Cephennodes simplicipes, Jaloszynski, 2007
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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5664.1.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5789345A-E197-47E6-990F-A5AA02A6BED3 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6C303602-FF9B-0966-FF69-FF676F95DD59 |
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Plazi |
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Cephennodes simplicipes |
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Cephennodes simplicipes View in CoL species group
Diagnosis. Aedeagus small, of simonis form, ventral wall lacking setae; in males metatibiae unmodified and abdomen modified, with various projections or carinae on some sternites (only IV or IV and V).
This group is closely allied to the C. inflatipes (metatibiae modified, abdomen unmodified) and C. spatulipes (both metatibiae and abdomen modified) groups. All species are relatively unremarkable, except for male abdominal modifications that should be examined in transparent slides, preferably in ventral view, and adults are small-bodied, typically around 1 mm in length, with extremely small aedeagi (around 0.15 mm), which are difficult to isolate and mount in a strictly ventral or lateral orientation.
This is a species-rich group that includes 16 previously described species distributed predominantly in Nepal, with only one previously known Chinese species:
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