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<paragraph id="80057E94552B7DB75B78E7E9E7E2558A" pageId="243" pageNumber="244">Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Dytiscidae</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="386AA7226491CAC4469FA363D5A34E07" ID-CoL="3RM8B" authority="Regimbart, 1895" authorityName="Regimbart" authorityYear="1895" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus laeticulus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="243" pageNumber="244" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="laeticulus">
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Laccophilus laeticulus
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<normalizedToken id="E7AF74E4E298478BB7FC7D626F92F54F" originalValue="Régimbart">Regimbart</normalizedToken>
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, 1895
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Figs 204, 373-374, 524, 579
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<taxonomicName id="5D3EEE466314919584FF0530005A7974" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus laeticulus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="244" pageNumber="245" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="laeticulus">
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<pageBreakToken id="9AB0FF1CDD51127C66F29783FE00E5F6" pageId="244" pageNumber="245" start="start">Laccophilus</pageBreakToken>
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laeticulus
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<bibRefCitation id="3FBC6B6801856118A434DA83BF9A2256" author="Regimbart, M" journalOrPublisher="Memoires de la Societe entomologique de Belgique" pageId="262" pageNumber="263" pagination="1 - 244" title="Revision des Dytiscidae et Gyrinidae d'Afrique, Madagascar et iles voisines. En contribution a la faune entomologique du Congo." volume="4" year="1895">
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<normalizedToken id="51A88FB7ADEDA5C7564098F3EA8EE5CD" originalValue="Régimbart">Regimbart</normalizedToken>
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1895
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</bibRefCitation>
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: 145 (original description, faunistics);
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<bibRefCitation id="D4F63CE204185A6171B52A7FB69CCD0E" author="Zimmermann, A" journalOrPublisher="Junk, Berlin" pageId="263" pageNumber="264" title="Dytiscidae, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae, Amphizoidae. In: Schenkling S (Ed.) Coleopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 4 pars 71. W." year="1920 a">Zimmermann 1920a</bibRefCitation>
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:19 (catalogue faunistics);
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<bibRefCitation id="5FE1638EBB33E5E5F56609101D532C55" author="Guignot, F" journalOrPublisher="Revue Francaise d'Entomologie" pageId="256" pageNumber="257" pagination="81 - 103" title="Dytiscidae et Gyrinidae de la Cote d'Ivoire et du Soudan francais." volume="9" year="1943">Guignot 1943</bibRefCitation>
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: 98 (faunistics);
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<bibRefCitation id="67563FC827B200AF48C945477EE21C69" author="Guignot, F" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin de l'Institut Francais d'Afrique Noire" pageId="257" pageNumber="258" pagination="1095 - 1101" title="Dytiscides et gyrinides de la Guinee francaise recoltes par M. A. Villiers." volume="17" year="1955 b">Guignot 1955b</bibRefCitation>
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: 1096 (faunistics);
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<bibRefCitation id="735D6E1D75CE733CA8229B8CDC6A5E17" author="Omer-Cooper, Joyce" journalOrPublisher="Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa" pageId="260" pageNumber="261" pagination="36 - 55" title="Dytiscidae from Nyasaland and Southern Rhodesia. III. Laccophilinae." volume="21" year="1958 b">Omer-Cooper 1958b</bibRefCitation>
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: 37, 38, 39, 41 (description, faunistics, biology);
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<bibRefCitation id="94DC76267A386C0EAEDC223B3F77D0A8" author="Guignot, F" journalOrPublisher="Annales du Musee Royal du Congo Belge (Serie 8 vo) Sciences Zoologiques" pageId="258" pageNumber="259" pagination="323 - 648" title="Revision des hydrocanthares d'Afrique (ColeopteraDytiscoidea). 2." volume="78" year="1959 a">Guignot 1959a</bibRefCitation>
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: 533, 538 (description, faunistics);
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<bibRefCitation id="81E7321BF9152A3CA6F2516CFCC34648" author="Medler, JT" journalOrPublisher="Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute" pageId="259" pageNumber="260" pagination="1 - 919" title="Insects of Nigeria - Check list and bibliography." volume="30" year="1980">Medler 1980</bibRefCitation>
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: 155 (faunistics, catalogue);
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<bibRefCitation id="93948424D3C29CE9D87EDAFA644177DC" author="Franciscolo, ME" journalOrPublisher="Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei" pageId="256" pageNumber="257" pagination="133 - 153" title="Four new species and new records of Hydradephaga from Sierra Leone (Coleoptera: Haliplidae, Gyrinidae, Dytiscidae). Ricerche biologiche in Sierra Leone. 3." volume="265" year="1990">Franciscolo and Sanfilippo 1990</bibRefCitation>
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: 145, 146 (description, faunistics);
