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<paragraph id="7046B13EE5794278DFF4330740E969FD" pageId="8" pageNumber="107">Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Hydrophilidae</paragraph>
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Figs 8-12, 21-22
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reversus
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Sharp, 1884: 461.
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<paragraph id="FE849BE5E9FAD8B7567E7E050EB02C3F" pageId="9" pageNumber="108">Type material examined.</paragraph>
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Syntypes: 2 specimens on one card (BMNH): &quot;
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Type DS Nagasaki 14.4.81 // Japan G. Lewis Sharp coll. 1905 - 313&quot;; 1 upside down spec. (BMNH): &quot;
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Sharp // Japan G. Lewis // 30.3.81&quot;.
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Figures 7-13. Morphology of
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Orchymont, 1919 and
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Sharp, 1884 7 Dorsal habitus of
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Orchymont, 1919 8-11 Habitus of
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Sharp, 1884 (8 syntype from Japan, dorsal view 9 specimen from China, dorsal view 10 specimen from China, lateral view 11 syntype from Japan, ventral view) 12-13 Comparison of metaventral punctation of
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(12
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13
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Bameul, 1994).
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<paragraph id="CE51AA4D4B70A99BE4D1A8213FB6A2C9" pageId="9" pageNumber="108">Additional material examined.</paragraph>
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JAPAN: 1 male (BMNH): &quot;Japan, Kobe. Mayasan 14.vi.29 JEA Lewis. Nr 1530&quot;; 1 male (NMPC): Kanagawa Pref., Manazuru Peninsula, 4.xi.2006, P. Jaloszynski lgt.; 1 spec. (NMPC): Chiba Pref.,
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shrine,
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, 15.x.2001, P. Jaloszynski lgt. CHINA: Guangdong: 1 male (SYSU):
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, Liuxihe forest park, 16.v.2012, Tong Xiaoli leg. (in Chinese); 1 male (SYSU): Fengkai, Heishiding Natural Reserve,
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, 190-260 m, Fenglong Jia leg.; 1 male (NMPC): W of Qixing, Heishiding nature reserve, sifting of moist leaf litter in the dried-up streambeds and along the streams in the primary lowland forest, 190-260 m a.s.l.,
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,
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, 1.-3.v.2011,
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&amp;
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lgt. Jiangxi: 1 male (NMPC): Jinggangshan Mts., Xiangzhou (forested valley S of the village), cut and decaying tops of bamboo trunks at side of a trail in the secondary forest and among the fields,
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,
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, 374 m, 26.iv.2011,
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&amp;
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lgt. Taiwan: 1 male, 9 spec. (NMPC, SYSU): Maoli County, Nanjhuang Twnsh., S-Nanjhuang Rd. 124, km 3 + forest road, forest compost, 26.x.2010, S.
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lgt.
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<paragraph id="DB3E22700FA3F3289906A01C28C236A4" pageId="10" pageNumber="109">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="3B1F24FB03B44263265E4959C6EE22C7" pageId="10" pageNumber="109">Body length 2.1 mm, width 1.5 mm, strongly convex. Head and pronotum with fine microsculpture between punctures. Elytra with 10 striae, striae 1-5 reaching elytral base, striae 6-10 abbreviated anteriorly, not reaching base; elytral intervals with distinct fine punctures, without microsculpture between punctures. Prosternum steeply raised in middle to form a triangular medially carinate tablet. Mesoventrite flat medially, widely fused with metaventrite. Metaventrite laterally with much coarser and stronger punctures than on its median portion. Aedeagus (Figs 21-22) with phallobase ca. as long as paramere, tube-like; paramere broad basally, gradually narrowing towards apex; median lobe slender, parallel-sided, with very long basal struts, gonopore indistrinct, apex slightly emarginate.</paragraph>
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Figures 14-22. Ventral morphology (14) and morphology of aedeagus (15-22). 14 detail of meso- and metaventrite of
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Orchymont, 1937 15
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sp. n., holotype 16
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sp. n., holotype 17-18
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Balfour-Browne, 1939 (17 lectotype; 18 non-type specimen from China) 19
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Orchymont, 1919, specimen from Sarawak 20
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Orchymont, 1937, Chinese specimen 21-22
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Sharp, 1884 (21 syntype 22 specimen from China).
