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: 24;
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: 229.
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10 ex.,
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, KB Miller, colr. (
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,
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state, Mahabaleshwar env.,
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SSW of Pune,
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, J. Bezděk leg. (
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,
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The description and the figure provided by
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are inadequate for identification and diagnosis of this species. Therefore, a redescription and figures of the habitus, elytral markings and male genitalia are given here.
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<emphasis id="CDC2EAB5F733FF95FF04FDD2376F5CA6" bold="true" box="[196,324,621,647]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="CDC2EAB5F733FF95FE8BFDD234015CA7" box="[331,554,621,646]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">Microdytes sabitae</emphasis>
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is similar to
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<emphasis id="CDC2EAB5F733FF95FD04FDD234F75CA7" box="[708,732,621,646]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">M</emphasis>
.
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and
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<emphasis id="CDC2EAB5F733FF95FC99FDD2355A5CA7" box="[857,881,621,646]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">M</emphasis>
.
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in habitus, metacoxal punctation and male genitalia but it is larger and the pronotum and elytra are predominantly yellowish-brown,
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<emphasis id="CDC2EAB5F733FF95FF04FD0837485CF0" bold="true" box="[196,355,695,721]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">Description.</emphasis>
<emphasis id="CDC2EAB5F733FF95FEACFD0734365CF0" box="[364,541,696,721]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">Measurements</emphasis>
. TL =
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, GW =
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, TL/GW = 1.381.45. Body robust, globular, strongly rounded; lateral outline continuous between pronotum and elytron; lateral margins of elytron broadly curved (
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. Head red-brown, blackish along posterior margin and around eyes. Pronotum yellowishbrown with dark brown to black at anterior, posterior and lateral margins. Elytron yellowish-brown with large, brown to black maculae (
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). Prothoracic sterna and ventral surfaces of head yellow; meso- and metathoracic sterna, metacoxae and abdominal ventrites dark red-brown; legs, antennae and palpi yellowishbrown.
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<emphasis id="CDC2EAB5F733FF95FF06FC5D37D15DDA" box="[198,506,994,1019]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">Sculpture and structure</emphasis>
. Head with medium fine, inconspicuous, irregular punctation; other microsculpture absent; clypeus with indistict lateral, subapical depressions, but without distinct marginal bead; eyes medium in size. Pronotum somewhat more strongly punctate than head, with course punctures along the posterior margin; without other microsculpture; with posterior angles weakly produced posteriorly; lateral bead of even width throughout. Elytron distinctly and relatively strongly punctate, consisting of punctures of different sizes; with discal series of punctures; without other microsculpture. Lateral part of metaventrite, metacoxae and lateral part of abdominal ventrite I and II coarsely and regularly punctate; rest of abdomen without punctation; ventral side without other microsculpture.
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<emphasis id="CDC2EAB5F733FF95FF06FAB2375F5B07" box="[198,372,1293,1318]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">Male genitalia</emphasis>
. Median lobe in ventral aspect (
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a), lateral aspect (
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b). Lateral lobes in ventral aspect weakly fused apically (
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a), lateral aspect (
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b).
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<emphasis id="CDC2EAB5F733FF95FF04FAE7371E5B50" box="[196,309,1368,1393]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">Variation</emphasis>
. This species varies considerably in the extent of the elytral maculae, but maculae appear to always be present.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="FF0936A7F733FF95FF04FA1D32165BC3" blockId="7.[151,1437,397,1543]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">
<emphasis id="CDC2EAB5F733FF95FF04FA1D37005B9D" bold="true" box="[196,299,1442,1468]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">Habitat.</emphasis>
This species was collected from small, torrential headwater streams in the
<collectingRegion id="3D72F845F733FF95FB65FA1D332F5B9D" box="[1189,1284,1442,1468]" country="American Samoa" name="Western" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">Western</collectingRegion>
Ghats in silt bottomed pools. It was collected in the same locality and habitat as
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<emphasis id="CDC2EAB5F733FF95FC6EFA77321E5BC0" box="[942,1077,1480,1505]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">M. whitingi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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<emphasis id="CDC2EAB5F733FF95FF04FA52374F5826" bold="true" box="[196,356,1517,1543]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">Distribution.</emphasis>
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:
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(
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).
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