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Neohodgsonius kurochkini Gavrilov-Zimin, 2022 (Monophlebidae: Neohodgsonius)

Neohodgsonius kurochkini Gavrilov-Zimin 2022: 246. Type data: MEXICO: Oaxaca State, Pochutla Distr., hills near playa Zipolite, on twigs and leaves of undetermined Fabaceae tree, 10/17/2021 by Ilya Gavrilov-Zimin & Andrei Kurochkin. Holotype, female, by original designation Type depository: St. Petersburg: Zoological Museum, Academy of Science, Russia; accepted valid name Notes: Paratypes. 3 adult females (each mounted on separate slide) and a series of females with the same collecting data as for holotype, preserved in acetoethanol, ZIN RAS. Illustr.

Families: 1 | Genera: 1

Countries: 1

Systematics: The new species differs from the type species of the genus, N. cassicola, in having: (1)only one semicircle of cicatrices, located on the venter only (vs. two ventral and one dorsalsemicircles); and (2) the presence of seven pairs of the abdominal spiracles (vs. six pairs). (Gavrilov-Zimin, 2022)
Structure: Adult female. Body broadly oval, about 10 mm long, orange in life. Antennae each 11-segmented, about 1400 μm long, covered with flagellate setae of various thickness and lengths.Legs normally developed, (Gavrilov-Zimin, 2022)
General Remarks: Detailed description, photographs and illustration in Gavrilov-Zimin, 2022.