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transverse, widest at base; lateral margins evenly convex and strongly convergent anteriorly; anterior angles distinctly produced and sharp; posterior angles blunt; anterior margin convex, with complete but indistinct marginal line; base without marginal line; surface densely and finely punctate, punctures less dense on midline, with minute setae in punctures; anterior and lateral margin finely setose; hypomeron carinate, not produced ventrally. Scutellum wide, triangular, with fine and dense puncture, punctures less dense on basal midline.
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<emphasis id="B963BE2B3F721030FF2CFB60FE8CCBC1" bold="true" box="[199,275,1190,1216]" pageId="1" pageNumber="490">Elytra</emphasis>
widest at middle; striae distinctly impressed, finely and sparsely punctate; intervals slightly convex, with fine and dense punctures, with minute setae in punctures; odd intervals with a very few short and white setae; epipleural edge robust, ending at strongly curved external apical angle of elytra; epipleura sparsely setose; apical border of elytra membranous, with a fine rim of microtrichomes.
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<emphasis id="B963BE2B3F721030FF2CFAF3FE1ECA4F" bold="true" box="[199,385,1332,1359]" pageId="1" pageNumber="490">Ventral surface</emphasis>
dull, coarsely and densely punctate, glabrous. Metasternal disc sparsely covered with fine, short setae. Metacoxa with a few longer setae laterally. Abdominal sternites finely and densely punctate, sternites with a transverse row of punctures, punctures each bearing a fine seta. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.98. Pygidium moderately convex and dull, coarsely and densely punctate, without impunctate midline, glabrous except a few robust setae along apical margin.
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<emphasis id="B963BE2B3F721030FF2CFA2EFF60C903" bold="true" box="[199,255,1512,1538]" pageId="1" pageNumber="490">Legs</emphasis>
moderately long and wide, shiny; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate. Metafemur with anterior margin acute, without adjacent serrated line, but with few sparse setae; posterior margin smooth, weakly widened at apex, smooth at apex ventrally. Metatibia long and wide, widest at middle; dorsal margin sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal one at anterior third, apical one at three quarters of metatibial length; ratio of width/length: 1/2.16; lateral face longitudinally convex, shiny, impunctate and glabrous; ventral margin densely serrate, with four equidistant long and robust setae; medial face smooth and glabrous, apex finely serrate, moderately truncate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres dorsally impunctate, glabrous, neither laterally nor dorsally carinate, moderately setose ventrally; metatarsomeres with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally and a smooth subventral longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere as long as following two tarsomeres combined and slightly longer than dorsal tibial spur. Protibia moderately long, bidentate; anterior claws symmetrical, basal tooth of both claws bluntly truncate at apex.
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<emphasis id="B963BE2B3F721030FF2CF8B6FEA5C88B" bold="true" box="[199,314,1904,1930]" pageId="1" pageNumber="490">Aedeagus</emphasis>
.
<figureCitation id="132C7EBC3F721030FEA3F8B7FE2CC88A" box="[328,435,1905,1931]" captionStart="FIGURES 18. 14" captionStartId="2.[152,270,1443,1467]" captionTargetBox="[320,1266,494,1409]" captionTargetId="figure-157@2.[310,1277,486,1417]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURES 18. 14: Neoserica panchmariensis Bhunia, Gupta, Chandra &amp; Ahrens, new species (holotype); 58: Neoserica debasriae Bhunia, Gupta, Chandra &amp; Ahrens, new species (holotype). 1, 5: Aedeagus in lateral view (left); 2, 6: Aedeagus in dorsal view; 3, 7: Aedeagus in lateral view (right); 4, 8: Habitus, dorsal view. Scale 0.5 mm; habitus not to scale." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7271011" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7271011/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="490">Figs. 13</figureCitation>
.
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<paragraph id="8BA862393F721030FF2CF852FDD2C8AE" blockId="1.[151,1437,510,2039]" box="[199,589,1940,1967]" pageId="1" pageNumber="490">
<emphasis id="B963BE2B3F721030FF2CF852FEB9C8AF" bold="true" box="[199,294,1940,1966]" pageId="1" pageNumber="490">Habitus</emphasis>
.
