacantha aemula is most closely related to L. vittata, L. serraseta, and L. discordis, with all four species possessing a subtriangular collum, highly elevated pronotal carinae, and a brown band across the costal area of the hemelytra. It is very similar to L. vittata and L. serraseta (and all differing from L. discordis) in its overall uniformly reddish to pale brown colouration, smallish and uniformly sized areolae in the paranota and costal area, and all the areolae in the hemelytra are subequal in size. Lasiacantha aemula and L. serraseta have mostly uniseriate pronotal carinae, differing from L. discordis and L. vittata by the mostly biseriate pronotal carinae. However, L. aemula is easily distinguished from these three species by the paranota with two rows of areolae (rather than three rows in the other species; or sometimes biseriate in L. discordis with large irregularly shaped areolae), costal area uniformly biseriate with areolae moderately small and uniformly round shaped (triseriate in vittata and serraseta; mostly biseriate in discordis, but sometimes triseriate at widest point wide and cells mostly large and irregularly shaped), slightly more elongate discoidal area, and setiferous tubercles on posterior half of paranota, and costal area very short with recurved terminal setae (rather than all mostly very short and straight terminal setae). Also, the occipital cephalic spines in L. aemula do not appear to be as greatly elongate and curved as in the other related species. The recurved terminal setae on the setiferous tubercles in L. aemula is a putatively autapomorphic character for the Australian Lasiacantha species, however these recurved terminal setae are also present in one Inoma species, I. arrernte Cassis and Symonds.Published as part of Cassis, Gerasimos & Symonds, Celia, 2011, Systematics, biogeography and host plant associations of the lace bug genus Lasiacantha Stål in Australia (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) 2818, pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 2818 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2818.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/528906
CaSSIS - First Images from science orbit
No full textCaSSIS (Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System)
is the main imaging system for the ExoMars Trace
Gas Orbiter (TGO) mission. The instrument was
completed in October 2015 and launched in March
2016 [1]. This abstract describes the current status of
CaSSIS and provides a first assessment of its
observations from the start of the primary science
mission
Megadrymus brigalow Cassis & Symonds, 2014, n. sp.
No full textMegadrymus brigalow n. sp. (Figs 1 & 2) Holotype: ♀, AUSTRALIA: Queensland: 3 km S of Pine Mt, 21.77133 °S 148.8393 °E, 230 m, 24 Mar 2000, G. Monteith, ex. Malaise trap in vine scrub (AMNH _PBI 00399811) (QM). Diagnosis. Megadrymus brigalow n. sp. is distinguished by the following characters: very small size, <3.5 mm, ovate, robust body, general colour reddish brown, entire forefemora and apical three quarters of meso- and metafemora orange-brown, remainder of legs pale cream brown; corium with distinct patches of light cream and darker reddish brown; inner corium without distinct distal pale spot, only diffusely pale; posterior pronotal lobe pale overall; transparent (colourless) wing membrane; sparse distribution of very short simple setae on abdominal venter, denser laterally; middle of posterior pronotal lobe with v-shaped depression; tricarinate keel of pronotum removed from anterior margin of scutellum, scutellum strongly inclined anteriorly, keel without thickened anterior arms; prosternum slightly elevated but without longitudinal ridge between forecoxae; posterior lobe of metapleuron punctate; forefemur weakly incrassate, only with anteroventral row of spines, hind tarsi with 1 st tarsomere less than twice 2 nd and 3 rd together. Description. Female. COLOURATION. Head: dark reddish brown; labium cream, labial segment orangish. Antennae: orange-brown. Pronotum: explanate pronotal margins cream; anterior pronotal lobe uniformly redbrown; posterior pronotal lobe cream, with prominent red-brown v-shaped marking medially from anterior margin and two diffuse semi-circular orangey patches from posterior margin, punctations red-brown, posterolateral corners orange-brown. Scutellum: mostly red-brown, anterolateral corners slightly darker, lighter cream markings along posterolateral margins adjacent to clavus. Hemelytra: punctations red-brown; clavus orange-brown, cream dash posteriorly; corium banded, orange-brown basally, red-brown medially and apically, cream brown in between; inner third of corium without distal cream spot, just diffusely lightened; embolium cream basally, orangey distally; membrane transparent, no colour. Thoracic pleura and sterna: red-brown; posterior margins of pro- and metapleuron and supracoxal lobes slightly lighter orange-brown; scent gland evaporative area and peritreme dark brown. Legs: trochanters yellowish; coxae orange-brown; forefemur entirely orange-brown; mid and metafemora yellowish at base, apical three quarters orange-brown; tibiae and tarsi yellowish. Abdomen: red-brown. SURFACE AND VESTITURE. Punctation present over entire inner third of corium and most of outer third of corium, outer third with three rows of punctuations; antennal segments with moderate distribution of semi-erect setae, apical half of AIII +AIV also with short adpressed simple setae; abdominal venter with sparse distribution of short simple setae, denser laterally. STRUCTURE. Very small size, body length 3.37 mm; body shape ovate, robust. Head: length 0. 