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(
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,
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF9FFD4B14D6E31E10EA038" box="[280,541,869,893]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">Meligethes auropilosus</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF9FFD4B2716E31E16DA03B" bold="true" box="[548,638,869,894]" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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is a member of the
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF9FFD4B3086E32E0EBA038" box="[861,1016,869,893]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">M. nepalensis</emphasis>
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group (as delimited by
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Audisio
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), where it is likely related to
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and to a lesser extent to
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from Yunnan and Sichuan, respectively. The species of this group share uniformly blackish to dark-brown body coloration, usually with paler pronotal sides, elongate body shape (ratio LELY/WELY always markedly>1), narrow and slender metatibiae in both sexes (ratio WPTI/LPTI <0.27), combined with yellow-orange to piceous-brown legs and antennae, and peculiarly long and prostrate golden to silvery dorsal pubescence, partly obscuring dorsal surface and coloration. The new species can be easily differentiated by the peculiarly shaped male genitalia (
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), with elongate tegmen and long and parallelsided median lobe of the aedeagus, narrowly spatulate and minutely emarginated distad (female genitalia of
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF9FFD4B17469FDE268A787" bold="true" box="[289,379,1193,1218]" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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and of
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are unknown; but see also Taxonomic Remarks below).
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Description (male
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: External habitus and coloration as figured (
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFF9FFD4B3A169A5E76DA64F" box="[1012,1150,1265,1290]" captionStart="FIGURES 30 – 33" captionStartId="12.[151,264,1779,1802]" captionTargetBox="[217,1370,205,1743]" captionTargetId="figure@12.[201,1386,193,1758]" captionTargetPageId="12" captionText="FIGURES 30 – 33. Habitus of Meligethes spp. (dorsal and ventral view). 30: M. aureolineatus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female holotype from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). 31: M. aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female paratype from China, Shaanxi, Hua Mts). 32 – 33: M. auropilosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyalam). Scale bar = 0.6 mm (Figs. 30 – 33)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259801/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">Figs. 32–33</figureCitation>
|
||
); dorsal and ventral body surface uniformly blackish to dark castaneous, including pronotum; pronotal flattened lateral sides narrowly paler (nut brown) than disc; elytral lateral sides same color as disc. Antennae orange-yellowish, with darker antennal club and antennomeres preceding the club infuscate (
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFF9FFD4B2BD6809E028A633" box="[744,827,1373,1398]" captionStart="FIGURES 30 – 33" captionStartId="12.[151,264,1779,1802]" captionTargetBox="[217,1370,205,1743]" captionTargetId="figure@12.[201,1386,193,1758]" captionTargetPageId="12" captionText="FIGURES 30 – 33. Habitus of Meligethes spp. (dorsal and ventral view). 30: M. aureolineatus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female holotype from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). 31: M. aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female paratype from China, Shaanxi, Hua Mts). 32 – 33: M. auropilosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyalam). Scale bar = 0.6 mm (Figs. 30 – 33)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259801/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">Fig. 33</figureCitation>
|
||
); legs uniformly orange-yellowish. Dorsal pubescence with peculiarly long and recumbent setae, silvery-golden and dense, partly obscuring the dorsal surface.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFF9FFD4B09268F1E712A543" blockId="7.[151,1437,869,2010]" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF9FFD4B09268F1E260A6F8" box="[199,371,1445,1469]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">Dorsal habitus</emphasis>
|
||
: body scarcely convex, elongate and oval (
