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Description of
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Length:
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. Body oval, body dark blackish, dorsal surface shiny, with some blue-iridescent shine, legs and antennal club black to dark brown, antennal funiculus yellow, dorsal surface nearly glabrous.
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Labroclypeus narrow and almost semicircular, as wide as long, widest at base, lateral margins moderately convex and convergent to strongly rounded anterior angles; anterior margin weakly concave medially, margins weakly reflexed; lateral margins and ocular canthus produce a blunt angle; surface medially weakly convexly elevated, finely densely punctate, with numerous long, erect setae; frontoclypeal suture finely incised and curved medially. Frons shiny, with dense, fine punctures, beside eyes and behind frontoclypeal suture with a few single short setae, otherwise with minute setae in punctures. Smooth area in front of eyes as wide as long. Ocular canthus sparsely finely punctate, narrow and moderately long (1/3 of ocular width), with a terminal seta. Eyes moderately large, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.57. Antenna with ten antennomeres; club composed of four antennomeres, weakly reflexed, twice as long as remaining antennomeres combined.
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elevated and slightly flattened anteriorly.
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Aedeagus:
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. Habitus:
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. Female unknown.
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<emphasis id="3B82474DFFBEB44FFF0CFD29C114FCF0" bold="true" box="[199,322,762,788]" pageId="2" pageNumber="553">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="CEF6E0DCFFBEB44FFE8DFD28C20FFCF1" authority="Ahrens &amp; Pham, 2023" authorityName="Ahrens &amp; Pham" authorityYear="2023" box="[326,601,763,789]" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Gastroserica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="553" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kachin" status="new species" subGenus="Helioserica">
<emphasis id="3B82474DFFBEB44FFE8DFD28C181FCF1" box="[326,471,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="553">Gastroserica</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="3B82474DFFBEB44FFE2EFD28C257FCF0" box="[485,513,763,788]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="553">H.</emphasis>
)
<emphasis id="3B82474DFFBEB44FFDC5FD28C20FFCF1" box="[526,601,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="553">kachin</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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, is in external appearance very similar to
<taxonomicName id="CEF6E0DCFFBEB44FFB60FD28C19DFCDD" authority="Ahrens, Lukic &amp; Liu, 2023" authorityName="Ahrens, Lukic &amp; Liu" authorityYear="2023" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Gastroserica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="553" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="piceocoerulea" subGenus="Helioserica">
<emphasis id="3B82474DFFBEB44FFB60FD28C491FCF1" box="[1195,1223,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="553">G.</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="3B82474DFFBEB44FFB1FFD28C4A6FCF0" box="[1236,1264,763,788]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="553">H.</emphasis>
)
<emphasis id="3B82474DFFBEB44FFB35FD28C5CBFCF1" box="[1278,1437,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="553">piceocoerulea</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="6D67E6AEFFBEB44FFF5CFCCCC19DFCDD" author="Ahrens, D. &amp; Liu, W. G. &amp; Lukic, D. &amp; Bai, M." box="[151,459,799,825]" pageId="2" pageNumber="553" pagination="1 - 115" refId="ref18504" refString="Ahrens, D., Liu, W. G., Lukic, D. &amp; Bai, M. (2023) A taxonomic review of Microserica Brenske, 1894 from continental Asia (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae, Sericini). Zootaxa, 5241 (1), 1 - 115. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5241.1.1" type="journal article" year="2023">Ahrens, Lukic &amp; Liu, 2023</bibRefCitation>
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, but in shape of aedeagus it differs from the latter by the shorter, more mesally directed basal lobe of left paramere; the right paramere is in contrast to most species of this group not widened at apex (lateral view).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="41ECC8D4FFBEB44FFF0CFC58C507FC41" box="[199,1361,907,933]" pageId="2" pageNumber="553" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="09499B5FFFBEB44FFF0CFC58C507FC41" blockId="2.[151,1437,150,969]" box="[199,1361,907,933]" pageId="2" pageNumber="553">
<emphasis id="3B82474DFFBEB44FFF0CFC58C118FC41" bold="true" box="[199,334,907,933]" pageId="2" pageNumber="553">Etymology.</emphasis>
The new species is named after its occurrence in the
<collectingRegion id="CB3255BDFFBEB44FFC6FFC58C436FC41" box="[932,1120,907,933]" country="Myanmar" name="Kachin" pageId="2" pageNumber="553">Kachin Province</collectingRegion>
(noun in apposition).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="41ECC8D4FFBEB44FFF0CFC7DC573FC2D" box="[199,1317,942,969]" pageId="2" pageNumber="553" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="09499B5FFFBEB44FFF0CFC7DC573FC2D" blockId="2.[151,1437,150,969]" box="[199,1317,942,969]" pageId="2" pageNumber="553">
<emphasis id="3B82474DFFBEB44FFF0CFC7DC137FC2C" bold="true" box="[199,353,942,968]" pageId="2" pageNumber="553">Distribution.</emphasis>
So far known only from the
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locality (Mt. Emaw Bum to Kanphant) in
<collectingCountry id="71E1DBCFFFBEB44FFB79FC7CC577FC2D" box="[1202,1313,943,969]" name="Myanmar" pageId="2" pageNumber="553">Myanmar</collectingCountry>
.
</paragraph>
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