36 mm; width 0.75 mm; without bent or stepped gula; clypeus prominently elevated above mandibular plate; interoccular distance 0.47 mm. Pronotum: anterior pronotal lobe 0.47 mm long, 1.07 mm wide; posterior pronotal 0.40 mm long, 1.38 mm wide; anterior pronotal lobe a half longer than posterior pronotal lobe; latter 0.47 mm; anterior pronotal lobe moderately elevated; posterior pronotal lobe with medial depression from anterior margin. Scutellum: length 0.77 mm; tricarinate keel over posterior two thirds of scutellum, strongly elevated, anterior arms not thickened. Hemelytra: macropterous. Thoracic pleura and sterna: prosternum elevated medially; posterior section of metapleuron with row of punctations along posterior margin and on lateral margin. Forefemora: weakly incrassate; with one row of spines on ventral surface; anteroventral row of spines straight, major spine small, much shorter than width of tibia, directed straight; anteroventral margin not apically excavated/concave between major spine and apex; posteroventral swollen spine absent. Hind tarsi: 1 st tarsomere less than twice length of 2 nd and 3 rd tarsomeres combined. Remarks. We did not place this new species in Megadrymus (Cassis & Symonds 2012) based on its lack of a stepped gula; transparent wing membrane; scutellar keel being more weakly defined, without thickened anterior arms; presence of a v-shaped impression medially on the posterior pronotal lobe; forefemora with only one (anteroventral) row of spines and only very weakly incrassate; contrasting colouration on corium with very distinct patches of light and dark (whereas in other Megadrymus spp. edges between light and dark patches are more diffuse); lack of distinct and relatively large pale spot distally on inner corium; posterior pronotal lobe pale overall; clypeus prominently elevated above mandibular plate; hind tarsi with 1 st tarsomere less than twice 2 nd and 3 rd together. As a consequence M. brigalow n. sp. was placed sister to the clade of Paradrymus exilirostris Gross + Megadrymus, in our phylogenetic analysis (Cassis & Symonds 2012, see Figure 1). However, on re-examination of the specimen and more extensive study of Australian Drymini in collections, we have determined this species to be a member of Megadrymus. We have observed that within other Drymini, that with very small species many characters seem to be reduced in expression or absent compared to other seemingly congeneric morphospecies (i.e. shape of the head, pronotum and scutellum and structure of the forefemora), as seen also in Megadrymus brigalow n. sp. Megadrymus brigalow n. sp. is the smallest species in the genus and most atypical with respect to the pronotal and scutellar colouration and structure, and colouration of corium as described. In particular, colouration of the tricarinate keel of the scutellum is for the most part the same as the ground colour of the scutellum, as opposed to most other species of Megadrymus where the keel colouration is contrasting, being lighter in colouration. Megadrymus tenuicornis (Gross) is also very small (Female = 3.76 mm) and also more pale in colour but can be differentiated most easily by the shape of the pronotum and scutellum structure. Megadrymus brigalow n. sp. is similar to M. kakadu Cassis and Symonds, but differs by being smaller, and by having a more ovate and robust body shape (rather than the more slender shape of M. kakadu), and again the pronotal and scutellar structure. Setae on the abdominal venter of M. brigalow n. sp. are slightly shorter than in M. kakadu but with same distribution. In addition, M. brigalow n. sp. has the forefemora only weakly incrassate and without any outer swelling or spine, which we refer to as the posteroventral basal tumescence (see Figure 7, Cassis and Symonds 2012). Distribution. Megadrymus brigalow n. sp. is known from a single locality on the Great Dividing Range, southwest of Mackay on the mid coast of Queensland (See Figure 2). The specimen was collected from semievergreen vine thicket, a scattered dry rainforest habitat found in the Brigalow Belt (North and South) and Nandewar IBRA Bioregions (mapped in Figure 2), and nationally listed as an endangered ecological community, mainly due to loss and fragmentation from clearing and degradation of remnants (Department of the Environment 2013). Pine Mountain is located within the Brigalow Belt North IBRA Bioregion. Etymology. After the biogeographic region of the type locality. Noun in apposition.Published as part of Cassis, Gerasimos & Symonds, Celia L., 2014, Megadrymus brigalow n. sp. (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae: Drymini), a diminutive new species of seed bug from semi-evergreen vine thicket of the Queensland Brigalow Belt, pp. 596-600 in Zootaxa 3774 (6) on pages 597-599, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3774.6.8, http://zenodo.org/record/22460
Health care professionals dealing with hemophilia: insights from the international qualitative study of the HERO initiative
No full textSilvia Potì,1 Laura Palareti,1 Frederica RMY Cassis,2 Sonia Brondi11Department of Education Studies “Giovanni Maria Bertin”, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy; 2Faculty of Medicine Clinics Hospital, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 05403-000, BrazilBackground: Assessing the viewpoints of health care professionals concerning their work with chronic patients is a relatively new research topic, widely overlooked in the literature. However, understanding their subjective work experience is highly relevant for identifying problems and perceived resources, enhancing health service organisation, improving relationships or communication with patients, and maintaining well-being.Purpose and method: Qualitative data from the “Haemophilia Experience, Results and Opportunities” Initiative – a research program aimed at investigating the psychosocial aspects of hemophilia – were used to evaluate the experiences of 62 professionals from seven countries around the world. Semi-structured interviews were submitted to thematic analysis of elementary contexts with the aid of T-Lab software.Results: Five dominant themes emerged, identifying the main challenges that professionals have to deal with in their everyday work practice: caring for impaired adult patients; handling policies and stakeholders; providing counselling on diagnosis and reproductive choices; considering the role of family dynamics; coping with adolescent patients.Conclusion: The outcomes of the study provide an opportunity to develop the area of the non-technical skills in the core curriculum of those who work with chronic illnesses by focusing on cross-professional competences and by improving a comprehensive care model for hemophilia patients.Keywords: health care professionals, subjective experience, chronic illness, hemophilia, cross-cultura
Emesopsis cirratus Tatarnic & Cassis, 2011, n. sp.
