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<emphasis id="B922D22BFFC3FFBBFF2CF93EC098041A" bold="true" box="[151,423,1772,1798]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="511">Mesoceration sinclairi</emphasis>
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(
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<figureCitation id="136D12BCFFC3FFBBFF24F8DCC1D8043B" box="[159,231,1806,1831]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="12.[151,250,1952,1974]" captionTargetBox="[198,1401,207,1911]" captionTargetId="figure@12.[161,1425,193,1931]" captionTargetPageId="12" captionText="FIGURE 3. Habitus of Mesoceration holotypes. A) M. rugulosum sp. nov.; B) M. sewefonteinense sp. nov.; C) M. sinclairi sp. nov." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/243045/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="511">Figs 3</figureCitation>
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,
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<figureCitation id="136D12BCFFC3FFBBFF48F8DDC03E043B" box="[243,257,1807,1831]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="13.[151,250,1824,1846]" captionTargetBox="[195,1393,209,1783]" captionTargetId="figure@13.[181,1405,193,1803]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="FIGURE 4. Aedeagi of Mesoceration species. A) M. rugulosum sp. nov., holotype; B) M. sewefonteinense sp. nov., holotype; C) M. sinclairi sp. nov., holotype; D) M. littlekarroo, Swartberg, permanent stream below Kangoberg on Gamkaskloof road. Scale bar = 0.25 mm" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/243046/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="511">4</figureCitation>
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&
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<figureCitation id="136D12BCFFC3FFBBFE9EF8DCC00B043B" box="[293,308,1806,1831]" captionStart="FIGURE 6" captionStartId="15.[151,250,1860,1882]" captionTargetBox="[229,1347,193,1815]" captionTargetId="figure@15.[229,1347,193,1816]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="FIGURE 6. Habitats of Mesoceration species in South Africa. A) Western Cape, Matsikammaberg, permanent stream 1 km SE of Sewefontein farm— M. foggoi sp. nov., M. sewefonteinense sp. nov., M. umbrosum; B) Western Cape, False Bay, small stream on R 44 road below Boskloof Peak— M. sinclairi sp. nov., M. brevigranum; C) Western Cape, Groote Swartberg, permanent stream below Kangoberg on Gamkaskloof road— M. barriotum, M. littlekarroo, M. reticulatum, M. splendorum; D) Western Cape, Table Mountain National Park, Table Mountain, stream in Echo Valley— M. abstrictum, M. tabulare. Photos D. T. Bilton." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/243048/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="511">6</figureCitation>
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)
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locality
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.
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, Western Cape, False Bay, small stream on R44 road below Boskloof Peak (
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B).
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WC//Kogelberg—stream with seepages along R44 road// D T Bilton leg.” (genitalia extracted and mounted on same card) and red
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14 ♀ same data as
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). All with red
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labels.
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. Size:
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: BL
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; EW
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: ♂s BL
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. ♀s BL
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.
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Colour: dorsum (
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C) dark piceous brown to black, ocelli paler. Legs and maxillary palpi orange-yellow; last segment of maxillary palpi infuscated in apical 0.6. Venter dark piceous brown to black, with silvery hydrofuge vestiture on much of thorax and abdomen. Head paler, mentum, basistipes and palpifer yellowish-red.
