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<taxonomicName id="4C564D7AFFDCB858FF7235E6E22AFC51" ID-CoL="48CVW" authority="Vinod & Sabu" authorityName="Vinod & Sabu" box="[151,577,933,958]" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Ochicanthon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="murthyi" status="sp. nov.">
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<emphasis id="B922EAEBFFDCB858FF7235E6E1FBFC51" bold="true" box="[151,400,933,958]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Ochicanthon murthyi</emphasis>
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Vinod & Sabu
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<paragraph id="8BE936F9FFDCB858FF72358AE14CFC0E" blockId="13.[151,674,933,993]" box="[151,295,969,993]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
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(
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<figureCitation id="136D2A7CFFDCB858FF7A358AE174FC0E" box="[159,287,969,993]" captionStart="FIGURES 36 – 40" captionStartId="16.[151,264,1979,2002]" captionTargetBox="[190,1409,203,1946]" captionTargetId="figure@16.[190,1411,193,1972]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="FIGURES 36 – 40. Ochicanthon murthyi (holotype). Dorsal habitus (36); base of pronotum and elytra (37); mesosternum and metasternum (38); aedeagus, ventral view (39); aedeagus, lateral left view (40). Scale bars = 1 mm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/276631/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Figs 36–40</figureCitation>
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)
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<paragraph id="8BE936F9FFDCB858FF723252E34DFA5A" blockId="13.[151,1437,1041,2001]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
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<emphasis id="B922EAEBFFDCB858FF723252E142FBC5" bold="true" box="[151,297,1041,1066]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Description.</emphasis>
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Body (
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<figureCitation id="136D2A7CFFDCB858FE9F3252E1A0FBC6" box="[378,459,1041,1065]" captionStart="FIGURES 36 – 40" captionStartId="16.[151,264,1979,2002]" captionTargetBox="[190,1409,203,1946]" captionTargetId="figure@16.[190,1411,193,1972]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="FIGURES 36 – 40. Ochicanthon murthyi (holotype). Dorsal habitus (36); base of pronotum and elytra (37); mesosternum and metasternum (38); aedeagus, ventral view (39); aedeagus, lateral left view (40). Scale bars = 1 mm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/276631/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Fig. 36</figureCitation>
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) predominantly black with a faint orange-yellow humeral spot on each elytron. Punctation on dorsal surface of head annular with intervals between punctures not exceeding their diameter. Pronotum in lateral view weakly convex, outline at base almost in line with that of elytral suture; laterobasal paramarginal ridge well marked, extended on slightly more than one third of pronotal length. Pronotal punctation (
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<figureCitation id="136D2A7CFFDCB858FB2D323EE570FB7A" box="[1224,1307,1149,1173]" captionStart="FIGURES 36 – 40" captionStartId="16.[151,264,1979,2002]" captionTargetBox="[190,1409,203,1946]" captionTargetId="figure@16.[190,1411,193,1972]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="FIGURES 36 – 40. Ochicanthon murthyi (holotype). Dorsal habitus (36); base of pronotum and elytra (37); mesosternum and metasternum (38); aedeagus, ventral view (39); aedeagus, lateral left view (40). Scale bars = 1 mm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/276631/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Fig. 37</figureCitation>
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) consisting of annular setiferous punctures separated by interval of less than their diameter, becoming somewhat sparser anteromedially; setae almost indistinct, straight and recumbent. Elytra in lateral view moderately convex; suture not raised; striae shallow, wide, consisting of chains of fairly confluent discoidal depressions (
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<figureCitation id="136D2A7CFFDCB858FB6732AAE4BEFAEE" box="[1154,1237,1257,1281]" captionStart="FIGURES 36 – 40" captionStartId="16.[151,264,1979,2002]" captionTargetBox="[190,1409,203,1946]" captionTargetId="figure@16.[190,1411,193,1972]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="FIGURES 36 – 40. Ochicanthon murthyi (holotype). Dorsal habitus (36); base of pronotum and elytra (37); mesosternum and metasternum (38); aedeagus, ventral view (39); aedeagus, lateral left view (40). Scale bars = 1 mm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/276631/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Fig. 37</figureCitation>
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); interstriae fairly flat, uneven, and irregularly punctate; background microsculpture smooth; setae fine, straight and recumbent; lateral ridge posteriorly extended to level of apex of third stria. Mesosternum without punctures; meso-metasternal line arcuate; metasternal shield with close annular punctures separated by intervals fairly equal to their diameter (
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<figureCitation id="136D2A7CFFDCB858FF7A333AE098FA7E" box="[159,243,1401,1425]" captionStart="FIGURES 36 – 40" captionStartId="16.[151,264,1979,2002]" captionTargetBox="[190,1409,203,1946]" captionTargetId="figure@16.[190,1411,193,1972]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="FIGURES 36 – 40. Ochicanthon murthyi (holotype). Dorsal habitus (36); base of pronotum and elytra (37); mesosternum and metasternum (38); aedeagus, ventral view (39); aedeagus, lateral left view (40). Scale bars = 1 mm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/276631/files/figure.png" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Fig. 38</figureCitation>
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). Pygidium densely covered with well-marked annular setiferous punctures becoming finer ventrally. Protrochanter with outer margin angulate
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wings present.