No full textEmesopsis cirratus n. sp. Figures 2 F–I, 5, 6A–F Diagnosis. This species is recognised by the following combination of characters: postocular region greatly tumid (Figs. 2 G, 5, 6A) submacropterous with apex of forewing upturned (Figs. 2 H, 5, 6B) and adorned with raised, pitted patterning (Fig. 6 B), and male genitalia (Figs. 2 F, 2 I, 6 C–D). Description. Measurements (male): Body length 3.55. Head length 0.49; head width 0.40; interocular distance 0.19. AI 1.87; AII 1.36; AIII 0.84; AIV 0.32. Pronotal length 0.50; pronotal width 0.42. Colour. As in Figures 2 H and 5. Body mostly orange-brown with cream and brown markings. Head mostly brown with bucculae and dorsum of postocular region lighter brown. Antennae mostly orange-brown, AI basally tan, apically with dark brown annulation, AIII and AIV brown. Labium: LI mostly brown with base and apex tan, LII brown, LIII orange-brown, basally tan. Pronotum mostly orange-brown, disc brown to dark brown. Scutellum and metanotum, including metanotal spine brown to dark brown. Forewings mostly cream with veins orangebrown to brown, and two dark brown markings at apicolateral and basolateral margin of discal cell; with mottled orange-brown patterning within and mesad to discal cell, and prominant brown marking at apicolateral margin of membrane. Thoracic sterna and pterothoracic pleura brown to dark brown. Legs mostly tan to orange-brown. Forecoxae mostly cream with subapical orange-brown to dark brown annulation. Meso- and metacoxae dark brown. Forefemora cream with three elongate dark brown annulations. Meso- and metafemora with two distal orangebrown to dark brown annulations, apically pale. Foretibiae mostly orange-brown with bases and apices brown. Meso- and metatibiae orange-brown. Tarsi orange-brown. Abdominal venter mostly orange-brown, basally paler, becoming dark brown towards apex, pygophore dark brown. Texture and vestiture. As in Figures 2 G and 6 A–F. Head clothed in dense white wool-like pile interspersed with long upright setae on dorsal postocular surface; setae on ventral surface short and dense. Antennae with adpressed setae of moderate length, becoming shorter on apical segments. Labium smooth, with sparse distribution of recurved setae, mostly confined to basal anterior surface of LI. Thorax covered with white wool-like pile interspersed with long setae. Coxae with long, semierect white setae. Forefemora with semiadpressed setae of moderate length, slightly longer on ventral surface. Meso- and metafemora with long semierect setae, becoming shorter and more adpressed towards apex. Tibia with shorter, semiadpressed spine-like setae. Abdomen dorsally blanketed with short velutinous silken setae, ventrally with dense wool-like pile on SI; remainder of abdominal venter with longer hairlike setae, becoming shorter apically. Structure. As shown in Figures 2 F–I, 5, 6A–F. Submacropterous. Elongate, body margins divergent posteriorly; with elongate appendages (antennae and mid and hind legs longer than body). Head with elevated anteocular and postocular lobes, with deep interocular groove; postocular lobe circular, tumid; genae tumid. Pronotum hourglass shaped, elongate, with strong transverse constriction separating anterior and posterior lobes; callosite region tumid, circular; posterior lobe evenly raised towards concave posterior margin; humeral angles weakly tumose. Mesonotum not exposed. Scutellum small, round, weakly tumose, without spine. Metanotum subtriangular, depressed, with elongate spine, extending well beyond wing plane. Forelegs elongate, about 9 / 10 th of body length. Forecoxae elongate, cylindrical, without armature. Forefemora elongate, fusiform, with two rows of short, weakly recurved spines, extending full length of segment. Foretibiae elongate, proximal ¾ cylindrical, apically weakly arcuate and compressed. Meso- and metacoxae globose, short, widely separated. Meso- and metafemora thin, elongate, cylindrical, weakly arcuate. Meso- and metatibiae thin, elongate, cylindrical, weakly arcuate apically. Tarsi short, 3 -segmented. Claws as in Figure 6 F. Forewings, submacropterous, triangular, with apices upturned; Sc region depressed, pterostigma obscure; subbasal cell elongate, subquadrate; discal cell enlarged, not strongly tapered apically; Cu bordering posterior margin of wing, apically subperpendicular to Sc; one longitudinal vein extending from apex of discal cell. Hindwing with complete venation, hamus absent. Abdomen flattened, expanded posteriorly. Second abdominal tergite (first segment) with a small cylindrical spine, adjacent to anterior margin of segment. Male genitalia: Posteroventral margin of pygophore with upright spine. Parameres gently recurved and converging. Endosoma a membraneous sac with two pairs of lateral lobes and a single pair of medial lobes, intermixed with paired, elongate, sinuous, apically tapered endosomal spicules. Distribution. Known only from Lord Howe Island. Etymology. The specific epithet “ cirratus ” refers to the curled nature of the hemelytra. Specimens examined. Holotype: Male: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales: Lord Howe Island: base of Intermediate Hill, on walking track to Goat House 31.561 o S 159.075 o E, (site LHI/GC/L 18), 10 metres, G. Cassis, 16 December 2000, Lowland Mixed Forest, Howea fosteriana litter, at night (AM). Paratypes: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales: Lord Howe Island: base of Intermediate Hill, on walking track to Goat House 31.561 o S 159.075 o E, (site LHI/GC/L 18), 10 metres, G. Cassis, 16 December 2000, Lowland Mixed Forest, Howea fosteriana litter, at night, 131 Ƥ (AM); Transit Hill Rd, 27 November 1969, C. N. Smithers (AM); 13, Eastern slope of Malabar Ridge above Ned’s Beach, 31.518 o S 159.061 o E, 19 Nov. 2000; CBCR, Australian Museum; LHIS 011L leaf litter ex Closed Rain Forest – Drypetes /Cryptocarya habitat, 1 Ƥ (AM). Remarks. Until recently, Emesopsis was diagnosed by the presence of a small, subquadrate basal cell in the forewing (Wygodzinsky 1966). This has since been shown not to be the case, with the recently described Australian mainland species E. infenestra Tatarnic Wall and Cassis, and now the Norfolk Island species E. cirratus, both shown to lack this trait. These species correspond in all other characters with the genus, prompting a revision of the diagnosis (Tatarnic et al. 2011). This species is also unique among congeners as the only one to exhibit any form of wing reduction.Published as part of Tatarnic, Nikolai J. & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2011, The thread-legged bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands, pp. 21-43 in Zootaxa 2967 on pages 32-35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20700
