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(
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<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFFFFFD2B0CA6B7BE219A50D" box="[159,266,1583,1608]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 – 8" captionStartId="2.[151,264,1771,1794]" captionTargetBox="[213,1370,528,1740]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[206,1380,517,1751]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURES 1 – 8. Male genitalia of Meligethes spp. 1 – 2: M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (male paratype from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). 3 – 4: M. clinei Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (male holotype from China, Yunnan, Yulong Mts). 5 – 6: M. yak sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Sichuan, Maerkang). 7 – 8: M. nivalis Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (male paratype from China, Tibet, Yang Jing). Scale bar = 0.2 mm (Figs. 1 – 8)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259798/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="102">Figs. 1–2</figureCitation>
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,
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.
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFFFFD2B14C6B2CE140A5D5" box="[281,595,1656,1680]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="102">Meligethes macrofemoratus</emphasis>
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is a member of the
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFFFFD2B3C96B2DE780A5D5" box="[924,1171,1656,1680]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="102">M. binotatus-auripilis</emphasis>
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group (as delimited by
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Audisio
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFFFFD2B0AD6BC9E239A5F1" box="[248,298,1692,1716]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="102">et al</emphasis>
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. 2015
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), where it appears to be related to
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFFFFD2B3546BC9E0D3A5F1" box="[769,960,1692,1716]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="102">M. argentithorax</emphasis>
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Reitter, 1889
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, and
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFFFFD2B1896B95E150A59D" box="[476,579,1728,1752]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="102">M. clinei</emphasis>
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, these four species share a uniformly blackish to dark-brown body coloration, combined with piceous-brown to orange legs and antennae, with dark antennal club and only somewhat paler (dark brown to brown) or blackish pronotal sides. The new species can be easily differentiated by the peculiarly shaped male genitalia (
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), the tegmen being large, wide, and exhibiting a relatively deep, pear-shaped distal excision [the aedeagus being also large, widest at its basal fifth, with pre-distally abruptly narrowed and distally widened spatulate apex, a condition superficially recalling that of the widespread Palearctic
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)
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFFFFD2B2666ACCE1BDA4F5" box="[563,686,1944,1968]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="102">flavimanus</emphasis>
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Stephens, 1830, which otherwise belongs to the
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFFFFD2B48D6ACDE7EBA4F5" box="[1240,1272,1945,1968]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="102">M.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFFFFD2B5196ACDE688A4F5" box="[1356,1435,1945,1968]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="102">atratus</emphasis>
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group]. Other significant differences occur in its exceptionally developed male metafemora, which when extended, protrude outwards beyond the elytral lateral edge more than in all other known species of the genus. The ratio between the protrusion of distal apex of male metafemora beyond elytral lateral edge is more than 0.33× the head width (HWEA: Figs. 26–27). This character state is combined with peculiarly curved and sinuate male meso- and metatibiae (
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, 26–27), which are slightly modified even in females (
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFFCFFD1B44F6C50E766A259" box="[1050,1141,260,285]" captionStart="FIGURES 17 – 25" captionStartId="10.[151,264,1802,1825]" captionTargetBox="[235,1353,207,1770]" captionTargetId="figure@10.[226,1361,193,1781]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="FIGURES 17 – 25. Male genitalia of Meligethes spp. 17 – 18: M. aurorugosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyingchi). 19 – 20: M. aurantirugosus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (male holotype from Nepal, W of Chainpur). Distal portion of the ovipositor of Meligethes spp. 21: M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (female paratype from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). 22: M. scrobescens Chen, Lin, Huang & Yang, 2015 (female from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). Outline of metatibiae of M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (male and female paratypes from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). 23: male. 24: female. 25: Prosternal process of M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (male paratype from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). Scale bar = 0.2 mm (Figs. 17 – 22); = 0.4 mm (Figs. 23 – 25)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259800/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">Fig. 24</figureCitation>
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||
). Female genitalia of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFCFFD1B5286C51E223A205" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="argentithorax">
