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species:
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Weise
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<emphasis id="B91A2C6614A246CDBDDF3166FF2DF8A9" box="[151,224,1818,1842]" italics="true" pageId="250" pageNumber="251">Nedina</emphasis>
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species:
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<emphasis id="B91A2C6614A246CDBF133166FCDBF8A9" box="[603,790,1818,1842]" italics="true" pageId="250" pageNumber="251">Nedina flavescens</emphasis>
Hoang
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, by original designation. Synonymized by
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<emphasis id="B91A2C6614A346CCBDDF31E4FEE1F82B" bold="true" box="[151,300,1944,1968]" pageId="251" pageNumber="252">FIGURE 180.</emphasis>
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: a. adult, dorsal view; b. variant, dorsal view (BMNH); c. abdomen, male; dg. male genitalia: d. tegmen, lateral view; e. tegmen, ventral view; f. penis; g. penis apex.
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Form short oval to almost circular, dorsum moderately convex and glabrous. Head without ventral antennal grooves. Antenna with terminal antennomere elongate oval. Prosternum with a large and prominent pyriform median process distinctly elevated from rest of prosternum and forming a chin piece, prosternal process with complete carinae, densely pubescent. Female genitalia with styli strongly reduced and barely visible.
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,
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,
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.
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<emphasis id="B91A2C6614A446CBBD8F3736FEF0FEFF" bold="true" box="[199,317,330,356]" pageId="252" pageNumber="253">Affinities.</emphasis>
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Tomaszewska
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(2021)
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included it in the
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group of genera and recovered it as a sister group to a group of genera comprising
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,
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<emphasis id="B91A2C6614A446CBBE563713FC43FE13" box="[798,910,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="252" pageNumber="253">Micraspis</emphasis>
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(Asian and Australian species),
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<emphasis id="B91A2C6614A446CBB8433713FA58FE12" box="[1291,1429,367,393]" italics="true" pageId="252" pageNumber="253">Xanthadalia</emphasis>
,
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and African and Malagasy species of
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<emphasis id="B91A2C6614A446CBBF9937EFFC8CFE37" box="[721,833,403,428]" italics="true" pageId="252" pageNumber="253">Micraspis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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<emphasis id="B91A2C6614A446CBBE1937EFFC0DFE36" box="[849,960,403,429]" italics="true" pageId="252" pageNumber="253">Protothea</emphasis>
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comprises some of the smallest members of
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Coccinellini (
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Tomaszewska
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2021
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and is readily separated from the other
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of the
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by the unusual, characteristic structure of the prosternum, and the elongate terminal antennomere, the former character being unique and diagnostic. The large and pyriform process, on a visibly higher plane than the rest of the prosternum, is somewhat similar to that in the species of
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<emphasis id="B91A2C6614A446CBBE69345FFC23FDA6" box="[801,1006,547,573]" italics="true" pageId="252" pageNumber="253">Pseudaspidimerus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFFF8D8514A446CBBEBF345FFB4EFDA6" author="Kapur, A. P." box="[1015,1155,547,573]" pageId="252" pageNumber="253" pagination="77 - 128" refId="ref115062" refString="Kapur, A. P. (1948) A revision of the tribe Aspidimerini Weise (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 99, 77 - 128. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1948. tb 01233. x" type="journal article" year="1948">Kapur, 1948</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
(tribe
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) and
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<emphasis id="B91A2C6614A446CBBDDF343BFEC9FDFB" box="[151,260,583,608]" italics="true" pageId="252" pageNumber="253">Propiptus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFFF8D8514A446CBBC42343BFE5EFDFA" author="Weise, J." box="[266,403,583,609]" pageId="252" pageNumber="253" pagination="91 - 96" refId="ref124361" refString="Weise, J. (1901) Contribution a l'etude de la faune entomologique de Sumatra (Chasses de M. J. - L. Weyers) xve article. Coccinellides. Annales de la Societe Entomologique du Belgique, 45, 91 - 96." type="journal article" year="1901">Weise, 1901</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
(tribe
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), but these genera have a densely pubescent dorsum and very short antennae.
<bibRefCitation id="EFFF8D8514A446CBBDDF3417FE07FD1E" author="Poorani, J. &amp; Slipinski, A." box="[151,458,618,647]" pageId="252" pageNumber="253" pagination="329 - 333" refId="ref119360" refString="Poorani, J. &amp; Slipinski, A. (2005) Notes on the genus Protothea Weise with redescription of P. quadripunctata (Mulsant) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Coccinellini). Annales Zoologici, 55 (3), 329 - 333." type="journal article" year="2005">Poorani &amp; Ślipiński (2005)</bibRefCitation>
synonymized
<taxonomicName id="4C6E8BF714A446CBBF273417FCDEFD1E" authority="Hoang" authorityName="Hoang" authorityYear="1983" box="[623,787,619,645]" class="Insecta" family="Coccinellidae" genus="Nedina" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="252" pageNumber="253" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614A446CBBF273417FD0DFD1E" box="[623,704,619,645]" italics="true" pageId="252" pageNumber="253">Nedina</emphasis>
Hoang
</taxonomicName>
with
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<emphasis id="B91A2C6614A446CBBE1C3417FC0EFD1E" box="[852,963,619,645]" italics="true" pageId="252" pageNumber="253">Protothea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and the same nomenclatural act was later repeated by
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.
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<paragraph id="8BD1F07414A446CBBD8F34CEFDF0FD6A" blockId="252.[151,1437,150,753]" pageId="252" pageNumber="253">
<emphasis id="B91A2C6614A446CBBD8F34CEFEB7FD57" bold="true" box="[199,378,690,716]" pageId="252" pageNumber="253">Indian species.</emphasis>
Two species,
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<emphasis id="B91A2C6614A446CBBF5734CFFCE2FD56" box="[543,815,691,717]" italics="true" pageId="252" pageNumber="253">Protothea decemguttata</emphasis>
(Hoang)
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B91A2C6614A446CBBE9934CFFB51FD56" box="[977,1180,691,717]" italics="true" pageId="252" pageNumber="253">P. quadripunctata</emphasis>
(Mulsant)
</taxonomicName>
, are known from the northeastern region of
<collectingCountry id="F379B0E414A446CBBCB434ABFDF4FD6A" box="[508,569,727,753]" name="India" pageId="252" pageNumber="253">India</collectingCountry>
.
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