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Length
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; ovate, robust, truncate and narrowly impressed in front (
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), nearly flat above and shallowly convex below when viewed from side; above black with reddish-coppery reflections, elytra strongly shining in broad, nearly glabrous oval along suture behind and including scutellum; pronotum and elytra otherwise densely and nearly uniformly covered with silvery setae, dark glabrous spot ringed by band of denser setae, small oval patches of orange setae on either side of suture in middle of glabrous spot; beneath black, uniformly, inconspicuously setose, more densely so on abdominal ventrites.
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densely inconspicuously ocellatepunctate, prosternal process deeply, narrowly grooved between coxal cavities; profemora minutely denticulate on interior margins; abdominal ventrite 5 narrowly emarginate at apex.
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99°02.475
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N,
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99°02.475
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,
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, F. A. Noguera, E. Ramírez, B. Rodríguez, M. A. Morales, S. Zaragoza, M. E. Guardado, A. Peréz, C.A. Uribe, E. González, Trampa Malaise 1 (1,
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Ajuchitlán, Alt.
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98°59.546
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,
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, B. Rodríguez (1,
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). Ver[acruz], Est. Biol. de Los Tuxtlas, alt.
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S.N.M.,
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, P. Sinaca, T. M. (1,
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).
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<emphasis id="DAE5085BFFB8764ED58ACA9AFEB7A1B9" bold="true" box="[197,339,431,457]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Discussion:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="DAE5085BFFB8764ED412CA85FDDFA1B9" box="[349,571,432,457]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Brachys exquisitus</emphasis>
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is very unusual among North and Central American
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<emphasis id="DAE5085BFFB8764ED1F3CA85FAF8A1B9" box="[1212,1308,432,457]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Brachys</emphasis>
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in lacking posthumeral carinae on the elytra and in the pattern of setae. Only
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<emphasis id="DAE5085BFFB8764ED6F3CAEDFBDCA181" box="[956,1080,472,497]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">B. elegans</emphasis>
Fisher
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and
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<emphasis id="DAE5085BFFB8764ED188CAEDFAA0A181" box="[1223,1348,472,497]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">B. simplex</emphasis>
Waterhouse
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lack the carinae, and two related but undescribed species from Hidalgo in
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and from
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lack carinae and also share similar patterns of setae.
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<emphasis id="DAE5085BFFB8764ED7B1C91DFC3FA231" box="[766,987,552,577]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Brachys exquisitus</emphasis>
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differs from the species from Hidalgo and
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in being more robust, having the dark glabrous spot ringed by a band of denser setae, and possessing patches of orange setae in the dark spot. Superficially the species somewhat resembles
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<emphasis id="DAE5085BFFB8764ED041C94DFF3BA2C9" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Hylaeogena cincta</emphasis>
(Waterhouse)
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and other species of
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<emphasis id="DAE5085BFFB8764ED737C995FCE1A2C9" box="[632,773,672,697]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Hylaeogena</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="DAE5085BFFB8764ED672C995FC38A2C9" box="[829,988,672,697]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Pachyschelus</emphasis>
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that may, in turn, be mimicking members of the
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(Hespenheide, in preparation), although there is no obvious model in the case of
<taxonomicName id="2F91AFCAFFB8764ED0CCC9FDFEE8A379" class="Insecta" family="Buprestidae" genus="Brachys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="exquisitus">
<emphasis id="DAE5085BFFB8764ED0CCC9FDFEE8A379" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">B. exquisitus</emphasis>
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. The three
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, also females, measure
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in length. The specimen from Ajuchitlán is proportionately slightly narrower than the other three specimens.
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<paragraph id="E82ED449FFB8764ED58AC80AFBF0A32A" blockId="7.[151,1437,151,858]" box="[197,1044,831,858]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">
<emphasis id="DAE5085BFFB8764ED58AC80AFEB2A329" bold="true" box="[197,342,831,857]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Etymology:</emphasis>
The name refers to the unusual and charming color pattern.
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