. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria. Natural history. PROTOSPHINDUS 613 anteriorly, each with a tuft of inwardly directed hairs. Between the horns there is a tuft of hairs and more laterally hairy, flange-like super- lingue arising from the bar on each side. Lingua fleshy, minute, pos- teriorly four gustatory sensillae. Thorax (fig. 18) about of total length. Prothorax x as long as wide, considerably longer than other terga; surface with three trans- verse rows of short and longer setae on each side near margins; brown tergal plate, interrupted medially by pale
. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria. Natural history. PROTOSPHINDUS 613 anteriorly, each with a tuft of inwardly directed hairs. Between the horns there is a tuft of hairs and more laterally hairy, flange-like super- lingue arising from the bar on each side. Lingua fleshy, minute, pos- teriorly four gustatory sensillae. Thorax (fig. 18) about of total length. Prothorax x as long as wide, considerably longer than other terga; surface with three trans- verse rows of short and longer setae on each side near margins; brown tergal plate, interrupted medially by pale suture, wider than in other terga. Mesothorax about x as long as broad with mesonotum bear- ing a few irregular spots, 2 transverse rows of long, fine setae and 3 long setae on each side near margin. Mesothoracic spiracle markedly larger than abdominal ones. Terga of thorax and abdomen faintly granulate, when viewed under 80 x magnification ; anterior and posterior margins of each tergite smooth. Prothoracic pleural sclerites lacking. Meso and metathoracic parascutal area (alar area) with 6-7 setae. Thoracic sterna weakly sclerotized, pale, without Figs. 12-16. Protosphindus chilensis, male: 12 - pterothorax, ventral; 13 - hind tibia and tarsus; 14 - 8th tergite and aedeagus, ventral; 15 - tegmen, ventral; 16 - median lobe, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria (Genoa, Italy). Genova : Stab. tipo-litografico P. Pellas Fu L.
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