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<paragraph id="8BE90E39FFC2FFBAFF7CFE46C30801D1" blockId="17.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="17" pageNumber="512">Head: Labrum slightly transverse, rounded apicolaterally, with apicomedian emargination running approx. 0.4 of length. Sides of apicomedian emargination and anterior angles weakly raised. Surface shining, with shallow, open microreticulation and scattered, long, decumbent setae, especially towards posterior margin. Frontoclypeal suture arcuate, shallow but distinct. Clypeus, frons and vertex shining. Clypeus with strong, open, isodiametric microreticulation, stronger laterally, and with scattered decumbent setae. Central frons with traces of microreticulation and scattered, coarse, shallow punctures bearing long, decumbent setae. Anteocellar sulci deep, open laterally; sulci and areas between them and compound eyes rugulose, with coarse, impressed isodiametric microreticulation. Ocelli shining, prominent. Compound eyes relatively small, occupying ca. 0.3 lateral margin of head, 12 ommatidia in longest series.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BE90E39FFC2FFBAFF7CFD0AC4130728" blockId="17.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="17" pageNumber="512">Pronotum: Cordate, slightly transverse, broadest at middle. Anterior margin arcuate over median 0.4, without hyaline border; posterior margin slightly rounded. Anterior angles obtusely rounded; posterior angles broadly rectangular. Lateral margins sinuated from widest point to base; broadly marginated and weakly crenulate. Surface shining, lacking microreticulation except for narrow strip of transverse microreticulation along central 0.5 of anterior margin, and shallow isodiametric microreticulation in foveae. With 10 distinct foveae as follows: Anterior median fovea elongate; posterior median fovea oval. Anterior admedian fovea shallow, oval, open laterally; posterior admedian fovea shallow, elongate oval, orientated anterolaterally. Anterior and posterior adlateral fovea deep, pit-like, anterior open laterally. Anterior and posterior 0.2 of disc with sparse, coarse, deep punctures over central 0.5, these extending into front 0.5 of anterior median and anterior admedian foveae. Most punctures bearing long, pale, decumbent setae. Pronotal reliefs with scattered fine-medium punctures bearing similar setae.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BE90E39FFC2FFBAFF7CFBEDC2D70648" blockId="17.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="17" pageNumber="512">Elytra: Elongate, widest just behind shoulders, then parallel-sided over approx. 0.3 of length, then attenuated to apex. Apex rounded, apical angles distinct, acutely rounded. Sides narrowly explanate, especially anteriorly, entire. Punctures of elytral series relatively coarse; larger in anterior 0.5, smaller posteriorly. Discal series striate impressed in anterior 0.6, series 5 and 6 also striate impressed posteriorly. Serial punctures with fine decumbent setae, not usually reaching next puncture in row. Series 1 and 2 confluent at posterior declivity, and becoming closely subparallel in basal 0.3. Series 5 and 6 confluent in anterior 0.3. Intervals 1–5 with a row of fine punctures, each puncture bearing a long, fine, decumbent setae; reaching and partly overlapping next seta in row. Intervals 2– 4 weakly raised in anterior 0.3; interval 8 carinate to approx. 0.2 from apex.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BE90E39FFC2FFBAFF7CFAB3C40E0664" blockId="17.[151,1437,151,2013]" box="[199,1329,1375,1401]" pageId="17" pageNumber="512">Legs: Apical protarsomere with two stout ventral setae; basal three protarsomeres with suction setae.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BE90E39FFC2FFBAFF7CFA57C33504A4" blockId="17.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="17" pageNumber="512">
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Venter: Mentum weakly shining, with elongate-isodiametric microreticulation and scattered stout yellow setae. Submentum weakly shining, with traces of microreticulation and fine, scattered punctures. Genae shining, with transverse wrinkles, becoming transverse meshes of the microreticulation laterally. Gula shining anteriorly with transverse ridges, dull posteriorly with fine transverse microreticulation. Prosternum with distinct central glabrous ridge, broader posteriorly between procoxae. Rest of surface rugulose, with dense hydrofuge vestiture. Pronotal hypomeron broad, smooth and shining, lacking microreticulation; shallow, round fovea close to inner anterolateral angle. Mesoventrite and metaventrite with dense hydrofuge vestiture. Mesoventral plaques glabrous, forming an inverted
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<collectingCountry id="F3414EA9FFC2FFBAFF41F953C0300584" box="[250,271,1665,1688]" name="Italy" pageId="17" pageNumber="512">Y</collectingCountry>