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||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFCFFD1B5286C51E223A205" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">M. argentithorax</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFCFFD1B1156C7CE28DA205" box="[320,414,296,320]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="auripilis">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFCFFD1B1156C7CE28DA205" box="[320,414,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">auripilis</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFCFFD1B18C6C7CE183A205" box="[473,656,296,320]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macrofemoratus">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFCFFD1B18C6C7CE183A205" box="[473,656,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">macrofemoratus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
spp. nov. are also different, with distinctive combined apices of the ovipositor (
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFFCFFD1B14C6C18E27CA221" box="[281,367,332,357]" captionStart="FIGURES 17 – 25" captionStartId="10.[151,264,1802,1825]" captionTargetBox="[235,1353,207,1770]" captionTargetId="figure@10.[226,1361,193,1781]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="FIGURES 17 – 25. Male genitalia of Meligethes spp. 17 – 18: M. aurorugosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyingchi). 19 – 20: M. aurantirugosus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (male holotype from Nepal, W of Chainpur). Distal portion of the ovipositor of Meligethes spp. 21: M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (female paratype from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). 22: M. scrobescens Chen, Lin, Huang & Yang, 2015 (female from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). Outline of metatibiae of M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (male and female paratypes from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). 23: male. 24: female. 25: Prosternal process of M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (male paratype from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). Scale bar = 0.2 mm (Figs. 17 – 22); = 0.4 mm (Figs. 23 – 25)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259800/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">Fig. 21</figureCitation>
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||
;
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFFCFFD1B1296C18E2CBA220" box="[380,472,332,357]" 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="2" pageNumber="103">Figs. 15</figureCitation>
|
||
l, m in
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="DC7CCF92FFFCFFD1B2636C18E005A220" author="Audisio" box="[566,790,332,357]" pageId="2" pageNumber="103" 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">
|
||
Audisio
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFCFFD1B2C26C19E1C2A221" box="[663,721,332,356]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">et al.</emphasis>
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2015
|
||
</bibRefCitation>
|
||
), although being rather similar in size and general shape (those of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFCFFD1B15D6C25E263A2CD" box="[264,368,368,392]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="clinei">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFCFFD1B15D6C25E263A2CD" box="[264,368,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">M. clinei</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are unknown). The vaguely similar general shape of the median lobe of the aedeagus also suggests a possible relationship with
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFCFFD1B26C6CC1E0B5A2E9" authority="Kirejtshuk, 1988" authorityName="Kirejtshuk" authorityYear="1988" box="[569,934,404,429]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="transmissus">
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||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFCFFD1B26C6CC1E1F1A2E9" box="[569,738,405,428]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">M. transmissus</emphasis>
|
||
Kirejtshuk, 1988
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(from Sichuan and Yunnan), the latter being otherwise quite different in most other characters, including coloration, tegmen, and female genitalia.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<caption id="EC92E2EBFFFCFFD1B0C26BBFE741A41B" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259798/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="103" targetBox="[213,1370,528,1740]" targetPageId="2">
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<paragraph id="B852B263FFFCFFD1B0C26BBFE741A41B" blockId="2.[151,1436,1771,1886]" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">
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||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFCFFD1B0C26BBFE228A444" bold="true" box="[151,315,1771,1794]" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">FIGURES 1–8.</emphasis>
|
||
Male genitalia of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFCFFD1B1AD6BB8E174A444" box="[504,615,1772,1793]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFCFFD1B1AD6BB8E174A444" box="[504,615,1772,1793]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">Meligethes</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
spp. 1–2:
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFCFFD1B2866BB9E088A444" box="[723,923,1772,1794]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macrofemoratus" status="sp. nov.">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFCFFD1B2866BB9E088A444" box="[723,923,1772,1794]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">M. macrofemoratus</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="91AAD30AFFFCFFD1B3F76BB8E0E7A444" box="[930,1012,1772,1793]" pageId="2" pageNumber="103" rank="species">
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||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFCFFD1B3F76BB8E0E7A444" bold="true" box="[930,1012,1772,1793]" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">sp. nov.</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
(male paratype from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). 3–4:
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFCFFD1B23C6A58E749A464" authority="Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelinek, 2015" authorityName="Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelinek" authorityYear="2015" box="[617,1114,1803,1825]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="clinei">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFCFFD1B23C6A58E1D8A465" box="[617,715,1803,1825]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">M. clinei</emphasis>
|
||
Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(male holotype from China, Yunnan,Yulong Mts). 5–6:
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFCFFD1B1FF6A7EE2FCA47A" box="[426,495,1834,1855]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yak" status="sp. nov.">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFCFFD1B1FF6A7EE2FCA47A" box="[426,495,1834,1855]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">M. yak</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="91AAD30AFFFCFFD1B1A06A7EE155A47A" box="[501,582,1834,1855]" pageId="2" pageNumber="103" rank="species">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFCFFD1B1A06A7EE155A47A" bold="true" box="[501,582,1834,1855]" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">sp. nov.</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
(male holotype from China, Sichuan, Maerkang). 7–8:
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFCFFD1B42E6A7EE22BA41B" authority="Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelinek, 2015" authorityName="Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelinek" authorityYear="2015" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="103" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nivalis">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFCFFD1B42E6A7EE7F3A47A" box="[1147,1248,1834,1855]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">M. nivalis</emphasis>
|
||
Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(male paratype from China, Tibet,Yang Jing). Scale bar = 0.2 mm (Figs. 1–8).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<subSubSection id="F0F7E1E8FFFCFFD0B0926AD1E614A408" lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="104" pageId="2" pageNumber="103" type="description">
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFFCFFD1B0926AD1E0A9A4D8" blockId="2.[151,1436,1925,2022]" box="[199,954,1925,1950]" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFCFFD1B0926AD1E101A4DB" bold="true" box="[199,530,1925,1950]" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">
|
||
Description (male
|
||
<typeStatus id="67560CC1FFFCFFD1B1F76AD1E119A4DB" box="[418,522,1925,1950]" pageId="2" pageNumber="103" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
|
||
)
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFCFFD1B2756AD2E15EA4D8" box="[544,589,1926,1949]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">Size</emphasis>
|
||
: Length
|
||
<quantity id="7F151F86FFFCFFD1B2E76AD2E019A4D8" box="[690,778,1926,1950]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.8" pageId="2" pageNumber="103" unit="mm" value="3.8">3.8 mm</quantity>
|
||
, width
|
||
<quantity id="7F151F86FFFCFFD1B3086AD2E0A5A4D8" box="[861,950,1926,1950]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.9" pageId="2" pageNumber="103" unit="mm" value="1.9">1.9 mm</quantity>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFFCFFD0B0926AFDE078A205" blockId="2.[151,1436,1925,2022]" lastBlockId="3.[151,1437,151,2013]" lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="104" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFCFFD1B0926AFDE2EEA484" box="[199,509,1961,1985]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="103">Body color and pubescence</emphasis>
|
||
: External habitus and coloration as figured (Figs. 26–27); dorsal and ventral body surface uniformly blackish to dark castaneous, including pronotum; pronotal and elytral sides typically same color as disc. Antennae pale brown to castaneous, with darker antennal club; profemora reddish-brown, but meso- and metatibiae, and meso- and metafemora, with mesal and distal portions darker, blackish-brown. Pubescence on pronotum with peculiarly long and recumbent setae, silvery-golden and dense, obscuring dorsal surface at least in posterior half and towards sides, shorter on pronotal disc; elytral pubescence shorter and finer than on pronotum and usually uniformly dispersed, never obscuring dorsal surface.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFFDFFD0B0926C18E013A2E9" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFDFFD0B0926C18E263A221" box="[199,368,332,356]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">Dorsal habitus</emphasis>
|
||
: body rather convex, wide and oval (Fig. 26). Ratio LPR1/LELY = 0.58; ratio WPR1/LPR1 = 1.72; ratio WPR2/LPR1 = 1.76; ratio WPR2/WPR1 = 1.01; ratio LELY/WELY = 0.96; ratio WPR1/WPRA = 1.73; ratio WPR1/WELY = 0.93; ratio WPR2/WELY = 0.94.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFFDFFD0B0926CE3E628A1ED" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">Anterior margin of clypeus almost truncate, slightly emarginate; pronotum with blunt but distinct posterior angles (Fig. 26), distinctly projecting backwards. Frons and pronotum with punctures nearly of same size as eye facets, separated by <1 diameter. Elytral punctures markedly finer, shallower and more dense than those on pronotum, smaller than eye facets, oval, separated by <1 diameter, with traces of fine transverse strigosity, more marked around scutellum. Interspaces between punctures on head and pronotum more or less shining; interspaces between elytral punctures more distinctly reticulate and duller. Pygidium with rather dense flatly granular punctures, apex markedly obtusely angulate, prolonged into a distinct, moderately acute process (Fig. 27).</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFFDFFD0B0926FE0E772A051" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFDFFD0B0926FE0E26BA189" box="[199,376,692,716]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">Ventral habitus</emphasis>
|
||
(Fig. 27): Prosternal process (