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFF9FFD4B32868F1E71FA6FB" box="[893,1036,1445,1470]" captionStart="FIGURES 30 – 33" captionStartId="12.[151,264,1779,1802]" captionTargetBox="[217,1370,205,1743]" captionTargetId="figure@12.[201,1386,193,1758]" captionTargetPageId="12" captionText="FIGURES 30 – 33. Habitus of Meligethes spp. (dorsal and ventral view). 30: M. aureolineatus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female holotype from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). 31: M. aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female paratype from China, Shaanxi, Hua Mts). 32 – 33: M. auropilosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyalam). Scale bar = 0.6 mm (Figs. 30 – 33)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259801/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">Figs. 32–33</figureCitation>
|
||
). Ratio LPR1/LELY = 0.48; ratio WPR1/LPR1 = 1.89; ratio WPR2/LPR1 = 1.86; ratio WPR2/WPR1 = 0.98; ratio LELY/WELY = 1.02; ratio WPR1/WPRA = 1.59; ratio WPR1/WELY = 0.92; ratio WPR2/WELY = 0.91.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFF9FFD4B0926B45E790A447" blockId="7.[151,1437,869,2010]" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">
|
||
Anterior margin of clypeus slightly arcuately emarginate; pronotum with blunt but distinct posterior angles (
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFF9FFD4B0CA6B61E3E5A50B" box="[159,246,1589,1614]" captionStart="FIGURES 30 – 33" captionStartId="12.[151,264,1779,1802]" captionTargetBox="[217,1370,205,1743]" captionTargetId="figure@12.[201,1386,193,1758]" captionTargetPageId="12" captionText="FIGURES 30 – 33. Habitus of Meligethes spp. (dorsal and ventral view). 30: M. aureolineatus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female holotype from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). 31: M. aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female paratype from China, Shaanxi, Hua Mts). 32 – 33: M. auropilosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyalam). Scale bar = 0.6 mm (Figs. 30 – 33)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259801/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">Fig. 32</figureCitation>
|
||
), not projecting backwards. Frons and pronotum with punctures nearly of the same size as eye facet, separated by little <1 diameter. Elytral punctures markedly finer, shallower than those on head and pronotum, smaller in size than eye facets, oval, separated by ~1 diameter, without traces of transversal strigosity. Interspaces between punctures on head and pronotum shining, only in posterior half of pronotum with faint trace of reticulation; interspaces between elytral punctures with more distinct traces of reticulation and slightly duller. Pygidium with rather dense flatly granular punctures, its apex obtusely rounded (
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFF9FFD4B4776BBDE765A447" box="[1058,1142,1769,1794]" captionStart="FIGURES 30 – 33" captionStartId="12.[151,264,1779,1802]" captionTargetBox="[217,1370,205,1743]" captionTargetId="figure@12.[201,1386,193,1758]" captionTargetPageId="12" captionText="FIGURES 30 – 33. Habitus of Meligethes spp. (dorsal and ventral view). 30: M. aureolineatus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female holotype from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). 31: M. aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female paratype from China, Shaanxi, Hua Mts). 32 – 33: M. auropilosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyalam). Scale bar = 0.6 mm (Figs. 30 – 33)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259801/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">Fig. 33</figureCitation>
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||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFF9FFD4B0926A59E68EA428" blockId="7.[151,1437,869,2010]" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF9FFD4B0926A59E268A460" box="[199,379,1805,1829]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">Ventral habitus</emphasis>
|
||
(
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFF9FFD4B1C06A59E2E7A463" box="[405,500,1805,1830]" captionStart="FIGURES 30 – 33" captionStartId="12.[151,264,1779,1802]" captionTargetBox="[217,1370,205,1743]" captionTargetId="figure@12.[201,1386,193,1758]" captionTargetPageId="12" captionText="FIGURES 30 – 33. Habitus of Meligethes spp. (dorsal and ventral view). 30: M. aureolineatus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female holotype from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). 31: M. aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female paratype from China, Shaanxi, Hua Mts). 32 – 33: M. auropilosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyalam). Scale bar = 0.6 mm (Figs. 30 – 33)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259801/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">Fig. 33</figureCitation>
|
||
): Prosternal process subparallel-sided, narrow, roundly pointed distad. Male metaventrite exhibiting a shallow mediolongitudinal impression, widened behind midlength, area lateral to this impression markedly convex, slightly convex, densely punctate, shining, at sides duller, without tufts of erect setae.
