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, leg. 
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label: Holotype 
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des. Germann, Braunert &amp;Kakiopoulos 2016 (
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Paratypes: 12 ♁♁,4 ♀♀,same data as holotype (cCG, cRB, cGK, NMSO). 13 ♁♁, 6 ♀♀,«2016-19 GREECE, Mt. Xanthi, W-Xanthi, N41°11’25”/ E 24°46’23”,820m, Kalk, artenreiche Bergwiese mit Gebüschsaum, [limestone, meadow with high diversity of plants]26.5.2016, leg. C. Braunert» (cCB). All with red labels: Paratype 
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des. Germann, Braunert &amp;Kakiopoulos 2016
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Size: males 1.4–1.6 mm; females 1.7–1.9 mm; holotype: 1.5 mm. Habitus: 
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–B. Colour: dark brown, antennae, and legs auburn.
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<paragraph blockId="1.[153,1038,348,1518]" pageId="1" pageNumber="178">Head, rostrum and antennae: head with temples as long as diameter of eye, rostrum as long as wide, vertex almost twice as wide as epifrons between antennae. Epifrons in lateral view strongly bulged in middle, in dorsal view weakly carinate apically. Head with transverse impression at frons. Pterygia clearly visible in dorsal view, parallel sided. Antennal scrobe distinct, margins diverging to eye in lateral view. Eyes bulged, on upper side of head. Head and rostrum irregularly and coarsely punctate. Vestiture consisting of very short, oval bristles. Antennal scape bowed and clubbed, twice as long as width of epistome. Antennal funiculus consisting of 7segments. First and second segment as long as wide, following 5segments transverse, constantly broadening, club egg-shaped, 1.5 times wider than last segment. Antennal segments and club set with whitish hairs.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="1.[153,1038,348,1518]" pageId="1" pageNumber="178">Pronotum: transverse (length/width: 0.7–0.75) widest in the middle, laterally strongly rounded, irregularly and coarsely punctate, interspaces between punctures reduced to small ridges. Vestiture consisting of oval, clubbed, recumbent, whitish bristles. Scutellum not visible.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="1.[153,1038,348,1518]" pageId="1" pageNumber="178">Elytra: long-oval (length/width: 1.34 to 1.38 in males) to broader oval (length/width: 1.4 to 1.47 in females), widest in or just behind middle, rounded to basis (apterous) and apex. In lateral view flattened at disc, regularly rounded at decline. Striae regularly punctate. Intervals about twice as wide as striae, glabrous, faintly and irregularly punctate. Intervals set with both, one row of clubbed, oval recumbent bristles, and sparsely standing, much smaller, narrow, attached or weakly bowed scales.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="1.[153,1038,348,1518]" pageId="1" pageNumber="178">Underside: Vestiture sparse with similar narrow, attached or weakly bowed scales as on intervals. Apical edge of 5th ventrite in males almost straight, in females half-round.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="1.[153,1038,348,1518]" lastBlockId="2.[138,1022,1403,1515]" lastPageId="2" lastPageNumber="179" pageId="1" pageNumber="178">Legs: femora edentate, strongly swollen in middle. Tibiae strong, weakly sshaped at inner margin, all with rows of reddish spines at apex. Metatibiae in male weakly mucronate. Four visible strong tarsal segments; first broadly triangular, second transverse, third bilobed, claw segment gracile and elongate almost as long as the preceding three segments together, claws simple. Vestiture consisting of oval, clubbed, recumbent whitish scales.</paragraph>
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Fig. 1. — A. Habitus of 
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holotype lateral view; — B. dorsal view (Photos: C. Germann).
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Fig. 2. Genital organs of 
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— A. Penis, ventral view; — B. lateral view; — C. Sternite VIII; — D. Spermatheca; — E. Ovipositor (Photos: C. Germann).
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Male genitalia: 
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A–B. Penis elongate, tip triangular with blunt apex, flattened in dorsal/ventral view. Apodeme one fourth longer than median lobus. Penis dorsally weakly sclerotized. No visible sclerites in the internal sac, but containing aspiculate field. Tegmen without parameres, tegminal apodeme slightly bowed, half as long as apodeme of aedeagus.
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Female genitalia: 
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C–E. C. Sternite VIII with long and slender apodeme and anarrow, scarcely sclerotized lamella, setose at fore margin. D. Spermatheca with very long C-shaped cornu, small globular nodulus and bigger globular ramus. E. Ovipositor with one pair of weakly sclerotized segments, without styli, set with long sensillae.
