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<mods:title>Multiple origins of moss-inhabiting flea beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): molecular phylogeny, overview of genera and a new genus from Africa</mods:title>
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<emphasis box="[992,1113,809,832]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="668">PHAELOTA</emphasis>
JACOBY, 1887
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(
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species:
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<emphasis box="[990,1239,888,909]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="668">Phaelota semifasciata</emphasis>
Jacoby, 1887
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<emphasis box="[827,951,951,972]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="668">Synonymy:</emphasis>
This genus has no generic synonyms.
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<emphasis box="[827,1070,1013,1035]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="668">Phylogenetic position:</emphasis>
Unknown. A possible placement in the 
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<emphasis box="[909,1010,1044,1065]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="668">Chabria</emphasis>
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group has been discussed, but no molecular or morphological phylogenetic analysis has been published to justify this.
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<emphasis box="[827,1165,1176,1197]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="668">Diversity and distribution:</emphasis>
So far, 16 species of 
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<emphasis box="[827,929,1206,1227]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="668">Phaelota</emphasis>
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are known (
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Ruan 
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, 2017
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). The genus is found mainly in 
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and 
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. One species was described from Borneo (
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).
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<emphasis box="[827,941,1339,1360]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="668">Revisions:</emphasis>
The fauna of southern 
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and 
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was recently revised by 
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.
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<emphasis box="[827,1219,1470,1491]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="668">Morphological characteristics:</emphasis>
Body large, 
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long, oval to round in dorsal view, moderately convex in lateral view, colour variable. Head hypognathous, partially retracted into prothorax. Antennal calli well developed, triangular, separated from vertex and from each other by deep impressions. Frontal ridge wide and flat. Antennae with 11 antennomeres, not widened or forming any apical club. Pronotum wide, with a feebly developed a n t e b a s a l t r a n s v e r s e i m p r e s s i o n, s u r r o u n d e d by two short longitudinal impressions. Procoxal cavities closed posteriorly; in 
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<emphasis box="[1206,1443,1808,1829]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="668">Phaelota sindhoori</emphasis>
Prathapan &amp; Viraktamath, 2004
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, procoxal cavities narrowly open. The intercoxal proventral process wide. Elytra narrowing towards apex, with rows of slightly developed punctures. Legs long; all coxae with a triangular posterior denticle. Aedeagus simple, slightly curved in lateral view. Spermatheca simple, with a long pump and bulbous receptacle; spermathecal duct without coils. Vaginal palpi fused basally, and parallel.
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<emphasis box="[145,243,454,475]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="669">Ecology:</emphasis>
The genus contains both moss-inhabiting and leaf-surface-living species (
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Konstantinov 
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, 2013
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; 
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Ruan 
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, 2017
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). 
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report that at least three leaf-surface-living Indian species feed on ferns. It is likely that various species from the genus feed on various food sources; however, the ecology of 
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needs more research to be resolved.
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<emphasis box="[145,262,748,769]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="669">Remarks:</emphasis>
The genus is similar to 
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<emphasis box="[600,703,748,769]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="669">Chabria</emphasis>
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and 
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Baly, 1862
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. It can be separated from 
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<emphasis box="[145,241,809,830]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="669">Chabria</emphasis>
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, by having closed procoxal cavities (procoxal cavities are open in 
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<emphasis box="[387,484,840,861]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="669">Chabria</emphasis>
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). From 
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, the genus differs by having a wide intercoxal proventral process and elytral punctures in rows (in 
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, the intercoxal proventral process is narrow and elytra are confusedly punctured).
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