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<document id="BCCFFA4CBC661327536112263E093C71" ID-DOI="10.5281/zenodo.274593" ID-GBIF-Dataset="2ff7011a-37c6-4b0e-aa5e-0724c210f8e0" ID-ISSN="1175-5326" ID-Zenodo-Dep="274593" IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe" IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe" IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe" checkinTime="1460024513371" checkinUser="plazi" docAuthor="Westcott, Richard L." docDate="2008" docId="03C18792765AFF9EFF1DFE3FDADE09C8" docLanguage="en" docName="zt01929p068.pdf" docOrigin="Zootaxa 1929" docStyle="DocumentStyle:6581673A57F01A3145754A1E615EDFF0.4:Zootaxa.2007-2008.journal_article" docStyleId="6581673A57F01A3145754A1E615EDFF0" docStyleName="Zootaxa.2007-2008.journal_article" docStyleVersion="4" docTitle="Xenorhipis bajacalifornica Westcott, new species" docType="treatment" docVersion="7" lastPageNumber="49" masterDocId="FFF8FFEA765BFF9DFF8AFFCADE350B2A" masterDocTitle="A new species of Xenorhipis LeConte and of Mastogenius Solier from Mexico, with a discussion of Chrysobothris ichthyomorpha Thomson and its allies and notes on other Mexican and Central American Buprestidae (Coleoptera)" masterLastPageNumber="68" masterPageNumber="47" pageNumber="48" updateTime="1698233832249" updateUser="plazi">
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<emphasis id="B91CEA96765AFF9CFF1DFE3FDFE90925" bold="true" box="[151,476,501,527]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Xenorhipis bajacalifornica</emphasis>
Westcott
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,
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(
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,
<figureCitation id="13532A01765AFF9CFE96FDD2DF530918" box="[284,358,536,562]" captionStart="FIGURES 11 – 16" captionStartId="6.[151,269,1099,1123]" captionTargetBox="[156,1431,194,1073]" captionTargetId="figure@6.[156,1431,194,1075]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURES 11 – 16, Aedeagus of Chrysobothris and Xenorhipis. 11, Chrysobothris chiriquita; 12, C. ichthyomorpha; 13, C. thomsoni, Colombia; 14, same, Trinidad; 15, Xenorhipis bajacalifornica, dorsal; 16, same, ventral." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/274596/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">15, 16</figureCitation>
)
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<emphasis id="B91CEA96765AFF9CFF1DFDADDF7A09AB" bold="true" box="[151,335,615,641]" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">
<typeStatus id="54D38826765AFF9CFF1DFDADDF3C09AB" box="[151,265,615,641]" pageId="1" pageNumber="48" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
male
</emphasis>
.
<collectingCountry id="F37F7614765AFF9CFEE6FDA2DFB909A8" box="[364,396,616,642]" name="American Samoa" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">As</collectingCountry>
in
<figureCitation id="13532A01765AFF9CFE3DFDA2DFCA09A8" box="[439,511,616,642]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 – 2" captionStartId="2.[151,269,1356,1380]" captionTargetBox="[150,1436,354,1330]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[150,1436,354,1332]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURES 1 – 2. Xenorhipis bajacalifornica. 1, holotype; 2, allotype." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/274594/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
,
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long,
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wide; head black with bronze reflection, mostly on upper half, antennae pale brown; pronotum black with strong coppery bronze reflection; elytra coppery brown apically and in humeral region, narrowly blue along basal margin, blue to purplish to coppery brown medially on basal half, and with cream-colored median fascia reaching to lateral margins; beneath brown, except black on middle of metasternum; black laterally on propleurae; forecoxae testaceous anteriorly, legs shining brown.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BD73684765AFF9CFF4CFCE5DC5B0DB8" blockId="1.[151,1437,615,2002]" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">
<emphasis id="B91CEA96765AFF9CFF4CFCE5DF3C0863" bold="true" box="[198,265,815,841]" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Head</emphasis>
evenly convex with a very fine black median groove on vertex extending short distance onto front; strongly densely and coarsely areolate-reticulate; antennal flabellar processes beginning on second antennomere, first process 3/5 as long as second, which is 3/4 as long as third, remaining processes slightly longer than third and about equal in length; last maxillary palpomere cylindrical, truncate apically.
