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W 
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Vit Kubán leg. 1995/ 
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Length 
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, length of elytra 
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. Body oblong, dorsal surface dark brown, antenna yellowish brown, dorsal surface dull, very sparsely setose.
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Labroclypeus subrectangular, widest at base; lateral margins subparallel; anterior angles strongly rounded; lateral border and ocular canthus producing a distinct blunt angle; margins weakly reflexed, anterior margin very shallowly sinuate medially; surface weakly convex medially and shiny, finely and densely punctate, distance between punctures less than their diameter, with a few coarser punctures behind anterior margin bearing long, erect setae; frontoclypeal suture feebly incised and slightly elevated, medially moderately curved; smooth area in front of eye approximately as wide as long; ocular canthus short and moderately slender, finely and densely punctate, with a short terminal seta. Frons shiny, in posterior half dull, with fine, dense punctures, a few erect setae behind frontoclypeal suture. Eyes small, ratio of diameter: interocular width 0.5. Antenna yellow, with 10 antennomeres; club dark, with five antennomeres, 1.5 times as long as the remaining antennomeres combined. 
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weakly elevated and flattened anteriorly.
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Legs slender and moderately long; femora dull, with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate; metafemur dull, sharply margined anteriorly and without a submarginal serrate line, posterior margin weakly convex and glabrous, its external part only weakly widened in apical half and not serrate, internally very finely serrate, with a few long setae. Metatibia slender and moderately long, uniformly widened toward apex, ratio width: length 1: 3.3, dorsally longitudinally convex, indistinctly edged only in distal third, with two groups of spines, basal group at one-third, apical group at three-quarters of metatibial length, basally with a few single, fine spines in the punctures; external face longitudinally convex, with sparse and very fine punctures, glabrous; ventrally edged and serrate, with three strong equidistant spines, internal face finely sparsely punctate and smooth, apex interiorly near tarsal articulation sharply and deeply truncate. Tarsomeres dorsally glabrous and impunctate, ventrally with sparse, short setae; metatarsomeres ventrally with a strongly serrate ridge, beside which is a fine longitudinal carina, first metatarsomere little shorter than the following two tarsomeres combined and twice as long as the upper tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate, protarsal claws lacking in 
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Aedeagus is shown in 
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(D–F).
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Length 
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, width 2.8–3.0 mm. Protarsal claws symmetrical. Female unknown.
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<emphasis id="B944A95DDB3F6F4CFF38FECF5BD50F4C" box="[144,253,325,349]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="1524">Diagnosis</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="4C300ECCDB3F6F4CFF38FEE75A560F94" authority="Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi, 2009" authorityName="Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi" authorityYear="2009" box="[144,382,365,389]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Gynaecoserica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="1524" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="amara" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B944A95DDB3F6F4CFF38FEE75A560F94" box="[144,382,365,389]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="1524">Gynaecoserica amara</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A2771426DB3F6F4CFE2CFEE75AF60F95" box="[388,478,365,388]" pageId="20" pageNumber="1524" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
is very similar to 
<taxonomicName id="4C300ECCDB3F6F4CFD0FFEE759D70F94" authority="Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi, 2009" authorityName="Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi" authorityYear="2009" box="[679,767,365,389]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Gynaecoserica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="1524" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="alma" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B944A95DDB3F6F4CFD0FFEE759D70F94" box="[679,767,365,389]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="1524">G. alma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A2771426DB3F6F4CFCAEFEE758770F95" box="[774,863,365,388]" pageId="20" pageNumber="1524" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
in habitus and shape of aedeagus; it may be differentiated from this species by the smaller size and by the narrower aedeagus.
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<paragraph id="8B8F754FDB3F6F4CFF38FD885A210C0B" blockId="20.[144,265,514,538]" box="[144,265,514,538]" pageId="20" pageNumber="1524">
<emphasis id="B944A95DDB3F6F4CFF38FD885A210C0B" box="[144,265,514,538]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="1524">Etymology</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="8B8F754FDB3F6F4CFF38FDA1580C0C53" blockId="20.[144,804,554,578]" box="[144,804,554,578]" pageId="20" pageNumber="1524">
Name derived from the Latin adjective 
<emphasis id="B944A95DDB3F6F4CFDE5FDA059B30C53" box="[589,667,554,578]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="1524">
<taxonomicName id="4C300ECCDB3F6F4CFDE5FDA059BF0C53" authorityName="Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi" authorityYear="2009" box="[589,663,554,578]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Gynaecoserica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="1524" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="amara">amara</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
bitter, acid.
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