Lasiacantha luritja Cassis & Symonds 2011, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Lasiacantha luritja</i>, sp. nov. <p>(Figs 1, 3a, 4g & h, 5, 7a, 10, 13c)</p> <p> <b>Holotype.</b> ♂, <b>AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory:</b> ~ 38 km N of Lasseter Hwy on Luritja Rd, 24.92 <b>°</b> S 132.2809 <b>°</b> E, 593 m, 02 Nov 2001, Cassis, Schuh, Schwartz, Silveira, Wall, ex <i>Eremophila freelingii</i> F.Muell. (Myoporaceae), det. NSW Herbarium NSW 666292 (193243) (NTM).</p> <p> <b>Paratypes. AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory:</b> ~ 38 km N of Lasseter Hwy on Luritja Rd, 24.92 <b>°</b> S 132.2809 <b>°</b> E, 593 m, 02 Nov 2001, Cassis, Schuh, Schwartz, Silveira, Wall, ex <i>Eremophila freelingii</i> F.Muell. (Myoporaceae), det. NSW Herbarium NSW 666292, 3 m (13665, 13187, 13188), 4 f (13664, 13183–13185) (AM); 1 km S of Henbury Craters Nature Reserve, 24.56668 <b>°</b> S 133.1234 <b>°</b> E, 457 m, 29 Oct 2001, Cassis, Schuh, Schwartz, Silveira, Wall, ex <i>Eremophila freelingii</i> F.Muell. (Myoporaceae), det. NSW Herbarium NSW 658410, 1 f (13123) (AM); 33 km E of Alice Springs on Ross Hwy, 23.73335 <b>°</b> S 134.1536 <b>°</b> E, 555 m, 25 Oct 2001, Cassis, Schuh, Schwartz, Silveira, Wall, ex <i>Amyema maidenii</i> (Blakely) Barlow (Loranthaceae), det. NSW Herbarium NSW 658336, 1 f (13116), ex <i>Eremophila freelingii</i> (Myoporaceae), det. NSW Herbarium NSW 658335, 15 m (13089–13103), 12 f (13111–13115, 13117–13122, 13653) (AM); 5 km S of Aileron, 22.8 <b>°</b> S 133.35 <b>°</b> E, 5 Apr 1981, M. Malipatil and J. Hawkins, 1 f (00193266) (NTM); Trephina Gorge, Grevillea Gorge, 23.53333 <b>°</b> S 134.4 <b>°</b> E, May 1995, G Cassis, ex <i>Eremophila</i> sp. (Myoporaceae), det. field ID, 4 m (17386–17389), 13 f (17390– 17402) (AM).</p> <p> <b>Other material examined</b>. <b>AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory:</b> Trephina Gorge, Grevillea Gorge, 23.53333 <b>°</b> S 134.4 <b>°</b> E, May 1995, G Cassis, ex <i>Eremophila</i> sp. (Myoporaceae), det. field ID, 2 larvae (17403, 17404) (AM).</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> <i>Lasiacantha luritja</i> is recognised by the following combination of characters: mottled colouration of dorsum, golden orange brown to red brown and dark brown (Fig. 5); pronotal carinae orange brown, paler than disc (Fig. 5); major setiferous tubercles on pronotum and hemelytra moderately elongate, terminal seta at least half length of tuberculate base (Fig. 10a, c–d, f); costal area with setiferous tubercles extending to posterior hemelytral margin (Fig. 10f); carinate margins of discoidal area with major setiferous tubercles, posterior angle with clump of setiferous tubercles (Fig. 10f); pronotum with woolly and hairlike setae (Fig. 10c, d); hemelytra with woolly and hairlike setae (Fig. 10f); woolly setae elongate, curly, creamy gold (Fig. 5); hairlike setae moderately elongate (Fig. 10a, c–d); abdominal venter with straight, pale, short, scalelike setae (Fig. 10h); cephalic spines elongate, medial spine forked(Fig. 10a–b); collum columnar, subequal to medial carina; paranota three areolae wide (Fig. 10c–d); costal area mostly two areolae wide, three posteriorly (Fig. 10f); areolae on hemelytra all subequal, large (Fig. 10f); sternal carinae divergent, metasternal carinae more widely separated.</p> <p> <b>Description.</b> Medium size, macropterous (Fig. 5); males 2.99–3.15, females 2.81–3.22. COLOURATION. Dorsum golden orange brown to red brown and dark brown, mottled. <i>Head:</i> dark brown, almost black; cephalic spines medium brown, sometimes bicoloured with dark brown apex; bucculae orange brown; labium orange brown, apex dark brown; antennae mostly orange brown, AIV distal club darker red brown. <i>Pronotum:</i> disc dark brown, almost black or red brown, diminishing posteriorly to golden orange brown; paranota mottled, red brown and orange brown; collum orange brown, slightly darkened at apex; carinae orange brown, medial carina with a darker red brown stripe medially. <i>Thoracic pleura and sterna:</i> variable from red brown to dark brown almost black, supracoxal lobes slightly paler; sternal carinae orange brown. <i>Legs:</i> mostly orange brown, basal three quarters of femur slightly darker; tarsi red brown, tarsal claw black. <i>Hemelytra:</i> mottled/patchy orange brown and red brown to dark brown; darker patches banded on costal area, at posterior angle of discoidal area, medially in discoidal and sutural areas. <i>Abdomen:</i> variable from red brown to dark brown. VESTITURE. <i>Head:</i> dense distribution of elongate, curly, creamy gold, woolly setae; absent in longitudinal rows between occipital and medial spines; antennae with minor setiferous tubercles, pale colour, AI–AII with single row of setiferous tubercles with moderately elongate curved terminal seta, AIII setiferous tubercles with greatly elongate with straight terminal seta. <i>Pronotum:</i> paranota margins with moderately elongate major setiferous tubercles, terminal seta at least half length of tuberculate base; keel of collum and pronotal carinae rarely also with major setiferous tubercles; collum, paranota and pronotal carinae with moderately elongate, hairlike setae; disc with dense distribution of elongate, curly, creamy gold, woolly setae, same setae as head. <i>Thoracic pleura and sterna:</i> pleura with dense distribution of elongate woolly setae as on dorsum, less dense on supracoxal lobes; mesosternum with sparse distribution of short scalelike setae. <i>Legs:</i> minor setiferous tubercles, terminal seta pale colour, elongate, erect, bristlelike; slightly shorter and thickened at base of femora. <i>Hemelytra:</i> costal margins with major setiferous tubercles as on paranota, extending to posterior margin of hemelytra; major setiferous tubercles on carinate margins of discoidal area and cubitus + R+M vein, more clumped (aggregated) at anterior angle of discoidal