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFFDFFD0B2BF6FE0E051A188" box="[746,834,692,717]" captionStart="FIGURES 17 – 25" captionStartId="10.[151,264,1802,1825]" captionTargetBox="[235,1353,207,1770]" captionTargetId="figure@10.[226,1361,193,1781]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="FIGURES 17 – 25. Male genitalia of Meligethes spp. 17 – 18: M. aurorugosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyingchi). 19 – 20: M. aurantirugosus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (male holotype from Nepal, W of Chainpur). Distal portion of the ovipositor of Meligethes spp. 21: M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (female paratype from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). 22: M. scrobescens Chen, Lin, Huang & Yang, 2015 (female from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). Outline of metatibiae of M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (male and female paratypes from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). 23: male. 24: female. 25: Prosternal process of M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (male paratype from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). Scale bar = 0.2 mm (Figs. 17 – 22); = 0.4 mm (Figs. 23 – 25)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259800/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">Fig. 25</figureCitation>
|
||
) subparallel-sided, narrow, roundly pointed distad. Metaventrite exhibiting a marked and deep mediolongitudinal impression, widened behind midlength, markedly convex, densely punctate, shining, at sides duller, without tufts of erect setae (Fig. 27).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFFDFFD0B0926E74E734A771" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFDFFD0B0926E74E243A07D" box="[199,336,800,824]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">Appendages</emphasis>
|
||
: antennae (Fig. 27) rather long and slender, exhibiting ratio ANLE/HWEA = 1.09; ratio CLLE/ W10J = 1.50; ratio L03J/W03J = 3.00; ratio L03J/L02J = 1.35; ratio L03J/L04J =1.45. Protarsal plates (Fig. 27) moderately wide, ratio WFTA/LFTA = 0.35; protibiae with minute rather sharp teeth on apical third of outer margin (Fig. 27), exhibiting a ratio LETI/WITI ≈ 3.0. Male metafemora exceptionally developed, overtaking elytral sides more than in all other known species of the genus [the ratio between the distal metafemoral portion protruding beyond elytral lateral edge, and head width (HWEA) being more than 0.33× (Figs. 26–27)]; this character state is combined with peculiarly curved and sinuate meso- and metatibiae along their inner edge (
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFFDFFD0B5316EA3E3A6A771" captionStart="FIGURES 17 – 25" captionStartId="10.[151,264,1802,1825]" captionTargetBox="[235,1353,207,1770]" captionTargetId="figure@10.[226,1361,193,1781]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="FIGURES 17 – 25. Male genitalia of Meligethes spp. 17 – 18: M. aurorugosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyingchi). 19 – 20: M. aurantirugosus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (male holotype from Nepal, W of Chainpur). Distal portion of the ovipositor of Meligethes spp. 21: M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (female paratype from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). 22: M. scrobescens Chen, Lin, Huang & Yang, 2015 (female from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). Outline of metatibiae of M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (male and female paratypes from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). 23: male. 24: female. 25: Prosternal process of M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (male paratype from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). Scale bar = 0.2 mm (Figs. 17 – 22); = 0.4 mm (Figs. 23 – 25)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259800/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">Figs. 23</figureCitation>
|
||
, 26–27). Metatibiae peculiarly narrow (Figs. 26–27), ratio WPTI/LPTI = 0.23.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFFDFFD0B0926914E7B6A7AD" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFDFFD0B0926914E27FA71D" box="[199,364,1088,1112]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">Male genitalia</emphasis>
|
||
: shape of both tegmen and aedeagus as figured (
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFFDFFD0B3C2696BE710A71D" box="[919,1027,1087,1112]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 – 8" captionStartId="2.[151,264,1771,1794]" captionTargetBox="[213,1370,528,1740]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[206,1380,517,1751]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURES 1 – 8. Male genitalia of Meligethes spp. 1 – 2: M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (male paratype from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). 3 – 4: M. clinei Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (male holotype from China, Yunnan, Yulong Mts). 5 – 6: M. yak sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Sichuan, Maerkang). 7 – 8: M. nivalis Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (male paratype from China, Tibet, Yang Jing). Scale bar = 0.2 mm (Figs. 1 – 8)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259798/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">Figs. 1–2</figureCitation>
|
||
), characterized by large, rather long and parallel-sided aedeagus, abruptly narrowed at its distal fifth, with widely spatulate and widened apex, ratio LEAE/WIAE = 2.03. Tegmen wide, widest at distal three fifths, medial distal excision moderately deep, widely pear-shaped (ratio DTIN/LETE ≈ 0.26), inner margins with marked projection; ratio LETE/WITE = 1.46. Main sclerites of internal sac (endophallus) rather long, rod-shaped in both dorsal and lateral view.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFFDFFD0B09269A0E3C0A685" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFDFFD0B09269A0E208A649" box="[199,283,1268,1292]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">Female</emphasis>
|
||
: Mesotibiae and metatibiae slightly modified (slightly sinuate along inner edge) even in females (
|
||