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<bibRefCitation id="326E2E4A7A6F1CB8064CC7B9DB8ADD4A" author="Nilsson, AN" journalOrPublisher="Entomologica Fennica" pageId="260" pageNumber="261" pagination="57 - 94" title="Taxonomy, distribution and habitats of the Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of Ethiopia." volume="4" year="1993">Nilsson and Persson 1993</bibRefCitation>
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: 79, 94 (faunistics, biology);
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<bibRefCitation id="7E7AE2303E98A43384898EE09F966F3F" author="Nilsson, AN" journalOrPublisher="Journal African Zoology" pageId="260" pageNumber="261" pagination="489 - 514" title="The diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) of Guinea Bissau in West Africa." volume="109" year="1995">Nilsson et al. 1995</bibRefCitation>
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: 505 (faunistics);
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<bibRefCitation id="3FCCDD7363402C1F96881CA4AAC8975D" author="Rocchi, S" journalOrPublisher="Roma" pageId="262" pageNumber="263" pagination="11 - 33" title="Contributo alla conoscenza dei ditiscidi di Guinea con descrizione di duo nuove specie (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)." volumeTitle="Fragmenta Entomologica" year="2000">Rocchi 2000</bibRefCitation>
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: 23 (faunistics);
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<bibRefCitation id="6CB6A7C5081210CF0095FD107C57D3E2" author="Nilsson, AN" journalOrPublisher="World catalogue of Insects" pageId="260" pageNumber="261" pagination="1 - 395" title="Dytiscidae." volume="3" year="2001">Nilsson 2001</bibRefCitation>
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: 245 (catalogue, faunistics);
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<bibRefCitation id="D284C7B64C47A563FADF2007BDFED3C7" author="Reintjes, N" journalOrPublisher="Koleopterologische Rundschau" pageId="262" pageNumber="263" pagination="45 - 74" title="Noteridae and Dytiscidae of the Comoe National Park, Ivory Coast, West Africa (Coleoptera: Noteridae, Dytiscidae)." volume="74" year="2004">Reintjes 2004</bibRefCitation>
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: 67 (faunistics); van
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<bibRefCitation id="ADD58336466C59FDF278EB80050B104E" author="Vondel, BJ van" journalOrPublisher="DEINSEA (Annual of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam)" pageId="263" pageNumber="264" pagination="119 - 138" title="Water beetles from Benin (Coleoptera: Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Noteridae, Hydraenidae, Hydrochidae, Hydrophilidae, Gyrinidae, Elmidae)." volume="11" year="2005">Vondel 2005</bibRefCitation>
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: 131 (faunistics, biology);
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<bibRefCitation id="3F7D00CAADF519E9C56490F52BBD2903" author="Nilsson, AN" journalOrPublisher="Apollo books, Stenstrup" pageId="260" pageNumber="261" title="A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga). Version 1. I. 2015" url="http://www2.emg.umu.se/projects/biginst/andersn/" year="2015">Nilsson 2015</bibRefCitation>
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: 213 (catalogue, faunistics).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="AB055E7653A4C6BE66BFDB02FFF88736" pageId="244" pageNumber="245" type="notes on taxonomy">
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<paragraph id="ABB99352C5C9F56C17FAE84144460DE6" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Notes on taxonomy.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="ED4C30E4BD525244A425884E403CDB1F" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">
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Records, published later than
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<bibRefCitation id="1510591D30AC50EE4A53300A5D1E5FCE" author="Regimbart, M" journalOrPublisher="Memoires de la Societe entomologique de Belgique" pageId="262" pageNumber="263" pagination="1 - 244" title="Revision des Dytiscidae et Gyrinidae d'Afrique, Madagascar et iles voisines. En contribution a la faune entomologique du Congo." volume="4" year="1895">
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<normalizedToken id="D4DA06A8439FA97FE49CF2C3952823E4" originalValue="Régimbart">Regimbart</normalizedToken>
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(1895)
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and
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<bibRefCitation id="C8C37E1629820D5A440EBA0C8BE95307" author="Zimmermann, A" journalOrPublisher="Junk, Berlin" pageId="263" pageNumber="264" title="Dytiscidae, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae, Amphizoidae. In: Schenkling S (Ed.) Coleopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 4 pars 71. W." year="1920 a">Zimmermann (1920a)</bibRefCitation>
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are considered uncertain because they may refer also to other species than
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<taxonomicName id="3FEBC077BA46829E14E6684471A945C5" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus laeticulus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="244" pageNumber="245" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="laeticulus">Laccophilus laeticulus</taxonomicName>
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<subSubSection id="196207DC2C0174D62430E66494242837" pageId="244" pageNumber="245" type="type locality">
