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Akhmetova &amp; Frolov
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,
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material.
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, male with the label “
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1984 Hissar mts., ca
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). Eleven
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(
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,
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, “Asia c.
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Alaj Romit
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T. Růžička lgt.” (
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,
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);
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, “
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, yugo-zap. sklon khr. Aktau [south-western slope of Aktau Ridge],
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.
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T. N. Vereschagina” [in Cyrillic letters] (
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).
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<emphasis id="B91B30438D17FFF2FF04FA11946DF883" bold="true" box="[151,322,1879,1903]" pageId="1" pageNumber="66">FIGURES 18.</emphasis>
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.
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, holotype, male (1, 7); paratype, male (2, 3, 5);
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male (4, 6, 8). Figs. 1, 3, 4 — body in dorsal view; 2 — body in ventral view; 5, 6, — aedeagus in dorsal and lateral view; 7, 8 — apices of metatibiae.
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<emphasis id="B91B30438D14FFF1FF54FDD1947DFF43" bold="true" box="[199,338,151,175]" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Description.</emphasis>
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, male (
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). Body length 5.0 mm. Head shiny, with dark brown disc and pale brown anterior margin and sides of clypeus, densely punctate (punctures separated by approximately their diameter). Clypeus with feeble sinuation anteriorly, rounded laterally. Genae rounded, weakly separated from lateral margin of clypeus, distinctly protruding past eyes, with a few long setae. Frontoclypeal suture visible as fine line, interrupted medially. Head disc without tubercles. Eye approximately as wide as distance between eye and gula in ventral view.
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<paragraph id="8BD0EC518D14FFF1FF54FCE396E1FE50" blockId="2.[151,1437,151,1284]" box="[199,974,421,444]" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Scutellum narrow, triangular, shiny, pale brown with brown lateral sides.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BD0EC518D14FFF1FF54FC809030FE13" blockId="2.[151,1437,151,1284]" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Elytra pale yellow with brown suture. Humeral teeth absent. Elytral intervals feebly convex, finely and sparsely punctate. Sides and apices of elytra without setae. Striae deep, punctures on striae larger than width of striae.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BD0EC518D14FFF1FF54FF4F946CFDAE" blockId="2.[151,1437,151,1284]" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Ventral side of body pale yellow except abdomen brown. Legs pale yellow. Perimeter of metasternal disc with dense, long, pale setae.</paragraph>
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Outer teeth of protibia long and slender. Spur of protibia slightly curved downward and rounded apically. Lower spur of mesotibia acute apically, more than half as long as upper spur. Metatarsomere 1 as long as upper spur of metatibia and metatarsomeres 23 combined. Adjacent apical setae of mesotibiae and metatibiae distinctly unequal in length (
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).
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<emphasis id="B91B30438D14FFF1FF54FFB2940EFCE0" bold="true" box="[199,289,756,780]" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Female.</emphasis>
Unknown.
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<emphasis id="B91B30438D14FFF1FF54FE509469FCC2" bold="true" box="[199,326,790,814]" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Variability.</emphasis>
Body length of the
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varies from 3.55.0 mm. Specimens from Romit are darker than those from Anzob Pass and Aktau Mountains. The coloration of elytra varies: one
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has a dark, obscure elytral pattern (
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), while the
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has almost uniformly pale yellow elytra (
<figureCitation id="1354F0D48D14FFF1FC10FE1F96ECFC9C" box="[899,963,857,880]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 8" captionStartId="1.[151,269,1879,1903]" captionTargetBox="[151,1427,272,1849]" captionTargetId="figure@1.[151,1436,263,1855]" captionTargetPageId="1" captionText="FIGURES 1 8. Aphodius. A. gissaricus, holotype, male (1, 7); paratype, male (2, 3, 5); A. scuticollis male (4, 6, 8). Figs. 1, 3, 4 — body in dorsal view; 2 — body in ventral view; 5, 6, — aedeagus in dorsal and lateral view; 7, 8 — apices of metatibiae." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/279713/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
). An elytral pattern with a few longitudinal maculae (similar to that in
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<emphasis id="B91B30438D14FFF1FE2DFE3D9766FC7E" box="[446,585,891,914]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">A. scuticollis</emphasis>
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,
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) is found in most of other
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, but the maculae are only slightly darker than the background and the pattern is feebly distinct. The sides and apices of the elytra of a few
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bear short, sparse, pale setae.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C375BFDA8D14FFF1FF54FE99960FFB73" pageId="2" pageNumber="67" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph id="8BD0EC518D14FFF1FF54FE9997E2FBD6" blockId="2.[151,1437,151,1284]" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">