<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFFDFFD0B53A69A0E3A4A675" captionStart="FIGURES 17 – 25" captionStartId="10.[151,264,1802,1825]" captionTargetBox="[235,1353,207,1770]" captionTargetId="figure@10.[226,1361,193,1781]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="FIGURES 17 – 25. Male genitalia of Meligethes spp. 17 – 18: M. aurorugosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyingchi). 19 – 20: M. aurantirugosus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (male holotype from Nepal, W of Chainpur). Distal portion of the ovipositor of Meligethes spp. 21: M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (female paratype from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). 22: M. scrobescens Chen, Lin, Huang & Yang, 2015 (female from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). Outline of metatibiae of M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (male and female paratypes from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). 23: male. 24: female. 25: Prosternal process of M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (male paratype from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). Scale bar = 0.2 mm (Figs. 17 – 22); = 0.4 mm (Figs. 23 – 25)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259800/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">Fig. 24</figureCitation>
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||
). Protarsal plates narrower in female than in male, ratio WFTA/LFTA = 0.24; protibiae slightly more slender in female than in male, ratio LETI/WITI ≈ 3.2. Metatibiae peculiarly narrow (
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<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFFDFFD0B45E6868E771A611" box="[1035,1122,1340,1365]" captionStart="FIGURES 17 – 25" captionStartId="10.[151,264,1802,1825]" captionTargetBox="[235,1353,207,1770]" captionTargetId="figure@10.[226,1361,193,1781]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="FIGURES 17 – 25. Male genitalia of Meligethes spp. 17 – 18: M. aurorugosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyingchi). 19 – 20: M. aurantirugosus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (male holotype from Nepal, W of Chainpur). Distal portion of the ovipositor of Meligethes spp. 21: M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (female paratype from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). 22: M. scrobescens Chen, Lin, Huang & Yang, 2015 (female from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). Outline of metatibiae of M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (male and female paratypes from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). 23: male. 24: female. 25: Prosternal process of M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (male paratype from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). Scale bar = 0.2 mm (Figs. 17 – 22); = 0.4 mm (Figs. 23 – 25)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259800/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">Fig. 24</figureCitation>
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), ratio WPTI/LPTI = 0.21. Pygidium with apex obtusely rounded. In females, metaventrite more flattened or gently depressed behind midlength, but mediolongitudinal line distinctly impressed. Body sizes nearly similar in both sexes (length:
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<quantity id="7F151F86FFFDFFD0B51D68D0E3DBA685" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.5999999999999996" metricValueMax="3.8" metricValueMin="3.4" pageId="3" pageNumber="104" unit="mm" value="3.5999999999999996" valueMax="3.8" valueMin="3.4">3.4–3.8 mm</quantity>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="B852B263FFFDFFD0B0926898E3F5A515" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFDFFD0B0926898E101A6A6" box="[199,530,1484,1508]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">Female genitalia (ovipositor)</emphasis>
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||
: combined distal apex as figured (
|
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<figureCitation id="20D6AEE6FFFDFFD0B3CC6898E0FFA6A1" box="[921,1004,1484,1509]" captionStart="FIGURES 17 – 25" captionStartId="10.[151,264,1802,1825]" captionTargetBox="[235,1353,207,1770]" captionTargetId="figure@10.[226,1361,193,1781]" captionTargetPageId="10" captionText="FIGURES 17 – 25. Male genitalia of Meligethes spp. 17 – 18: M. aurorugosus sp. nov. (male holotype from China, Tibet, Nyingchi). 19 – 20: M. aurantirugosus Audisio, Sabatelli & Jelínek, 2015 (male holotype from Nepal, W of Chainpur). Distal portion of the ovipositor of Meligethes spp. 21: M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (female paratype from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). 22: M. scrobescens Chen, Lin, Huang & Yang, 2015 (female from China, Sichuan, Jiuzhaigou Valley). Outline of metatibiae of M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (male and female paratypes from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). 23: male. 24: female. 25: Prosternal process of M. macrofemoratus sp. nov. (male paratype from China, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xixia Valley). Scale bar = 0.2 mm (Figs. 17 – 22); = 0.4 mm (Figs. 23 – 25)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/259800/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">Fig. 21</figureCitation>
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), scarcely pointed, distal apex of each gonocoxite transversely truncate (ratio STLE/DSIA ≈ 0.90; ratio STLE/CGOW ≈ 0.12; ratio GONL/CGOW ≈ 1.48). Basal portions of gonocoxites transverse, their laterally directed apices bluntly pointed. Ratio OVPL/GONL ≈ 2.70.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="B852B263FFFDFFD0B0926B09E18EA5A5" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFDFFD0B0926B09E23CA531" box="[199,303,1629,1652]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">Variation</emphasis>
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: This species is scarcely variable in body size (length
|
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<quantity id="7F151F86FFFDFFD0B3816B08E770A531" box="[980,1123,1628,1652]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.5999999999999996" metricValueMax="3.8" metricValueMin="3.4" pageId="3" pageNumber="104" unit="mm" value="3.5999999999999996" valueMax="3.8" valueMin="3.4">3.4–3.8 mm</quantity>
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, width 1.7–2.0) and body coloration. Ratio LPR1/LELY = 0.57–0.59; ratio WPR1/LPR1 = 1.71–1.74; ratio WPR2/LPR1 = 1.75–1.77; ratio WPR2/WPR1 = 1.01–1.02; ratio LELY/WELY = 0.94–0.98; ratio WPR1/WPRA = 1.73–1.74; ratio WPR1/WELY = 0.92–0.94; ratio WPR2/WELY = 0.94–0.95.