area; moderately dense distribution of hairlike setae, same as pronotum, on costal, subcostal and discoidal areas; discoidal area at wing base with few woolly setae; white microtrichae absent. <i>Abdomen:</i> moderately dense distribution of short, straight, silvery, scalelike setae. STRUCTURE. <i>Head:</i> spines elongate; frontal spines parallel, longer than AI; medial spine forked; occipital spines strongly curved outwards, extending past outer margin of eye; labium moderate length, extending to anterior margin of metasternum; antennae, AI short and subequal to AII, AIV with compact base before clavate apex. <i>Pronotum:</i> disc slightly convex; collum columnar, uniformly broad, vertically projected, sub-equal in height to medial carina; carinae moderately elevated, one areole wide, medial carina with extra one to three areolae medially; lateral carinae thickened; paranota rounded semi-circular, three areolae wide. <i>Thoracic sterna:</i> sternal carinae straight, metasternal carinae wider than mesosternal carinae. <i>Hemelytra:</i> areolae large, subequal size over entire hemelytra; costal area two areolae wide, three posteriorly; subcostal area two areolae wide; discoidal area three areolae wide; sutural area four areolae wide. <i>Male genitalia:</i> pygophore subquadrate; narrowing posteriorly; rounded and slightly flattened posterior margin; dorsal opening strongly concave, rounded (Fig. 10g); parameres with sensory lobe rounded, weakly expanded (Figs 10g, 13c); distal u-shaped endosomal sclerite with shallow cleft, basal branches very short. MEASUREMENTS. Ranges for 5 ♂ and 5 ♀ are given in Table 6.</p> <p> <b>Fifth instar larva.</b> See Fig. 7a; body length 2.11 mm; colouration overall medium brown to dark brown, lateral margins of paranota and abdominal tergites paler orange brown, head, cephalic spines and abdomen medially dark brown, marginal dorsal processes dark brown, medial dorsal processes bicoloured, yellow brown basally and dark brown apically; dorsum with sparse distribution of pale, linear, moderately short, cuticular outgrowths, with a slightly bulbous apex; cephalic spines greatly elongate, medial spine forked basally, occipital spines with elongate dorsal branch; pronotum with two medial pairs of dorsal processes, one pair on partially formed collum, second pair medial; paranota rounded; lateral margins of pronotum, forewing buds and abdominal tergites with dorsal processes; abdominal T1–3 with medial paired dorsal processes, T4, 7, 8 & 10 with single medial dorsal process; all dorsal processes greatly elongate, with tapering apex, and mostly glabrous, with a moderate distribution of short, pale, setiferous setae.</p> <p> <b>Host plant.</b> Collected on <i>Eremophila freelingii</i> (Fig. 4h), an unidentified <i>Eremophila</i> species, and <i>Amyema maidenii</i>, with the latter a likely sitting record.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> This species is known from five localities in central Australia, both east and west of Alice Springs (Figs 3a, 4g). Interestingly, one <i>Inoma</i> species, <i>Inoma arrernte</i> Cassis and Symonds, 2008, is also known from this locality but from a different host <i>Anemocarpa saxatilis</i> (Asteraceae).</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> After the Luritja people, the Indigenous Australians on whose traditional lands the type locality is found.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Lasiacantha luritja</i> and <i>L. pilbara</i> are the only two species with columnar shaped collum, which is not greatly enlarged, and no higher than the medial carina. <i>Lasiacantha luritja</i> is easily distinguished from <i>L. pilbara</i> by its golden to orange brown colouration, lack of white microtrichiae on hemelytra, thin pronotal carinae, broader paranota with larger areolae, areolae large over entire hemelytra, and metasternal carinae more widely separated than mesosternal carinae. The hairlike setae in this species are not as elongate as in other species with very fine, apically hooked, hairlike setae.</p> <p> Additionally, the woolly setae on the head and pronotum is the same in the above two species, whereas in other Clade 3 species it tends to be slightly longer, less curly and more upright on pronotum than on the head. <i>Lasiacantha luritja</i> fifth instar larvae can be distinguished from those of <i>L. aureolus</i> as follows: overall colouration darker; dorsal processes are more greatly elongate, with a tapering apex, with moderate distribution of longer setiferous setae (these setiferous setae on dorsal processes in <i>L. aureolus</i> are very sparse and very short), and marginal dorsal processes on pronotum and abdominal tergites being unicolourous—all dark brown. See also remarks for <i>L. aureolus</i>.</p>Published as part of <i>Cassis, Gerasimos & Symonds, Celia, 2011, Systematics, biogeography and host plant associations of the lace bug genus Lasiacantha Stål in Australia (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) 2818, pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 2818 (1)</i> on pages 37-39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2818.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5289063">http://zenodo.org/record/5289063</a>
Lasiacantha quilpie Cassis & Symonds 2011, sp. nov.
No full textLasiacantha quilpie, sp. nov. (Figs 1, 3a, 5) Holotype. ♂, AUSTRALIA: Queensland: 82.6 km NW of Quilpie, 26.3479 ° S 143.6454 ° E, 190 m, 03 Nov 1998, Schuh, Cassis, Silveira, ex Frankenia sp. (Frankeniaceae), det. NSW Herbarium NSW 427347 (37402) (QM). Paratype. AUSTRALIA: Queensland: 82.6 km NW of Quilpie, 26.3479 ° S 143.6454 ° E, 190 m, 03 Nov 1998, Schuh, Cassis, Silveira, ex Frankenia sp. (Frankeniaceae), det. NSW Herbarium NSW 427347, 1 f (37403) (QM). Diagnosis. Lasiacantha quilpie (Fig. 5) is recognised by the following combination of characters: mostly dark brown dorsal colouration, mixed with stramineous pale brown patches; antennae with AI red brown, darker than AII–AIII; femur bicolourous, red brown, dark brown sub-distally; major setiferous tubercles on pronotum and hemelytra moderately elongate, terminal seta less than half length of tuberculate base; costal area with setiferous tubercles not extending to posterior hemelytral margin; posterior angle of discoidal area with clump of setiferous tubercles, carinate margins without