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: The specific epithet (adjective) alludes to the acute apex of the ventral process in lateral view.
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. Coloration: body dark-brown to blackishbrown, with the pronotum and elytra usually slightly paler; legs yellowish-brown to pale-brown; antennae reddish with antennomere I usually slightly darker and the apical antennomeres more or less extensively paler.
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Elytra approximately 0.65 times as long as pronotum (
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). Other external characters as in
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♂: sternite VII (
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) moderately transverse, approximately 1.2 times as broad as long, posterior margin with small and very shallow median excision in the middle, on either side of this excision with a row of 79 long and moderately stout black setae; sternite VIII shaped as in
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; aedeagus approximately
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long and shaped as in
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.
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<emphasis id="A48D9934F124FFCFFCEB9FB75E454137" bold="true" box="[816,1040,1023,1048]" pageId="5" pageNumber="74">Comparative notes</emphasis>
: Like the geographically close
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<emphasis id="A48D9934F124FFCFFCEB986859FA4118" box="[816,943,1056,1079]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="74">M. arunicus</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="A48D9934F124FFCFFC1998685E354117" box="[962,1120,1056,1080]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="74">M. acutapicalis</emphasis>
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belongs to the
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<emphasis id="A48D9934F124FFCFFAC098685FD84117" box="[1307,1421,1056,1080]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="74">M. apicalis</emphasis>
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group and is closely allied to
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<emphasis id="A48D9934F124FFCFFBB998085F444177" box="[1122,1297,1088,1112]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="74">M. manasluensis</emphasis>
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and related species. It is distinguished from all the species allied to
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<emphasis id="A48D9934F124FFCFFCEB98C8598A41B7" box="[816,991,1152,1176]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="74">M. manasluensis</emphasis>
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by the shape of the aedeagus and by the shape and chaetotaxy of the posterior margin of the male sternite VII. It additionally differs from
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<emphasis id="A48D9934F124FFCFFAD498885FD841F8" box="[1295,1421,1216,1239]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="74">M. arunicus</emphasis>
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by slightly paler coloration (particularly of the legs and antennae) and slightly shorter elytra.
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<emphasis id="A48D9934F124FFCFFCEB99775EF74078" bold="true" box="[816,1186,1343,1368]" pageId="5" pageNumber="74">Distribution and natural history</emphasis>
: The
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locality is situated in Therathum district, East
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, at an altitude of
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. As can be inferred from the reduced hind wings and the pronounced local endemism of other species allied to
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<emphasis id="A48D9934F124FFCFFC3299885ECD40F7" box="[1001,1176,1472,1496]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="74">M. manasluensis</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="A48D9934F124FFCFFB7299885F1240F7" box="[1193,1351,1472,1496]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="74">M. acutapicalis</emphasis>
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probably has a restricted distribution.
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