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</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFFDFFD0B0926BB8E691A46D" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">Ratio ANLE/HWEA = 1.06–1.10, ratio CLLE/W10J = 1.48–1.52, ratio L03J/W03J = 3.00–3.10; ratio L03J/ L02J = 1.30–1.40; ratio L03J/L04J =1.42–1.50. Ratio WFTA/LFTA = 0.34–0.36; ratio WPTI/LPTI = 0.23–0.24.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="B852B263FFFDFFD0B0926A60E614A408" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,2013]" box="[199,1287,1844,1869]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">Ratio LEAE/WIAE = 2.02–2.05; ratio DTIN/LETE ≈ 0.25–0.28; ratio LETE/WITE = 1.44–1.50.</paragraph>
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||
</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="F0F7E1E8FFFDFFD7B0926A03E75DA3BC" lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="105" pageId="3" pageNumber="104" type="materials_examined">
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<paragraph id="B852B263FFFDFFD0B0926A03E68EA499" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFDFFD0B0926A03E263A435" bold="true" box="[199,368,1879,1904]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">
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<typeStatus id="67560CC1FFFDFFD0B0926A03E211A435" box="[199,258,1879,1904]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">Type</typeStatus>
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material
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</emphasis>
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.
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<typeStatus id="67560CC1FFFDFFD0B1D46A03E2FFA435" box="[385,492,1879,1904]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
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, ♂:
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<collectingCountry id="C0FAF2F3FFFDFFD0B24A6A03E17BA435" box="[543,616,1879,1904]" name="China" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">
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||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFDFFD0B24A6A03E17BA435" bold="true" box="[543,616,1879,1904]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">China</emphasis>
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</collectingCountry>
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: Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Jingyuan County, Xixia Valley,
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFDFFD0B52F6A0DE68FA435" box="[1402,1436,1881,1904]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">ca.</emphasis>
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<quantity id="7F151F86FFFDFFD0B0C26A28E3FFA4D1" box="[151,236,1916,1940]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.9" pageId="3" pageNumber="104" unit="m" value="1900.0">1900 m</quantity>
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a.s.l.,
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||
<date id="CC5394A3FFFDFFD0B1636A28E2D2A4D0" box="[310,449,1916,1941]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104" value="2009-08-06">06.viii.2009</date>
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||
, Gu Xin lgt. (
|
||
<collectionCode id="DEFC2AA6FFFDFFD0B2096A28E1A5A4D1" box="[604,694,1916,1940]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">MHBU</collectionCode>
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||
).
|
||
<typeStatus id="67560CC1FFFDFFD0B29C6A29E028A4D0" box="[713,827,1917,1941]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104" type="paratype">Paratypes</typeStatus>
|
||
:
|
||
<specimenCount id="AEEB79EAFFFDFFD0B3136A28E061A4D1" box="[838,882,1916,1941]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104" type="generic">5 ♂</specimenCount>
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||
, 20 ♀, same data as
|
||
<typeStatus id="67560CC1FFFDFFD0B4096A28E7ADA4D0" box="[1116,1214,1916,1941]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
|
||
(
|
||
<collectionCode id="DEFC2AA6FFFDFFD0B49B6A28E634A4D1" box="[1230,1319,1916,1940]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">MHBU</collectionCode>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectionCode id="DEFC2AA6FFFDFFD0B5676A28E68AA4D1" box="[1330,1433,1916,1940]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">NWAFU</collectionCode>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectionCode id="DEFC2AA6FFFDFFD0B0C26AF4E3CBA4FD" box="[151,216,1952,1976]" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/043p-ts4f" name="Institut Zoologii Akademii Nauk Ukraini - Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">IZAS</collectionCode>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectionCode id="DEFC2AA6FFFDFFD0B0B66AF4E20CA4FD" LSID="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:13632" box="[227,287,1952,1976]" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:13632" name="Museo de Historia Natural La Salle" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">
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||
<collectingCountry id="C0FAF2F3FFFDFFD0B0B66AF4E20CA4FD" box="[227,287,1952,1976]" name="Central African Republic" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">CAR</collectingCountry>
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||
</collectionCode>
|
||
,
|
||
<collectionCode id="DEFC2AA6FFFDFFD0B17F6AF4E26CA4FD" box="[298,383,1952,1976]" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/hj12-2xm7" name="National Museum Prague" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">NMPC</collectionCode>
|
||
); Shaanxi Province, Ningshan, Huoditang,
|
||
<date id="CC5394A3FFFDFFD0B3376AF4E0FFA4FC" box="[866,1004,1952,1977]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104" value="1998-08-18">18.viii.1998</date>
|
||
, 1580 m a.s.l.,
|
||
<collectingCountry id="C0FAF2F3FFFDFFD0B4C06AF5E7DCA4FD" box="[1173,1231,1953,1976]" name="Vietnam" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">Yuan</collectingCountry>
|
||
Decheng lgt.,
|
||
