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: &quot;
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, 7.VII.93,
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det. V.
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.
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<emphasis id="B90FEAB6FFB9FFD6FF30FC7CFF2BFC62" bold="true" box="[107,235,920,944]" pageId="35" pageNumber="124">Description:</emphasis>
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Body length
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. Habitus as in
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. External morphology as in
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..
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), except for the (on average) less distinct microsculpture of the head, reliably distinguished only by the male sexual characters:
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: posterior margin of sternite VII distinctly concave in the middle, near this concavity with cluster of numerous slender setae (
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); sternite VIII anteriorly with longitudinally bifid carina posteriorly extending into a bifid process with two long setae in the middle, posterior excision almost V-shaped, its depth barely 1/4 the length of sternite (
<figureCitation id="13402A21FFB9FFD6FD95FB9AFC9AFB45" box="[718,858,1150,1175]" captionStart="Figs 116-124" captionStartId="36.[194,231,1138,1160]" captionTargetBox="[195,1175,177,1125]" captionTargetId="figure-228@36.[193,1176,176,1137]" captionTargetPageId="36" captionText="Figs 116-124: Neosclerus bifidus sp. n.: habitus (116); forebody (117); male sternite VII (118); male sternite VIII in ventral view (119); male sternite VIII in lateral view (120); process of male sternite VIII (121); aedeagus in lateral view (122-123); apical portion of aedeagus in ventral view (124). Scale bars: 116: 1.0 mm; 117: 0.5 mm; 118-120, 122-124: 0.2 mm; 121: 0.1 mm." pageId="35" pageNumber="124">Figs 119-121</figureCitation>
); aedeagus with ventral process of characteristic shape (
<figureCitation id="13402A21FFB9FFD6FEF2FB79FDF6FB67" box="[425,566,1181,1205]" captionStart="Figs 116-124" captionStartId="36.[194,231,1138,1160]" captionTargetBox="[195,1175,177,1125]" captionTargetId="figure-228@36.[193,1176,176,1137]" captionTargetPageId="36" captionText="Figs 116-124: Neosclerus bifidus sp. n.: habitus (116); forebody (117); male sternite VII (118); male sternite VIII in ventral view (119); male sternite VIII in lateral view (120); process of male sternite VIII (121); aedeagus in lateral view (122-123); apical portion of aedeagus in ventral view (124). Scale bars: 116: 1.0 mm; 117: 0.5 mm; 118-120, 122-124: 0.2 mm; 121: 0.1 mm." pageId="35" pageNumber="124">Figs 122-124</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="13402A21FFB9FFD6FD1BFB79FDAAFB67" box="[576,618,1181,1205]" captionStart="Figs 125-134" captionStartId="37.[109,146,1095,1117]" captionTargetBox="[111,1078,180,1082]" captionTargetId="figure-339@37.[110,1093,176,1092]" captionTargetPageId="37" captionText="Figs 125-134: Neosclerus atsushii SHIBATA, paratype (125-133) and N.. bifidus sp. n. (134): habitus (125); forebody (126); male sternite VII (127); male sternite VIII in ventral view (128); male sternite VIII in lateral view (129); process of male sternite VIII (130); aedeagus in lateral view (131); apical portion of aedeagus in ventral view (132); apical portion of aedeagus in lateral view (133-134). Scale bars: 125: 1.0 mm; 126: 0.5 mm; 127-129, 131-132: 0.2 mm; 130, 133-134: 0.1 mm." pageId="35" pageNumber="124">134</figureCitation>
).
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<emphasis id="B90FEAB6FFB9FFD6FF31FB37FF22FB39" bold="true" box="[106,226,1235,1259]" pageId="35" pageNumber="124">Etymology:</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="8BC436A4FFB9FFD6FF31FB1DFF2FFAF8" blockId="35.[106,1096,1273,1322]" pageId="35" pageNumber="124">The specific epithet (Latin, adjective: bifid) alludes to the shape of the anterior carina on the male sternite VIII.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BC436A4FFB9FFD6FF30FAA8FEF6FAB7" blockId="35.[107,310,1356,1381]" box="[107,310,1356,1381]" pageId="35" pageNumber="124">
<emphasis id="B90FEAB6FFB9FFD6FF30FAA8FEF6FAB7" bold="true" box="[107,310,1356,1381]" pageId="35" pageNumber="124">Comparative notes:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B90FEAB6FFB9FFD6FF31FA97FED8FA59" box="[106,280,1395,1419]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="124">Neosclerus bifidus</emphasis>
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is closely related to
<emphasis id="B90FEAB6FFB9FFD6FEB3FA90FE3CFA54" box="[488,508,1396,1414]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="124">N</emphasis>
..
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<emphasis id="B90FEAB6FFB9FFD6FD52FA97FDA0FA59" box="[521,608,1395,1419]" italics="true" pageId="35" pageNumber="124">configensconfigens</emphasis>
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and allied species, from which it is reliably distinguished only by the male sexual characters.
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<paragraph id="8BC436A4FFB9FFD6FF30FA2CFE55FA08" blockId="35.[107,405,1480,1498]" box="[107,405,1480,1498]" pageId="35" pageNumber="124">
<emphasis id="B90FEAB6FFB9FFD6FF30FA2CFE55FA08" bold="true" box="[107,405,1480,1498]" pageId="35" pageNumber="124">Distribution and bionomics:</emphasis>
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species was collected in several localities in
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in April and July. The specimens were sifted from debris in a
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forest, from bark, humus, and other debris around bases of standing dead trees in a forest clearing, from moss and bark on a large fallen tree in a mature broadleaved evergreen forest, and from moist fallen leaves and various debris along edges of an abandoned forest road in an evergreen broadleaved forest (SMETANASMETANA pers. comm.). One of the males has a teratologically deformed aedeagus
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