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(
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:
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: “
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[22] N-Sichuan, pass ENE
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,
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. Assing /
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, det.
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.
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.
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: 2 , 1 : same data as holotype (cAss); 18 exs
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:
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same data, but leg.
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(
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, cAss); 1 : “
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: N-Sichuan [CH12-19],
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N Songpan
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, road S
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118,
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pass,
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,
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, spruce forest with shrubs, litter, moss, &amp; mushrooms sifted,
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9.
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.2012, leg.
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” (
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); 1 : “
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: N-Sichuan [CH12-24],
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NNW Songpan
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,
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,
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,
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, moist N-slope with
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and other shrubs, litter, grass roots &amp; moss sifted,
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11.
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.2012, leg.
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” (
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).
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<emphasis id="B926B3409A133B03FC86F9BE4982F99E" bold="true" box="[794,913,1545,1569]" pageId="11" pageNumber="98">Etymology</emphasis>
: The specific epithet is an adjective derived from Min Shan, the mountain where the
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locality is situated.
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: Body length
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; length of forebody 0.81.0 mm. Habitus as in Fig. 8. Colouration: head blackish-brown to black; pronotum and elytra brown to dark-brown; abdomen black with segments IIIIV reddish to brown and the apex (segments VIIIX) yellowish; legs yellow; antennae dark-brown to blackish-brown with the basal three antennomeres dark-yellow.
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<paragraph id="8BED6F529A133B04FC86F83E4B03FE9E" blockId="11.[794,1399,1673,2081]" lastBlockId="12.[189,794,233,993]" lastPageId="12" lastPageNumber="99" pageId="11" pageNumber="98">Head weakly transverse; punctation extremely fine, barely noticeable in the pronounced microreticulation. Eyes small and flat, composed of approximately ten ommatidia. Antennae moderately incrassate; antennomeres IV transverse, VX of increasing width and increasingly transverse, X approximately twice as broad as long.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BED6F529A143B04FF21FE9D4B04FE7E" blockId="12.[189,794,233,993]" pageId="12" pageNumber="99">Pronotum approximately 1.2 times as broad as long and 1.2 times as broad as head; punctation similar to that of head, but somewhat denser; interstices with pronounced microreticulation; pubescence directed anteriad along midline.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BED6F529A143B04FF21FE7E485FFD9E" blockId="12.[189,794,233,993]" pageId="12" pageNumber="99">Elytra approximately half as long as pronotum; punctation less fine than that of head; interstices with microsculpture. Hind wings completely reduced.</paragraph>
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Abdomen broader than elytra; punctation very fine, moderately dense on anterior tergites and sparser on posterior tergites; interstices with microreticulation composed of predominantly transverse meshes; posterior margin of tergite VII without palisade fringe; tergite VIII (
<figureCitation id="136973D79A143B04FF59FD7E4B1CFD5E" box="[197,271,713,737]" captionStart="Figs 3346" captionStartId="7.[151,191,1981,2003]" captionTargetBox="[156,1394,240,1961]" captionTargetId="figure-108@7.[151,1398,232,1970]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="Figs 3346: Atheta clarata (3338) and A. minica (3946). 3334, 3941 median lobe of aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view; 35 male tergite VIII; 36, 42 male sternite VIII; 37, 44 female sternite VIII; 38, 4546 spermatheca; 43 female tergite VIII. Scale bars: 3537, 4244: 0.2 mm; 3334, 3841, 4546: 0.1 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5743221" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5743221/files/figure.png" pageId="12" pageNumber="99">Fig. 43</figureCitation>
) without evident sexual dimorphism, posterior margin weakly convex.
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: sternite VIII (
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) weakly transverse, posterior margin strongly convex; median lobe of aedeagus
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long and shaped as in
<figureCitation id="136973D79A143B04FD90FCFE4891FCDE" box="[524,642,841,865]" captionStart="Figs 3346" captionStartId="7.[151,191,1981,2003]" captionTargetBox="[156,1394,240,1961]" captionTargetId="figure-108@7.[151,1398,232,1970]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="Figs 3346: Atheta clarata (3338) and A. minica (3946). 3334, 3941 median lobe of aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view; 35 male tergite VIII; 36, 42 male sternite VIII; 37, 44 female sternite VIII; 38, 4546 spermatheca; 43 female tergite VIII. Scale bars: 3537, 4244: 0.2 mm; 3334, 3841, 4546: 0.1 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5743221" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5743221/files/figure.png" pageId="12" pageNumber="99">Figs 3941</figureCitation>
.
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: posterior margin of sternite VIII with pronounced, V-shaped median incision and with moderately modified setae (
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); spermatheca (
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) with long and slender proximal portion.
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<emphasis id="B926B3409A143B04FF21FBBE4B8FFB9E" bold="true" box="[189,412,1033,1057]" pageId="12" pageNumber="99">Comparative notes</emphasis>
:
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<emphasis id="B926B3409A143B04FE2EFBBE4847FB9E" box="[434,596,1033,1057]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="99">Atheta minica</emphasis>
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is distinguished from other
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<emphasis id="B926B3409A143B04FED2FB9E4BADFBFE" box="[334,446,1065,1089]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="99">Microdota</emphasis>
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species by the primary and secondary sexual characters. For illustrations of micropterous consubgeners reported from
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see
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,
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,
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,
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,
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) and
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,
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,
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).
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<emphasis id="B926B3409A143B04FF21FB5E4850FABE" bold="true" box="[189,579,1257,1281]" pageId="12" pageNumber="99">Distribution and natural history</emphasis>
: The species was found in three localities to the north and northwest of Songpan, Northwest
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. The specimens were sifted from litter, moss, and grass roots in a slope with scree and shrubs, in a moist slope with willow and other shrubs, and in a spruce forest with shrubs at high altitudes (
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