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Tribe
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<emphasis id="B9669253611BFFEEFF23FECA7575C671" bold="true" box="[192,325,262,286]" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">Diagnosis</emphasis>
(modified from
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). Antennae with 8-10 antennomeres, including a 3-7 antennomere club; body color testaceous, castaneous, or black (rarely bicolored), surface usually shining; elytral striae paired or approximately equally spaced; wings fully developed, folded, functional; mesosternal / metasternal process absent; metatibiae with 2 apical spurs, spurs set below and above the tarsal articulation (tarsus moves between tibial spurs); abdominal ventrites without a longitudinal ridge on each side; claws simple, without a tooth on the concave side; metatibiae with an interrupted or complete, obliquely transverse spinose ridge near the middle (sometimes absent).
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The tribe
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is endemic to
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and there is little merit to the previous placement New World taxa in this tribe by some authors (for a definition and detailed treatment of
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, see
<bibRefCitation id="EF8333B0611BFFEEFF0FFD8A75A1C531" author="Britton, E. B." box="[236,401,582,606]" pageId="9" pageNumber="8" pagination="1 - 209" refId="ref17809" refString="Britton, E. B. 1980. A revision of the Australian chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) vol. 3 Tribe Liparetrini: Genus Liparetrus. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 76: 1 - 209." type="book chapter" year="1980">Britton [1980</bibRefCitation>
,
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]). Accordingly, the genera
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,
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<emphasis id="B9669253611BFFEEFC42FD8A707EC531" box="[929,1102,582,606]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">Blepharotoma</emphasis>
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, and the New World species formerly placed in
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<emphasis id="B9669253611BFFEEFE4EFDAB761AC511" box="[429,554,615,638]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">Heteronyx</emphasis>
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have all been transferred to the tribe
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(see above under the heading for
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<emphasis id="B9669253611BFFEEFEACFD4A75CCC5F1" box="[335,508,646,670]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">Blepharotoma</emphasis>
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).
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also listed the monotypic genus
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<emphasis id="B9669253611BFFEEFBD7FD4A7098C5F1" box="[1076,1192,646,670]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">Zaburina</emphasis>
Saylor
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(from
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) and the species
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<emphasis id="B9669253611BFFEEFE57FD6A7696C5D1" box="[436,678,678,702]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">Aplodema rufescens</emphasis>
(Saylor)
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(from
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) in the tribe
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. These taxa are here removed from the tribe
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and placed in
<emphasis id="B9669253611BFFEEFCA9FD0B77DDC5B1" box="[842,1005,710,734]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">incertae sedis</emphasis>
, pending a thorough examination of the type material. I will refrain from speculating on the proper classification of these taxa other than to say that their previous placement and possibly the distribution given are highly dubious. I examined the
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of
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<emphasis id="B9669253611BFFEEFEABFCEA767FC451" box="[328,591,806,830]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="8">Zaburina columbiana</emphasis>
Saylor
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a few years ago at the California Academy of Sciences and noted that it had a labrum projecting below clypeus, metatibial spurs on either side of tarsus, and propygidial suture evident. These characters suggest that this taxon might either belong in the tribe
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or could be a mislabeled Australian specimen.
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