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<mods:namePart>Bologna, Marco A.</mods:namePart>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="145927667" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:5781AD01-3736-48F5-BA90-BA2E4AE657E5" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/F78CBBFC8BA1851A08974DBD6E1E160E" lastPageNumber="43" pageId="0" pageNumber="43">
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/5781AD01-3736-48F5-BA90-BA2E4AE657E5" authority="Pan & Bologna" class="Insecta" family="Meloidae" genus="Longizonitis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Longizonitis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Longizonitis Pan & Bologna</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="0" pageNumber="43">gen. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="43">Type species.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Meloidae" genus="Zonitis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zonitis semirubra" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="semirubra">Zonitis semirubra</taxonomicName>
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Pic, 1911 (originally described as
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Meloidae" genus="Zonitis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zonitis semiruber" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="semiruber">Zonitis semiruber</taxonomicName>
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) by present designation.
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="43" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="43">Etymology.</paragraph>
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From the Latin adjective
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘longus’">'longus'</normalizedToken>
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and
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Meloidae" genus="Zonitis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zonitis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Zonitis</taxonomicName>
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. The name refers to the slender shape of body, which differs from that of several other nemognathine genera.
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="43" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="43">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Meloidae" genus="Longizonitis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Longizonitis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Longizonitis</taxonomicName>
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is clearly distinguishable from other nemognathine genera by the following characters: body elongate, length-width ratio distinctly more than 3.5; antennomere II distinctly shorter than III; elytra not reduced in size, only slightly dehiscent apically; tarsal claws with ventral blade narrow, its greatest width slightly more than half the basal width of dorsal blade; female with two metatibial spurs similar in shape and size, male external metatibial spur as in female, inner one stick-liked and only half width of external one; male ventrite VI completely divided, that of female V-emarginate; aedeagus without dorsal hooks, but with two sclerotised ventral lobes, curved posteriad; gonostyli almost completely fused, gonocoxal plate longer than gonostyli.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="43">Description.</paragraph>
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Head short, subrectangular, head width at temples slightly greater than at eyes, frons not depressed, surface with dense, large and shallow punctures (Fig. 4). Eyes normal in size, only extending ventrally to outer margin of maxillae on underside of head, slightly emarginate on fore margin near base of antenna. Mandibles robust and long, extending beyond fore margin of labrum; galeae short and fringed (as in fig. 71,
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<bibRefCitation author="Bologna, MA" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Natural History" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" pagination="2013 - 2102" title="The Old World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis." url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930110062318" volume="36" year="2002">Bologna and Pinto 2002</bibRefCitation>
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); maxillary palpi four segmented, palpomeres not elongate, last palpomere not widening at apex. Antennae with eleven antennomeres, filiform, elongate and slender; antennae slightly longer than elytral length in male (Figs 1, 5), and shorter in female (Figs 2, 3); male antennomere II short, subglobose, about as wide as long, apical antennomeres equal in width to basal ones; female antennomeres distinctly shorter than in male, XI almost suboval (Figs 2, 3, 6).
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Pronotum wider than long, punctures as on head, slightly more scattered (Fig. 7). Elytra elongate, normal, not reduced in size, slightly dehiscent apically on inner margin; each elytron with four weak costae and with dense short setae. Hind-wings present and regularly developed. Legs not modified in both sexes; both female metatibial spurs wide, spatulate and concave dorsally, similar and subequal in length and width; male external metatibial spur as in female, inner spur stick-liked and only half the width of external spur; tarsal claws with ventral blade narrow, its greatest width slightly more than half basal width of dorsal blade (as in fig. 100,
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<bibRefCitation author="Bologna, MA" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Natural History" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" pagination="2013 - 2102" title="The Old World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis." url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930110062318" volume="36" year="2002">Bologna and Pinto 2002</bibRefCitation>
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); dorsal blade of claw with two rows of teeth along its ventral margin, outer row incomplete.
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Male ventrite VI deeply cleft to base and completely divided longitudinally (as in fig. 105,
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<bibRefCitation author="Bologna, MA" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Natural History" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" pagination="2013 - 2102" title="The Old World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis." url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930110062318" volume="36" year="2002">Bologna and Pinto 2002</bibRefCitation>
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); slightly V-emarginate in female. Male gonostyli almost completely fused, slightly separate at apex; gonocoxal plate longer than wide and longer than gonostyli, gibbous ventrally (Figs 8, 9). Aedeagus subcylindrical, without dorsal hooks, but with two sclerotised ventral lobes curved posteriorly; endophallus without hook (Figs 10, 11).
