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<taxonomicName authority="Champion" class="Insecta" family="Endomychidae" genus="Lycoperdinella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycoperdinella subcaeca" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="5" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subcaeca">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="4" pageNumber="5" start="start">Lycoperdinella</pageBreakToken>
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subcaeca Champion
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Figs 2, 4
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, 5, 21
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Endomychidae" genus="Lycoperdinella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycoperdinella subcaeca" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subcaeca">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="5" pageNumber="6" start="start">Lycoperdinella</pageBreakToken>
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subcaeca
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Champion, 1913: 115. Type locality: Guatemala. -
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<bibRefCitation author="Shockley, FW" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" pagination="1 - 113" title="An annotated checklist of the handsome fungus beetles of the world (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Endomychidae)." volume="1999" year="2009 a">Shockley et al. 2009a</bibRefCitation>
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: 69;
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<bibRefCitation author="Robertson, J" journalOrPublisher="Systematic Entomology" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" pagination="745 - 778" title="Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12138" volume="40" year="2015">Robertson et al. 2015</bibRefCitation>
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: 766.
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<subSubSection pageId="5" pageNumber="6" type="differential diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Differential diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Endomychidae" genus="Lycoperdinella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycoperdinella subcaeca" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subcaeca">Lycoperdinella subcaeca</taxonomicName>
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is similar to
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<taxonomicName lsidName="L. boliviensis" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" rank="species" species="boliviensis">L. boliviensis</taxonomicName>
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in its body shape, color and vestiture, however
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<taxonomicName lsidName="L. subcaeca" pageId="5" pageNumber="6" rank="species" species="subcaeca">L. subcaeca</taxonomicName>
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can be separated from that species by having the pronotum more elongate (0.80 times as long as broad), eyes reduced to six facets only (in both type specimens studied), mentum somewhat pentagonal (sharply produced anteriorly in the middle of apical margin), the abdominal ventrite 1 longer than the mesoventrite and the hind wings absent.
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Redescription.</paragraph>
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Length 1.39 mm, width 0.66 mm, height 0.47 mm; body elongate-oval, moderately convex, 2.11 times as long as wide, 2.96 times as long as high (Figs 2
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<normalizedToken originalValue="a–c">a-c</normalizedToken>
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, 4a, b). Surfaces shiny; sparsely covered with long, decumbent, golden setae. Color homogeneously reddish brown.
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Head with interocular distance 0.83 times as wide as head including eyes. Eyes very small, composed of six facets (Fig. 5a). Antenna rather short and slender (Fig. 5c), 0.83 times as long as head and pronotum combined; scape 1.52 times longer than wide, 1.09 times as long as pedicel; pedicel 1.88 times longer than wide; antennomere 3, 1.50 times longer than wide, 0.66 times as long as pedicel; antennomeres 4-8 getting very gradually shorter and wider towards antennomere 9, which is 0.98 times wider than long and 0.64 times as long as pedicel; terminal antennomere inflated, asymmetrical, 2.03 times as long at longer margin than pedicel, its longest margin 1.30 times longer than shorter lateral one and 1.18 times as long as apical margin; apical margin truncate. Mentum subquadrate with lateral margins weakly rounded and anterior margin sharply produced anteriorly at mid-line (Fig. 5a).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Pronotum weakly transverse (Fig. 5b), 0.80 times as long as wide, 1.50 times wider than head, 1.06 times wider at widest part than at base, widest at about anterior third, weakly convex; front angles very weakly produced, rounded, lateral margins almost rounded in anterior third, then converging to posterior angles, comparatively widely bordered with edges distinctly crenulate; hind angles weakly obtuse, rounded at tips. Posterior half of disc with a vaguely defined triangular impression. Longitudinal sulci distinctly convergent anteriorly, extending from base to almost half length of pronotum; well defined transverse sulcus connecting deep pores and weakly marked basal transverse depression provided with large punctures (Fig. 5e); area between transverse sulci/depressions weakly convex; posterior margin weakly lobed at mid-line. Prosternal process widely separates front coxae, widest at mid length.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Elytra 0.94 mm long, 1.42 times longer than wide; 2.19 times as long as and 1.22 times as wide as pronotum; widest at basal fourth then continuously distinctly converging to rounded apex; with hooked tooth present anterolateral corner. Hind wings absent.</paragraph>
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Legs moderately long. Femora very narrow at base, strongly widened at apical half. Tibiae narrow, straight, continuously widened towards their apices. Metatibia very
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<pageBreakToken pageId="6" pageNumber="7" start="start">narrow</pageBreakToken>
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, 0.34 times as long as elytra. Metatarsus moderately long, 0.6 times as long as metatibia.
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Abdomen (Figs 2d, 5g) with ventrite 1 slightly shorter than metaventrite and as long as three following ventrites combined. Ventrite 5 arcuate at apex.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Female genitalia (Fig. 2e) with narrow coxites rounded at their apices; spermatheca distinctly two-chambered, chambers rounded; accessory gland small, elongate.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Male unknown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Type material.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName genus="Lectotype" lsidName="Lectotype" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" rank="genus">Lectotype</taxonomicName>
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of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Endomychidae" genus="Lycoperdinella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycoperdinella subcaeca" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subcaeca">Lycoperdinella subcaeca</taxonomicName>
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Champion, female, GUATEMALA, "Livingston, 65, Guat./ H.S. Barber Collector/ U.S. Nat. Mus. 1913-253, det. Champion/
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Endomychidae" genus="Lycoperdinella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycoperdinella subcaeca" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subcaeca">Lycoperdinella subcaeca</taxonomicName>
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Ch./ Co-type" (BMNH). Paralectotype of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Endomychidae" genus="Lycoperdinella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycoperdinella subcaeca" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subcaeca">Lycoperdinella subcaeca</taxonomicName>
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Champion, Guatemala, "Livingston, 65, Guat./ Barber & Schwarz Coll./ Type no. 21530, USNM/
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Endomychidae" genus="Lycoperdinella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycoperdinella subcaeca" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subcaeca">Lycoperdinella subcaeca</taxonomicName>
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Ch., type" (USNM) [examined on photos].
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Central America: Guatemala (Fig. 21).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="7" type="comments">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Comments.</paragraph>
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This species was listed by
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<bibRefCitation author="Shockley, FW" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" pagination="1 - 113" title="An annotated checklist of the handsome fungus beetles of the world (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Endomychidae)." volume="1999" year="2009 a">Shockley et al. (2009a)</bibRefCitation>
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as present also in Costa Rica. However, due to a lack of any specimens accessible for examination from this country during our extensive study, a question mark is added in the distribution map for this species in Costa Rica.
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
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<bibRefCitation author="Champion, GC" journalOrPublisher="Transactions of the Entomological Society of London" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" pagination="58 - 169" title="Notes on various Central American Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1913.tb02781.x" volume="1913" year="1913">Champion (1913)</bibRefCitation>
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clearly indicated that his original description of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="L. subcaeca" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" rank="species" species="subcaeca">L. subcaeca</taxonomicName>
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was based on two specimens from Guatemala. One left in 'U.S. Nat. Mus.' and the second specimen was 'presented to the British
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Museum’">Museum'</normalizedToken>
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. As the lectotype we have chosen and designated a specimen available for direct study (borrowed to WT from the NHM). The syntype from USNM, examined on photos becomes a paralectotype.
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