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<mods:title>A review of the genus Platynectes from the Solomon Islands (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Agabinae)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Hájek, Jiří</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>Department of Entomology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, CZ- 193 00 Praha</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Šťastný, Jaroslav</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>Kosmonautů 359, CZ- 460 05 Liberec, Czech Republic; e-mail: jaroslav. stastny @ jergym. cz; ORCID: https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6745 - 5200</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Hendrich, Lars</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Balke, Michael</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>SNSB-Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Münchhausenstrasse 21, D- 81247 Munich, Germany; &amp; GeoBioCenter, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany; e-mail: balke @ snsb. de; ORCID: https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3773 - 6586</mods:affiliation>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[980,1192,508,532]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="66">Platynectes mbaole</emphasis>
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(
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, 
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)
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<typeStatus box="[828,873,581,600]" pageId="9" pageNumber="66">Type</typeStatus>
locality.
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, 
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, 
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N of Mbaole, ca. 
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[828,957,635,654]" pageId="9" pageNumber="66">Type material.</emphasis>
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: J (
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), labelled:ʻSalomonen:C-Guadalcanal, / 
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N Mbaole, 
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/ S 
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/ 2007 K. Mailautoka leg. [p] // 
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J / 
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/ 
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/ J. Hájek et al. det. 2021 [p, red label]’. 
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: 7 JJ 
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, same label data as 
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with additional label: ‘DNA / M. Balke / 2910’ [p, green label] (
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, 
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); 4JJ, labelled: ʻSOLOMON IS. / 
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[p] / 4724 [on side] Sutakiki R./ 5/4.[hw] 196 [p] 3. / 2,000’ [hw] / P.GREENSLADE [p] // SOLOMON IS: [red underlined] / Pres./ P.J.M.Greenslade. / B.M.1966-477 [p]’ (
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, 
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); 1 J 
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, labelled: ʻSOLOMON IS.: [red underlined] / 
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Is. / Suta [ca. 
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, 
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] / 
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[p] // E.S.Brown / B.M.1957- 201 [p]’ (
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).All 
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with the respective red printed label.
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Description. 
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Male 
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.
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Habitus. Broadest in one third of elytral length; body outline continuous.
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<emphasis box="[858,988,1036,1059]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="66">Colouration</emphasis>
(
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). Head with orange-brown clypeus and two small spots on vertex; appendages orange-brown. Pronotum with narrowly orange-brown sides and orange anterior corners; basal margin somewhat reddish translucent. Elytron black, disc with distinct yellowish pattern consisting of small basal spot in humeral area, subbasal spot, postmedial spot in two thirds of elytral length, two subapical spots and thin sublateral longitudinal line in apical half of elytra; humeral spot not connected with basal margin; subbasal spot round, situated approximately in two thirds of distance from suture to lateral margin; postmedial spot transverse, in centre narrowed, connected to sublateral line; subapical spots longitudinally elongate; sublateral line badly perceptible/interrupted in apical fifth of elytral length. Legs orange-brown, posterior legs somewhat darker than anterior two pairs. Ventral surface brown-blackish, prosternum and metacoxal processes brown.
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<emphasis box="[858,914,1580,1603]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="66">Head</emphasis>
ca. 0.63× width of pronotum, transversely elliptical. Meshes of reticulation mostly incomplete (not closed).
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<emphasis box="[858,964,1644,1667]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="66">Pronotum</emphasis>
. Reticulation similar to that of head; meshes somewhat larger and elongate, more often incomplete and less impressed on disc, becoming smaller, closed and deeply impressed near sides. Traces of microreticulation perceptible laterally close to sides. 
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of pronotal disc with small longitudinal furrow.
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<emphasis box="[858,925,1836,1859]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="66">Elytra</emphasis>
. Punctation double; coarse punctures present in two discal and two lateral, relatively distinct longitudinal lines; fine punctures occurring mostly on lines of reticulation. Reticulation similar to that of head and pronotum, consisting of heterogeneous polygonal meshes; meshes often elongate and incomplete. Microreticulation absent.
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<emphasis box="[858,1026,2028,2051]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="66">Ventral surface.</emphasis>
Medial part of metaventrite with rather dense fine punctation. Ratio WC/WS = 4.7. Metacoxal lines incomplete anteriorly, slightly diverging. Metacoxal plates reticulated with polygonal meshes, punctation consisting of sparse fine punctures; plates with short longitudinal strioles. Abdominal ventrites with bunch of coarse setigerous punctures present in centre of ventrites III–V, additional setigerous punctures arranged sparsely in transverse line in medial part of ventrites.
