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Aphidura corsicensis Nieto Nafría, Blackman & J. H. Martin 2014

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Siphunculi slightly swollen. Dorsum of thorax and abdomen with setiferous sclerites (apterae). Mesosternal mammariform processes pale, flat and smooth (apterae). Abdominal marginal tubercles absent. Tarsal formula 3.3.3 from 3 specimens (Fig. 2). Shiny dark green in life. In mounted specimens, head, antennae, legs, siphunculi, cauda, genital and anal plates, and thoracic and abdominal sclerites yellowish brown, with apex of antennal segments III, IV and V, antennal segment VI, very apex of tibiae, tarsi and apex of siphunculi something darker than aforementioned structures. Frons undulated. Head mostly smooth, some rugosity lines are present on dorsum. Proximal section of antennal segment III and segments IV-VI imbricated. Setae on body dorsum, antennae and most of those on legs thick with apices blunt or slightly capitate. Mesosternal mammariform processes pale, flat and smooth. Setiferous sclerites present on dorsum of thorax and abdomen, mostly with one setae and similar in size to spiracular sclerites; marginal sclerites on abdominal segments 2-4 often coalescent; those on segment 6 forming postsiphuncular sclerites; and those on segment 7 and 8 partially coalescent; sclerites on abdominal segments 6-8 with spinules. Intersegmental sclerites small. Siphunculi slightly swollen (maximal width 1.04-1.10 times minimal width of the stem), with small scales and distinct preapical incision and flange. Cauda tongue shaped. Metric and meristic features in Table 1.
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Juan M. Nieto Nafría, Roger L. Blackman, Jon H. Martin
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Nieto Nafría J, Blackman R, Martin J (2014) Two more new species of Aphidura (Hemiptera, Aphididae), and a note on variation in Aphidura bozhkoae Narzikulov ZooKeys 425: 113–130
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Juan M. Nieto Nafría
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Roger L. Blackman
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Jon H. Martin
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