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Description of
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Length:
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. Body oblong-oval and convex, including antennae and legs entirely reddish brown, elytra with dark, green spots, dorsal surface dull, partly with weak iridescent shine, frons and pronotum with dark green toment and long, erect, yellow setae, entire body with dense, adpressed, white, scale-like setae, elytra with some longer and erect setae.
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Labroclypeus subrectangular, distinctly wider than long, widest at middle, lateral margins weakly convex, in anterior half more strongly convergent; anterior angles weakly rounded; anterior margin straight; margins weakly reflexed; surface flat, shiny, coarsely and densely punctate, with dense, long and erect setae; frontoclypeal suture distinct, finely incised and flat, weakly curved; smooth area anterior to eye as wide as long; ocular canthus moderately long and narrow (1/3 of ocular diameter), with three moderately long setae in apical half. Frons flat, with large, dense punctures and adpressed scale-like setae dense, setae sparser on disc, additionally with dense, long, erect setae. Eyes small, ratio diameter/interocular width: 0.57. Antenna with ten antennomeres; antennomeres three to six almost as wide as long, antennomere seven transverse and short, club with three antennomeres, twice as long as remaining antennomeres combined and reflexed.
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strongly elevated. Labrum strongly produced and distinctly emarginate medially, with two large, sharp teeth beside emargination.
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Aedeagus:
<figureCitation id="8ACD2A7BFFF37C43FE9EAEDDEC94FC5A" box="[324,447,907,933]" captionStart="FIGURE 19" captionStartId="84.[152,255,1943,1967]" captionTargetBox="[168,1416,192,1906]" captionTargetId="figure-21@84.[157,1431,181,1919]" captionTargetPageId="84" captionText="FIGURE 19. AF: Pachyserica squamifera (Frey, 1972) (holotype); GK: P. tianxuani new species (holotype); A, I: aedeagus, left side lateral view; D, K: aedeagus, right side lateral view; B, J: parameres, dorsal view; C: aedeagus, dorsal view; E, G: habitus, dorsal view; F, H: habitus, lateral view. Scale bar: 0.5 mm. Habitus images not to scale." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13211913" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13211913/files/figure.png" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Fig. 19IK</figureCitation>
. Habitus:
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. Female unknown.
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<paragraph id="124936FEFFF37C43FF1DAEF8E860FBEE" blockId="46.[151,1437,151,1113]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">
<emphasis id="2082EAECFFF37C43FF1DAEF8EC69FC37" bold="true" box="[199,322,942,968]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="2082EAECFFF37C43FE92AEF9EF68FC37" box="[328,579,943,969]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Pachyserica tianxuani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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can be distinguished from the most similar
<taxonomicName id="D5F64D7DFFF37C43FB60AEF9EDF2FC12" authority="(Frey, 1972)" baseAuthorityName="Frey" baseAuthorityYear="1972" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Pachyserica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="squamifera">
<emphasis id="2082EAECFFF37C43FB60AEF9E87FFC36" box="[1210,1364,943,969]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">P. squamifera</emphasis>
(Frey, 1972)
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation id="8ACD2A7BFFF37C43FF32AE85EC5BFC12" box="[232,368,979,1005]" captionStart="FIGURE 19" captionStartId="84.[152,255,1943,1967]" captionTargetBox="[168,1416,192,1906]" captionTargetId="figure-21@84.[157,1431,181,1919]" captionTargetPageId="84" captionText="FIGURE 19. AF: Pachyserica squamifera (Frey, 1972) (holotype); GK: P. tianxuani new species (holotype); A, I: aedeagus, left side lateral view; D, K: aedeagus, right side lateral view; B, J: parameres, dorsal view; C: aedeagus, dorsal view; E, G: habitus, dorsal view; F, H: habitus, lateral view. Scale bar: 0.5 mm. Habitus images not to scale." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13211913" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13211913/files/figure.png" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Fig. 19AD</figureCitation>
) by the distinctly longer parameres.
<taxonomicName id="D5F64D7DFFF37C43FCD0AE85E92EFC13" authorityName="Ahrens &amp; Zhao &amp; Pham &amp; Liu" authorityYear="2024" box="[778,1029,979,1005]" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Pachyserica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tianxuani" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="2082EAECFFF37C43FCD0AE85E92EFC13" box="[778,1029,979,1005]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Pachyserica tianxuani</emphasis>
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differs from the also similar
<taxonomicName id="D5F64D7DFFF37C43FF4DAEA1EC14FBEE" authorityName="Ahrens &amp; Zhao &amp; Pham &amp; Liu" authorityYear="2024" box="[151,319,1015,1041]" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Pachyserica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wangzizhaoi" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="2082EAECFFF37C43FF4DAEA1EC14FBEE" box="[151,319,1015,1041]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">P. wangzizhaoi</emphasis>
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by the left paramere being straight and oblique apical margin placed externally.
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<paragraph id="124936FEFFF37C43FF1DA94DECEBFBA6" blockId="46.[151,1437,151,1113]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">
<emphasis id="2082EAECFFF37C43FF1DA94DEC65FBCA" bold="true" box="[199,334,1051,1077]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47">Etymology.</emphasis>
This species (noun in genitive case singular) is named after the collector of the
<typeStatus id="CD4D885CFFF37C43FB1EA94DE802FBCA" box="[1220,1321,1051,1077]" pageId="46" pageNumber="47" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
, Mr. Tian-Xuan Gu (Leshan,
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).
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