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Figures 1-12.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Meloidae" genus="Longizonitis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Longizonitis semirubra" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="semirubra">Longizonitis semirubra</taxonomicName>
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(Pic, 1911), adult 1 habitus, male, Yadong, Xizang (HBUM) 2 habitus, female, Yadong of Xizang (HBUM) 3 holotype and labels, female, Yunnan (MNHN, photographed by Dr Antoine Mantilleri) 4 head, dorsal view, male 5 antenna, male 6 antenna, female 7 pronotum, dorsal view, male 8-12 male genitalia 8 gonoforceps, ventral view 9 gonoforceps, lateral view 10 aedeagus, lateral view 11 aedeagus, ventral view 12spiculum gastrale. Scale bars: 0.5 mm (4, 7); 1 mm (5, 6, 8-12).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="43">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="43">Southern China, northwestern India.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="43">Relationships.</paragraph>
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The new genus differs from all known
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taxa and shows mixed distribution of character states; for this reason, their relationships remain difficult to define. It clearly belongs to the tribe
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and not to the
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<taxonomicName lsidName="" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" rank="tribe" tribe="Palaestrini">Palaestrini</taxonomicName>
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Bologna, Turco & Pinto, 2013 or
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Latreille, 1802, due to the cylindrical shape of the aedeagus and unmodified mandibles (see
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<bibRefCitation author="Bologna, MA" journalOrPublisher="Invertebrate Systematics" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" pagination="391 - 427" title="The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of Australasia: a generic review, descriptions of new taxa, and a challenge to the current definition of subfamilies posed by exceptional variation in male genitalia." url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS12054" volume="27" year="2013">Bologna et al. 2013</bibRefCitation>
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). Among the tribe
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<taxonomicName lsidName="" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" rank="tribe" tribe="Nemognathini">Nemognathini</taxonomicName>
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, the antennomere II distinctly shorter than III (typical of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" rank="tribe" tribe="Palaestrini">Palaestrini</taxonomicName>
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) is an uncommon condition, present only in a few taxa, though notably occurring in the Afrotropical genus
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<taxonomicName genus="Zoltanzonitis" lsidName="Zoltanzonitis" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" rank="genus">Zoltanzonitis</taxonomicName>
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(Bologna and Pinto, in press). The shortened antennomere II is also present in the
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Meloidae" genus="Nemognatha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nemognatha" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Nemognatha</taxonomicName>
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-lineage as defined by
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<bibRefCitation author="Bologna, MA" journalOrPublisher="Invertebrate Systematics" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" pagination="391 - 427" title="The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of Australasia: a generic review, descriptions of new taxa, and a challenge to the current definition of subfamilies posed by exceptional variation in male genitalia." url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS12054" volume="27" year="2013">Bologna et al. (2103)</bibRefCitation>
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(
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Meloidae" genus="Palaestrida" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Palaestrida" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Palaestrida</taxonomicName>
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White, 1846, some Nearctic
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Meloidae" genus="Nemognatha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nemognatha" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Nemognatha</taxonomicName>
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Illiger, 1807), in which, however, lack ventral sclerotized lobes of aedeagus.
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Ventral sclerotised lobes are present in all New World
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Meloidae" genus="Zonitis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zonitis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Zonitis</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Meloidae" genus="Pseudozonitis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pseudozonitis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Pseudozonitis</taxonomicName>
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Dillon, 1952 and
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Meloidae" genus="Gnathium" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Gnathium" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Gnathium</taxonomicName>
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Kirby, 1818 species, and some Palaearctic species of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Meloidae" genus="Zonitis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zonitis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Zonitis</taxonomicName>
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; however, the short antennomere II is never represented in the American species.
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In the new genus, galeae are neither penicillate nor greatly modified, a plesiomorphic condition more similar to that of
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of the sitarine lineage than that of typical lineage (see
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<bibRefCitation author="Bologna, MA" journalOrPublisher="Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" pagination="679 - 693" title="Phylogeny and evolutionary history of the blister beetles (Coleoptera, Meloidae)." url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2008.04.019" volume="48" year="2008">Bologna et al. 2008</bibRefCitation>
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for the lineages definition). Additionally, the shape of pronotum differs from that of most
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<taxonomicName lsidName="" pageId="0" pageNumber="43" rank="tribe" tribe="Nemognathini">Nemognathini</taxonomicName>
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, except for some of the sitarine lineage.
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