<emphasis id="B91CEA96765AFF9CFA97FC6DDBAE08EB" bold="true" box="[1309,1435,935,961]" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Pronotum</emphasis>
broadly, evenly convex, 1.4 X wider than long, slightly narrower at apex, lateral margins weak to obsolete anteriorly, well defined posteriorly and with a slight basal rounding on either side; anterior margin with a broad prominent lobe at middle; posterior margin transverse, slightly sinuate towards sides; disk with a small deep puncture at base in front of scutellum; surface coarsely irregularly granulate-reticulate, with indistinct (at
<date id="FFD61044765AFF9CFF1DFBBADEFF0FA0" box="[151,202,1136,1162]" pageId="1" pageNumber="48" value="1980-10">80X</date>
) short sparse white setae on lateral thirds.
<emphasis id="B91CEA96765AFF9CFD73FBA5DD420FA3" bold="true" box="[761,887,1135,1161]" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Scutellum</emphasis>
irregularly transverse-ovoid, narrowly lobed behind, deeply foveate-depressed on middle, partly hidden under anteriomedial sutural elytral angles; surface microreticulate.
<emphasis id="B91CEA96765AFF9CFED5FB75DF9A0FF3" bold="true" box="[351,431,1215,1241]" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Elytra</emphasis>
extending to opposite about anterior 1/4 of second abdominal ventrite, slightly wider than pronotum, rather parallel-sided, slightly narrower at base; lateral margins serrulate on apical half, broadly rounded at apex; surface distinctly, narrowly and transversely depressed along base, broadly shallowly depressed behind middle on pale fascia, and with punctures fine and deep but denser basally on middle, where they appear asperate, and with indistinct (at
<date id="FFD61044765AFF9CFD49FAAADCC30E50" box="[707,758,1376,1402]" pageId="1" pageNumber="48" value="1980-10">80X</date>
) very short sparse white setae.
<emphasis id="B91CEA96765AFF9CFB19FA95DACC0E53" bold="true" box="[1171,1273,1375,1401]" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Beneath</emphasis>
with surface microreticulate, overlain with coarse shallow reticulations on prothorax, remainder of thorax finely deeply punctured except for mesopleurae and anterior middle portion of metasternum, surface of abdominal ventrites sculptured with irregularly transverse ridges; setae white, distinct, much longer than on dorsal surface; prosternum with anterior margin broadly, very shallowly lobed on middle; metasternal sensory pit extending for basal 3/4 of sclerite, containing fine long light golden setae; metacoxal plates narrowed externally to 1/2 internal width, lateral margin truncate; last ventrite broadly, semicircularly emarginate, lateroapical portions finely asperate. Aedeagus as in
<figureCitation id="13532A01765AFF9CFE4FF9B2DC5F0DB8" box="[453,618,1656,1682]" captionStart="FIGURES 11 – 16" captionStartId="6.[151,269,1099,1123]" captionTargetBox="[156,1431,194,1073]" captionTargetId="figure@6.[156,1431,194,1075]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURES 11 – 16, Aedeagus of Chrysobothris and Xenorhipis. 11, Chrysobothris chiriquita; 12, C. ichthyomorpha; 13, C. thomsoni, Colombia; 14, same, Trinidad; 15, Xenorhipis bajacalifornica, dorsal; 16, same, ventral." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/274596/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Figs. 15 &amp; 16</figureCitation>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BD73684765AFF9CFF4CF955DBA80CF8" blockId="1.[151,1437,615,2002]" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">
<emphasis id="B91CEA96765AFF9CFF4CF955DF050D93" bold="true" box="[198,304,1695,1721]" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Allotype</emphasis>
.
<collectingCountry id="F37F7614765AFF9CFEC2F96ADF5D0D90" box="[328,360,1696,1722]" name="American Samoa" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">As</collectingCountry>
in
<figureCitation id="13532A01765AFF9CFE05F96ADFE20D90" box="[399,471,1696,1722]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 – 2" captionStartId="2.[151,269,1356,1380]" captionTargetBox="[150,1436,354,1330]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[150,1436,354,1332]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURES 1 – 2. Xenorhipis bajacalifornica. 1, holotype; 2, allotype." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/274594/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
,
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long,
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wide, differs from male as follows: head, pronotum and narrowly along base of elytra black with strong deep blue reflection, remainder of basal portion of elytra in front of pale fascia black with slight bluish to purplish reflection, apical portion dark brown; beneath black with slight dark blue reflection, except abdomen yellowish brown.
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with surface sculpture less sharply reticulate, antennae not flabellate, slightly serrate beginning with fifth antennomere.
<emphasis id="B91CEA96765AFF9CFB58F8F5DB650C73" bold="true" box="[1234,1360,1855,1881]" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Pronotum</emphasis>
more broadly, shallowly convex, lateral margins broadly rounded, lateral margins sharp and well defined on basal half, not present on apical half; surface less sharply and more confusedly reticulate, the reticulations not evidently granulate, yet microsculptured within.
