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Nikodým and Sabatinelli
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<emphasis id="12BD810825324905FF32F62F4E4BFE90" bold="true" box="[192,356,297,322]" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Type series.</emphasis>
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Ƌ, Paratypus Ƌ#1 and Paratypus Ƌ#2, labeled as follow: white label, printed, “ex H.-P.
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/ collection” // white label, printed
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- Khyber / Pakhtunkhwa Prov., Swat / District,
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,
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leg.” // red label printed:
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Ƌ /
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/
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and
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, 2019” // (deposited in Muséum dHistoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland). //
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Ƌ#1” // with other data as the
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in
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collection, Prévessin, France. //
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Ƌ#2” with other data as the
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in M. Nikodým collection, Roztoky, Czech Republic.
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<emphasis id="12BD810825324905FF32F51F4E60FDE3" bold="true" box="[192,335,538,562]" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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belongs to the “
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<emphasis id="12BD810825324905FCD2F51E4CA8FDE3" box="[800,903,538,562]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">A. dubia</emphasis>
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group-species” (
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) based on the following characters: mesotibia with apical spur, antennal club more than 1.5 times longer than stalk and markedly out curved. The most similar species is
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, having similar body length
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, antennomeres 57 disc-shaped, elytra uniformly coppery green and terminal maxillary palpomere quite long. In
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,
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the elytra are rather dull with sutural angles right but with blunt angle while in
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elytra are shiny with sutural angles broadly rounded.
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Description of the
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(adult male).
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Body elongate, length (from clypeal anterior margin to apex of elytra)
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, width across elytral humeri
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(
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).
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. Head from above dark green with irregular golden luster, pronotum black green with weak golden luster. Scutellum and elytra even darker, luster is irregular from golden green to dark purple. Pygidium yellowish brown without reflection. Antennae brown, legs black-brown, tarsi lighter brown.
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<emphasis id="12BD810825324905FF1AF4884E7AFC75" box="[232,341,909,932]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Vestiture</emphasis>
. Dorsal setation yellow-brown, erect on clypeus and scutellum. Head setation longer, light brown and oblique toward apex. Elytra setation as long as on pronotum, irregularly inclined or erect and with solitary long brown setae in posterior quarter. Ventral setation yellow, legs setation light yellowish brown.
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<emphasis id="12BD810825324905FF1AF3084E06FBF4" box="[232,297,1037,1061]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Head</emphasis>
. Anterior margin of labrum slightly emarginate medially. Clypeus 1.1 × wider than long, lateral margins slightly rounded, anterior angles rounded, clypeofrontal suture fine but clearly distinct. Head strongly and densely punctuate. Clypeal punctation clearly weaker and not closely spaced. Antenna consisting of 10 antennomeres; 5, 6 and 7 disc-shaped; antennal club markedly out-curved, more than 2 × longer than wide. Terminal maxillary palpomere long, slightly widened in the middle, truncate at the end, without impression and with several punctures in apical quarter.
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<emphasis id="12BD810825324905FF1AF3CB4E4EFB34" box="[232,353,1230,1253]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Pronotum</emphasis>
. Width 1.1 × length, widest medially, narrowing anteriorly. Anterior angles produced and 90°, posterior angles obtuse. Basal margin markedly emarginate medially. Punctation dense and coarse, distance between punctures. With median longitudinal depression.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="12BD810825324905FF1AF22B4E4BFA97" box="[232,356,1326,1350]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Scutellum</emphasis>
. Triangular, elongate with slightly rounded apex, punctation similar to pronotum.
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<emphasis id="12BD810825324905FF1AF24B4E19FAB7" box="[232,310,1358,1382]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Elytra</emphasis>
. Punctation finer than that of pronotum, slightly irregularly wrinkled. Posterolateral angles broadly rounded, sutural angles 90° but with blunt angles. Sutural margin distinctly raised apically from second third of elytra.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="12BD810825324905FF1AF2AA4E30FA17" box="[232,287,1455,1478]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Legs</emphasis>
. Protibia tridentate, mesotibia with apical spur shorter, less than half of mesotarsomere length. Basal metatarsomere 1.6 × longer than second metatarsomere.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="12BD810825324905FF1AF2EA4E73F9D6" box="[232,348,1519,1543]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Aedeagus</emphasis>
. Parameres asymmetrical with the right paramere larger than the left one (
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="20765D1A25324905FF32F11A4C63F966" blockId="3.[192,1440,1567,1720]" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">
<emphasis id="12BD810825324905FF32F11A4EF3F9E6" bold="true" box="[192,476,1567,1591]" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Relevant variability.</emphasis>
The three specimens known so far show a remarkable difference in the integument color.
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Ƌ#1 (
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) has the dorsal surface black violet and irregular golden luster.
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Ƌ#2 (
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) has the dorsal surface black green and irregular golden luster. In
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Ƌ#1 the antennal club is markedly deformed, segments are narrowed and distorted apically. This feature is also known in other species of the genus
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<emphasis id="12BD810825324905FD41F19A4C6AF966" box="[691,837,1695,1719]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Amphicoma</emphasis>
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.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="68D30E9125324905FF32F1D54E9CF8C9" pageId="3" pageNumber="2" type="materials_examined">
<paragraph id="20765D1A25324905FF32F1D54B14F939" blockId="3.[192,1083,1743,1768]" box="[192,1083,1743,1768]" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">
<emphasis id="12BD810825324905FF32F1D54E54F936" bold="true" box="[192,379,1743,1768]" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">
<typeStatus id="FF72E3B825324905FF32F1D54E2BF939" box="[192,260,1744,1768]" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Type</typeStatus>
locality.
