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Description of
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Length:
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. Body oval, dark brown, head and pronotum with some greenish shine, antenna yellow, dorsal and ventral surface dull but with iridescent shine; dorsal surface glabrous.
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Labroclypeus trapezoidal,distinctly wider than long,widest at base, lateral margins weakly convex and convergent to strongly rounded anterior angles; anterior margin weakly emarginate medially, margins weakly reflexed; lateral margins and ocular canthus produce an indistinct blunt angle; surface shiny, weakly convex medially, coarsely and densely punctate, with a few short erect setae; frontoclypeal fine, weakly curved. Frons dull, with dense, fine punctures; with a few single setae beside eyes, otherwise glabrous. Smooth area in front of eyes flat, 1.5 times as wide as long. Ocular canthus wide and short (1/3 of ocular width), its external margin straight, impunctate, with a terminal seta. Eyes small, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.57. Antenna with ten antennomeres; club composed of four antennomeres, straight, 1.1 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined, all lamella of club equal in length.
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elevated and slightly flattened anteriorly.
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Aedeagus:
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Habitus:
<figureCitation id="22C79288FFA4FF9EFD9F76D72EEBD9A3" box="[566,668,691,717]" captionStart="FIGURE 18" captionStartId="99.[151,250,1623,1647]" captionTargetBox="[276,1324,194,1590]" captionTargetId="figure-19@99.[263,1324,181,1600]" captionTargetPageId="99" captionText="FIGURE 18. AD: Microserica viengvai Ahrens, Lukic &amp; Liu, new species (holotype), EH: Mic. namnao Ahrens, Lukic &amp; Liu, new species (holotype), IL: Mic. chaiyaphum Ahrens, Lukic &amp; Liu, new species (holotype). A, E, I: Aedeagus, left side lateral view; C, G, K: Aedeagus, right side lateral view; B, F, J: Parameres, dorsal view; D; H, L: Habitus (not to scale). Scale: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7639788" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7639788/files/figure.png" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Fig. 18D</figureCitation>
.
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<emphasis id="8888521FFFA4FF9EFF6E76B22D35D99E" bold="true" box="[199,322,726,752]" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="8888521FFFA4FF9EFEE076B32E40D99E" box="[329,567,727,752]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Microserica viengvai</emphasis>
Ahrens, Lukic
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&amp; Liu,
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has not similar species on continual Asian mainland; its external appearance is similar to
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<emphasis id="8888521FFFA4FF9EFD30769F2F0FD87A" box="[665,888,763,788]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Microserica martini</emphasis>
Ahrens, 2001
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from Sumatra, differs, however, by the uniform dark and smaller body as well as by the shape of aedeagus: the phallobase is more compact and curved (lateral view), the parameres are inserted more asymmetrically; the left paramere is shorter and simple, and the right one is strongly widened and dorsoventrally flattened.
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<emphasis id="8888521FFFA4FF9EFF6E77EF2D39D8CB" bold="true" box="[199,334,907,933]" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Etymology.</emphasis>
The species name is derived from the name of its
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locality, Vieng Vai (noun in apposition).
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<paragraph id="BA438E0DFFA4FF9EFF6E77CA2F53DF7F" blockId="50.[151,1437,151,1041]" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">
<emphasis id="8888521FFFA4FF9EFF6E77CA2D48D8A6" bold="true" box="[199,319,942,968]" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Variation.</emphasis>
Length:
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, length of elytra:
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, width:
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. Female: eyes slightly smaller, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.55; pygidium flat, antennal club short, composed of three antennomeres, distinctly shorter than remaining antennomeres combined.
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