<emphasis id="B91CEA96765AFF9CFD32F87DDD000CFB" bold="true" box="[696,821,1975,2001]" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Scutellum</emphasis>
transversely oval, broadly and shallowly depressed.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967659FF9FFF1DFF5DDED20B9B" bold="true" box="[151,231,151,177]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Elytra</emphasis>
extending to about apical 1/3 of third ventrite.
<emphasis id="B91CEA967659FF9FFCB0FF5DDD940B9B" bold="true" box="[826,929,151,177]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Beneath</emphasis>
much smoother and with much finer and shorter setae, sparsely granulate on hind portion of metasternum, notably on hind coxal plates which are more or less triangular, and much narrower at sides; abdomen vaguely, irregularly punctate and without ridges, last ventrite truncate and with a dense brush of long golden setae, lateroapical portions smooth.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967659FF9FFF1DFA86DF770E4E" bold="true" box="[151,322,1356,1380]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">FIGURES 1–2.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967659FF9FFEDAFA86DC5A0E49" box="[336,623,1356,1379]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Xenorhipis bajacalifornica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. 1, holotype; 2, allotype.
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</caption>
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967659FF9FFF4CFA5DDF8E0E9B" bold="true" box="[198,443,1431,1457]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Material examined.</emphasis>
<typeStatus id="54D388267659FF9FFE41FA5DDC0D0E9B" box="[459,568,1431,1457]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
(
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) labeled “
<collectingCountry id="F37F76147659FF9FFC85FA5DDDBC0E9B" box="[783,905,1431,1457]" name="Mexico" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">MEXICO</collectingCountry>
, Baja Calif. Sur [BCS], Los Barriles,
<date id="FFD610447659FF9FFAC5FA5DDECE0EF3" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" value="1979-04-27" valueMax="1979-04-29" valueMin="1979-04-27">IV-27- 29-1979</date>
, Malaise trap, 8 AM-6 PM/M. Wasbauer collector”; allotype (
<collectionCode id="ED79AE417659FF9FFC54FA75DA030EF3" box="[990,1078,1471,1497]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">RLWE</collectionCode>
); BCS, wash
<quantity id="4C909B617659FF9FFB52FA75DB290EF3" box="[1240,1308,1471,1497]" metricMagnitude="4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.7702784" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" unit="mi" value="11.0">11 mi</quantity>
NW Cabo San Lucas,
<date id="FFD610447659FF9FFE94FA2DDF870D2B" box="[286,434,1511,1537]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" value="1985-04-17" valueMax="1985-04-23" valueMin="1985-04-17">17-23-IV-85</date>
, R. L. Westcott;
<specimenCount id="9D6EFD0D7659FF9FFDFEFA2DDCF60D2B" box="[628,707,1511,1537]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" type="male">4 male</specimenCount>
<typeStatus id="54D388267659FF9FFD40FA2DDD080D2B" box="[714,829,1511,1537]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" type="paratype">paratypes</typeStatus>
, all from BCS as follows: same data as allotype;
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N El Triunfo,
<date id="FFD610447659FF9FFEE6F9C5DFED0D03" box="[364,472,1551,1577]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" value="1981-04-18">18-IV-81</date>
, D. S. Verity coll. (
<collectionCode id="ED79AE417659FF9FFD34F9C5DD270D03" box="[702,786,1551,1577]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">DSVC</collectionCode>
);
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S,
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E El Pescadero,
<date id="FFD610447659FF9FFB16F9C5DB230D03" box="[1180,1302,1551,1577]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" value="1977-07-21">21-VII-77</date>
; arroyo
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N,
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E Migriño,
<date id="FFD610447659FF9FFE31F9FDDC7A0D7B" box="[443,591,1591,1617]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" value="1985-04-18" valueMax="1985-04-21" valueMin="1985-04-18">18-21-IV-85</date>
, R. L. Westcott (
<collectionCode id="ED79AE417659FF9FFC99F9FDDD5E0D7B" box="[787,875,1591,1617]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">RLWE</collectionCode>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C372650F7659FF9FFF4CF995DA470DDB" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" type="description">
<paragraph id="8BD736847659FF9FFF4CF995DA470DDB" blockId="2.[151,1437,1431,2017]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">
<emphasis id="B91CEA967659FF9FFF4CF995DF740D53" bold="true" box="[198,321,1631,1657]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Variation.</emphasis>
The four male
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range from
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in length. On two of them the blue color on the pronotum is restricted to the basal margin, and it is scarcely evident on one. The elytral fasciae vary from 1.5 X wide as long to 0.67 X wide as long, that of the largest
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closely matching the
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, while the smaller specimens have the fasciae more quadrate, not projecting forward.
