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(
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;
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)
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<emphasis id="B911EAFD9406FFDCBA9F3B0AFE1EFEB2" box="[151,387,256,280]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="260">Metallactus latiusculus</emphasis>
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.
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<bibRefCitation id="EFF44B1E9406FFDCB8533B0AFCB5FEB2" author="Clavareau, C. H." box="[603,808,256,280]" pageId="9" pageNumber="260" pagination="1 - 278" refId="ref24677" refString="Clavareau, C. H. (1913) Pars 53: Chrysomelidae: Megascelinae, Megalopodinae, Clytrinae, Cryptocephalinae, Chlamydinae, Lamprosominae. In: Schenkling, S. (Ed.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, Berlin, pp. 1 - 278." type="book chapter" year="1913">Clavareau, 1913: 93</bibRefCitation>
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(catalogue);
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<bibRefCitation id="EFF44B1E9406FFDCB9A63B0AFB02FEBD" author="Blackwelder, R. E." box="[942,1183,255,280]" pageId="9" pageNumber="260" pagination="551 - 763" refId="ref24600" refString="Blackwelder, R. E. (1946) Checklist of the Coleopterous Insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America. Part 4. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 185, 551 - 763. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.185.4" type="journal article" year="1946">Blackwelder, 1946: 641</bibRefCitation>
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(catalogue).
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<emphasis id="B911EAFD9406FFDCBA9F3B4CFF7DFECA" bold="true" box="[151,224,326,352]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="260">Types.</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFF44B1E9406FFDCBAE03B4CFE0BFECB" author="Suffrian, E." box="[232,406,326,353]" pageId="9" pageNumber="260" pagination="1 - 483" refId="ref25218" refString="Suffrian, E. (1866) Zur Kenntnis der Sudamerikanischen Cryptocephalen. Linnaea Entomologica, 16, 1 - 483." type="journal article" year="1866">Suffrian (1866)</bibRefCitation>
did not mention the number of specimens under study but stated that no males were available for the study. He reported a generic “
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” as provenance of the species, a single collector (“Moritz”) and a single depository: NMV (“Mus. Vindob.”). A single specimen was found in NMV. The specimen bears a label that appears to be quite recently added. A
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is designated as follows:
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(by present designation):
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, glued, aedeagus extracted and glued, together with the abdomen, on the same label bearing the specimen, // “Dr Moritz 1858
<collectingCountry id="F372767F9406FFDCBB263BF0FE39FDBE" box="[302,420,506,532]" name="Venezuela" pageId="9" pageNumber="260">Venezuela</collectingCountry>
” [white label, printed] // “54” [white label, printed] // “
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<emphasis id="B911EAFD9406FFDCBE213BF0FAADFDBE" box="[1065,1328,506,532]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="260">Metallactus latiusculus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFF44B1E9406FFDCBF323BF0FF52FD92" author="Suffrian, E." pageId="9" pageNumber="260" pagination="1 - 483" refId="ref25218" refString="Suffrian, E. (1866) Zur Kenntnis der Sudamerikanischen Cryptocephalen. Linnaea Entomologica, 16, 1 - 483." type="journal article" year="1866">Suffrian, 1866</bibRefCitation>
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D. Sassi des.” [red label, printed] // (NMV).
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locality.
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.
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<emphasis id="B911EAFD9406FFDCBACF386FFDBEFD2A" bold="true" box="[199,547,613,640]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="260">Additional material examined</emphasis>
.
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TRINIDAD &amp;
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:
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<collectingDate id="EF9FE9C79406FFDCBE46386CFB59FD2A" box="[1102,1220,614,640]" pageId="9" pageNumber="260" value="1937-10-29">29.X.1937</collectingDate>
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(4,
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). SURINAME: “Surinam”
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(1,
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)
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.
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<emphasis id="B911EAFD9406FFDCBACF38A7FECEFD62" bold="true" box="[199,339,685,712]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="260">Distribution</emphasis>
.
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(new),
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(new),
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.
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<emphasis id="B911EAFD9406FFDCBACF38D8FEA7FD46" bold="true" box="[199,314,722,748]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="260">Diagnosis</emphasis>
. The colour pattern of the specimens examined is similar to that of
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<emphasis id="B911EAFD9406FFDCBE2E38D9FB3AFD46" box="[1062,1191,723,748]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="260">M. insitivus</emphasis>
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, but differs in smaller size, in smaller ocular distance in males, in the pronotum more cylindrical, less flattened posteriorly and almost devoid of punctation. The shape of the aedeagal median lobe is very peculiar.
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. Habitus in
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a-b (LT). BL =
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, BW =
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, PL =
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, PW =
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. Interocular distance 5.65.9 % of BL.
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Head black with triangular yellow spot on clypeus and lower part of the frons. Labrum brown with yellow border. Vertex quite shiny with few shallow punctures and sparse semi-erect setae. Frontoclypeal area with sparse pale setae and few well impressed punctures only on lighter surface of clypeus. Mid-cranial suture shallow but detectable between ocular rims very close to each other. Ocular lines narrow, strictly adhering to ocular rim. Ocular canthus deep, acute, quite densely punctured with few, sparse semi-erect setae. Antennae (
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) totally brownish. First five antennomeres sublucid, 3-5 rod-shaped, 6-11 totally darkened, dull, flattened and more diffusely setose.