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; admedian and adlateral ridges also present but covered in vestiture. Metaventrite with elongate median fovea over posterior 0.5 and small semicircular glabrous patch posteromedially; paired, rounded admedian foveae anteriorly, below mesocoxae. Lateral areas of metaventrite, below outer angles of mesocoxae strongly depressed, almost foveate. Elytral pseudepipleurs broad, shining, narrowing to apex over posterior 0.5; epipleurs narrow, ridge-like. Abdominal ventrites 1–4 with hydrofuge vestiture; denser laterally and sparser centrally. Abdominal ventrite 5 with vestiture in basal 0.5, and semicircular smooth, glabrous, shining area in posterior 0.5; transverse row of punctures bearing decumbent setae 0.5 way down glabrous section of ventrite. Abdominal ventrite 6 glabrous, shining, with weak transverse microreticulation and double transverse row of medium punctures bearing decumbent setae 0.25 from apex.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BE90E39FFC2FFB9FF7CF816C23303E4" blockId="17.[151,1437,151,2013]" lastBlockId="18.[151,1437,151,1005]" lastPageId="18" lastPageNumber="513" pageId="17" pageNumber="512">
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Aedeagus: Elongate, straight in ventral view, with parameres attaching close to base and extending just beyond the apex of the main piece. Main piece with stout, rectangular apical tooth on left side, partly overhanging base of distal lobe. Distal lobe elongate, with expanded base and arcuate apex, directed leftwards in ventral view, extending beyond the apices of the parameres (
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<figureCitation id="136D12BCFFC1FFB9FD1DFF0DC3D503E4" box="[678,746,223,248]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="13.[151,250,1824,1846]" captionTargetBox="[195,1393,209,1783]" captionTargetId="figure@13.[181,1405,193,1803]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="FIGURE 4. Aedeagi of Mesoceration species. A) M. rugulosum sp. nov., holotype; B) M. sewefonteinense sp. nov., holotype; C) M. sinclairi sp. nov., holotype; D) M. littlekarroo, Swartberg, permanent stream below Kangoberg on Gamkaskloof road. Scale bar = 0.25 mm" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/243046/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
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C).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BE90E39FFC1FFB9FF7CFED6C50302B1" blockId="18.[151,1437,151,1005]" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">Female: Broader than male, especially on elytra, which have more broadly explanate lateral margins. Elytral apex more pointed, more strongly acuminate; roof-like around suture. Elytra with small depression on disc where series 1 and 2 become confluent. Microreticulation on head and pronotum stringer than in males. Abdominal ventrite 5 with broad, shining, glabrous patch over central 0.5, running from approx. 0.1 behind anterior margin. Impunctate and lacking microreticulation; posterior margin thickened and rounded.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BE90E39FFC1FFB9FF7CFE65C55F02D3" blockId="18.[151,1437,151,1005]" box="[199,1120,439,464]" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">
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Variation:
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<typeStatus id="54EDB09BFFC1FFB9FE87FE6AC09602CC" box="[316,425,440,464]" pageId="18" pageNumber="513" type="paratype">Paratypes</typeStatus>
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vary in size, but are otherwise relatively uniform in structure.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BE90E39FFC1FFB9FF7CFE0EC38A0024" blockId="18.[151,1437,151,1005]" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">
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<emphasis id="B922D22BFFC1FFB9FF7CFE0EC0EF02E9" bold="true" box="[199,464,476,501]" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">Differential diagnosis</emphasis>
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. A member of the
|
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<emphasis id="B922D22BFFC1FFB9FD6EFE0EC27B02E8" box="[725,836,476,500]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">endroedyi</emphasis>
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group
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||
<emphasis id="B922D22BFFC1FFB9FC1CFE0FC2D902E8" box="[935,998,477,500]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">sensu</emphasis>
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||
<bibRefCitation id="EFC773C8FFC1FFB9FC4CFE0EC4A702E8" author="Perkins" box="[1015,1432,476,501]" pageId="18" pageNumber="513" refString="Perkins, P. D. & Balfour-Browne, J. (1994) A contribution to the taxonomy of aquatic and humicolous beetles of the family Hydraenidae in southern Africa. Fieldiana Zoology, 77, 1 - 159." type="journal article" year="1994">Perkins & Balfour-Browne (1994)</bibRefCitation>
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. Distinguished by a combination of reduced pronotal microreticulation, of which only traces can be seen on the shining reliefs, the well-impressed elytral series composed of relatively large punctures, which are striate impressed on the disc, and the shining elytral intervals, which lack visible granules, and which are raised in places. The aedeagal morphology is most like that of
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||
<emphasis id="B922D22BFFC1FFB9FD13FDBFC2060198" box="[680,825,620,644]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">
|
||
M.
