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J. Balfour-Browne
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J. Balfour-Browne 1958: 136
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.
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The genus
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<emphasis id="B958EABFE3CFFF59FEFAFA51B8BEF988" box="[280,386,1524,1549]" italics="true" pageId="200" pageNumber="201">Sicilicula</emphasis>
Balfour-Browne
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currently comprises eight Malagasy species and one previously described species from Réunion,
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<emphasis id="B958EABFE3CFFF59FE7CF9BCBB1CF9B4" box="[414,544,1560,1585]" italics="true" pageId="200" pageNumber="201">S. borbonic</emphasis>
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a Balfour-Browne (1958). The type of the genus, S.
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<emphasis id="B958EABFE3CFFF59FB94F9BFBD97F9B4" box="[1142,1195,1562,1585]" italics="true" pageId="200" pageNumber="201">teres</emphasis>
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, is based on a single female; no new specimens of that species were seen during this study.
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<emphasis id="B958EABFE3CFFF59FC4BF998BAC6F9D0" box="[937,1018,1597,1621]" italics="true" pageId="200" pageNumber="201">S. teres</emphasis>
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, a flightless species, has a distinctive habitus that differs from that of other females described herein (
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).
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The genus is clearly related to another member of the
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, the
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African genus
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<emphasis id="B958EABFE3CFFF59FAEAF920BCA0F91B" box="[1288,1436,1669,1694]" italics="true" pageId="200" pageNumber="201">Parasthetops</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFBD4B5CE3CFFF59FF75F90DBB1FF944" author="Perkins" box="[151,547,1704,1729]" pageId="200" pageNumber="201" refString="Perkins, P. D. &amp; Balfour-Browne, J. (1994) Contribution to the taxonomy of aquatic and humicolous beetles of the family Hydraenidae in southern Africa. Fieldiana: Zoology, New Series, 77, 1 - 159." type="journal article" year="1994">Perkins &amp; Balfour-Browne (1994)</bibRefCitation>
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.
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<emphasis id="B958EABFE3CFFF59FDD0F90DBBA0F944" box="[562,668,1704,1729]" italics="true" pageId="200" pageNumber="201">Sicilicula</emphasis>
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differs in having a more compact body form, a larger head, more strongly cordiform pronotum, and generally shorter elytra. In addition, there is unusual sexual dimorphism: females have wider elytra, sometimes having very wide explanate margins (e.g.,
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). Females also have dehiscent elytral apices, an unusual character for hydraenids. The aedeagi in
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have a much larger distal piece, compared to the main piece, than do members of
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<emphasis id="B958EABFE3CFFF59FCEFF89DBA9DF8D4" box="[781,929,1848,1873]" italics="true" pageId="200" pageNumber="201">Parasthetops</emphasis>
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. The long flexible flagellum present in some species of
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<emphasis id="B958EABFE3CFFF59FEEFF8F8B89DF8F3" box="[269,417,1885,1910]" italics="true" pageId="200" pageNumber="201">Parasthetops</emphasis>
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are not known in
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<emphasis id="B958EABFE3CFFF59FD8EF8F8BBEAF8F3" box="[620,726,1885,1910]" italics="true" pageId="200" pageNumber="201">Sicilicula</emphasis>
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.
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Members of
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are almost always collected in hygropetric microhabitats, such as seeps over rocks next to waterfalls, or rockpools near streams, waterfalls or seeps (e.g.,
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. Most records are from the
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<collectingRegion id="49E8F84FE3CFFF59FF75F86CB831F867" box="[151,269,1993,2018]" country="Papua New Guinea" name="Western Highlands" pageId="200" pageNumber="201">Highlands</collectingRegion>
, at elevations ranging from
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to
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. All species are very similar in color: black dorsally and ventrally, legs and maxillary palpi dark brown. Two species,
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<emphasis id="B958EABFE3CEFF58FCDEFF3DBAB1FF35" box="[828,909,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="201" pageNumber="202">S. teres</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B958EABFE3CEFF58FC21FF3CBD63FF35" box="[963,1119,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="201" pageNumber="202">H. sexplanata</emphasis>
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are brachypterous, the other species have regular sized wings. In general, the pronotum of females is slightly more strongly cordiform than the pronotum of males.
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