<specimenCount id="AEEB79EAFFFDFFD0B5276AF4E68FA4FD" box="[1394,1436,1952,1976]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104" type="generic">1 ♂</specimenCount>
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||
(
|
||
<collectionCode id="DEFC2AA6FFFDFFD0B0CB6A90E21AA499" box="[158,265,1988,2012]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">NWAFU</collectionCode>
|
||
); Shaanxi Province, Ningshan, Huoditang,
|
||
<quantity id="7F151F86FFFDFFD0B2B96A90E052A499" box="[748,833,1988,2012]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.2" pageId="3" pageNumber="104" unit="m" value="2200.0">2200 m</quantity>
|
||
a.s.l.,
|
||
<date id="CC5394A3FFFDFFD0B3DE6A90E707A498" box="[907,1044,1988,2013]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104" value="1979-08-03">03.viii.1979</date>
|
||
, Han Yinheng lgt.,
|
||
<specimenCount id="AEEB79EAFFFDFFD0B4BB6A90E60BA499" box="[1262,1304,1988,2012]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104" type="generic">1 ♂</specimenCount>
|
||
(
|
||
<collectionCode id="DEFC2AA6FFFDFFD0B5726A90E681A499" box="[1319,1426,1988,2012]" pageId="3" pageNumber="104">NWAFU</collectionCode>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFFAFFD7B0C26DC3E75DA3BC" blockId="4.[151,1436,151,862]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">
|
||
Additional studied material almost certainly referable to the same species:
|
||
<collectingCountry id="C0FAF2F3FFFAFFD7B4446DC3E749A3F5" box="[1041,1114,151,176]" name="China" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B4446DC3E749A3F5" bold="true" box="[1041,1114,151,176]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">China</emphasis>
|
||
</collectingCountry>
|
||
: Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Jingyuan County, Erlong River Valley, Ling Chan, Erlonghe Forest Farm,
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B4656DEAE741A390" box="[1072,1106,190,213]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">ca.</emphasis>
|
||
<geoCoordinate id="DDD9D4A4FFFAFFD7B40D6DE8E7A9A390" box="[1112,1210,187,213]" direction="north" orientation="latitude" pageId="4" pageNumber="105" precision="555" value="35.23">
|
||
35.23
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B4C26DEFE7B1A390" box="[1175,1186,187,213]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">°</emphasis>
|
||
N
|
||
</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate id="DDD9D4A4FFFAFFD7B4906DE8E622A390" box="[1221,1329,187,213]" direction="east" orientation="longitude" pageId="4" pageNumber="105" precision="555" value="106.16">
|
||
106.16
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B5476DEFE60EA390" box="[1298,1309,187,213]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">°</emphasis>
|
||
E
|
||
</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B5696DEAE64DA390" box="[1340,1374,190,213]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">ca.</emphasis>
|
||
<quantity id="7F151F86FFFAFFD7B5316DE9E3BEA3BC" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.2" pageId="4" pageNumber="105" unit="m" value="2200.0">2200 m</quantity>
|
||
a.s.l.,
|
||
<date id="CC5394A3FFFAFFD7B0A36DB5E2B1A3BF" box="[246,418,225,250]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105" value="2008-07-19" valueMax="2008-07-20" valueMin="2008-07-19">19–20.vii.2008</date>
|
||
, Wang Xinpu, Ran Hongfan and Wu Qiqi lgt., 2 ♀ (
|
||
<collectionCode id="DEFC2AA6FFFAFFD7B3BD6DB5E751A3BC" box="[1000,1090,225,249]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">MHBU</collectionCode>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="F0F7E1E8FFFAFFD7B0926C51E783A01B" pageId="4" pageNumber="105" type="distribution">
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFFAFFD7B0926C51E122A25B" blockId="4.[151,1436,151,862]" box="[199,561,261,286]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B0926C51E24AA25B" bold="true" box="[199,345,261,286]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">Distribution</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B1326C51E28EA25B" bold="true" box="[359,413,261,286]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">EPA</emphasis>
|
||
: SHX, SHA.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFFAFFD7B0926C7DE2D2A2CF" blockId="4.[151,1436,151,862]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFAFFD7B0926C7DE111A204" box="[199,514,297,321]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="105" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macrofemoratus" status="sp. nov.">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B0926C7DE111A204" box="[199,514,297,321]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">Meligethes macrofemoratus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B2596C7DE17BA207" bold="true" box="[524,616,297,322]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="91AAD30AFFFAFFD7B2596C7DE17BA207" box="[524,616,297,322]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
has an apparently restricted geographic range in central NW
|
||
<collectingCountry id="C0FAF2F3FFFAFFD7B5666C7DE66AA207" box="[1331,1401,297,322]" name="China" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">China</collectingCountry>
|
||
, in middle and middle-high altitude areas at least in the central-northern Shaanxi and in the Ningxia Provinces northwards and eastwards.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFFAFFD7B0926CC1E154A2EB" blockId="4.[151,1436,151,862]" box="[199,583,405,430]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B0926CC1E255A2EB" bold="true" box="[199,326,405,430]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">Chorotype</emphasis>
|
||
. Central-NW Chinese.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFFAFFD7B0926CEDE625A297" blockId="4.[151,1436,151,862]" box="[199,1334,441,466]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B0926CEDE242A297" bold="true" box="[199,337,441,466]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">Host-plants</emphasis>
|
||
. Unknown. Probably associated with mountain
