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leg.” (
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,
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Length 4.0 mm, length of elytra
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. Body oblong oval, surface dark reddish brown, elytra partly yellowish, dorsal surface except head dull and erectly setose.
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Labroclypeus only slightly wider than long, widest at base, lateral margins basally weakly curved, anteriorly very strongly curved and strongly convergent to strongly rounded anterior angles, lateral border and ocular canthus producing a distinct blunt angle, margins weakly reflexed, anterior margin straight; surface medially convex, finely and densely punctate, distance between punctures a little wider than their diameter, with a few coarse punctures behind anterior margin each bearing an erect seta; frontoclypeal suture feebly incised and medially weakly curved; smooth area in front of eye approximately 1.5 times as wide as long; ocular canthus short and slender, smooth, with a fine terminal seta. Frons shiny, only posteriorly dull, with fine, moderately dense punctures, sparsely erectly setose. Eyes small, ratio of diameter: interocular width 0.52. Antenna yellow, with 10 antennomeres; club with four antennomeres, club as long as the remaining antennomeres combined, sixth antennomere weakly transversely produced.
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Aedeagus shown in
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(DF).
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Length 4.0
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, length of elytra
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, width
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. Coloration of elytra variable, also uniformly brown. Density of pilosity of pronotum and elytra may vary considerably, in
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it is much denser (similar to
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<emphasis id="B944A95DDB6D6F1EFCDFFAF258CD0B81" box="[887,997,1400,1424]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1574">G. hirsuta</emphasis>
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), pilosity may be erased (as in the
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). Female unknown.
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<emphasis id="B944A95DDB6D6F1EFF38FA6A5BD50BE9" box="[144,253,1504,1528]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1574">Diagnosis</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="4C300ECCDB6D6F1EFF38F9825AB30831" authority="Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi, 2009" authorityName="Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi" authorityYear="2009" box="[144,411,1544,1568]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Gynaecoserica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="1574" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rostrata" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B944A95DDB6D6F1EFF38F9825AB30831" box="[144,411,1544,1568]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1574">Gynaecoserica rostrata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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is externally similar to
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<emphasis id="B944A95DDB6D6F1EFC90F98258800831" box="[824,936,1544,1568]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1574">G. hirsuta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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and
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<emphasis id="B944A95DDB6D6F1EFF38F9A25A110851" box="[144,313,1576,1600]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1574">G. nahangensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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It may be differentiated from
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<emphasis id="B944A95DDB6D6F1EFCABF9A258840851" box="[771,940,1576,1600]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1574">G. nahangensis</emphasis>
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by the antennal club of the male, which has four antennomeres only, and by the apically hooked right apophysis of the phallobase. The latter feature also distinguishes it from
<emphasis id="B944A95DDB6D6F1EFF38F9025A2008B1" box="[144,264,1672,1696]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1574">
<taxonomicName id="4C300ECCDB6D6F1EFF38F9025A2B08B1" authorityName="Ahrens &amp; Fabrizi" authorityYear="2009" box="[144,259,1672,1696]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Gynaecoserica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="70" pageNumber="1574" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hirsuta">G. hirsuta</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B944A95DDB6C6F1FFF7CFF2D5A650EAE" box="[212,333,167,191]" italics="true" pageId="71" pageNumber="1575">Etymology</emphasis>
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From Latin
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<emphasis id="B944A95DDB6C6F1FFEF3FF455A870EF6" box="[347,431,207,231]" italics="true" pageId="71" pageNumber="1575">rostrata</emphasis>
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, provided with a hook, with reference to the shape of the apophysis of the phallobase.
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