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||
<taxonomicName id="4C5675BAFFC1FFB9FD74FDBEC2060198" authority="Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994" authorityName="Perkins & Balfour-Browne" authorityYear="1994" box="[719,825,620,644]" class="Insecta" family="Hydraenidae" genus="Mesoceration" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="513" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dissonum">dissonum</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
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||
<bibRefCitation id="EFC773C8FFC1FFB9FCF9FDBEC5830198" author="Perkins" box="[834,1212,620,645]" pageId="18" pageNumber="513" refString="Perkins, P. D. & Balfour-Browne, J. (1994) A contribution to the taxonomy of aquatic and humicolous beetles of the family Hydraenidae in southern Africa. Fieldiana Zoology, 77, 1 - 159." type="journal article" year="1994">Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994</bibRefCitation>
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and
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||
<emphasis id="B922D22BFFC1FFB9FB4DFDBFC42A0198" box="[1270,1301,621,644]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">M.</emphasis>
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||
<taxonomicName id="4C5675BAFFC1FFB9FAA6FDBEC00A01B4" authority="Perkins, 2008" authorityName="Perkins" authorityYear="2008" class="Insecta" family="Hydraenidae" genus="Mesoceration" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="513" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="littlekarroo">
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||
<emphasis id="B922D22BFFC1FFB9FAA6FDBEC4A40198" box="[1309,1435,620,644]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">littlekarroo</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation id="EFC773C8FFC1FFB9FF2CFD5DC00A01B4" author="Perkins" box="[151,309,655,680]" pageId="18" pageNumber="513" refString="Perkins, P. D. (2008) New species and new collection records of Prosthetopine water beetles from southern Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Zootaxa, 1864, 1 - 124." type="journal article" year="2008">Perkins, 2008</bibRefCitation>
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</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
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||
<emphasis id="B922D22BFFC1FFB9FE85FD43C0FE01B4" box="[318,449,656,680]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">
|
||
M.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C5675BAFFC1FFB9FEDFFD42C0FE01B4" box="[356,449,656,680]" class="Insecta" family="Hydraenidae" genus="Mesoceration" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="513" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sinclairi" status="sp. nov.">sinclairi</taxonomicName>
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||
</emphasis>
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||
<emphasis id="B922D22BFFC1FFB9FE73FD5DC31D01B4" bold="true" box="[456,546,655,680]" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">
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||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A2116F50FFC1FFB9FE73FD5DC31D01B4" box="[456,546,655,680]" pageId="18" pageNumber="513" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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||
</emphasis>
|
||
differs from both species in having a broader, more truncate apical tooth on the main piece, and a differently-shaped distal lobe, which is smaller and finer apically than in
|
||
<emphasis id="B922D22BFFC1FFB9FB30FD67C42601D0" box="[1163,1305,692,716]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">
|
||
M.
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||
<taxonomicName id="4C5675BAFFC1FFB9FB14FD66C42601D0" box="[1199,1305,692,716]" class="Insecta" family="Hydraenidae" genus="Mesoceration" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="513" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dissonum">dissonum</taxonomicName>
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||
</emphasis>
|
||
and shorter and curved more basally than in
|
||
<emphasis id="B922D22BFFC1FFB9FDB9FD0BC39B01EC" box="[514,676,728,752]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">
|
||
M.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C5675BAFFC1FFB9FD9DFD0AC39B01EC" box="[550,676,728,752]" class="Insecta" family="Hydraenidae" genus="Mesoceration" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="513" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="littlekarroo">littlekarroo</taxonomicName>
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||
</emphasis>
|
||
(see
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||
<figureCitation id="136D12BCFFC1FFB9FD64FD05C21F01EC" box="[735,800,727,752]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="13.[151,250,1824,1846]" captionTargetBox="[195,1393,209,1783]" captionTargetId="figure@13.[181,1405,193,1803]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="FIGURE 4. Aedeagi of Mesoceration species. A) M. rugulosum sp. nov., holotype; B) M. sewefonteinense sp. nov., holotype; C) M. sinclairi sp. nov., holotype; D) M. littlekarroo, Swartberg, permanent stream below Kangoberg on Gamkaskloof road. Scale bar = 0.25 mm" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/243046/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
