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Burmeister, 1847
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<paragraph id="E8C6E2FD564FE5C7FC7DB9AF2294FC63" pageId="56" pageNumber="57">Type species.</paragraph>
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Burmeister, 1847: 75, by monotypy.
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<paragraph id="2319A5EA149FB605BD4827142DE53409" pageId="56" pageNumber="57">Valid taxa.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="369D62A2A0883348EEC1DF8131227C53" pageId="56" pageNumber="57">25 species.</paragraph>
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species are distributed throughout Southeast Asia, southern China, and the eastern portion of the Indian Subcontinent (Fig. 61).
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is currently considered the sole Asian lineage of
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, though its subfamilial classification has been unstable. The genus is remarkable for its confounding combination of morphological and behavioral traits that blurred the lines between historical concepts of the subfamilies
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and
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. For example, the sexual dimorphism of the protarsi in
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species has long been compared to that found in
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(e.g., see
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). In contrast, the labral morphology of
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species matches that found in Asian parastasiine and fruhstoferiine (
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) scarabs (
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,
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). The floral feeding behavior of
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species on
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is also shared between cyclocephalines and Asian parastasiines, adding a further layer of intrigue to unresolved evolutionary relationships between the groups at the subfamilial- and tribal-level (e.g., see
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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).
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Figure 61. Country-level distribution of
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species in Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and China. Numbers indicate taxa per country.
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was described by
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, and he included it within the
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division of
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. The classification of
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was stable until
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,
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) transferred the genus to
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based upon the exposed (in dorsal view, produced apically beyond the clypeus) and chitinized labrum. Arrow (1917) later erected the
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for
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within his classification of
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.
<bibRefCitation id="7A2A5A142E0ACECB88FF5F9F34918D52" author="Ohaus, F" journalOrPublisher="Coleopterorum Catalogus" pageId="81" pageNumber="82" pagination="1 - 241" title="Scarabaeidae: Euchirinae, Phaenomerinae, Rutelinae." volume="20" year="1918">Ohaus (1918</bibRefCitation>
,
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) and
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rejected
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and included
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in
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(
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) in their catalogs of
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. Morphological phylogenetic analysis of
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(
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:
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) suggested that
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were more closely related to
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than
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(
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). Subsequent works on the genus have treated
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as a member of
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(
<bibRefCitation id="A0FF905E40C743C0DDBD5DF33FDFC010" author="Jameson, ML" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="75" pageNumber="76" pagination="1 - 66" title="Revision of the genus Peltonotus Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) from Southeastern Asia." url="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.502.1.1" volume="502" year="2004">Jameson and Wada 2004</bibRefCitation>
,
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,
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Jameson and
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2010
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,
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).
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Little is known about the biology and natural history of
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species. The immatures are undescribed. Adults are attracted to lights at night (
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).
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Arrow was collected from the spathes of
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Engl. (
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), where males and females were observed mating and feeding (
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). In Thailand,
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visit the large inflorescences of the terrestrial aroid
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(Dennst.) Nicolson, where adult beetles feed and mate (
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).
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can be attracted to the inflorescences in high numbers (over 70 individuals) (
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).
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species can be recognized by the following combination of characters: 1) dorsal coloration brown to black with variable presence of maculae; 2) body convex, not dorsoventrally flattened; 3) clypeal apex rounded to straight in dorsal view; 4) frontoclypeal suture incomplete medially; 5) apical margin of mentum variably shaped with weak emargination; 6) anterolateral margin of mandible lacking tooth; 7) mandibular molar area with rows of circular micropunctures; 8) galea of maxilla not strongly dorsoventrally flattened; 9) galea of the maxilla on inner surface with 3 fused basal teeth, a free median tooth, and 2 fused apical teeth (3-1-2 arrangement); 10) galea with articulated medial tooth; 11) labrum extending apically beyond clypeal apex (obvious in dorsal view); 12) apical and basal margins of pronotum with beaded margin complete or incomplete at middle; 13) protibia of males with 2 or 3 teeth, females with 3 teeth; 14) protibial spur straight to weakly reflexed; 15) males with inner protarsal claw thickened and not cleft at apex (nib variably present or absent); 16) mesocoxae not widely separated, nearly touching; 17) metacoxae with lateral edge perpendicular to ventral surface; 18) anterior edge of hindwing distal to apical hinge lacking membranous border; 19) anterior edge of hindwing distal to apical hinge with row of long setae extending from apical hinge along length of the costal vein; 20) vein RA with single row of pegs proximal to apical hinge.
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