setiferous tubercles; pronotum with woolly and hairlike setae; hemelytra with only hairlike setae; woolly setae elongate, curly, silver or gold; hairlike setae elongate; abdominal venter with lanceolate to clavate, pale, short, scalelike setae; cephalic spines elongate, medial spine forked; occipital spines wit dorsal branch; collum columnar, much higher than medial carina; paranota three areolae wide; costal area two areolae wide; areolae large over entire hemelytra; sternal carinae parallel, all equal width. Description. Medium size, macropterous (Fig. 5); male 2.94, female 2.85. COLOURATION. Overall dark brown with few stramineous to pale brown patches. Head: dark brown, almost black; cephalic spines bicoloured, red brown with dark brown apex; bucculae bicolourous, dark brown with pale brown edge; labium red brown, darker apically; antennae mixed, AI red brown, AII orange brown, AIII pale yellow brown, AIV base pale yellow brow, distal club dark brown. Pronotum: disc uniformly dark brown, almost black; paranota mottled dark brown and stramineous pale brown; collum dark brown; carinae pale brown, with medial carinae dark brown medially, lateral carinae sometimes also dark brown medially. Thoracic pleura and sterna: red brown to dark brown, supracoxal lobes paler; sternal carinae pale brown. Legs: femur red brown with dark brown patch sub-distally, tibiae pale yellow brown, tarsi dark brown; Hemelytra: mottled stramineous pale brown and dark brown; darker patches banded on costal area, at posterior angle of discoidal area, and medially across discoidal and subcostal areas. Abdomen: red brown. VESTITURE. Head: dense distribution of elongate, curly, silver or gold, woolly setae; absent in longitudinal rows between occipital and medial spines; antennae with minor setiferous tubercles, pale colour, AI–AII with single row of setiferous tubercles with moderately short curved terminal seta, AIII setiferous tubercles with greatly elongate with straight terminal seta. Pronotum: paranota margins with moderately elongate major setiferous tubercles, terminal seta less than half length of tuberculate base; keel of collum and pronotal carinae without setiferous tubercles; collum, paranota and pronotal carinae with greatly elongate, hairlike setae; disc with dense distribution of elongate, curly, silver or gold, woolly setae, slightly longer and more upright than on head. Thoracic pleura and sterna: pleura with dense distribution of elongate woolly setae as on dorsum, less dense and shorter, more scalelike on supracoxal lobes; mesosternum with sparse distribution of short scalelike setae. Legs: minor setiferous tubercles; tibiae with terminal setae pale colour, moderately elongate, erect, bristlelike; femora with terminal setae short, scalelike, thickened. Hemelytra: costal margins with major setiferous tubercles as on paranota, not extending to posterior margin of hemelytra; major setiferous tubercles on cubitus + R+M vein, clumped (aggregated) at anterior angle of discoidal area; major setiferous tubercles absent from carinate margins of discoidal area; moderately dense distribution of hairlike setae, same as pronotum, on costal, subcostal and discoidal areas; white microtrichae present across subcostal and costal areas at hemelytra base and just anterior to posterior angle of discoidal area; white microtrichae present across subcostal and costal areas at hemelytra base and just anterior to posterior angle of discoidal area. Abdomen: moderately dense distribution of short, lanceolate to clavate, pale silvery, scalelike setae. STRUCTURE. Head: spines elongate; frontal spines parallel, longer than AI; medial spine forked; occipital spines strongly curved outwards, extending past outer margin of eye; occipital spines with dorsal branch; labium moderate length, extending to metasternum; antennae, AI short and subequal length to AII, AIV with slightly extended cylindrical base before clubbed apex. Pronotum: disc slightly convex; collum columnar, tapering slightly, vertically projected, higher than medial carina; carinae moderately elevated, one areole wide, medial carina with extra one to three areolae medially; lateral carinae thickened; paranota rounded, semi-circular, three areolae wide. Thoracic sterna: sternal carinae straight, metasternal carinae equal width to mesosternal carinae. Hemelytra: areolae large, subequal size over entire hemelytra; costal area two areolae wide; subcostal area two areolae wide; discoidal area three areolae wide; sutural area four areolae wide. Male genitalia: not examined. MEASUREMENTS. For 1 ♂ and 1 ♀ are given in Table 6. Host plant. This species was collected from an undetermined Frankenia sp. However, it is only known from two specimens, and we regard this as a sitting record. It should be noted that Eremophila species were also sampled from the type locality, and although no specimens of L. quilpie were found on them, their sympatry with Frankenia at this site raises doubts about the authenticity of the host record. Distribution. Known from one locality in semi-arid, southwestern Queensland (Fig. 3a). Etymology. After the type locality. Remarks. Lasiacantha quilpie is most closely related to L. eremophila, but differs as follows: AI and base of femur being dark red brown, only orange brown in L. eremophila and not significantly darker than AII and AIII and rest of leg; collum much larger; cephalic spines greatly elongate; medial spine forked basally (rather than medially); occipital spines with a small dorsal branch; areolae in hemelytra and paranota larger than those in L. eremophila; and the costal area being only ever two areolae wide. This species is similar to L. eremophila by having rather dark dorsal colouration, thickened lateral carinae and patches of white microtrichiae on the hemelytra, which distinguish both from L. dysmikos. See also remarks for L. eremophila.Published as part of Cassis, Gerasimos & Symonds, Celia, 2011, Systematics, biogeography and host plant associations of the lace bug genus Lasiacantha Stål in Australia (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) 2818, pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 2818 (1) on pages 42-43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2818.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/528906
Witchelinamiris Namyatova, Elias & Cassis, 2011, gen. nov.
