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Type-species:
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Composition.
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Length. 3.0
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. Body small in size, oval shaped in dorsal view; head narrowing strongly anteriorly; elytra narrowing posteriorly but ending blunt and with notch at sutural interval; head and pronotum the same dark brown colour with elytra, pygidium and legs lighter brown.
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<paragraph id="F24FB219FF9C2F6706D18AF5FE14F862" blockId="0.[151,1435,1695,2030]" pageId="0" pageNumber="113">Head. Clypeus bidentate, denticles triangulate and upturned; sides with very slight notch where clypeo genal suture ends; surface with small, dense rounded punctures; punctures on clypeus smaller than those on genae and frons; punctures with very fine associated setae.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9D2F6606D18994FEB7FA85" bold="true" box="[151,269,1267,1289]" pageId="1" pageNumber="114">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
A, Habitus of
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, holotype; C, anterolateral view of elytra of
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showing the carina on the elytral edge. Scale bar = 1 mm for Figs. A, B; Fig. C not to scale.
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Aedeagus. Fairly symmetrical, see
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AC. Parameres half the length of the phallobase, apex of the parameres sloping downward towards a flat tip.
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This monotypic genus is currently only known from the isolated forests in the Uluguru Mountains in
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is named in honour of Vasily Grebennikov, who collected fresh specimens of this new genus for the molecular study by
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Mlambo
<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9D2F66049C8AF3FCB5F827" box="[730,783,1939,1963]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="114">et al.</emphasis>
(2014)
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. The gender is masculine.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph id="F24FB219FF9E2F6506D18ACBFC2FF852" blockId="2.[151,1436,1964,2015]" pageId="2" pageNumber="115">
<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9E2F6506D18ACBFEB6F84E" bold="true" box="[151,268,1964,1986]" pageId="2" pageNumber="115">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
Aedeagus in dorsal (A), right lateral (B) and left lateral (C, D) view. AC,
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<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9E2F6505A28ACBFB55F84E" box="[996,1263,1964,1986]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="115">Grebennikovius basilewskyi</emphasis>
(Balthasar, 1960)
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; D,
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<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9E2F6507208AAEFD97F853" box="[358,557,1993,2015]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="115">Epactoides humberti</emphasis>
(Paulian, 1975)
</taxonomicName>
. Scale bar = 0.5 mm.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption id="A68FE291FF9F2F6406D188BDFD5DF981" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/2618197/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="116" startId="3.[151,244,1498,1520]" targetBox="[150,1436,191,1477]" targetPageId="3">
<paragraph id="F24FB219FF9F2F6406D188BDFD5DF981" blockId="3.[151,1436,1498,1549]" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">
<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9F2F6406D188BDFEB7FA7C" bold="true" box="[151,269,1498,1520]" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
Map showing the location of the Uluguru Mountains (black) in Tanzania. Light grey indicates mountains and dark grey indicates the great lakes (modified from Mlambo
<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9F2F640435889FFD19F981" box="[627,675,1527,1549]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">et al.</emphasis>
2014).
</paragraph>
</caption>
<subSubSection id="BAEAE192FF9F2F6406818B54FC61F828" pageId="3" pageNumber="116" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph id="F24FB219FF9F2F6406818B54FC61F828" blockId="3.[151,1436,1587,1956]" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">
<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9F2F6406818B54FE78F9C6" bold="true" box="[199,450,1587,1610]" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">Differential diagnosis.</emphasis>
The combination of the hind tarsus with the basal segments approximately twice as long as the next segment and the stria VIII being carinate with the sides below the carina slanting inward will separate this new genus from all other Afrotropical small deltochiline genera. Although the body shape of
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<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9F2F64020B8B10FB4FF903" box="[1101,1269,1655,1679]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">Grebennikovius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="DBB7D370FF9F2F6402BA8B1FFAD4F903" box="[1276,1390,1656,1679]" pageId="3" pageNumber="116" rank="genus">new genus</taxonomicNameLabel>
and
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<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9F2F6406D18BFDFEB7F93E" box="[151,269,1690,1714]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">Epactoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are quite similar in appearance,
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<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9F2F6404C78BFDFC93F93E" box="[641,809,1690,1714]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">Grebennikovius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="DBB7D370FF9F2F6405728BFCFC13F93E" box="[820,937,1691,1714]" pageId="3" pageNumber="116" rank="genus">new genus</taxonomicNameLabel>
differs from
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<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9F2F6402058BFDFB03F93E" box="[1091,1209,1690,1714]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">Epactoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by having a clearly bidentate clypeus while the clypeus of
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<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9F2F64047C8BDAFD0AF959" box="[570,688,1725,1749]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">Epactoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is quadridentate (
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). Elytra of
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<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9F2F64023D8BDAFA99F959" box="[1147,1315,1725,1749]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">Grebennikovius</emphasis>
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are blunt and have a notch at the posterior end whereas that of
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<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9F2F6405178BB8FC7DF97B" box="[849,967,1759,1783]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">Epactoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are sharp.
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<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9F2F6402028BB8FB56F97B" box="[1092,1260,1759,1783]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">Grebennikovius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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also superficially resembles some species of the southern African genus
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<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9F2F6405C68A64FC61F896" box="[896,987,1795,1818]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">Epirinus</emphasis>
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. However,
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<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9F2F64021A8A65FABEF896" box="[1116,1284,1794,1818]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">Grebennikovius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="DBB7D370FF9F2F64034B8A64FA3BF896" box="[1293,1409,1795,1818]" pageId="3" pageNumber="116" rank="genus">new genus</taxonomicNameLabel>
is generally smaller and it is carinate at the stria VIII with the area below the carina slanted inwardly (
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). The aedeagus of
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<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9F2F6407648A2FFEC7F8D3" box="[290,381,1864,1887]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">Epirinus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is asymmetrical (see
<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9F2F6404368A2EFD2CF8EC" box="[624,662,1865,1888]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">e.g.</emphasis>
, aedeagus of
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<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9F2F6405748A2EFC08F8D3" box="[818,946,1863,1888]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">E. humberti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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) whereas the aedeagus of this new genus is symmetrical. Like several other deltochiline genera (
<bibRefCitation id="9661CFE8FF9F2F6405738A0CFBF3F80E" author="Scholtz, C. H. &amp; Howden, H. F." box="[821,1097,1899,1922]" pageId="3" pageNumber="116" pagination="75 - 119" refId="ref1989" refString="Scholtz, C. H. &amp; Howden, H. F. (1987) A revision of the African Cathonina [sic] (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 50, 75 - 119." type="journal article" year="1987">Scholtz &amp; Howden 1987</bibRefCitation>
),
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<emphasis id="C0846E0BFF9F2F6402188A0DFABCF80E" box="[1118,1286,1898,1922]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="116">Grebennikovius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="DBB7D370FF9F2F6403488A0CFA3BF80E" box="[1294,1409,1899,1922]" pageId="3" pageNumber="116" rank="genus">new genus</taxonomicNameLabel>
is monotypic and restricted to a specific forest. It has been collected in leaf litter.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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