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<emphasis box="[181,344,414,437]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">Male genitalia.</emphasis>
Median lobe (
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) in lateral aspect slender medially, strongly broadened to prominent apex; apex setose on apico-ventrally. Parameres (
<figureCitation box="[612,702,478,501]" captionStart="Figs 12–15" captionStartId="8.[151,188,1384,1403]" captionTargetBox="[177,1366,210,1348]" captionTargetId="figure-325@8.[151,1436,186,1372]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="Figs 12–15. Male genitalia of Platynectes. 12 – P. mbaole sp. nov. (holotype); 13 – P. mbaole sp. nov. (paratype, Sutakiki); 14 – P. owaraha sp. nov.; 15 – P. popomanaseu sp. nov. a – median lobe in lateral view; b – parameres. Scale bar = 0.5 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7887322" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7887322/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">Fig. 12b</figureCitation>
) narrowly triangular, slender, incised basally; dorsal surface densely setated; apical lobe long.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[181,264,573,597]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">Female</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Identical to male in habitus. Reticulation of dorsal surface more impressed, thus beetle appearing submatt; meshes on elytra less elongate, mostly closed.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[181,349,670,693]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">Measurements.</emphasis>
TL: 
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(mean value: 6.85 ± 
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); 
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: 
<quantity box="[383,471,702,725]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.9" pageId="10" pageNumber="67" unit="mm" value="6.9">6.9 mm</quantity>
. TL-h: 
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(mean value: 6.10 ± 
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); 
<typeStatus box="[416,514,734,757]" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">holotype</typeStatus>
: 
<quantity box="[523,608,734,757]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.1" pageId="10" pageNumber="67" unit="mm" value="6.1">6.1 mm</quantity>
. MW: 3.7–4.0 mm (mean value: 3.80 ± 
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); 
<typeStatus box="[537,635,766,789]" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">holotype</typeStatus>
: 
<quantity box="[644,729,766,789]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.8" pageId="10" pageNumber="67" unit="mm" value="3.8">3.8 mm</quantity>
.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,278,798,821]" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">Variability.</emphasis>
The variability among the specimens of the 
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series can be seen only in shape and size of yellow markings: the humeral spot may absent completely and the subbasal spot is very small in some specimens, whereas additional two short longitudinal lines present posterior to elytral midlength close to suture in other specimen; sublateral longitudinal line in apical half of elytra may be complete.
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<subSubSection pageId="10" pageNumber="67" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph blockId="10.[151,760,190,1461]" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,394,1054,1077]" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">Differential diagnosis.</emphasis>
The new species can be recognized from all other 
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<emphasis box="[310,433,1086,1109]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">Platynectes</emphasis>
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from the 
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by combination of large body size, distinctive dorsal surface pattern (
<figureCitation box="[240,305,1150,1173]" captionStart="Figs 4–6" captionStartId="3.[151,188,2049,2068]" captionTargetBox="[166,1429,201,1940]" captionTargetId="figure-15@3.[151,1437,187,1963]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="Figs 4–6. Habitus of Platynectes in dorsal (a) and frontolateral (b) view. 4 – P.malaita sp. nov.; 5 – P.mbaole sp. nov.; 6 – P.owaraha sp. nov. Not to scale." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7887315" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7887315/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
) and the shape of male genitalia with prominent apex of the median lobe (
<figureCitation box="[502,626,1182,1205]" captionStart="Figs 12–15" captionStartId="8.[151,188,1384,1403]" captionTargetBox="[177,1366,210,1348]" captionTargetId="figure-325@8.[151,1436,186,1372]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="Figs 12–15. Male genitalia of Platynectes. 12 – P. mbaole sp. nov. (holotype); 13 – P. mbaole sp. nov. (paratype, Sutakiki); 14 – P. owaraha sp. nov.; 15 – P. popomanaseu sp. nov. a – median lobe in lateral view; b – parameres. Scale bar = 0.5 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7887322" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7887322/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">Figs 12–13</figureCitation>
).
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="10" pageNumber="67" type="etymology">
<paragraph blockId="10.[151,760,190,1461]" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,280,1214,1237]" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">Etymology.</emphasis>
The new species is named after its area of occurrence – Mbaole village, in the vicinity of which the new species was collected. The specific epithet is a noun in the nominative singular, standing in apposition.
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<paragraph blockId="10.[151,760,190,1461]" box="[151,560,1342,1365]" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,441,1342,1365]" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">Collecting circumstances.</emphasis>
Unknown.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="10" pageNumber="67" type="distribution">
<paragraph blockId="10.[151,760,190,1461]" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,298,1374,1397]" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">Distribution.</emphasis>
The new species is known from medium altitude area (ca. 
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) in north-central 
<collectingRegion box="[624,760,1406,1429]" country="Solomon Islands" name="Guadalcanal" pageId="10" pageNumber="67">Guadalcanal</collectingRegion>
(
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).
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