No full textWitchelinamiris gen. nov. Etymology. This genus is named after the Witchelina Reserve, from which most of the material was collected. Type species. Witchelinamiris mchughi Namyatova, Elias & Cassis, by original designation. Diagnosis. Witchelinamiris is recognised by the following combination of characters: body with pale green colouration (Fig. 1); banded AII; elongate head in lateral view (Fig. 2 B); phallotheca with a wedge shaped process on dorsal surface (Figs. 3 A, 6 A); right paramere club shaped (Figs. 3 D, 6 D); left paramere C-shaped (Figs. 3 E, 6 E) with bifurcate apex (Figs. 3 E, 6 E); aedeagus with two endosomal spicules, a large one with two or three long smooth processes and a small one placed near the secondary gonopore (Figs. 3 B, C, 6 B, C). It is distinguished from all other described Australian Orthotylinae by the patterned forewing membrane and male genitalia. Description. Male. Macropterous. COLOURATION (Fig. 1): Head: yellow or pale green dorsally with medial reddish stripe and reddish or reddish brown marking along inner margin of eye, sometimes with reddish marking along posterior margin of eye; yellow laterally with reddish marking along eye and reddish stripe along inferior margin of maxillary plate; mandibular and maxillary plates yellow with reddish stripe between them; buccula yellowish; uniformly yellow ventrally; frontal region yellow with reddish markings, forming semicircle at each side, and orange transverse stripes between semicircles; frons with few small markings surrounding each eye; clypeus yellow with reddish markings. Eye: pale brown to brownish with reddish tinge, sometimes uniformly reddish. Antennae: AI uniformly pale green or with pale brown or brown band at base; AII yellow or pale green, with brown bands basally, medially and apically, basal band about 2 x shorter than medial band, medial and apical bands subequal in length; AIII pale green basally and pale brown apically; AIV pale brown, pale green at base. Labium: LI pale green; LII uniformly yellow or pale green; LIII yellow, sometimes apically darkened; LIV brownish with yellow or pale brown base. Pronotum: mostly pale green, with three longitudinal yellow stripes dorsally and single red stripe at lateral margin, dorsal stripes sometimes very pale; calli yellowish to pale green, paler than posterior part of pronotum, with reddish markings mostly at sides; posterior part of pronotum sometimes with dense bright green markings. Scutellum: whitish or pale green with pale brown or reddish marking at base medially. Mesoscutum: whitish or pale green with reddish, pale brown or yellowish markings medially and laterally. Thoracic pleura: yellow or pale green with small reddish markings at sides, often with inferior part reddish; metapleuron pale green. MTG: pale green. Hemelytron: pale green, with yellowish markings, sometimes entire hemelytron clothed with bright green small markings; membrane mostly pale brown with distinct brownish spot at base and indistinct whitish areas. Legs: coxae yellow with reddish markings at base; femora yellow with reddish markings mostly apically, hind femur pale brown apically; tibiae yellow, sometimes with reddish markings, often pale brown apically; tarsi yellow or pale brown, tarsal segment III and sometimes segment I brown. Abdomen: pale green with reddish and yellow markings basally, laterally and dorsally. VESTITURE: Dorsum clothed mostly with greyish suberect or adpressed short setae, paler on head and pronotum, darker on posterior part of corium and cuneus; setae mostly shorter than width of AI, setae on head posteriorly, pronotum anteriorly and anterior margin of corium as long as or longer than width of AI; setae on ventral side of head pale, suberect or adpressed, mostly as long as width of AI; setae on thoracic pleura pale, adpressed, very short and rare; setae on antennae and legs mostly pale, dense, very short and adpressed, distinctly shorter than AI; AI with two medial pale spine-like setae; tibiae with rows of pale spines; abdomen clothed with short dense pale setae, shorter than width of AI. STRUCTURE: Head: elongate, frons and clypeus slightly convex with distinct depression between them (Figs. 2 A, B). Eye: semioval in frontal view, with medial margin straight, oval in lateral view, removed from anterior margin of pronotum by one third of eye diameter (Fig. 2 A); distance from inferior margin of eyes to clypeus apex as long as diameter of eye in frontal view, and longer than diameter of eye in lateral view (Fig. 2 B). Antennae: antennal segments of similar width, AI-II slightly wider than segments AIII-IV; AI short, about two third length of vertex width; AII about 4- 5 x longer than AI; AIII about 1.5 x as short as AII; AIV about 2 x shorter than AIII. Labium: elongate, surpassing hind coxa, reaching between abdominal sternum III and middle of pregenital abdomen; LI 2 x as wide as L 2 and L 3, L 4 slightly thinner than other segments; L 1 slightly longer than ventral side of head; LII slightly longer or as long as LI; LIII as long as or longer than LII, LIV slightly shorter than LIII. Pronotum (Fig. 2 A): trapeziform; collar very narrow; posterior margin about 2 x as long as anterior margin; calli shallow, separated medially by very shallow suture; lateral margins rounded; posterior margin slightly concave. Scutellum: flat, aproximately as long as posterior part of pronotum, mesoscutum exposed. MTG: triangular, anterior and posterior margins concave. Legs: hind femur broad, about 2 x wider than mesofemur; tarsi narrow, hind tarsal segment I short, segment II about 3 x longer than segment I, segment III slightly shorter than segment II; pretarsus with convergent lamellate parempodia, pulvilli absent. Male genitalia: pygophore symmetrical, trapeziform, without processes, genital opening dorsal (Fig. 2 D); right paramere club-shaped with small serrations on mesial surface (Figs. 3 D, 6 D); left paramere C-shaped with bifurcate apex (Figs. 3 E, 6 E); phallotheca with dorsal process medially (Figs. 3 A, 6 A); aedeagus with two endosomal spicules, first spicule large, basally arcuate, with two or three long smooth processes, second spicule very small, placed close to secondary gonopore (Figs. 3 B, C, 6 B, C); endosomal membrane only at base of spicules (Figs. 3 B, C, 6 B, C); distal part of ductus seminis sclerotised (Figs. 3 B, C, 6 B, C); secondary gonopore oval, about ½ length of sclerotised part of ductus seminis, directed laterally (Figs. 3 B, C, 6 B, C). Female (only W. viridimaculatus). Brachypterous. COLOURATION (Fig. 1): Mostly as in male. Head: vertex greenish yellow with markings near inner margin of eyes reddish brown, and with marking along posterior margins of eyes reddish; frons with pale brown markings, no orange transverse stripes between reddish semicircles. Pronotum: posterior part of pronotum with yellow stripes distinct, without bright green markings. Scutellum: mostly yellowish with pale green apex, stripes and markings as in male. Mesoscutum: yellow, stripes and markings as in male. Thoracic pleura: uniformly pale green. MTG: efferent system pale green with reddish spot laterally. Hemelytron: without bright green markings. Legs: tibiae yellow with reddish markings, pale brown apically; tarsi yellow, segments I and III brown. Abdomen: yellow, with sparse reddish markings basally and dorsally. VESTITURE: as in male. STRUCTURE: similar to male. Antennae: AII about 3- 4 x as long as AI; AIII about ½ AIII length; AIV slightly shorter than AIII. Labium: reaching middle of abdomen; LII longer than LI; LIII slightly longer than LII; LIV shorter than LII. Pronotum: calli very