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Pronotum black with two almost straight yellow stripes extending over lateral margins, barely reaching anterior margin. Specimens from
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with crescent-shaped yellow fleck just in front of scutellum and at least hint of short linear stripe at center of disc, yellow. Pronotal shape sub cylindrical, regularly vaulted, apart from central posterior section which is perceptibly depressed. Lateral margins thin, almost not visible in dorsal view, mildly curved with maximum width just behind middle. Surface shining with few, tiny punctures scattered on disc, detectable at medium-high magnification only. Posterolateral impressions not detectable.
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<paragraph id="8BDA36EF9406FFDCBACF3F3CFE2DFADE" blockId="9.[151,1437,326,2008]" pageId="9" pageNumber="260">Scutellum black, moderately raised, basically impunctate, with very few tiny setae scattered on surface. Apex truncated in straight line.</paragraph>
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Elytron dark brownish with one rectangular yellow band covering basal third of surface, extended from lateral margin up to first striae of punctures. Such band darkened on top of humeral callus. Second yellow spot at apex, almost covering whole apical clivus but not reaching posterior margin. Epipleuron totally yellow. Specimens from
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with anterior yellow band irregularly mottled with black and in
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this band split in two parts. Elytral outline with sides straight and very little converging posteriorly, slightly flattened on disc. Lateral margins narrow, barely visible from above. Elytral surface moderately shining with close, well impressed punctation, irregularly arranged on basal half, more scattered and less impressed toward apex. Striae barely detectable. On lighter area bottom of punctures darker than interval surface Intervals flat. Postscutellar area not raised. Humeral callus prominent, impunctate. Epipleuron smooth, impunctate, convex, barely bent inward.
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<paragraph id="8BDA36EF9406FFDCBACF3CC8FA89F976" blockId="9.[151,1437,326,2008]" box="[199,1300,1730,1756]" pageId="9" pageNumber="260">Pygidium brownish, smooth, matt, covered by sparse minute punctures and short, appressed setae.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36EF9406FFDCBACF3CECFB39F83A" blockId="9.[151,1437,326,2008]" pageId="9" pageNumber="260">Ventral parts of thorax totally dark brownish. Abdominal ventrites dark brown with yellow border along sides. Hypomera shiny, bare, covered with well impressed punctures on anterior part. Mesoepimera and mesoepisterna polished and bare as well, impunctate. Rest of ventral surface matt, covered with fine, shallow punctures and short appressed setae. Prosternal process longitudinally grooved, sparsely punctured with long setae and terminated by blunt, not raised, short apex. Legs totally brownish except for yellow-spotted anterior coxae.</paragraph>
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Median depression on fifth abdominal ventrite shallow and barely distinguishable from rest of ventrite surface, except for being devoid of setae and punctures. Posterior margin of fifth abdominal ventrite not notched. Median lobe of aedeagus (
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) slightly compressed laterally. Apex gently expanded, shortly triangular, with no clearly differentiated terminal median denticle. In lateral view apex almost straight and ventral outline mildly convex but slightly depressed in middle. Setose depressions shallow, scarcely differentiated from rest of shaft surface and bearing short, sparse setae. Shaft ventral surface delimited from sides by blunt edges, giving impression of flat, mildly raised longitudinal carina.
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Endophallus (
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) with sclerite I laminar, moderately pigmented, twisted, devoid of apical denticle. Dorsal spicule not detectable. Sclerite II small, slender. Arch of sclerite III wide. Apex of sclerite III long, straight. Branches of sclerite IV much shorter than sclerite III in folded-up structure, strongly arched towards ventral direction, with blunt, almost symmetrical, not denticulate apex and surface smooth.
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<emphasis id="B911EAFD9405FFDFBACF3BD1FE86FE5F" box="[199,283,475,501]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="261">Female</emphasis>
. BL =
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, BW =
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, PL =
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, PW =
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. Interocular distance 8.310.3 % of BL.
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Two females from
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were available for the study. They differ in larger body and wider ocular distance. The yellow spot on the frons is smaller and rounded, and the yellow stripes on the pronotal sides are extended to the the outer fourth of the anterior margin
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The fifth abdominal ventrite in females has a quite large and deep pit. The bottom of the pit matt, quite coarsely punctured, with very short sparse setae. The vasculum of the spermatheca (
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Fig.
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) is scarcely pigmented, S-shaped with a slightly swollen proximal lobe. The distal lobe is slender, long with the apex bent slightly downwards. The ampulla is not pigmented, small, short, rather square, sitting just at the basal apex of the vasculum. The duct and sperm gland insertions are perceptibly distinct. The duct is uniform in size, long, thin, not coiled but forming a short series of loose turns beside the vasculum. The insertion on the bursa copulatrix is weakly sclerotized and pigmented, small, conical.
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<emphasis id="B911EAFD9405FFDFBACF3980FEB3FC0F" bold="true" box="[199,302,906,933]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="261">Remarks</emphasis>
. The specimen from
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differs slightly from the others in the form of the posterolateral impressions on the pronotum and in a smoother ventral surface of the aedeagal median lobe with no traces of a longitudinal carina. At present it is difficult to give any taxonomic significance to these differences.
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