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<emphasis id="AFE6EAEDFF98FFDBD1F6F8F7FEF9F898" bold="true" box="[151,331,1869,1895]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="378">Lacon salvazai</emphasis>
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(
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, 6, 9)
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: 184 (
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<emphasis id="AFE6EAEDFF98FFDBD0E5F802FE5EF831" box="[388,492,1976,1998]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="378">Adelocera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
); 1918b: 206 (
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<emphasis id="AFE6EAEDFF98FFDBD3E5F802FCF6F831" box="[644,836,1976,1998]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="378">Adelocera salvazei</emphasis>
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[sic!]); 1920: 113, 114 (
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<emphasis id="AFE6EAEDFF98FFDBD55CF802FB17F831" box="[1085,1189,1976,1998]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="378">Adelocera</emphasis>
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); 1924: 34 (
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<emphasis id="AFE6EAEDFF98FFDBD445F802FA3EF831" box="[1316,1420,1976,1998]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="378">Adelocera</emphasis>
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);
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: 12;
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: 64, 68, pl. 2, fig. 42; 1947: 272, 276;
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: 81.
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<emphasis id="AFE6EAEDFF9BFFD8D1F6FF2DFEB4FF4F" bold="true" box="[151,262,151,176]" pageId="6" pageNumber="379">Material.</emphasis>
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: “Юньнань, 50 км южн. Чэли, 700 м,
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, Д. Панфилов” [
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, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna Prefecture,
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S of Tscheli (at present—Jinghong City County),
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,
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, D. Panfilov leg.] (
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<emphasis id="AFE6EAEDFF9BFFD8D1A6FEBFFEF7FEE3" box="[199,325,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="379">L. salvazai</emphasis>
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previously was known from
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(provinces Luang Prabang, “Xieng-Khouang” [at present— Xiangkhouang], “Haut-Mékong” [at present—Luang Namtha]) and
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(“
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, Bangkok”) (
<bibRefCitation id="F9034B0EFF9BFFD8D58BFE9DFA2AFEBF" author="Fleutiaux" box="[1258,1432,295,320]" pageId="6" pageNumber="379" refString="Fleutiaux, E. (1920) Les especes indo-chinoises du genre Adelocera Germar [Col. Elateridae]. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 112 - 115." type="book chapter" year="1920">Fleutiaux 1920</bibRefCitation>
,
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).
<bibRefCitation id="F9034B0EFF9BFFD8D189FEF6FE31FE9B" author="Hayek" box="[232,387,332,357]" pageId="6" pageNumber="379" refString="Hayek, C. M. F. von. (1973) A reclassification of the subfamily Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology, supplement 20, 1 - 309." type="journal article" year="1973">Hayek (1973)</bibRefCitation>
erroneously attributed the
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locality (“Xieng-Khouang”) to North
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.
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First record for
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.
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<emphasis id="AFE6EAEDFF9BFFD8D1A6FE2EFE89FE52" bold="true" box="[199,315,404,429]" pageId="6" pageNumber="379">Remarks.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="AFE6EAEDFF9BFFD8D024FE2FFE70FE53" box="[325,450,404,428]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="379">L. salvazai</emphasis>
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is rather distinctive species of the genus. According to Fleutiaux (1918, 1927), it is similar to
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<emphasis id="AFE6EAEDFF9BFFD8D070FE03FE23FE2F" box="[273,401,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="379">L. robustus</emphasis>
(Fleutiaux, 1902)
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and
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<emphasis id="AFE6EAEDFF9BFFD8D3C3FE03FCAFFE2F" box="[674,797,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="379">L. laoticus</emphasis>
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. The female specimen in my disposal complies well with the diagnosis of Fleutiaux (1918, 1947); it is
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long and
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wide.
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<paragraph id="9D2D36FFFF9BFFD8D1A6FE45FC93FDC2" blockId="6.[151,1437,151,933]" pageId="6" pageNumber="379">Little is known about this species. The structure of the genitalia of both sexes is unknown, so I give additional notes on characters of the ovipositor and bursa copulatrix.</paragraph>
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The ovipositor (
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) is rather long; baculum long, strongly sclerotized (ratio length baculum/length ovipositor 0.79); coxite rather strongly sclerotized, with quite a few setae, slightly narrowed to apex, with small but distinct stylus. There are two plates inside the bursa copulatrix: large and small (Fig. 6). The large plate inside the bursa copulatrix has a rather specific shape and sculpture; in addition to small spinules it has only few long spines. In most of known Palaearctic
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<emphasis id="AFE6EAEDFF9BFFD8D090FD63FD85FD0F" box="[497,567,729,752]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="379">Lacon</emphasis>
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species such plates bear many long spines (e.g. Fig. 4, 5) and usually have different shapes. The small plate is situated distally to the large one and bears short spinules. The general shape of the bursa copulatrix is also rather unusual for species of the genus, as it is not rounded or ellipsoidal as typically, but strongly oblong. It should be noted that the walls of the bursa copulatrix are visibly weakly sclerotized. According to
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, similar structure of plates in the bursa copulatrix is also found in
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<emphasis id="AFE6EAEDFF9BFFD8D5A5FCD3FAFAFC7F" box="[1220,1352,872,896]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="379">L. kintauroi</emphasis>
Kishii, 1990
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described from
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. Otherwise this species is also similar to
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<emphasis id="AFE6EAEDFF9BFFD8D2C7FC37FB92FC5B" box="[934,1056,908,932]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="379">L. salvazai</emphasis>
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.
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