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<paragraph id="A1FE2E2491247D9FDD59AD394F6BB885" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Type locality.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="3928F3C0FA58F187D6CE1458D87D69DE" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Guinea.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="20CE7199B7FB6C2FE4AFE484170F2C99" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Type material studied</paragraph>
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(1 ex.): Holotype: male:
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/ Museum Paris coll. Maurice
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<bibRefCitation id="B332D6DC6D032DCB62B1E8D4AF2FCAC5" author="Regimbart, M" journalOrPublisher="Almquist & Wiksells Boktryckeri-A. B., Uppsala" pageId="262" pageNumber="263" title="Coleoptera. 1. Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Hydrophilidae. In Sjoestedt, Y Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und der umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905 - 1906" year="1908">
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1908
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/
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<taxonomicName id="6E476EC4604669B7E503F46217CC061E" genus="Algae" lsidName="Algae laeticulus" pageId="244" pageNumber="245" rank="species" species="laeticulus">laeticulus</taxonomicName>
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<normalizedToken id="C7506908C0227A2AF1513EA04CA2CCB0" originalValue="Rég.”">Reg."</normalizedToken>
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(MNHN; habitus in Fig. 524).
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<paragraph id="471E74FA3E5391A1C69CAA7F355E19E2" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Additional material studied</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="7CD1B4338808A665CAF43FB1BA08A5BF" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">
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(1 ex.). Sierra Leone: "Sierra Leone Freetown A. Mocquerys 1889 / Museum Paris coll. Maurice
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<bibRefCitation id="217B7AA188098FE1D1C568B72E504289" author="Regimbart, M" journalOrPublisher="Almquist & Wiksells Boktryckeri-A. B., Uppsala" pageId="262" pageNumber="263" title="Coleoptera. 1. Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Hydrophilidae. In Sjoestedt, Y Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der schwedischen zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und der umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905 - 1906" year="1908">
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" (1 ex. MNHN).
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<subSubSection id="4FF5CD5FD7D2911783B2075CC5F7C0B5" pageId="244" pageNumber="245" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph id="23B4FBDDB2B41CF8DD7D95E5C7C86C62" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="378E6DF8474ACF73B1F7E565AACE8037" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">
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<taxonomicName id="A61B5FBF8FC3FB6DCC034C3740ED57C1" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus laeticulus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="244" pageNumber="245" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="laeticulus">Laccophilus laeticulus</taxonomicName>
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is especially characterized by distinct elytral colour pattern and peculiar, narrow apex of penis. It is closely related to
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sp. n., also occurring on mainland of the African continent. Male genitalia must be examined for correct determination. Apex of penis narrows in
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<taxonomicName id="8A64A506A327F908F3401C7D848BF21D" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus laeticulus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="244" pageNumber="245" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="laeticulus">Laccophilus laeticulus</taxonomicName>
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while clearly broader in
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<taxonomicName id="775DA27F028308F6230A2C41A89E8308" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus occidentalis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="244" pageNumber="245" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="occidentalis">Laccophilus occidentalis</taxonomicName>
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. Subbasal pale marking on elytra in
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<taxonomicName id="63F00DD1F9F33FB053A6B309F6AD2753" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus laeticulus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="244" pageNumber="245" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="laeticulus">Laccophilus laeticulus</taxonomicName>
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is generally broader than corresponding marking in
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. See also diagnosis of
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<taxonomicName id="001A14C0AD25840A4B46C1F0B613578E" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus transversovittatus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="244" pageNumber="245" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="transversovittatus">Laccophilus transversovittatus</taxonomicName>
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occurring in Madagascar (p. 260).
