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(6): same data as HT.
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in
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.
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<emphasis id="B925EA82FFB31F4835C9FD43A11D9CEB" bold="true" box="[199,322,726,752]" pageId="8" pageNumber="78">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Male frons strongly concave, smooth without punctures and setae. Protibiae slightly widened at apicolateral corner, with 35 socketed denticles.
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<emphasis id="B925EA82FFB31F4835C9FC8BA25D9D23" bold="true" box="[199,514,798,824]" pageId="8" pageNumber="78">Description, male. Length</emphasis>
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, 2.52.6 × as long as wide. Colour reddish brown.
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concave, smooth, impunctate, glabrous, upper median part with transverse carina, laterally with acute nodules just above eyes; antennal scapus with few setae; club with dense setae at margins at basal fourth, and one complete suture marked by setae on apical fourth.
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trapezoid, with asperities on anterior half separated by half their size, subcontiguous near summit; cuticle on posterior half rugose; vestiture consisting of hair-like setae between asperities, spatulate setae on posterior half.
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striae not impressed, interstriae smooth, with uniseriate rows of spatulate setae spaced by their length; strial setae minute, shorter than distance between them.
<emphasis id="B925EA82FFB31F4831CFFC63A56A9A0B" bold="true" box="[1217,1333,1014,1040]" pageId="8" pageNumber="78">Ventrites.</emphasis>
Setae on meso- and metaventrites long, unifid, each 24 × longer than interstrial setae.
<emphasis id="B925EA82FFB31F4836F8FB8FA46A9A2F" bold="true" box="[1014,1077,1050,1076]" pageId="8" pageNumber="78">Legs.</emphasis>
Protibiae narrow, lateral margin slightly expanded near apex, with 35 denticles on lateral and apical margin.
<emphasis id="B925EA82FFB31F4836E1FBABA43B9A43" bold="true" box="[1007,1124,1086,1112]" pageId="8" pageNumber="78">Genitalia.</emphasis>
Apophyses twice as long as penis, dorsoventrally strongly curved; flagellum long and thin, coiled; tegmen missing, a V-shaped hollow structure along apophyses possibly associated with flagellum coil. Spiculum gastrale as long as aedeagus, with small fork.
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<emphasis id="B925EA82FFB31F4835C9FB3FA1119ADF" bold="true" box="[199,334,1194,1220]" pageId="8" pageNumber="78">Etymology.</emphasis>
The name is a feminine nominative adjective meaning hollow or concave, referring to the strongly impressed male frons—a highly unusual feature in male micracidines.
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Only known from the
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locality at Mann Spring, Mount
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. Specimens were dissected from a variety of unusual host plants in different plant orders, including a
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tree (
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), and from lignified herbs of
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and
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<emphasis id="B925EA82FFB31F4831A2FAAFA5649B4F" box="[1196,1339,1338,1364]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="78">Plectranthus</emphasis>
(Lamiaceae)
</taxonomicName>
. They fed on the bark or cortex of the first three hosts. In
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<emphasis id="B925EA82FFB31F483667FACBA3A79B63" box="[873,1016,1374,1400]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="78">Plectranthus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
the beetles were found in the woody roots pulled out from the soil. In
<taxonomicName id="4C514D13FFB31F483708FA16A2349B87" box="[518,619,1411,1436]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Asteraceae" genus="Vernonia" kingdom="Plantae" order="Asterales" pageId="8" pageNumber="78" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B925EA82FFB31F483708FA16A2349B87" box="[518,619,1411,1436]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="78">Vernonia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
both adults and larvae excavated longitudinal tunnels between fibres just beneath the cortex.
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<paragraph id="8BEE3690FFB31F4835C9FA5FA2E3984B" blockId="8.[151,1437,618,1616]" pageId="8" pageNumber="78">
Dead plants were apparently colonized by females although maturation feeding cannot be ruled out. In other samples, a male with
<specimenCount id="9D57FD19FFB31F48349EFA7AA2529813" box="[400,525,1518,1545]" pageId="8" pageNumber="78" type="female">one female</specimenCount>
were later joined by additional females; usually a total of three or
<specimenCount id="9D57FD19FFB31F483000FA7BA5C39813" box="[1294,1436,1518,1544]" pageId="8" pageNumber="78" type="female">four females</specimenCount>
were present in one harem. The second female joined approximately after the first female laid
<specimenCount id="9D57FD19FFB31F4831B2F987A5499836" box="[1212,1302,1554,1581]" pageId="8" pageNumber="78" type="egg">10 eggs</specimenCount>
. Broods per female ranged between 2339 (average 31, n=8).
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