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<mods:title>Taxonomic revision of the genus Machleida Fahraeus, 1870 (Tenebrionidae, Pimeliinae, Asidini)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Kaminski, Marcin J.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Kanda, Kojun</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName LSID="5E99ED5A-61F2-5EA7-A602-9E679C266931" class="Insecta" family="Tenebrionidae" genus="Machleida" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Machleida flagstaffensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="83" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="flagstaffensis">Machleida flagstaffensis</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1. Selected diagnostic characters proposed for Machleida and its species. A, B Pronotal disc with specific surface modifications C ventral aspect of postoral regions D antenna E, F dorsal aspect of head. Illustrated species: A, D Machleida zofiae B M. nodulosa C M. tarskii E M. devia F M. flagstaffensis." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.898.46465.figure1" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/363751" pageId="0" pageNumber="83" tableDoi="10.3897/zookeys.898.46465.figure1">Figs 1F</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Habitus images of the studied species. A Machleida banachi B M. devia C M. flagstaffensis D M. nodulosa E M. tarskii F M. zofiae." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.898.46465.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/363752" pageId="0" pageNumber="83" tableDoi="10.3897/zookeys.898.46465.figure2">2C</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Female and male terminalia of Machleida. A, B Ovipositor and genital tubes of Machleida flagstaffensis C aedeagus of M. devia." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.898.46465.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/363754" pageId="0" pageNumber="83" tableDoi="10.3897/zookeys.898.46465.figure4">4A, B</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Distribution of species of the genus Machleida." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.898.46465.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/363755" pageId="0" pageNumber="83" tableDoi="10.3897/zookeys.898.46465.figure5">5</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Type material.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Holotype</emphasis>
(Transvaal Mus.): &quot;1.12.1988; E-Y:2593 / forest floor litter / leg. Endrody-Younga&quot;, &quot;S. Afr., Transkei / Ntsubane forest / 
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&quot;. 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Paratypes</emphasis>
: single specimen (Transvaal Mus.): same data as holotype; single specimen (Transvaal Mus.): &quot;24.11.1987; E-Y:2533 / indig. Forest litter / leg. Endrody-Younga&quot;, &quot;S. Afr., Transkei / Silaka For. Reserve / 
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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On account of a large body size this species is similar to 
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. Both species can be separated by the characters listed in the identification key provided above.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Description.</paragraph>
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Length 13.0-15.0 mm, width of elytra 7.0-7.5 mm. Integument brownish, often densely coated with debris. 
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: frons with longitudinal median depression, densely punctate (~0.2 diameters apart), each puncture with short yellowish acuminate seta; frontoclypeal suture medially indistinguishable, weakly indented at margins, with pair of lateral depressions; apical clypeal margin broadly shallowly emarginate; clypeus projected toward front of body (
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); apical margin of labrum sharply emarginate, densely punctate (~0.2 diameters apart), each puncture with short yellowish seta. Eye elongate oval, length approximately 6 
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width, weakly emarginate around epistomal base. Mentum with rounded base, not fully filling buccal cavity, anterior margin weakly medially emarginate; densely punctate, punctures moderately sized, each with single slender setae. Submentum triangular, concave, densely punctate. Antenna moderately clothed in erect acuminate clear to yellowish setae; length of antennomeres 10+11 equal to 0.9 of antennomere 3 length; antennomeres 10+11 noticeably widended; length of antenna equal to 0.75 of pronotal length. 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Prothorax</emphasis>
: pronotal lateral margin rounded, slightly elevated. Pronotum widest in middle base. Disc with two median carinae merging in middle, and lateral tubercles situated above half pronotal length; surface sparsely punctate, covered with noticeable microsculpture and extremely short, brownish setae. Median carinae and remaining tubercles apically covered with elongated scale-like setae and short elongated setae; anterior margin emarginate, densely setose; base bisinuate. Hypomeron with relatively deep antennal sulcus, impunctate. Prosternal process strongly convex, rounded at apex. 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Pterothorax</emphasis>
: scutellum with median longitudinal grove. Elytra widest behind middle; surface between tubercles glabrous, covered with microsculpture; marginal costae present, tuberculate, apex of each tubercle densely covered with numerous short acuminate setae and large single scale-like seta apically, divided near humera, marginal branch extending to approximately middle of 4th abdominal ventrite, dorsal branch extending to base of 3rd abdominal ventrite, terminal tubercles transverse; disc without any trace of intervals or rows, sparsely covered with tubercles; ventral portion of elytra basally impunctate. Elytral slope steep (falling at angle of 75°). Epipleuron indistinguishable from neighbouring portion of elytra. Mesanepisternum, mesepimeron, and metepimeron sparsely punctate. Meso- and metaventrite sparsely punctate and covered with setae. Lateral regions of metaventrite (between coxae) extremely short. 
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: apex of profemora with small denticle on outer margin. Femora and tibia densely punctate and setose. Tarsi cylindrical, not flattened. 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Abdomen</emphasis>
: ventrites 1-3 sparsely punctate and setose; ventrites 4 and 5 moderately punctate and setose; ventrite 5 without submarginal sulcus. 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Terminalia</emphasis>
: ovipositor with paraproct much longer that coxites, plates 2-4 fused (
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). Genital tubes similarly structured to other 
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(
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Female and male terminalia of Machleida. A, B Ovipositor and genital tubes of Machleida flagstaffensis C aedeagus of M. devia." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.898.46465.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/363754" pageId="0" pageNumber="83" tableDoi="10.3897/zookeys.898.46465.figure4">Fig. 4B</figureCitation>
). Male specimens were not dissected due to scarcity of available materials.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="83">The species epithet refers to Flagstaff (Eastern Cape, South Africa), a town near the collecting localities of this new species.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="83">Distribution.</paragraph>
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Representatives of this species have been collected in the following ecoregions of South Africa (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Distribution of species of the genus Machleida." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.898.46465.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/363755" pageId="0" pageNumber="83" tableDoi="10.3897/zookeys.898.46465.figure5">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
): KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic, Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets.
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