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="AE13B0C62BA884066753020F0900E871" pageId="244" pageNumber="245" type="description">
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<paragraph id="A9236EA20F4F1C25AA2A19C3B68084C2" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Description.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="9044D560BC58B7543165BA5C2AEC2D42" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Body length 3.1-3.2 mm, width 1.7 mm. Dorsal, colour pattern uniform (Fig. 524).</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="A0ACE6D2273108C029C4302BD37E892C" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Head: Pale ferrugineous. Submat, finely and somewhat indistinctly microsculptured. Reticulation double. Difference between size-categories of meshes minor and separation accordingly difficult. Large meshes, when discernible, contain about 3-5 small meshes. Head impunctate, except at eyes; with fine, scattered punctures. A few separate punctures may be discerned in centre of head between eyes.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="AA2EC614731DB309ED119A89C541BA69" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Pronotum: Pale ferrugineous, frontally and at base in middle with a somewhat vague dark ferrugineous to ferrugineous area. Submat, finely and somewhat indistinctly microsculptured. Reticulation double. Difference between size-categories of meshes of microsculpture minor and separation accordingly difficult. Large meshes, when discernible, contain about 3-5 small meshes. Frontally and laterally with very fine, rather sparse punctures, which in part may be difficult to discern.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="CB9BE29A3F01F212592C2AA0652A5CAD" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Elytra: Dark ferrugineous, with distinct, pale ferrugineous markings (Fig. 524). Submat, finely microsculptured. Reticulation double. Difference between size-categories of meshes minor and separation accordingly difficult. Large meshes, when discernible, contain about 3-5 small meshes. Laterally and posteriorly double reticulation becomes indistinct and finally disappears. Almost impunctate. In posterior half lateral punctures form a narrow and shallow, pre-apical furrow.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="4FBA47F5080C80B54632E9718C8DCB0E" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Ventral aspect: Pale ferrugineous to ferrugineous, posteriorly gradually darker but exhibits no distinct colour pattern. Slightly mat, finely microsculptured. In part reticulation reduced and obliterated. Almost impunctate. Basal ventrites with fine, curved striae. Prosternal process rather slender, apex extended and pointed. Metacoxal plates with some indistinct, shallow furrows. Fine stridulatory apparatus file consists of broad, fine ridges. Apical ventrite asymmetric, with lateral, triangular knob (Fig. 204).</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="F7D3A74ABF309F7008AD39FFE6D83108" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Legs: Pro- and mesotarsus slightly enlarged, extended. With distinct suckers.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="40D0EF80EE6C61082CDE8CB985B02BFB" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Male genitalia: Penis curved; narrows distinctly towards apex, provided with a small and blunt hook (Figs 373-374).</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="6FF289210AF0A21ED822F911E8590217" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Female: Unknown.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="74148AEAD11050B87D59B250F373B3C3" pageId="244" pageNumber="245" type="distribution">
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<paragraph id="E88E7C17C70BE8C0D1778C9396136C71" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="C69D796143AE4A702D130702192317ED" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Guinea, Sierra Leone (Fig. 579).</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection id="926DD1AA95BD4FBEC81E903D56212119" pageId="244" pageNumber="245" type="collecting circumstances">
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<paragraph id="10B06F61293EC5B27C9FF9FA522C9F20" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Collecting circumstances.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="D1C4A3A1C78FAEB3FD8C50D4FA667622" pageId="244" pageNumber="245">Unknown.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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