identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03F487D279322450FF66FF73F8E736B4.text	03F487D279322450FF66FF73F8E736B4.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Restiopria Audisio, Jelinek & Cline 2011	<div><p>Restiopria Audisio, Jelínek &amp; Cline, gen. nov.</p> <p>(Figs 1–20)</p> <p>Type species: Restiopria biondii Audisio, Jelínek &amp; Cline, sp. nov.</p> <p>Generic diagnosis. Restiopria Audisio, Jelínek &amp; Cline, gen. nov., sp. nov., is easily differentiated from any other known Meligethine (Audisio 1993; Audisio et al. 2009) by the peculiarly shaped protibiae (possessing no teeth, but with elongate dark spicules along the outer edge, a condition unknown in all other known Meligethinae taxa), and by the peculiarly shaped male genitalia, with asymmetrically denticulate distal margin of the parameres (again, a condition absent in all other known Meligethinae). The following characters also are diagnostic: a simple Pria –like hypopygydium, lacking arcuate lateral impressions; a small, but elongate and narrow antennal club without sexual dimorphism; a wide axillary space on the first abdominal ventrite; and a strongly reduced and scarcely visible dorsal pubescence.</p> <p>Generic description. The single inclusive species varies moderately in size (2.0– 2.3 mm length), and exhibits the following combination of characters.</p> <p>Body color and pubescence: dorsal body surface (Fig. 15) usually unicolored dark yellow to orange–brown, rather shining, and apparently nearly glabrous; pubescence golden to silvery-whitish, extremely short and fine dorsally, recumbent and indistinct (each seta nearly as long as the longitudinal diameter of each discal pronotal puncture), never obscuring the dorsal body surface; pronotal and elytral sides narrowly flattened, typically same color as disc; lateral margin of pronotum and elytra with a series of faintly distinct short setae, each seta 0.5–0.7X as long as those on elytral disc; posterior margin of pronotum with peculiarly small, short, distally bifid subtruncate microsetae (Fig. 17), sparsely and irregularly distributed medially, just anterior to scutellum. Ventral pubescence golden, recumbent, fine, but nearly 2X longer than dorsal setae.</p> <p>Dorsal habitus: body slightly convex, slender and oval (Figs. 1, 15); anterior margin of clypeus truncate anteriorly, not bordered, without any medial bulge, and with moderately blunt outer angles (Fig. 20); circum-ocular furrows on dorsal side of head absent (Fig. 20); dorsal punctures on discal portion of pronotum nearly as large as eye facets, distinctly and densely impressed; pronotum with almost completely rounded posterior angles (Fig. 1); scutellum regularly but shallowly punctured on most of exposed portion; elytra with simple punctures, not transversely strigose; elytral humeral angle moderately distinct, blunt, not protruding laterally; elytral humeral striae absent; elytral pre-sutural striae hardly distinct anteriorly and in posterior half, terminating at elytral apex, and delimiting posteriorly, on each elytron, a barely distinct, flat, narrow unraised sutural border, nearly as wide as proximal width of 3rd antennomere; elytral apices truncately rounded in both sexes (Figs. 1, 15); pygidium partially exposed, moderately convex, apically rounded in both sexes (Fig. 2); proximal portion of pygidium (concealed under elytral apices) in both sexes with inner apices of basal arched impressions fused medially, forming a short blunt bulge (Fig. 2).</p> <p>Ventral habitus: labrum wide with anterior margin widely and deeply incised medially (Fig. 9); antennal furrows shallow, moderately convergent posteriorly, ending in a C–shaped shallow and ill-defined impression (Fig. 16); mentum short and strongly transverse, subpentagonal (Fig. 16); prosternal antennal furrows on anterior margin of prosternum distinct, scarcely raised, short, and markedly divergent posteriorly (Figs. 7, 16); prosternal process relatively narrow, subapical portion dilated 1.8–2.0X as wide as maximum width of 1st antennomere, apex bluntly rounded (Figs. 6, 16); lateral borders of prosternal process delimiting shallowly impressed and barely distinct furrows, distally terminating over predistal lateral expansions, approximating prosternal posterior margin; posterior margin of mesoventrite simple, not medially incised; male impressions on metaventrite faint; first two visible abdominal ventrites simple in both sexes, without tufts of setae; caudal marginal lines of metacoxal cavities simple, parallel and narrowly contiguous to posterior margin of metacoxal cavities, with moderately distinct arched impressions of outer ‘axillary’ line curving posterolaterally (Fig. 18); ‘axillary’ space on first abdominal ventrite widely developed, ‘axillary’ angle broadly obtuse (Fig. 18); basal portion of last visible abdominal ventrite simple, without distinct traces of impressed arched impressions (Fig. 3).