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFF9FFDBB0926A2DE645A259" blockId="7.[151,1437,869,2010]" lastBlockId="8.[151,1437,151,1547]" lastPageId="8" lastPageNumber="109" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF9FFD4B0926A2DE243A4D4" box="[199,336,1913,1937]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">Appendages</emphasis>
|
||
: antennae (
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFF9FFD4B1896A2DE121A4D7" box="[476,562,1913,1938]" captionStart="FIGURES 30 – 33" captionStartId="12.[151,264,1779,1802]" captionTargetBox="[217,1370,205,1743]" captionTargetId="figure@12.[201,1386,193,1758]" captionTargetPageId="12" captionText="FIGURES 30 – 33. Habitus of Meligethes spp. (dorsal and ventral view). 30: M. aureolineatus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female holotype from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). 31: M. aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female paratype from China, Shaanxi, Hua Mts). 32 – 33: M. auropilosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyalam). Scale bar = 0.6 mm (Figs. 30 – 33)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259801/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">Fig. 33</figureCitation>
|
||
) peculiarly long and slender, exhibiting ratio ANLE/HWEA = 1.16; ratio CLLE/W10J = 1.40; ratio L03J/W03J = 2.90; ratio L03J/L02J = 1.00; ratio L03J/L04J =1.45. Protarsal plates (
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFF9FFD4B53A6AC9E3A7A49F" captionStart="FIGURES 30 – 33" captionStartId="12.[151,264,1779,1802]" captionTargetBox="[217,1370,205,1743]" captionTargetId="figure@12.[201,1386,193,1758]" captionTargetPageId="12" captionText="FIGURES 30 – 33. Habitus of Meligethes spp. (dorsal and ventral view). 30: M. aureolineatus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female holotype from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). 31: M. aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female paratype from China, Shaanxi, Hua Mts). 32 – 33: M. auropilosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyalam). Scale bar = 0.6 mm (Figs. 30 – 33)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259801/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">Fig. 33</figureCitation>
|
||
) narrow, ratio WFTA/LFTA = 0.25; protibiae with minute rather sharp teeth on apical third of their outer margins (
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFF6FFDBB1556DC3E247A3F5" box="[256,340,151,176]" captionStart="FIGURES 30 – 33" captionStartId="12.[151,264,1779,1802]" captionTargetBox="[217,1370,205,1743]" captionTargetId="figure@12.[201,1386,193,1758]" captionTargetPageId="12" captionText="FIGURES 30 – 33. Habitus of Meligethes spp. (dorsal and ventral view). 30: M. aureolineatus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female holotype from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). 31: M. aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female paratype from China, Shaanxi, Hua Mts). 32 – 33: M. auropilosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyalam). Scale bar = 0.6 mm (Figs. 30 – 33)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259801/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Fig. 33</figureCitation>
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||
), exhibiting a ratio LETI/WITI ≈ 3.6. Male posterior femora normally developed, when extended only moderately protruding outwards beyond the elytral sides, the ratio between the protrusion of distal apex of metafemora beyond elytral lateral edge being
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB2C26DB5E1AAA3BD" box="[663,697,225,248]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">ca.</emphasis>
|
||
0.22× of the head width (HWEA) (
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFF6FFDBB4106D8BE78BA3BD" box="[1093,1176,223,248]" captionStart="FIGURES 30 – 33" captionStartId="12.[151,264,1779,1802]" captionTargetBox="[217,1370,205,1743]" captionTargetId="figure@12.[201,1386,193,1758]" captionTargetPageId="12" captionText="FIGURES 30 – 33. Habitus of Meligethes spp. (dorsal and ventral view). 30: M. aureolineatus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female holotype from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). 31: M. aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female paratype from China, Shaanxi, Hua Mts). 32 – 33: M. auropilosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyalam). Scale bar = 0.6 mm (Figs. 30 – 33)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259801/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Fig. 33</figureCitation>
|
||
); meso- and metatibiae along their inner edge simple, not sinuated. Metatibiae peculiarly narrow (
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFF6FFDBB3836C50E73AA259" box="[982,1065,260,285]" captionStart="FIGURES 30 – 33" captionStartId="12.[151,264,1779,1802]" captionTargetBox="[217,1370,205,1743]" captionTargetId="figure@12.[201,1386,193,1758]" captionTargetPageId="12" captionText="FIGURES 30 – 33. Habitus of Meligethes spp. (dorsal and ventral view). 30: M. aureolineatus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female holotype from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). 31: M. aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (female paratype from China, Shaanxi, Hua Mts). 32 – 33: M. auropilosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyalam). Scale bar = 0.6 mm (Figs. 30 – 33)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259801/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Fig. 33</figureCitation>
