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<taxonomicName LSID="42ED2DD7-CD06-5867-8BDD-648A7AF45570" authority="Mulsant, 1850" authorityName="Mulsant" authorityYear="1850" class="Insecta" family="Coccinellidae" genus="Nephus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nephus (Nephus) oblongosignatus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="oblongosignatus" subGenus="Nephus">Nephus (Nephus) oblongosignatus Mulsant, 1850</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Nephus (Nephus) oblongosignatus Mulsant, 1850 A dorsal view B ventral view C lateral view D frontal view E, F abdomen G-K male genitalia: G spicula H, I tegmen (dorsal and lateral view) J, K penis L, M female genitalia: L spermatheca M coxites." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.962.51520.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/443468" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">, 2</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Mulsant" authorityYear="1850" class="Insecta" family="Coccinellidae" genus="Scymnus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Scymnus oblongosignatus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="oblongosignatus">Scymnus oblongosignatus</taxonomicName>
Mulsant, 1850: 960 (original description).
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Mulsant" authorityYear="1850" class="Insecta" family="Coccinellidae" genus="Nephus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nephus oblongosignatus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="oblongosignatus">Nephus oblongosignatus</taxonomicName>
:
<bibRefCitation author="Sicard, A" journalOrPublisher="Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" pagination="63 - 165" refId="B26" refString="Sicard, A, 1909. Revision des Coccinellides de la Faune Malgache. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 78: 63 - 165" title="Revision des Coccinellides de la Faune Malgache." volume="78" year="1909">Sicard 1909</bibRefCitation>
: 145-146;
<bibRefCitation author="Weise, J" journalOrPublisher="ABRS, Canberra" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" refId="B30" refString="Weise, J, 1910. Coccinellidae von Madagaskar, den Comoren und den Inseln Ostafrikas. Voeltzkow, Reise in Ostafrika in den Jahren 1903-1905 2: 507-520." title="Coccinellidae von Madagaskar, den Comoren und den Inseln Ostafrikas. Voeltzkow, Reise in Ostafrika in den Jahren 1903 - 1905 2: 507 - 520." year="1910">Weise 1910</bibRefCitation>
: 513.
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Sicard, 1909: 145 (original description);
<bibRefCitation author="Korschefsky, R" journalOrPublisher="Junk, Berlin" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" refId="B14" refString="Korschefsky, R, 1931. Coccinellidae I. In: Junk W, Schenkling S (Eds) Coleopterorum Catalogus, Pars 118. W. Junk, Berlin" title="Coccinellidae I. In: Junk W, Schenkling S (Eds) Coleopterorum Catalogus, Pars 118. W." year="1931">Korschefsky 1931</bibRefCitation>
: 152 (synonymy).
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:
<bibRefCitation author="Korschefsky, R" journalOrPublisher="Junk, Berlin" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" refId="B14" refString="Korschefsky, R, 1931. Coccinellidae I. In: Junk W, Schenkling S (Eds) Coleopterorum Catalogus, Pars 118. W. Junk, Berlin" title="Coccinellidae I. In: Junk W, Schenkling S (Eds) Coleopterorum Catalogus, Pars 118. W." year="1931">Korschefsky 1931</bibRefCitation>
: 152;
<bibRefCitation author="Chazeau, J" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" refId="B1" refString="Chazeau, J, Etienne, J, Fuersch, H, 1974. Les Coccinellidae de l'ile de la Reunion. Bulletin du Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle 3e serie (210) Zoologie 140: 265-297." title="Les Coccinellidae de l'ile de la Reunion. Bulletin du Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle 3 e serie (210) Zoologie 140: 265 - 297." year="1974">Chazeau et al. 1974</bibRefCitation>
: 273 (systematics).