</p> <p>Appendages: in both sexes 1st antennomere 0.9–1.0X as long as maximum width of protibiae (Figs 1, 5); 3rd antennomere in both sexes slender, ~3.0X as long as wide, 1.2–1.3X as long as but distinctly thinner than 2nd antennomere (Fig. 5); 4th and 5th antennomeres in both sexes subequal, moderately slender, distinctly longer than wide; antennal club long and narrow but compact, mid–sized, simple, comprising last 3 antennomeres in both sexes (8th antennomere scarcely widened, 0.4X as wide as 9th antennomere), slightly narrower than width of protibiae, sexual dimorphism absent; labial palpi moderately long in both sexes, terminal segment ~2.1X as long as wide (Figs. 11, 16); maxillary palpi long and slender in both sexes, terminal segment ~2.3X as long as wide (Figs. 10, 16); mandible mid-sized, apex acuminate, retinaculum moderately prominent on inner side (Fig. 8), no sexual dimorphism; tarsal claws simple, never toothed at base; tarsi of normal size and shape, 0.5–0.6X as long as corresponding tibiae (Figs 1, 4); protibiae lacking teeth along lateral margin, instead only large, dark and conspicuous spicules are present (Figs. 4, 19); meso- and metatibiae along lateral margin bearing a single even row of fine, long pegs, without U-shaped sinuosity at distal third; meso- and metatibiae long, slender and narrow, never subtrapezoidal or securiform (Fig. 1); sexual dimorphism not expressed in metatibiae; tarsal plates of prolegs slightly wider in males; posterior margin of metafemora simple in both sexes, without tubercles or projections.</p> <p>Male genitalia: processes along inner side of parameres absent (Fig. 12), with deeply and narrowly incised distal margin, and without deep median longitudinal desclerotization from proximal portion of tegmen extending to medial distal V-shaped excision; apex of paramera with peculiarly shaped and asymmetrycal denticulations (Fig. 12); median lobe of aedeagus relatively short and parallel–sided, narrowly spatulate distally, without distal excision or emargination (Fig. 13).</p> <p>Female genitalia (ovipositor): relatively large and slender; styli long, symmetrical and cylindrical, (Fig. 14), inserted close to apex of contiguous gonostyloids; each gonostyloid more sclerotized and pigmented distally, with a simple, never indentate outer portion of basicoxites, and a single, small and narrow, faintly pigmented and sclerotized arcuate area along outer subdistal portion of gonostyloids. ‘Central point’ of ovipositor located slightly proximad of midlength, without spicule directed proximad.</p> <p>Geographic distribution. Restiopria gen. nov. currently includes only the type species from southwestern South Africa described below.</p> <p>Etymology. This new genus is so named from the related genus Pria Stephens 1829, and from the stem of the plant family name Restionaceae, including both known host–plants of the type species (see below). Gender feminine.</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F487D279322450FF66FF73F8E736B4	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Audisio, P.;Jelínek, J.;Cline, A. R.;Mancini, E.;Trizzino, M.;Cerretti, P.;Antonini, G.	Audisio, P., Jelínek, J., Cline, A. R., Mancini, E., Trizzino, M., Cerretti, P., Antonini, G. (2011): Description and taxonomic position of a new genus and species of southern African pollen beetle (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae). Zootaxa 2927 (1): 49-56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2927.1.3, URL: https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2927.1.3
