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Pterostichus (Nialoe) shinbodakensis Sasakawa &amp;
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Figs 8, 12-18
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<paragraph id="3A37E0B115BE59CEFB9BD68147AD8D62" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Type material.</paragraph>
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Holotype, ♂, Mt. Shinbodake, alt. 540 m, Murakami-shi, Niigata Prefecture, Japan (
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,
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), 6-27.ix.2015,
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leg.
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<paragraph id="65E1A93BB1772E2248758A30E8C73150" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C374F81C4C2E2EDFEED9D116C4313F1B" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Derived from the name of the type locality.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="F9F132C40507A369E21BB7E884AF3800" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Similar to
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and
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but distinguished by the shape of right paramere (Figs 16-20;
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, Fig. 20) and distinctly sclerotized left pigmented band (in
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and
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, only slightly sclerotized). Readily distinguished from sympatrically occurring unidentified species (Fig. 9) by a larger body size and smaller eyes (see Remarks).
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Figures 8-11. Dorsal view of species of the
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species group. 8
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sp. n., holotype male 9 A female of the unidentified species sympatric with
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10
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sp. n., holotype male 11
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sp. n., paratype female. All figures are of the same magnification. Scale bar = 5.0 mm.
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Figures 12-22. Male genitalia of species of the
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species group. Left lateral view (12), right lateral view (13), left dorsolateral view (14), and right dorsolateral view (15) of endophallus of
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sp. n., holotype. Dorsal view of apical part (16), left lateral view (17), and ventral view of apical part (18) of right paramete of
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sp. n., holotype. Dorsal view of apical part (19) and left lateral view (20) of right paramete of
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from the type locality. Left lateral view (21) and right lateral view (22) of endophallus of
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sp. n., holotype. go: gonopore; lal: left apical lobe; lpb: left pigmented band; lpl: left preapical lobe; rpl: right preapical lobe. Scale bar = 0.5 mm.
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<paragraph id="49AAF1D583E5F206ABD1BBF7A4B7CA60" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Measurements.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="DD73A314B4C8316128BA288F47EC1AB8" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">BLm: 16.7 mm; BLl: 14.9 mm; BLc: 14.3 mm; HL/HW: 0.89; PL/PW: 0.64; PAW/PW: 0.89; PPW/PW: 0.77; EL/EW: 1.55.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="08431C7E64EFA49A8D322E5A0DA8F249" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="F818448E57E1FA815744757002D14E14" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Head and pronotum dark brown to blackish; elytra reddish-brown; appendages reddish to dark brown. Dorsal surface almost smooth except for laterobasal impressions of the pronotum, which are slightly punctate.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="1F297043A9EC673243B45D18BE48AE8D" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Head large, widest at tempora, which are markedly swollen; width at the widest point larger than pronotal posterior margin width; length from clypeal apex to neck base longer than pronotum length along the median line. Left mandible large and strongly hooked at the apical 1/3; length between mandible apex and posterolateral end on dorsal side over 2.5-fold longer than the anterior width of the clypeus. Eyes small and barely convex, with anterior-posterior length shorter than 1/2 length of the antennal segment 1. Antennal segment 2 with two setae.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="6A7A080B03F8835771DBA910283530E5" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Pronotum cordate, notably flat, widest at apical 1/5. Lateral margins arcuate on apical 2/3, slightly sinuate on basal 1/3; two marginal setae on each lateral side, anterior setae near widest pronotal point, and posterior setae near hind angles. Anterior margin emarginated, with contour arched more strongly than the curvature of apical 2/3 of lateral margins; anterior angles notably produced. Posterior margin emarginated at median area, almost straight at lateral areas; hind angles right-angled. Median line impressed in the middle, not reaching both the anterior and posterior margins; laterobasal impressions single, shallow.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="248BC6D9144D7E22B423488358BA2C13" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Elytra almost parallel-sided, less convex; shoulder distinct, but not denticulate; apices rounded; scutellar stria present, not connected to stria 1; 1 setigerous puncture on stria 1 at the level of the posterior end of scutellum; two setigerous punctures on interval 3, anterior one slightly behind the middle and posterior one on apical 1/6, both adjoining stria 2. Hind wings completely atrophied. Male sternum 7 fairly concave.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="80B6C7036AD54A1EC67C949776F9BFE5" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Aedeagus stout, without tubercle. Endophallus short, stout, strongly bent ventrally, with gonopore directed backward; left pigmented band distinctly sclerotized; right preapical lobe stout, as long as left preapical lobe, with apical part bent toward gonopore; left preapical lobe short, stout, directed toward leftward, with apex narrowly rounded; left apical lobe small but stout, strongly bent backward, with surface distinctly sclerotized. Left paramere square. Right paramere bent at approximately 120° at apical 2/5; apical part from dorsal view almost flat, with large, widely rounded right corner; ventral side strongly concave.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="9EA131D40410B4F87C7D08AF7795DCB1" pageId="2" pageNumber="49">Remarks.</paragraph>
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This species is considered most closely related to
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, because the angle bending (Fig. 17) and the wide apical part (Fig. 16) of the right paramere and the strongly-bent, distinctly sclerotized left preapical lobe (Figs 12-14) are found in only these species among the known
<taxonomicName id="EC7B1A724E52ABE082B6384F63D22201" lsidName="(Nialoe)" pageId="2" pageNumber="49" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Nialoe">Nialoe</taxonomicName>
species (i.e., putative synapomorphies). In other consubgeneric species, the right paramere is short, straight with a rounded apical
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or slender, arcuate with a narrow apical part (i.e., not bent at an angle and not with a flat apical part), and the left preapical lobe is not distinctly sclerotized.
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Although a female of the
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species was also obtained at the type locality (8-30.viii.2015,
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leg.; Fig. 9), it differs from
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in several ways: a smaller body size (BLm: 14.0 mm; BLl: 12.7 mm; BLc: 12.2 mm), a left mandible that is not elongated (length between mandible apex and posterolateral end on dorsal side is ~2.2-fold as long as the anterior width of the clypeus), smaller eyes (anterior-posterior length is longer than one-half the length of the antennal segment 1), and blackish elytra. Considering the characters of the other species in the group (Figs 10, 11; Sasakawa 2005,
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) and direct (
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) and indirect (
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) evidence for sympatric occurrence of large and small species in some localities, the focal morphological differences would be between large (
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) and small species (the focal female), rather than between sexes within the same species. To determine its taxonomic status, male specimens need to be investigated.
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