<emphasis id="B91B30438D14FFF1FF54FE999413FC1B" bold="true" box="[199,316,991,1015]" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
The species is similar to
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<emphasis id="B91B30438D14FFF1FDDDFEA697F7FC1B" box="[590,728,992,1015]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">A. scuticollis</emphasis>
Semenov, 1898
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(
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), but differs from it in lacking acute process on the apex of metatibia in males (
<figureCitation id="1354F0D48D14FFF1FDCCF9479795FBF4" box="[607,698,1025,1048]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 8" captionStartId="1.[151,269,1879,1903]" captionTargetBox="[151,1427,272,1849]" captionTargetId="figure@1.[151,1436,263,1855]" captionTargetPageId="1" captionText="FIGURES 1 8. Aphodius. A. gissaricus, holotype, male (1, 7); paratype, male (2, 3, 5); A. scuticollis male (4, 6, 8). Figs. 1, 3, 4 — body in dorsal view; 2 — body in ventral view; 5, 6, — aedeagus in dorsal and lateral view; 7, 8 — apices of metatibiae." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/279713/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Fig. 7, 8</figureCitation>
), in having less convex body, and in having slightly longer and more slender parameres with less curved apices (
<figureCitation id="1354F0D48D14FFF1FDF7F96597EFFBD6" box="[612,704,1059,1082]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 8" captionStartId="1.[151,269,1879,1903]" captionTargetBox="[151,1427,272,1849]" captionTargetId="figure@1.[151,1436,263,1855]" captionTargetPageId="1" captionText="FIGURES 1 8. Aphodius. A. gissaricus, holotype, male (1, 7); paratype, male (2, 3, 5); A. scuticollis male (4, 6, 8). Figs. 1, 3, 4 — body in dorsal view; 2 — body in ventral view; 5, 6, — aedeagus in dorsal and lateral view; 7, 8 — apices of metatibiae." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/279713/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Fig. 5, 6</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BD0EC518D14FFF1FF54F903960FFB73" blockId="2.[151,1437,151,1284]" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">
In the key to Palaearctic
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<emphasis id="B91B30438D14FFF1FE48F903976FFBB0" box="[475,576,1093,1116]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Aphodius</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B91B30438D14FFF1FC9EF90396B6FBB0" box="[781,921,1093,1116]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">A. gissaricus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
will key to the couplet with
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<emphasis id="B91B30438D14FFF1FB4FF90391C3FBB0" box="[1244,1260,1093,1116]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">A</emphasis>
. (
<emphasis id="B91B30438D14FFF1FA96F90390BCFBB0" box="[1285,1427,1093,1116]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Melinopterus</emphasis>
)
<emphasis id="B91B30438D14FFF1FF04F92095FFFB91" box="[151,208,1126,1149]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">stolzi</emphasis>
Reitter
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but can be easily separated from it by slender and acute apices of parameres. These two species also have widely separated ranges:
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<emphasis id="B91B30438D14FFF1FE36F9CE94D4FB73" box="[421,507,1160,1183]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">A. stolzi</emphasis>
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occurs in southern Europe.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C375BFDA8D14FFF1FF54F9EF9119FAE8" pageId="2" pageNumber="67" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="8BD0EC518D14FFF1FF54F9EF9119FAE8" blockId="2.[151,1437,151,1284]" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">
<emphasis id="B91B30438D14FFF1FF54F9EF9476FB2D" bold="true" box="[199,345,1193,1217]" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Distribution.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B91B30438D14FFF1FEF3F9EC971EFB2D" box="[352,561,1194,1217]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Aphodus gissaricus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is currently known from three localities in the Pamir-Alay mountain system: two in Gissar Range (Anzob Pass and Romit) and one in Aktau Mountains.
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<emphasis id="B91B30438D14FFF1FC18F98D914DFB0E" box="[907,1122,1227,1250]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Aphodius scuticollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has a wider distribution from the Kopet-Dag Range on the southern border of
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to South Siberia (
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).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph id="8BD0EC518D14FFF1FF04FA8296DFF830" blockId="2.[151,1008,1988,2012]" box="[151,1008,1988,2012]" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">
<emphasis id="B91B30438D14FFF1FF04FA829436F830" bold="true" box="[151,281,1988,2012]" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">FIGURE 9.</emphasis>
Distribution map of
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<emphasis id="B91B30438D14FFF1FE6AFA8397FFF830" box="[505,720,1989,2012]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Aphodius gissaricus</emphasis>
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(▲) and
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<emphasis id="B91B30438D14FFF1FCA4FA8396EFF830" box="[823,960,1989,2012]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">A. scuticollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(■).
</paragraph>
</caption>
<subSubSection id="C375BFDA8D15FFF0FF54FDD195D0FF3D" pageId="3" pageNumber="68" type="etymology">
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<emphasis id="B91B30438D15FFF0FF54FDD19468FF43" bold="true" box="[199,327,151,175]" pageId="3" pageNumber="68">Etymology.</emphasis>
The name of the new species is derived from Gissar Mountains where the larger part of
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series was collected.
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