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<paragraph id="BE0E19C8192639158498CBDCB91B1E2C" pageId="10" pageNumber="109">Differential diagnosis.</paragraph>
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This species can be easily distinguished from
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Malcolm, 1981 occurring in India (Sikkim) by punctures on the lateral portion of the metaventrite much deeper and larger than medially. From
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Orchymont, 1926 occurring in Indonesia (Java), it may be distinguished by pronotum with distinct microsculpture between punctures, elytra with striae 6-10 not reaching elytral base (stria 8 almost reaching base, striae 9-10 reaching base in
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), elytral intervals with distinct punctures, flat mesoventral plate, and metaventrite with coaser and sparser punctures medially.
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<paragraph id="8DF1088632D2F87AAEB0E5243DADBB76" pageId="10" pageNumber="109">Remark.</paragraph>
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This species was firstly described from Nagasaki, Kyushu in southern Japan by
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. It was subsequently reported from Taiwan by
<bibRefCitation id="BFE864405A892153467510BC821BC392" author="Knisch, A" journalOrPublisher="Archiv fuer Naturgeschichte" pageId="11" pageNumber="110" pagination="55 - 88" title="Die exotischen Hydrophiliden des Deutschen Entomologischen Museums (Col.)." volume="85" year="1921">Knisch (1921)</bibRefCitation>
. The comparison of the specimens from Taiwan and southern continental China revealed that they are identical with those from Japan.
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When
<bibRefCitation id="E33AA62DC8AAA5381BB61246645792AC" author="Malcolm, SE" journalOrPublisher="Pan-Pacific Entomologist" pageId="11" pageNumber="110" pagination="260 - 268" title="Some Omicrini from the Oriental and Pacific regions (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae)." volume="57" year="1981">Malcolm (1981)</bibRefCitation>
described
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Malcolm, 1981, he diagnosed it from
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by the different body size (2.21
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1.64 mm in
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versus 1.72
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1.31 in
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) and by the shallower and smaller punctures on lateral portion of the metaventrite. The material examined by us revealed that the specimen of
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examined by
<bibRefCitation id="83CE30834375DE9EAD65222F747482B4" author="Malcolm, SE" journalOrPublisher="Pan-Pacific Entomologist" pageId="11" pageNumber="110" pagination="260 - 268" title="Some Omicrini from the Oriental and Pacific regions (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Sphaeridiinae)." volume="57" year="1981">Malcolm (1981)</bibRefCitation>
was smaller than its individuals usually are (i.e. body length 1.9-2.2 mm). Therefore, the body size can not be used as a reliable character to distinguish the two species, in contrast to the punctation of the metaventrite, which seems to be a reliable character to distinguish the two species.
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<paragraph id="A73E8BE3739EC7AAF9FCB477940C4C85" pageId="10" pageNumber="109">Biology.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="BA8FB83F76A9FD289A8AF0F02999350C" pageId="10" pageNumber="109">Most specimens examined here were found by sifting forest leaf litter.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="9FB65740EC2D823F9ED6888CD022EFE3" pageId="10" pageNumber="109" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="0662FE72C6FE79939872B1A72598DCA9" pageId="10" pageNumber="109">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="927C729F3AD3E1AD48913BF2520D854E" pageId="10" pageNumber="109">China (Guangdong, Jiangxi, Taiwan), Japan (Honshu, Kyushu). New genus and species for mailand China.</paragraph>
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Figures 23-24. Examples of habitats of Chinese
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Orchymont, 1919.
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