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<paragraph blockId="3.[153,1038,935,1517]" pageId="3" pageNumber="180">Sexual dimorphism: small differences; males have amore long-oval body (females more rounded oval), the base of the 10th elytral interval is more strongly depressed (thus more angular in lateral view) and metatibiae are faintly mucronate (not in females).</paragraph>
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<emphasis box="[213,327,1346,1370]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="180">Etymology</emphasis>
:The new species’ epithet “ 
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<emphasis box="[620,737,1346,1370]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="180">xanthianus</emphasis>
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”derives from Mount Xanthi where it was discovered.
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<emphasis box="[213,300,1405,1429]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="180">Ecology</emphasis>
: 
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<emphasis box="[317,586,1405,1429]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="180">Brachysomus xanthianus</emphasis>
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was sifted from mosses, leaf litter, plant debris, and cushion plants together with the weevils 
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<emphasis box="[780,950,1434,1458]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="180">Omias sandneri</emphasis>
Reitter, 1906
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, 
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<emphasis box="[219,321,1463,1487]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="180">Stomodes</emphasis>
Schönherr, 1826
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sp., 
<taxonomicName authority="Fremuth, 1992" authorityName="Fremuth" authorityYear="1992" box="[554,936,1463,1488]" class="Insecta" family="Curculionidae" genus="Stuebenius" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="180" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="romani">
<emphasis box="[554,753,1463,1487]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="180">Stuebenius romani</emphasis>
(Fremuth, 1992)
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, 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="180">Styphlus jonicus</emphasis>
(Reitter, 1899)
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and 
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<emphasis box="[448,715,1493,1517]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="180">Trachyphloeus alternans</emphasis>
Gyllenhal, 1834
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(
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). The habitat consisted of alow 
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<emphasis box="[420,556,897,921]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="181">Quercus ilex</emphasis>
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and 
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forest and arich herbaceous cover growing on xerothermic limestone outcrops near the top of Mount Xanthi at altitudes between 660 and 820 ma.s.l.
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Fig. 3. Locus typicus of 
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<emphasis box="[354,573,802,821]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="181">Brachysomus xanthianus</emphasis>
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on Mount Xanthi (Photo: C. Braunert).
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<heading allCaps="true" box="[138,437,1017,1036]" fontSize="8" level="2" pageId="4" pageNumber="181" reason="3">DIAGNOSIS AND DISCUSSION</heading>
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<emphasis box="[138,404,1057,1081]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="181">Brachysomus xanthianus</emphasis>
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is at present one of the smallest species of the whole genus with solely 1.4–1.9 mm (other small species are 
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<emphasis box="[706,951,1086,1110]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="181">B. (Hippomias) subtilis</emphasis>
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with 1.5–2.3 mm, and 
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<emphasis box="[498,739,1115,1139]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="181">B. (Hippomias) merkli</emphasis>
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with 1.6– 2.2 mm), and combined with the very scarce and short vestiture and the dark brown body colour well recognisable. Based on the shape of the rostrum (see above) it clearly belongs to the subgenus 
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,and there it shares similarities with both, the 
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<emphasis box="[178,375,1233,1257]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="181">B. transsylvanicus</emphasis>
(Seidlitz, 1868)
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species group by 
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, and the 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="181">B. ponticus</emphasis>
Apfelbeck, 1899
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species group sensu 
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.
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In the first species group, the general habitus of 
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<emphasis box="[711,851,1291,1315]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="181">B. tenuicollis</emphasis>
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with arather elongate body, the relatively sparse vestiture, and the shape of the rostrum is similar (
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<emphasis box="[313,461,1350,1374]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="181">B. xanthianus</emphasis>
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is much smaller, it has even scarcer vestiture with shorter bristles, and head with rostrum more broadly triangular, eyes more protruding, transverse depression at frons deeper). Furthermore, 
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<emphasis box="[793,910,1409,1432]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="181">B. armatus</emphasis>
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shows similarly transverse antennal segments 3–7, but differs in the strongly s-shaped metatibiae, and their sharp inner face at apex. The similarly minute 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="181">B. merkli</emphasis>
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shows asimilar body shape, especially head and pronotum, but differs in the stronger punctate striae on the elytra, the much longer elytral bristles, and the less transverse antennal segments.
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In the second species group, 
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<emphasis box="[516,606,182,206]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="182">B. fallax</emphasis>
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with the protruding eyes situated high on the head, the rostral sulcus, the recumbent setae on the elytra and the shape of the penis is similar (just weakly carinate rostrum, and elytra not strongly rounded in 
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<emphasis box="[308,457,270,294]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="182">B. xanthianus</emphasis>
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). Additionally 
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<emphasis box="[694,793,271,294]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="182">B. samos</emphasis>
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shows similarities regarding the shape of rostrum, but the eyes are much flatter, the antennal segments 3–7 are as long as wide, the body vestiture is denser, the shape of the scales is different, and the base of 10th elytral interval is more strongly depressed in males.
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