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<paragraph pageId="68" pageNumber="69">Identification.</paragraph>
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Among the smaller-bodied members of the
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group with elytral striae 1-5 continuously impressed to the elytral basal groove (Fig. 31), this species can be diagnosed by the rufopiceous dorsal body coloration (Fig. 31D) and the well-developed microsculpture: 1, head covered with regular transverse mesh across frons, neck with isodiametric sculpticells; 2, pronotal disc with densely packed transverse microsculpture, consisting of elongate transverse sculpticells and unconnected transverse lines; and 3, elytral discal intervals bearing gratelike transverse microsculpture consisting predominantly of transverse lines, with some areas including crossconnections resulting in an elongate transverse mesh. Summarizing the type series of two specimens (
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) plus six more specimens collected in 2006, only the 1986 female paratype unilaterally possesses a posterior dorsal elytral seta, the other elytron bearing only the anterior dorsal seta. Thus the most usual setal formula is 2211, a formula shared with
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, below. The male aedeagal median lobe is gracile and elongate, with an apicodorsal hooklike expansion (Fig. 30E). Standardized body length 3.8-4.1 mm.
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<paragraph pageId="68" pageNumber="69">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
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In 1977,
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collected two specimens between 900 and 1100 m elevation on Mont Marau. In 2006 that elevational zone had become invaded with
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(
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) and was too dry for successful collecting. That year specimens were collected at 1275-1335 m elevation, through beating soft ferns and mossy
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branches, and via the use of pyrethrin fog on a tangled bank of dead ferns and a horizontal, moss-covered
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log.
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