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Mulsant" authorityYear="1850" class="Insecta" family="Coccinellidae" genus="Nephus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nephus (Nephus) oblongosignatus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="oblongosignatus" subGenus="Nephus">Nephus (Nephus) oblongosignatus</taxonomicName>
:
<bibRefCitation author="Poussereau, J" journalOrPublisher="Uppsala" pageId="0" pageNumber="123" refId="B22" refString="Poussereau, J, Coutanceau, JP, Nicolas, V, Gomy, Y, 2018. Les coccinelles de l'ile de la Reunion. Orphie, 222 pp." title="Les coccinelles de l'ile de la Reunion. Orphie, 222 pp." year="2018">Poussereau et al. 2018</bibRefCitation>
: 130 (systematics).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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is similar to
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and
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sp. nov. but differs in the body shape, size and shape of the spots and the pattern of genitalia.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Description.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Male.</emphasis>
Length 1.77 mm, width 1.28 mm. Body oval, oblong, with short fine whitish pubescence. Integument of pronotum, scutellar shield and elytra black (Fig.
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). Elytra with one yellowish oblong spot on each elytron. Pronotum black, antero-lateral border dark brown (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Nephus (Nephus) oblongosignatus Mulsant, 1850 A dorsal view B ventral view C lateral view D frontal view E, F abdomen G-K male genitalia: G spicula H, I tegmen (dorsal and lateral view) J, K penis L, M female genitalia: L spermatheca M coxites." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.962.51520.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/443468" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">2A, D</figureCitation>
). Head dark brown, antennae and mouthparts yellowish (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Nephus (Nephus) oblongosignatus Mulsant, 1850 A dorsal view B ventral view C lateral view D frontal view E, F abdomen G-K male genitalia: G spicula H, I tegmen (dorsal and lateral view) J, K penis L, M female genitalia: L spermatheca M coxites." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.962.51520.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/443468" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">2B, D</figureCitation>
). Meso- and metaventrite light brown. Epipleuron light brown, without excavations to receive femora. Legs with coxae and femora dark brown, tibiae and tarsi light brown (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Nephus (Nephus) oblongosignatus Mulsant, 1850 A dorsal view B ventral view C lateral view D frontal view E, F abdomen G-K male genitalia: G spicula H, I tegmen (dorsal and lateral view) J, K penis L, M female genitalia: L spermatheca M coxites." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.962.51520.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/443468" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">2B, C</figureCitation>
). Abdomen light brown; postcoxal line incomplete (Figs
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,
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) and last ventrite emarginated (Fig.
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Figure 1.</emphasis>
Scanning electron microscopy
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antennae
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prosternal process
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tarsi
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abdominal postcoxal line
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Mulsant, 1850
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(
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, 1974)
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Weise, 1910
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Magro &amp; Almeida, sp. nov.
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Genitalia with tegmen, penis guide, phallobase and parameres symmetrical. Spicule long (Fig.
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). Penis guide shorter than parameres, sharp at apex (Fig.
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). Parameres articulated with phallobase, distant from each other, strongly widened at apex, with long bristles along parameres (Fig.
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). Penis sclerotized, J-shaped, with sharp apex, penis capsule T-shaped and elongated (Fig.
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Figure 2.</emphasis>
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Mulsant, 1850
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dorsal view
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lateral view
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frontal view
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abdomen
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male genitalia:
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spicula
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tegmen (dorsal and lateral view)
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penis
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female genitalia:
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spermatheca
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">M</emphasis>
coxites.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Female.</emphasis>
Length 1.79 mm, width 1.34 mm. Similar to male. Genitalia with coxites longer than wide, subtriangular, 3.0
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longer than wide; stylus mamiliform with long bristles (Fig.
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). Spermatheca with thick walls, slightly arched, not very striated, and marked by one strong constriction in the middle; with sharp base and truncated apex (Fig.
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).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="123">Material examined.</paragraph>
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Reunion Island: First generation from a laboratory rearing (Laboratoire Evolution &amp;
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Biologique,
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Toulouse III) initiated from field material collected in November 2011 in Manapany-les-Bains, 19 specimens [DZUP].
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