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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B0C269A0E208A64B" bold="true" box="[151,283,1268,1294]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">Meligethes</emphasis>
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(
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,
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFFAFFD7B1706843E251A66A" box="[293,322,1303,1327]" 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 &amp; Jelínek, 2015 (female holotype from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). 31: M. aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli &amp; 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="4" pageNumber="105">30</figureCitation>
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.
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B1F4680AE1D0A633" box="[417,707,1374,1398]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">Meligethes aureolineatus</emphasis>
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was described from a single female specimen devoid of an ovipositor. This species is member of the
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group (as delimited by
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Audisio
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. 2015
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), where it appears to be more closely related to members of the
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B34968F3E0B0A6FB" box="[796,931,1446,1470]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">M. auripilis</emphasis>
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complex. This species is likely sister to the rather isolated
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B117689FE2A4A6A6" box="[322,439,1483,1507]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">M. aurifer</emphasis>
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from Shaanxi and Shanxi. These two species share uniformly blackish or nut-brown body coloration (
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), combined with yellowish-orange legs and antennae, and rather long and uniform dorsal pubescence.
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The recent availability of a second specimen (a male) from the
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locality (
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, Sichuan Province, Jiuzhaigou Valley near Zhangzha) allowed for the description of the unknown male genitalia. The male genitalia (
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) are characterized by a median lobe of the aedeagus similar to that of
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(
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), long (ratio LEAE/WIAE = 2.22), narrowly spatulate and minutely incised distad (narrowly spatulate but slightly emarginate distad and shorter in
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,
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ratio LEAE/WIAE = 2.002.10:
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), combined with characteristically shaped tegmen, exhibiting a relatively deep, widely U-shaped distal excision (ratio DTIN/LETE ≈ 0.28), with rather pointed apices of the paramera (the tegmen exhibiting a more widely V-shaped and shallower excision, ratio DTIN/LETE ≈ 0.25, in
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:
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).
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<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFAFFD7B0926A02E28AA42A" box="[199,409,1878,1903]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="105" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aurifer">
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B0926A02E28AA42A" box="[199,409,1878,1903]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">Meligethes aurifer</emphasis>
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exhibits an uniformly colored (blackish-brown, bronze to olivaceous) dorsum covered by uniform and moderately long silvery to golden pubescence (
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFFAFFD7B36C6A2EE098A4D6" box="[825,907,1914,1939]" 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 &amp; Jelínek, 2015 (female holotype from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). 31: M. aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli &amp; 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="4" pageNumber="105">Fig. 31</figureCitation>
), while
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFAFFD7B3B06A2FE7B7A4D6" box="[997,1188,1915,1939]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="105" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aureolineatus">
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B3B06A2FE7B7A4D6" box="[997,1188,1915,1939]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">M. aureolineatus</emphasis>
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exhibits an uniformly colored brown (nut-brown to bronze) dorsum with rather long golden dorsal pubescence on head and pronotum, associated with shorter and brownish elytral pubescence, and with a characteristic series of well-defined longitudinal and narrow creamy stripes on each elytron (the first lateral, the second discal, the third sutural), formed by short but dense creamy pubescence (
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFFBFFD6B2F96DE8E013A391" box="[684,768,188,213]" 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 &amp; Jelínek, 2015 (female holotype from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). 31: M. aurifer Audisio, Sabatelli &amp; 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="5" pageNumber="106">Fig. 30</figureCitation>
). Female genitalia of
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFBFFD6B3A66DE9E7A2A391" box="[1011,1201,188,212]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="106" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aureolineatus">
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFBFFD6B3A66DE9E7A2A391" box="[1011,1201,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="106">M. aureolineatus</emphasis>
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remain unknown.
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