shallow, almost flat. Female genitalia: dorsal labiate plate with elongate sclerotized rings, single weakly sclerotized semicircular sclerite (Fig. 7 A); posterior wall of genital chamber with two processes, finely tuberculate (Fig. 7 B); vestibular area symmetrical, membranous. Host plants. Host plant records are known only for W. viridimaculatus, which is known from two chenopod species. Mirids have been commonly collected from chenopods in arid and semi-arid Australia, with many of them new to science (Tatarnic & Cassis 2008). However, much of the chenopod-inhabiting mirid fauna, particularly new species belonging to the Orthotylini and Phylini are awaiting description. Remarks. The systematic position of Witchelinamiris is uncertain. On colouration characters the species shares some similarities with members of the Zanchius genus group (sensu Schuh 1974), with W. viridimaculatus sp. nov. having a green spotted dorsum. However, the head of both species of Witchelinamiris is elongate and the postocular margins are straight. In comparison, the head of members of the Zanchius genus group is short and not elongate in front, and the postocular margins are convex. In addition, the endosomal membrane is reduced, and both species have an elongate smooth endosomal spicule. The spicule structure differs considerably from Austromirini, typified by the Lattinova complex, which have two elongate spicules with limited endosomal membrane (Cassis 2008). It is also unlike examined Australian members of the Orthotylini, such as Harveycapsus (Cassis et al. 2010) and an undescribed genus of myrtaceaous inhabiting orthotylines (Cheng & Cassis in preparation), which have three endosomal spicules, which like austromirines have elongate spicules. Unlike these genera, the spicules of Witchelinamiris are smooth, and do not possess the sawlike margins of the spicules in the other abovementioned orthotylines. In addition, the parameres of both species of Witchelinamiris are distinctive, with the left paramere Cshaped with a small bifurcation at its apex, and the right paramere is simple, and is somewhat club-shaped. The female genitalia are simple, with the posterior wall of the genital chamber with simple paired processes that are unlike the inter-ramal lobes of other orthotylines (cf. Slater 1950; Cassis et al. 2010). Moreover, the opening of the vestibulum is symmetrical, which is akin to what is found in the Halticini (Tatarnic & Cassis in press) and species of the Hadronema complex (Forero 2008), and unlike asymmetry found in many Austromirini and Orthotylini. At present, it is difficult to assess the systematic position of Witchelinamiris because of the inadequacy of the tribal classification of the Orthotylinae. We tentatively place it within the Ortothylini pending further investigation and any future formalisation of the Zanchius genus group at the tribal level.Published as part of Namyatova, Anna A., Elias, Michael & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2011, A new genus and two new species of Orthotylinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) from central Australia, pp. 38-48 in Zootaxa 2927 on pages 39-42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.27799
CaSSIS color and multi-angular observations of Martian slope streaks
No full textSlope streaks are albedo features that form frequently on equatorial Martian slopes. Most slope streaks are dark relative to surrounding terrains, a minor fraction is bright, and there are rare transitioning streaks that exhibit a contrast reversal partway downslope. Their formation mechanisms and physical surface properties are not well understood. New observations acquired by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) on board ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) provide insights into slope streaks' surface microstructure, roughness and particle size ranges. Using multiple phase angle observations, we show that dark slope streaks are substantially rougher and possibly more porous than their bright counterparts, which are likely composed of more compact regolith. Color data acquired in the four wavelength bands suggest that dark streaks are spectrally similar to bright streaks but are composed of larger particles. The comparison of our orbital results to the laboratory measurements of Martian regolith analogs indicates that particles within dark slope streaks may be up to a factor of four larger than the granular material of the surrounding terrains. At one study site in Arabia Terra, using complementary imagery from other orbiters, we identify a case where dark slope streaks turned fully bright in a twenty-year period. These and CaSSIS observations suggest that bright slope streaks are old dark slope streaks, likely formed by deposition of dust or decomposition of surface aggregates into smaller particles
Adetomyrma cassis, sp. nov.
No full textAdetomyrma cassis sp. nov. (Figs 14, 15, 32, 41, 50, 67) Holotype. Male: CASENT0163620, BLF 24309: MADAGASCAR, Toamasina, Réserve Spéciale Ambatovaky, Sandrangato river, 16 ° 46.36´S, 49 ° 15.93´E, 450 m alt., rainforest, 4 Malaise traps, 20–24.ii. 2010, B.L.Fisher et al. [CASC] Worker and queen unknown. Male. Description. Measurements: holotype. HL 0.74, HW 1.08, SL 0.3, EL 0.43, WL 2.22, MnW 1.33, CI 144.8, SI 27.9, EI 58.1, MnI 123.8. Eye well-developed and prominent, posterior margin not exceeding posterior margin of mid ocellus in fullface view. Distance between lateral ocellus and eye long, about 3 × longer than diameter of lateral ocellus. Palpal formula 3,2? (three maxillary and two? labial: observed without dissection). Notaulus absent on mesoscutum (Fig 41). Parapsidal line clearly impressed. Anterior margin of petiole as long as dorsal margin in lateral view. Subpetiolar process well-developed, with dense hairs ventrally. Left and right parameres narrowly overlapping on dorsal small part of basimere (Figs 14, 15). Distinct, flattened projection present on each posterior portion of paramere with small denticles on distal and mesal portions of projection (Figs 14, 15). Hair on compound eyes long, longer than diameter of mid ocellus (Fig 50). Mesofemur in dorsal view with anterior face covered in dense, subdecumbent hairs. Ventral margin of eye edged with darker pigment but without minute punctures on the area. Body color almost uniform dark brown but head darker (Fig 32). Etymology. This species name is derived from the Latin word cassis (helm), and refers to the shape of its genital capsule, which looks like a Corinthian helm. The species epithet is treated as a noun in apposition, and thus invariant. Distribution. MADAGASCAR: as in Figure 67. Remarks. Adetomyrma cassis is only known from a single male collected in Réserve Spéciale Ambatovaky. The male of A. cassis is distinguished easily from other Adetomyrma males by a distinct and flatted projection on the posterior portion of the paramere (Fig 15). This projection is not separated from the paramere by a deep notch (Fig 14) as in A. bressleri (Fig 13). This genital character observed in Adetomyrma cassis is completely unique and sufficient to regard this male as a distinct species, although we have found neither another specimen nor sympatric distribution with other Adetomyrma species.Published as part of Yoshimura, Masashi & Fisher, Brian L., 2012, A revision of the Malagasy endemic genus Adetomyrma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Amblyoponinae), pp. 1-31 in Zootaxa 3341 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3341.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/21381
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