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<paragraph id="8BE936F9FFDCB858FF203382E451FA36" blockId="13.[151,1437,1041,2001]" box="[197,1082,1473,1497]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
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Male lacking obvious secondary sexual characters. Aedeagus as in
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.
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<emphasis id="B922EAEBFFDCB858FF2033A6E11FFA12" bold="true" box="[197,372,1509,1533]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Measurements</emphasis>
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(mm; n = 12): TL = 4.5–5.2; BW = 3.0–3.4; PL = 1.2–1.7; PW = 2.8–3.0; EL = 2.6–2.8.
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<typeStatus id="54ED885BFFDCB858FF203049E095F9CD" box="[197,254,1546,1570]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Type</typeStatus>
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material.
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</emphasis>
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<typeStatus id="54ED885BFFDCB858FE9E304AE188F9CE" box="[379,483,1545,1569]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
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(male, in
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): “
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, Kerala, Wayanad District, Thirunelly,
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, moist deciduous forest, dung baited pit fall trap,
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, leg. Vinod, K.V.”
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(11): Same data as
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,
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and
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in
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and
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; “
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<collectingCountry id="F3417669FFDCB858FBAC3012E4ECF986" box="[1097,1159,1617,1641]" name="India" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">India</collectingCountry>
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, Kerala,
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<collectingCountry id="F3417669FFDCB858FB0F3012E50EF986" box="[1258,1381,1617,1641]" name="India" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Kozhikode</collectingCountry>
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District, Devagiri,
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, shrub jungle, dung baited pit fall trap,
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<date id="FFE81039FFDCB858FCB33036E389F962" box="[854,994,1653,1677]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" value="2008-10-14">14. X. 2008</date>
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, leg. Jizla, V.P.”
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in ZSI-Ca; “
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<collectingCountry id="F3417669FFDCB858FF4430DAE0B4F95E" box="[161,223,1689,1713]" name="India" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">India</collectingCountry>
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, Kerala”
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<specimenCount id="9D50FD70FFDCB858FEAC30DAE1F4F95E" box="[329,415,1689,1713]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" type="male">2 males</specimenCount>
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in
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<collectionCode id="ED47AE3CFFDCB858FE2630DAE272F95E" box="[451,537,1689,1713]" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/2jyg-xmd2" name="Museum d'Histoire Naturelle" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">MHNG</collectionCode>
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.
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<paragraph id="8BE936F9FFDCB858FF2030FEE17DF8F2" blockId="13.[151,1437,1041,2001]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
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<emphasis id="B922EAEBFFDCB858FF2030FEE22DF939" bold="true" box="[197,582,1725,1750]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Distribution and natural history</emphasis>
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. South
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(upper montane cloud forests at Thirunelly in the South Western Ghats montane rain forest ecoregion; Calicut-Devagiri college campus in Malabar Coast moist deciduous forest ecoregion).
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<emphasis id="B922EAEBFFDCB858FF203169E12FF8AD" bold="true" box="[197,324,1834,1858]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Etymology</emphasis>
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. This species is named in honor of late Prof. V.A. Murthy, Loyola College, Chennai,
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.
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<paragraph id="8BE936F9FFDCB858FF20310EE16EF83E" blockId="13.[151,1437,1041,2001]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
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<emphasis id="B922EAEBFFDCB858FF20310EE154F889" bold="true" box="[197,319,1869,1894]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B922EAEBFFDCB858FEA3310EE25FF88A" box="[326,564,1869,1893]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Ochicanthon murthyi</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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shares unicolored elytra bearing striae consisting of chains of fairly confluent discoidal depressions only with
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<taxonomicName id="4C564D7AFFDCB858FDE13131E2FBF866" box="[516,656,1905,1929]" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Ochicanthon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tristoides">
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<emphasis id="B922EAEBFFDCB858FDE13131E2FBF866" box="[516,656,1905,1929]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">O. tristoides</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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, from northeast
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<collectingCountry id="F3417669FFDCB858FCAB3132E3E0F866" box="[846,907,1905,1929]" name="India" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">India</collectingCountry>
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. This species is easily distinguishable from
|
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<taxonomicName id="4C564D7AFFDCB858FA643131E094F842" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Ochicanthon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tristoides">
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<emphasis id="B922EAEBFFDCB858FA643131E094F842" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">O. tristoides</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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by the presence of angulate outer margin of the protrochanter and the variation in the morphology of aedeagus.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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</document> |