|
||
), ratio WPTI/LPTI = 0.22.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFF6FFDBB0926C7CE3C7A2B0" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1547]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB0926C7CE27DA205" box="[199,366,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Male genitalia</emphasis>
|
||
: shape of both tegmen and aedeagus as figured (
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFF6FFDBB3FF6C73E725A205" box="[938,1078,295,320]" captionStart="FIGURES 9 – 16" captionStartId="5.[151,264,1449,1472]" captionTargetBox="[237,1349,277,1419]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[228,1360,267,1428]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURES 9 – 16. Male genitalia of Meligethes spp. 9 – 10: M. aureolineatus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (male from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). 11 – 12: M. aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (male paratype from China, Shaanxi, Hua Mts). 13 – 14: M. auropilosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyalam). 15 – 16: M. volkovichi Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (male holotype from China, Yunnan, Cang Mts). Scale bar = 0.2 mm (Figs. 9 – 16)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259799/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Figs. 13–14</figureCitation>
|
||
), characterized by large, rather long and parallel-sided median lobe of the aedeagus, abruptly narrowed at distal fifth, with narrowly spatulate apex, ratio LEAE/WIAE = 2.40. Tegmen elongate, widest at its distal three fifths, medial distal excision moderately deep, narrowly V-shaped (ratio DTIN/LETE ≈ 0.38), its inner margins with marked projection; ratio LETE/WITE = 1.58. Main sclerites of internal sac (endophallus) rather long, rod-shaped in both dorsal and lateral view.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFF6FFDBB0926F54E02FA15D" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1547]" box="[199,828,511,536]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">
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||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB0926F54E208A15D" box="[199,283,512,536]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Female</emphasis>
|
||
: unknown (but see Taxonomic Remarks below).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFF6FFDBB0926F71E1A7A125" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1547]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">
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||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB0926F71E23CA179" box="[199,303,549,572]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Variation</emphasis>
|
||
: The second known specimen (
|
||
<typeStatus id="67560CC1FFF6FFDBB2CE6F70E1ECA179" box="[667,767,548,572]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" type="paratype">paratype</typeStatus>
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||
) resembles almost perfectly the
|
||
<typeStatus id="67560CC1FFF6FFDBB4206F71E7B6A178" box="[1141,1189,549,573]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">type</typeStatus>
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specimen (length
|
||
<quantity id="7F151F86FFF6FFDBB52C6F70E3D6A11A" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.7" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" unit="mm" value="2.7">2.7 mm</quantity>
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||
, width
|
||
<quantity id="7F151F86FFF6FFDBB1426F1CE27CA125" box="[279,367,584,608]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.4" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" unit="mm" value="1.4">1.4 mm</quantity>
|
||
) in size and body coloration.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="F0F7E1E8FFF6FFDBB0926F38E7F6A1EF" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" type="materials_examined">
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||
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB0926F38E27CA1C0" bold="true" box="[199,367,620,645]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">
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||
<typeStatus id="67560CC1FFF6FFDBB0926F38E211A1C0" box="[199,258,620,645]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Type</typeStatus>
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||
material
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||
</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
<typeStatus id="67560CC1FFF6FFDBB1286F38E2FBA1C0" box="[381,488,620,645]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
|
||
, ♂,
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||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB24C6F38E171A1C0" bold="true" box="[537,610,620,645]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">
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<collectingCountry id="C0FAF2F3FFF6FFDBB24C6F38E171A1C0" box="[537,610,620,645]" name="China" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">China</collectingCountry>
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||
