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<mods:titleid="6CE562C3EDF7594E2725997F521C669A">A revision of the Sunius species of the Western Palaearctic region and Middle Asia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)</mods:title>
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Based on the male sexual characters and the morphology of the aedeagus (shape of ventral process, internal structures), the species may be most closely related to
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, but head on average paler, elytra shorter and more slender, and posterior margin of tergite VII without palisade fringe. Distinguished from the closely related
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by smaller body size, the absence of microsculpture on the head, much shorter elytra and reduced hind wings, and by the absence of a palisade fringe at the posterior margin of tergite VII.
3: sternite VIII with the usual posterior excision, otherwise unmodified; aedeagus with short ventral process, with short flagellum, and with additional internal structure of distinctive shape; for illustrations see
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reported it from the Timphristos Oros (Evritania) near Karpenision, but this record is likely to be based on a misidentification and to refer to
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