<figureCitation id="132C7EBC3F721030FEDFF853FEE7C8AE" box="[308,376,1941,1967]" captionStart="FIGURES 18. 14" captionStartId="2.[152,270,1443,1467]" captionTargetBox="[320,1266,494,1409]" captionTargetId="figure-157@2.[310,1277,486,1417]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURES 18. 14: Neoserica panchmariensis Bhunia, Gupta, Chandra &amp; Ahrens, new species (holotype); 58: Neoserica debasriae Bhunia, Gupta, Chandra &amp; Ahrens, new species (holotype). 1, 5: Aedeagus in lateral view (left); 2, 6: Aedeagus in dorsal view; 3, 7: Aedeagus in lateral view (right); 4, 8: Habitus, dorsal view. Scale 0.5 mm; habitus not to scale." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7271011" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7271011/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="490">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
. Female unknown.
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<paragraph id="8BA862393F721030FF2CF87EFE32C8F6" blockId="1.[151,1437,510,2039]" pageId="1" pageNumber="490">
<emphasis id="B963BE2B3F721030FF2CF87EFEA0C8D3" bold="true" box="[199,319,1976,2002]" pageId="1" pageNumber="490">Variation.</emphasis>
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in morphology very similar to the
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. Length
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, length of elytra:
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, width:
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.
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<subSubSection id="C30D31B23F711033FF2CFF50FEE5CE89" pageId="2" pageNumber="491" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph id="8BA862393F711033FF2CFF50FEE5CE89" blockId="2.[151,1437,150,465]" pageId="2" pageNumber="491">
<emphasis id="B963BE2B3F711033FF2CFF50FE58CFB1" bold="true" box="[199,455,150,176]" pageId="2" pageNumber="491">Differential diagnosis</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis id="B963BE2B3F711033FE3CFF51FC9DCFB1" box="[471,770,150,176]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="491">Neoserica panchmariensis</emphasis>
Bhunia, Gupta, Chandra &amp; Ahrens
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,
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A25003503F711033FB48FF50FAB2CFB1" box="[1187,1325,150,176]" pageId="2" pageNumber="491" rank="species">new species</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
is part of the
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<emphasis id="B963BE2B3F711033FF2AFF7DFE05CFD5" box="[193,410,187,212]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="491">Neoserica speciosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group (
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) which includes
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<emphasis id="B963BE2B3F711033FCA3FF7DFC56CFD5" box="[840,969,187,212]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="491">N. speciosa</emphasis>
Brenske, 1898
</taxonomicName>
, and
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<emphasis id="B963BE2B3F711033FB58FF7DFACCCFD5" box="[1203,1363,187,212]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="491">N. assamensis</emphasis>
(Frey, 1962)
</taxonomicName>
. All species share the shiny reddish brown, medium sized body and an aedeagus with large asymmetric phallobase.
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<emphasis id="B963BE2B3F711033FECAFEC5FDD1CE1D" box="[289,590,258,284]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="491">Neoserica panchmariensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A25003503F711033FD8AFEC4FD71CE1D" box="[609,750,258,284]" pageId="2" pageNumber="491" rank="species">new species</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
differs from both known species in the shape of the male genitalia: Left apical phallobase ventrally lamina-like produced, right paramere twice as long as the left one, without any dorsal teeth; left paramere with a distinct basal lobe and sharply pointed at apex, over its entire length curved dorsally (
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).
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<emphasis id="B963BE2B3F711033FF2CFE54FED4CEAD" bold="true" box="[199,331,402,428]" pageId="2" pageNumber="491">Etymology.</emphasis>
The new species is named after the
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locality, Panchmari (adjective in nominative case singular).
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<emphasis id="B963BE2B3F711033FF2CFE70FEC6CED1" bold="true" box="[199,345,438,464]" pageId="2" pageNumber="491">Distribution</emphasis>
(
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). Only known from the
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locality.
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