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967659FF9FFF4CF935DF520C33" bold="true" box="[198,359,1791,1817]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Distribution.</emphasis>
This species is known only from the Cape Region of Baja California Sur,
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.
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967659FF9FFF4CF8EDDF1F0C6B" bold="true" box="[198,298,1831,1857]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Biology.</emphasis>
The specimens I collected in 1985 were taken by beating shrubs and trees, likely
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or mesquite growing in the thornscrub vegetation near the coast.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967659FF9FFF4CF8BDDC1A0CBB" bold="true" box="[198,559,1911,1937]" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Comparison and discussion.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967659FF9FFDCDF8BDDDBD0CBA" box="[583,904,1911,1936]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Xenorhipis bajacalifornica</emphasis>
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is somewhat enigmatic in its placement to genus.
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currently recognized (
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), the genus is distinguished from
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967659FF9FFB7CF855DBA90C92" box="[1270,1436,1951,1976]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Hesperorhipis</emphasis>
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by a single key character: “posterior coxal plates scarcely narrowed laterally” vs. “posterior coxal plates triangular, hind margin strongly oblique” in the latter genus. This was adapted from
<bibRefCitation id="EFF94B757658FF9EFBD1FF52DAD60B98" author="Fall" box="[1115,1251,152,178]" pageId="3" pageNumber="50" refString="Fall, H. C. (1930) A new Aphodius and a new genus and species of Buprestidae from California. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 7 (2), 73 - 76." type="journal article" year="1930">Fall (1930)</bibRefCitation>
, who discussed other characters that he thought distinguished the two genera. In
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967658FF9EFC12FF0ADA5B0BF3" box="[920,1134,192,217]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">X. bajacalifornica</emphasis>
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the posterior coxal plates are more triangular, yet they are not acute laterally as in some species of
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967658FF9EFC67FF22DAA60A2B" box="[1005,1171,232,257]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">Hesperorhipis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Described species of
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967658FF9EFF1DFEDADF220A03" box="[151,279,272,297]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">Xenorhipis</emphasis>
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that I have seen have the plates more or less transverse, though this is variable, sometimes even between the sexes. The elytra in the male of
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967658FF9EFD4BFEF2DD520A7B" box="[705,871,312,337]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">Hesperorhipis</emphasis>
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usually do not attain even the second ventrite, though they may reach the third ventrite on some specimens of
<taxonomicName id="4C684D077658FF9EFC06FEAADA490A50" authority="Fall" authorityName="Fall" box="[908,1148,352,378]" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Hesperorhipis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="50" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="albofasciata">
<emphasis id="B91CEA967658FF9EFC06FEAADA760A53" box="[908,1091,352,377]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">H. albofasciata</emphasis>
Fall
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; while in described species of
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967658FF9EFF7BFE42DF440A8B" box="[241,369,392,417]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">Xenorhipis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
the elytra of males cover from the third ventrite (
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967658FF9EFC5EFE42DA640A8B" box="[980,1105,392,417]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">X. osburni</emphasis>
Knull
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) to almost the entire abdomen. In
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967658FF9EFEB1FE7ADC270AE3" box="[315,530,432,457]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">X. bajacalifornica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
the elytra of males reach just beyond the first ventrite.
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used the length of the basal segment of the hind tarsus as a distinguishing character, but I do not find it useful. Truly puzzling is why he stated, in the same paper, that
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967658FF9EFD63FDCADDBA0933" box="[745,911,512,537]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">Hesperorhipis</emphasis>
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lacks the metasternal excavation (= sensory pit), as his description of
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967658FF9EFE40FDE2DCB4096B" box="[458,641,552,577]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">H. albofasciata</emphasis>
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was from a single male. Based on my admittedly limited study, I conclude that the only consistent distinguishing character is the male antenna, on which the flabellar processes begin with the second antennomere in
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967658FF9EFDF1FDB2DCCE09BB" box="[635,763,632,657]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">Xenorhipis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the third antennomere in
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967658FF9EFBC0FDB2DAC509BB" box="[1098,1264,632,657]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">Hesperorhipis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. In Nelson’s (1968) key to males,
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967658FF9EFE05FD6ADC500993" box="[399,613,672,697]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">X. bajacalifornica</emphasis>
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reaches a dead-end at couplet 2. In my opinion it is as much, perhaps more, related to species of
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967658FF9EFE59FD02DC4C09CB" box="[467,633,712,737]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">Hesperorhipis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as it is to any species of
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<emphasis id="B91CEA967658FF9EFC2FFD02DA1009CB" box="[933,1061,712,737]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="50">Xenorhipis</emphasis>
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that I have seen.
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