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFAFFD7B33E6CEEE0CBA294" box="[875,984,442,465]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rosaceae" kingdom="Plantae" order="Rosales" pageId="4" pageNumber="105" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="family">Rosaceae</taxonomicName>
|
||
, perhaps
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFAFFD7B4146CEEE769A294" box="[1089,1146,442,465]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rosaceae" genus="Rosa" kingdom="Plantae" order="Rosales" pageId="4" pageNumber="105" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B4146CEEE769A294" box="[1089,1146,442,465]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">Rosa</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
or allied genera.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFFAFFD7B0926C89E774A2B0" blockId="4.[151,1436,151,862]" box="[199,1127,477,502]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B0926C89E230A2B3" bold="true" box="[199,291,477,502]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">Habitat</emphasis>
|
||
. Scrub, middle altitude plains, river edges; at least between
|
||
<quantity id="7F151F86FFFAFFD7B3906C89E770A2B0" box="[965,1123,477,502]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.05" metricValueMax="2.5" metricValueMin="1.6" pageId="4" pageNumber="105" unit="m" value="2050.0" valueMax="2500.0" valueMin="1600.0">1600–2500 m</quantity>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFFAFFD7B0926F55E2ACA15C" blockId="4.[151,1436,151,862]" box="[199,447,513,538]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B0926F55E251A15F" bold="true" box="[199,322,513,538]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">Phenology</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B11A6F55E2A4A15F" bold="true" box="[335,439,513,538]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">VII-VIII</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="B852B263FFFAFFD7B0926F71E2F8A17B" blockId="4.[151,1436,151,862]" box="[199,491,549,574]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B0926F71E253A17B" bold="true" box="[199,320,549,574]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">DNA data</emphasis>
|
||
. Not available.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
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<paragraph id="B852B263FFFAFFD7B0926F1DE3F3A1EF" blockId="4.[151,1436,151,862]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B0926F1DE281A127" bold="true" box="[199,402,585,610]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">Name derivation</emphasis>
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. Name derived from the peculiarly large and characteristically developed metafemora in males, whose distal portions overtake the lateral elytral edges much more than in any other known species of the genus.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="B852B263FFFAFFD7B0926FE1E783A01B" blockId="4.[151,1436,151,862]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B0926FE1E2A4A18B" bold="true" box="[199,439,693,718]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">Taxonomic remarks</emphasis>
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.
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<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFAFFD7B19D6FE1E011A188" box="[456,770,693,717]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="105" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macrofemoratus" status="sp. nov.">
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B19D6FE1E011A188" box="[456,770,693,717]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">Meligethes macrofemoratus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="91AAD30AFFFAFFD7B35E6FE1E074A18B" box="[779,871,693,718]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105" rank="species">
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<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B35E6FE1E074A18B" bold="true" box="[779,871,693,718]" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
is member of a small complex of related species mainly distributed in central and southern
|
||
<collectingCountry id="C0FAF2F3FFFAFFD7B2276F8DE1ABA1B7" box="[626,696,729,754]" name="China" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">China</collectingCountry>
|
||
, which are easily distinguished by the different shape of male and female genitalia (see Diagnosis above). This species appears to be a geographical vicariant of the three closely related
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFAFFD7B0BB6E76E265A07C" box="[238,374,801,825]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="105" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="auripilis">
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||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B0BB6E76E265A07C" box="[238,374,801,825]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">M. auripilis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, S Shaanxi),
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFAFFD7B31D6E76E718A07C" box="[840,1035,801,825]" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="105" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="argentithorax">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B31D6E76E718A07C" box="[840,1035,801,825]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">M. argentithorax</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(Qinghai, Sichuan), and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="7FEDC9E0FFFAFFD7B5616E76E211A01B" authority="(Yunnan)" baseAuthorityName="Yunnan" class="Insecta" family="Nitidulidae" genus="Meligethes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="105" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="clinei">
|
||
<emphasis id="8A996E71FFFAFFD7B5616E76E68FA07C" box="[1332,1436,801,825]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="105">M. clinei</emphasis>
|
||
(Yunnan)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, which are distributed from central-southern Shaanxi southwards and westwards.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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