03F487D279302455FF66FC43F8FE34BC.text	03F487D279302455FF66FC43F8FE34BC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Restiopria biondii Audisio, Jelinek & Cline 2011	<div><p>Restiopria biondii Audisio, Jelínek &amp; Cline, sp. nov.</p> <p>(Figs 1–20)</p> <p>Description. In addition to generic description above:</p> <p>Small size (length 2.05–2.25 mm; width 1.04–1.10 mm). Body moderately shining, unicolorous yellowish– orange (rarely with head and pronutum reddish, slightly contrasting to brownish elytra); legs yellowish (Fig. 15).</p> <p>Head with moderately deep punctures nearly as large as eye facets, separated by half to one diameter, surface between partly microreticulated but moderately shining; frons without tentorial impressions. Antennae mediumsized, club small and narrow, 2X longer than wide (Fig. 5), with short pubescence; 3rd antennal segment elongate, as long as but thinner than 2nd.</p> <p>Pronotum moderately convex, 1.70X as wide as long, moderately rounded at sides, more strongly narrowed anteriorly than posteriorly, broadest in middle or at posterior third (Figs. 1, 15), with posterior angles almost completely rounded; sides narrowly bordered. Posterior margin straight on either side of scutellum; discal punctures as on head or slightly larger and deeper, surface between them partially microreticulate but shining.</p> <p>Elytra ~1.20–1.25X longer than wide (combined width at humeri), scarcely arcuate at sides, distinctly and arcuately narrowed towards apex, broadest in middle or at basal two fifths, nearly as wide as pronotum (Figs. 1, 15). Punctures and spaces between punctures as on pronotum.</p> <p>Tegmen (Fig. 12) relatively large, not elongate, with few moderately long setae at apex, and a short, linear median excision; median lobe of aedeagus moderately long (Fig. 13), shortly spatulate distally.</p> <p>Ovipositor as figured (Fig. 14), yellowish, darker towards apex, relatively large and long, with large and long symmetrical styli; outer subdivision of coxites short and arcuate; 'central point' placed at proximal four ninths, without ventral spicule.</p> <p>Female. Differs from male by possessing slightly narrower protarsi.</p> <p>Variation. A couple of paratypes shows elytra brown, darker than head and pronotum.</p> <p>Type material. Holotype, male, REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, Western Cape, Cape Peninsula, Cape Town, Table Mountain, Tafelberg road, 400 m a.s.l., 21.IX.1994, on unidentified flowering stolones of Restionaceae close to a small waterfall, P. Audisio &amp; M. Biondi leg. (TMSA). Paratypes: 11 females, same data as holotype (CAR, NMP, CAS, SAMC); 1 male, 8 females: REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, Western Cape, 5 Km N of Concordia, E of Knysna, 34.00.58 S, 23.06.25 E, 200 m a.s.l., 12.X.2005, on long and prostrate flowering stolones of unidentified Restionaceae (Fig. 19), in a wet place in subtropical indigenous forest, P. Audisio &amp; M. Biondi leg. (CAR, NMP, CAS, TMSA).</p> <p>Biological notes. The type specimens of the new species were collected in Spring (late September to early October) by sweeping from inflorescences on long stoloniform stems of two Restionaceae plants belonging to a genus so far not identified with certainty (Fig. 21), but likely related to Antochortus Nees or allied genera. The host plants were localized at low altitudes (200–400 m), in wet places, i.e. along the sides of a small waterfall near Cape Town and around the edges of a small dumping area in a subtropical indigenous forest near Knysna.</p> <p>Geographic distribution. The species is only known from the two mentioned type localities in Western Cape Province (Fig. 22).</p> <p>Etymology. This species is named for our friend and colleague, Maurizio Biondi (L’Aquila, Italy), who contributed to the collection of the new species at the type locality near Cape Town in 1994 and later near Knysna in 2005.</p></div> 	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F487D279302455FF66FC43F8FE34BC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Audisio, P.;Jelínek, J.;Cline, A. R.;Mancini, E.;Trizzino, M.;Cerretti, P.;Antonini, G.	Audisio, P., Jelínek, J., Cline, A. R., Mancini, E., Trizzino, M., Cerretti, P., Antonini, G. (2011): Description and taxonomic position of a new genus and species of southern African pollen beetle (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae). Zootaxa 2927 (1): 49-56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2927.1.3, URL: https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2927.1.3