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||
C & D). Both these species are also readily distinguished from
|
||
<emphasis id="B922D22BFFC1FFB9FF67FD2FC0590008" box="[220,358,764,788]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">
|
||
M.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C5675BAFFC1FFB9FEB2FD2EC0590008" box="[265,358,764,788]" class="Insecta" family="Hydraenidae" genus="Mesoceration" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="513" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sinclairi" status="sp. nov.">sinclairi</taxonomicName>
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||
</emphasis>
|
||
<emphasis id="B922D22BFFC1FFB9FECEFD2EC0E90009" bold="true" box="[373,470,764,789]" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">
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||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A2116F50FFC1FFB9FECEFD2EC0E90009" box="[373,470,764,789]" pageId="18" pageNumber="513" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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||
</emphasis>
|
||
externally on account of their strongly microreticulate pronotal reliefs, and
|
||
<emphasis id="B922D22BFFC1FFB9FAC6FD2FC0290024" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">
|
||
M.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C5675BAFFC1FFB9FF2CFCF2C0290024" box="[151,278,800,824]" class="Insecta" family="Hydraenidae" genus="Mesoceration" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="513" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="littlekarroo">littlekarroo</taxonomicName>
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
by its strongly microreticulate frons.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="C34C5DB2FFC1FFB9FF7CFC96C0F100B8" pageId="18" pageNumber="513" type="distribution">
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||
<paragraph id="8BE90E39FFC1FFB9FF7CFC96C0F100B8" blockId="18.[151,1437,151,1005]" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">
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||
<emphasis id="B922D22BFFC1FFB9FF7CFC96C0660041" bold="true" box="[199,345,836,861]" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">Distribution</emphasis>
|
||
. To date known only from the
|
||
<typeStatus id="54EDB09BFFC1FFB9FD0DFC97C3D90041" box="[694,742,837,861]" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">type</typeStatus>
|
||
locality (
|
||
<figureCitation id="136D12BCFFC1FFB9FCE9FC96C2A90041" box="[850,918,836,861]" captionStart="FIGURE 6" captionStartId="15.[151,250,1860,1882]" captionTargetBox="[229,1347,193,1815]" captionTargetId="figure@15.[229,1347,193,1816]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="FIGURE 6. Habitats of Mesoceration species in South Africa. A) Western Cape, Matsikammaberg, permanent stream 1 km SE of Sewefontein farm— M. foggoi sp. nov., M. sewefonteinense sp. nov., M. umbrosum; B) Western Cape, False Bay, small stream on R 44 road below Boskloof Peak— M. sinclairi sp. nov., M. brevigranum; C) Western Cape, Groote Swartberg, permanent stream below Kangoberg on Gamkaskloof road— M. barriotum, M. littlekarroo, M. reticulatum, M. splendorum; D) Western Cape, Table Mountain National Park, Table Mountain, stream in Echo Valley— M. abstrictum, M. tabulare. Photos D. T. Bilton." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/243048/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
|
||
B), a small trickling stream in a shaded gulley beside the R44 road below the Kogelberg Range, on the eastern shores of False Bay. Here the species occurred with
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C5675BAFFC1FFB9FF2CFC5FC0F700B8" box="[151,456,908,932]" class="Insecta" family="Hydraenidae" genus="Mesoceration" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="513" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brevigranum">
|
||
<emphasis id="B922D22BFFC1FFB9FF2CFC5FC0F700B8" box="[151,456,908,932]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">Mesoceration brevigranum</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="C34C5DB2FFC1FFB9FF7CFC7DC05C00F1" pageId="18" pageNumber="513" type="etymology">
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||
<paragraph id="8BE90E39FFC1FFB9FF7CFC7DC05C00F1" blockId="18.[151,1437,151,1005]" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">
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||
<emphasis id="B922D22BFFC1FFB9FF7CFC7DC07900D4" bold="true" box="[199,326,943,968]" pageId="18" pageNumber="513">Etymology</emphasis>
|
||
. Named after my long-time friend Magnus Sinclair, who was instrumental in supporting my early interest in beetles.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
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||
</treatment>
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