</emphasis>
|
||
: Tibet, Shigatse District, Nyalam Quxiang [
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB40D6F3AE769A1C0" box="[1112,1146,622,645]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">ca.</emphasis>
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||
28.07
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||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB4946F3FE7DFA1C0" box="[1217,1228,619,645]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">°</emphasis>
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N
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</geoCoordinate>
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||
,
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85.79
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB57A6F3FE629A1C0" box="[1327,1338,619,645]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">°</emphasis>
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||
E
|
||
</geoCoordinate>
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||
],
|
||
<quantity id="7F151F86FFF6FFDBB5316F38E3BEA1EC" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.6" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" unit="m" value="3600.0">3600 m</quantity>
|
||
a.s.l.,
|
||
<date id="CC5394A3FFF6FFDBB0A36FC5E275A1EF" box="[246,358,657,682]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" value="1966-05-20">20.v.1966</date>
|
||
, Wang Shuyong lgt.,
|
||
<specimenCount id="AEEB79EAFFF6FFDBB2026FC6E192A1EC" box="[599,641,658,682]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" type="generic">1 ♂</specimenCount>
|
||
(
|
||
<collectionCode id="DEFC2AA6FFF6FFDBB2C56FC6E1C7A1EF" box="[656,724,658,682]" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/043p-ts4f" name="Institut Zoologii Akademii Nauk Ukraini - Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">IZAS</collectionCode>
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||
).
|
||
<typeStatus id="67560CC1FFF6FFDBB2B26FC6E05EA1EF" box="[743,845,658,682]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" type="paratype">Paratype</typeStatus>
|
||
: same data as
|
||
<typeStatus id="67560CC1FFF6FFDBB3B96FC5E742A1EF" box="[1004,1105,657,682]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
|
||
,
|
||
<specimenCount id="AEEB79EAFFF6FFDBB4096FC6E795A1EC" box="[1116,1158,658,682]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" type="generic">1 ♂</specimenCount>
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||
(
|
||
<collectionCode id="DEFC2AA6FFF6FFDBB4C06FC6E7CAA1EF" box="[1173,1241,658,682]" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/043p-ts4f" name="Institut Zoologii Akademii Nauk Ukraini - Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">IZAS</collectionCode>
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||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="F0F7E1E8FFF6FFDBB0926FE1E162A54E" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" type="distribution">
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||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFF6FFDBB0926FE1E155A18B" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1547]" box="[199,582,693,718]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB0926FE1E24AA18B" bold="true" box="[199,345,693,718]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Distribution</emphasis>
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||
.
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB1326FE1E28EA18B" bold="true" box="[359,413,693,718]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">EPA</emphasis>
|
||
: XIZ (SHA?).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFF6FFDBB0926F8DE001A07F" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1547]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">
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<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFF6FFDBB0926F8DE2DDA1B4" box="[199,462,729,753]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="auropilosus" status="sp. nov.">
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||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB0926F8DE2DDA1B4" box="[199,462,729,753]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Meligethes auropilosus</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB1836F8DE121A1B7" bold="true" box="[470,562,729,754]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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</taxonomicNameLabel>
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is only known with certainty from a single locality in central NW
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<collectingCountry id="C0FAF2F3FFF6FFDBB5666F8DE66BA1B7" box="[1331,1400,729,754]" name="China" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">China</collectingCountry>
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, in middle-high altitude areas of SW Tibet; a single female from S Shaanxi could be referred to this same species or to a closely related taxon (see Taxonomic Remarks below).
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</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB0926E11E255A01B" bold="true" box="[199,326,837,862]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Chorotype</emphasis>
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. Central-SW Chinese.