</emphasis>
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,
<collectingRegion id="E20D93F825324905FE0CF1D54CACF939" box="[510,899,1744,1768]" country="Pakistan" name="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province</collectingRegion>
,
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.
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<emphasis id="12BD810825324905FF32F0054E03F8C9" bold="true" box="[192,300,1792,1816]" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Female.</emphasis>
Unknown.
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<subSubSection id="68D30E9125324902FF32F0354B3FFF20" lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="3" pageId="3" pageNumber="2" type="etymology">
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<emphasis id="12BD810825324905FF32F0354E76F899" bold="true" box="[192,345,1840,1864]" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Etymology.</emphasis>
The specimens were collected in Swat, a valley and an administrative district in the
<collectingRegion id="E20D93F825324905FAB4F0354EF5F8B9" country="Pakistan" name="Khyber Pakhtunkhwa" pageId="3" pageNumber="2">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province</collectingRegion>
of
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. Swat is renowned for its outstanding natural beauty and this region was also a major center of early Buddhist thought as part of the Gandhara kingdom. The new species is named after this ancient Indo-Aryan kingdom. Noun in apposition.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="68D30E9125354902FF32F60F4DC7FB59" pageId="4" pageNumber="3" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="20765D1A25354902FF32F60F4B7FFE74" blockId="4.[192,1440,266,488]" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">
<emphasis id="12BD810825354902FF32F60F4E6EFEF3" bold="true" box="[192,321,266,290]" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Remarks.</emphasis>
The genus
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<emphasis id="12BD810825354902FE3AF60F4D76FEF3" box="[456,601,266,290]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Amphicoma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is known from Europe (
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,
<collectingCountry id="58DE1D8A25354902FC34F60F4B2DFEF3" box="[966,1026,266,290]" name="Italy" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Italy</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="58DE1D8A25354902FBFFF60F4B8DFEF3" box="[1037,1186,266,290]" name="Switzerland" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Switzerland</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="58DE1D8A25354902FB5EF60F4BD0FEF3" box="[1196,1279,266,290]" name="Greece" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Greece</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry id="58DE1D8A25354902FACAF60F4AB7FEF3" box="[1336,1432,266,290]" name="Albania" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Albania</collectingCountry>
) and Asia (
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,
<collectingCountry id="58DE1D8A25354902FE79F6294ECDFE92" box="[395,482,300,323]" name="Myanmar" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Burma</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="58DE1D8A25354902FE1EF62E4D73FE92" box="[492,604,299,323]" name="Thailand" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Thailand</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="58DE1D8A25354902FD97F6294D8FFE92" box="[613,672,300,323]" name="Laos" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Laos</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="58DE1D8A25354902FD59F62E4C3AFE92" box="[683,789,299,323]" name="Vietnam" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Vietnam</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="58DE1D8A25354902FCEDF62E4C53FE92" box="[799,892,299,323]" name="Taiwan" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Taiwan</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="58DE1D8A25354902FC74F6294CFFFE92" box="[902,976,300,323]" name="Japan" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Japan</collectingCountry>
and Ryukyu Islands). The new location from northern
<collectingCountry id="58DE1D8A25354902FE86F6494ECDFEB5" box="[372,482,332,356]" name="Pakistan" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Pakistan</collectingCountry>
is disjoint from all known localities for the genus
<emphasis id="12BD810825354902FBCCF6494BF6FEB5" box="[1086,1241,332,356]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">
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.
</emphasis>
This indicates a potential for more species to be found in the Himalayan region:
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can be expected from the eastern part of
<collectingCountry id="58DE1D8A25354902FE8EF6884E92FE74" box="[380,445,397,421]" name="India" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">India</collectingCountry>
(
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,
<collectingRegion id="E20D93F825354902FDA6F6884DEDFE74" box="[596,706,397,421]" country="India" name="Manipur" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Manipur</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingRegion id="E20D93F825354902FD3CF6884C13FE74" box="[718,828,397,421]" country="India" name="Mizoram" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Mizoram</collectingRegion>
regions) or
<collectingCountry id="58DE1D8A25354902FC3FF6884B62FE74" box="[973,1101,397,421]" name="Cambodia" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Cambodia</collectingCountry>
.
</paragraph>
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For comparisons with the most similar species, we studied
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of
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<emphasis id="12BD810825354902FB9FF6AB4A26FE17" box="[1133,1289,430,454]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">A. schneideri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
<collectingCountry id="58DE1D8A25354902FABCF6AB4AB3FE17" box="[1358,1436,430,454]" name="China" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">China</collectingCountry>
:
<collectingRegion id="E20D93F825354902FF32F6CA4E08FE36" box="[192,295,463,487]" country="China" name="Sichuan" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Sichuan</collectingRegion>
, Guan Xian and Songpan and
<collectingRegion id="E20D93F825354902FD6CF6CA4C29FE36" box="[670,774,463,487]" country="China" name="Shaanxi" pageId="4" pageNumber="3">Shaanxi</collectingRegion>
, Luoyang. The two species can be easily distinguished by several characters as indicated in
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.
</paragraph>
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