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</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB0926E3DE242A0C7" bold="true" box="[199,337,873,898]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Host-plants</emphasis>
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. Unknown. Probably associated with mountain
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<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFF6FFDBB33E6E3EE0CBA0C4" box="[875,984,874,897]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rosaceae" kingdom="Plantae" order="Rosales" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="family">Rosaceae</taxonomicName>
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, perhaps
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<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFF6FFDBB4146E3EE769A0C4" box="[1089,1146,874,897]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rosaceae" genus="Rosa" kingdom="Plantae" order="Rosales" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB4146E3EE769A0C4" box="[1089,1146,874,897]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Rosa</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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or allied genera.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="B852B263FFF6FFDBB0926ED9E782A08F" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1547]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB0926ED9E230A0E3" bold="true" box="[199,291,909,934]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Habitat</emphasis>
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. Scrub, middle altitude plains, river edges; collected at
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB3F66EDAE0D7A0E0" box="[931,964,910,933]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">ca.</emphasis>
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<quantity id="7F151F86FFF6FFDBB3986ED9E737A0E0" box="[973,1060,909,934]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.6" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" unit="m" value="3600.0">3600 m</quantity>
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a.s.l.; the single doubtful female specimen from Shaanxi (see Taxonomic Remarks below) was collected at
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB38D6EE6E0EAA08C" box="[984,1017,946,969]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">ca.</emphasis>
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<quantity id="7F151F86FFF6FFDBB4556EE6E746A08C" box="[1024,1109,946,970]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.0" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" unit="m" value="2000.0">2000 m</quantity>
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a.s.l.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="B852B263FFF6FFDBB0926E81E2B0A0AB" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1547]" box="[199,419,981,1006]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB0926E81E251A0AB" bold="true" box="[199,322,981,1006]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Phenology</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB11A6E81E2B0A0AB" bold="true" box="[335,419,981,1006]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">V-VII?</emphasis>
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</paragraph>
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||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFF6FFDBB0926EADE2F8A757" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1547]" box="[199,491,1017,1042]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">
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||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB0926EADE253A757" bold="true" box="[199,320,1017,1042]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">DNA data</emphasis>
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||
. Not available.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="B852B263FFF6FFDBB0926949E2A0A73B" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1547]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB0926949E29CA773" bold="true" box="[199,399,1053,1078]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Name derivation</emphasis>
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. Name derived from Latin
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB297694AE018A770" box="[706,779,1054,1077]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">aurum</emphasis>
|
||
(= gold) and
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB3F16949E0E0A770" box="[932,1011,1053,1077]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">pilosus</emphasis>
|
||
(= haired), in recognition of the main diagnostic characters of the new species, the peculiarly long and golden dorsal pubescence, partly obscuring the dark dorsal body surface.
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||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFF6FFDBB09269DDE68EA648" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1547]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB09269DDE2A8A7E7" bold="true" box="[199,443,1161,1186]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Taxonomic remarks</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
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||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB18569DDE1C8A7E4" box="[464,731,1161,1185]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Meligethes auropilosus</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="91AAD30AFFF6FFDBB2BD69DDE05BA7E7" box="[744,840,1161,1186]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" rank="species">
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB2BD69DDE05BA7E7" bold="true" box="[744,840,1161,1186]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
is a member of a small group of related species distributed from
|
||
<collectingCountry id="C0FAF2F3FFF6FFDBB10069F9E28BA783" box="[341,408,1197,1222]" name="Nepal" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Nepal</collectingCountry>
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||
and
|
||
<collectingCountry id="C0FAF2F3FFF6FFDBB18469F9E131A783" box="[465,546,1197,1222]" name="Bhutan" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Bhutan</collectingCountry>
|
||
westwards to SW and central
|
||
<collectingCountry id="C0FAF2F3FFF6FFDBB32B69F9E0D2A783" box="[894,961,1197,1222]" name="China" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">China</collectingCountry>
|
||
eastwards, which are easily distinguished by the different shape of male and female genitalia (see Diagnosis above). This species appears to be geographically vicariant of the more closely related
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFF6FFDBB28969A2E7EFA64B" authority="Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelinek, 2015" authorityName="Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelinek" authorityYear="2015" box="[732,1276,1269,1294]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="volkovichi">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB28969A2E067A648" box="[732,884,1269,1293]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">M. volkovichi</emphasis>
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||
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
from Yunnan.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFF6FFDBB092684DE162A54E" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1547]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">
|
||
The authors recently collected and studied an additional isolated female specimen which could be this same species or more likely (considering the long distance separating the provinces of Tibet and Shaanxi), a closely related taxon:
|
||
<collectingCountry id="C0FAF2F3FFF6FFDBB1686835E295A63F" box="[317,390,1377,1402]" name="China" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB1686835E295A63F" bold="true" box="[317,390,1377,1402]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">China</emphasis>
|
||
</collectingCountry>
|
||
: Shaanxi province, Taibai Mts, Mei Xian, Haopingsi Natural Protection Area,
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB54C6836E629A63C" box="[1305,1338,1378,1401]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">ca.</emphasis>
|
||
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|
||
a.s.l.,
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB0B568D3E212A6DB" box="[224,257,1415,1438]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">ca.</emphasis>
|
||
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|
||
34.04
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB11B68D0E24AA6DB" box="[334,345,1412,1438]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">°</emphasis>
|
||
N
|
||
</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate id="DDD9D4A4FFF6FFDBB1D668D3E2FCA6DB" box="[387,495,1412,1439]" direction="east" orientation="longitude" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" precision="555" value="107.42">
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||
107.42
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB18568D0E2C8A6DB" box="[464,475,1412,1438]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">°</emphasis>
|
||
E
|
||
</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<date id="CC5394A3FFF6FFDBB25768D2E19EA6DA" box="[514,653,1414,1439]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" value="2015-07-29">29.VII.2015</date>
|
||
, Huang, Liu & Cao lgt., 1 ♀ (NWAFU). The ovipositor of this problematic specimen is more similar in shape to that of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFF6FFDBB36A68FFE0CCA686" box="[831,991,1451,1475]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nepalensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB36A68FFE0CCA686" box="[831,991,1451,1475]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">M. nepalensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
than to
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFF6FFDBB41268FFE7F7A686" box="[1095,1252,1451,1475]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="volkovichi">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB41268FFE7F7A686" box="[1095,1252,1451,1475]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">M. volkovichi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFF6FFDBB4A268FEE646A686" box="[1271,1365,1450,1475]" captionStart="FIGURES 9 – 16" captionStartId="5.[151,264,1449,1472]" captionTargetBox="[237,1349,277,1419]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[228,1360,267,1428]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURES 9 – 16. Male genitalia of Meligethes spp. 9 – 10: M. aureolineatus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (male from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). 11 – 12: M. aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (male paratype from China, Shaanxi, Hua Mts). 13 – 14: M. auropilosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyalam). 15 – 16: M. volkovichi Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (male holotype from China, Yunnan, Cang Mts). Scale bar = 0.2 mm (Figs. 9 – 16)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259799/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">Figs. 15</figureCitation>
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||
a-b in
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="DC7CCF92FFF6FFDBB0C2689AE269A6A2" author="Audisio" box="[151,378,1486,1511]" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" refString="Audisio, P., Sabatelli, S. & Jelinek, J. (2015) Revision of the pollen beetle genus Meligethes Stephens, 1830 (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae). Fragmenta entomologica, 46 (2014), 19 - 112." type="journal article" year="2015">
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Audisio
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB0AC689BE227A6A3" box="[249,308,1486,1510]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">et al.</emphasis>
|
||
2015
|
||
</bibRefCitation>
|
||
). The ovipositor of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFF6FFDBB235689BE05BA6A3" box="[608,840,1487,1510]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cinereoargenteus">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFF6FFDBB235689BE05BA6A3" box="[608,840,1487,1510]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="109">M. cinereoargenteus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is unknown, but this species exhibits a larger body size, and blackish flattened pronotal sides.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
</document> |