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2.
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<emphasis id="0BF4FC08117EFFD1A507C76F2EBEFEDD" bold="true" box="[294,658,284,310]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Synonychimorpha chittagongi</emphasis>
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)
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<emphasis id="0BF4FC08117EFFD1A529C71A2DD4FE6B" box="[264,504,361,384]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Sticholotis chittagongi</emphasis>
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(
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; BMNH. Type locality:
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<emphasis id="0BF4FC08117EFFD1A529C7F82DD0FE49" box="[264,508,395,418]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Sticholotis rufolimbata</emphasis>
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(
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; SMNS. Type locality:
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Specimens of another
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species
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(
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) collected from southern and northeastern
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were found to match the descriptions of two species,
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(originally described from
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), and
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<emphasis id="0BF4FC08117EFFD1A067C4572D10FD8E" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Sticholotis rufolimbata</emphasis>
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(described from
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). The descriptions given by Vazirani and Canepari fit these specimens in all details. The male genitalia (
<figureCitation id="A1BB3C9F117EFFD1A7C3C4072844FD65" box="[994,1128,628,654]" captionStart="FIGURES 1­13" captionStartId="2.[264,382,1674,1698]" captionTargetBox="[325,1276,325,1639]" captionTargetId="figure-91@2.[299,1288,321,1645]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURES 1­13. Details of Synonychimorpha Miyatake. 1. Synonychimorpha immaculata sp. nov., dorsal habitus; 2. Synonychimorpha chittagongi (Vazirani) comb.nov., dorsal habitus. Figs. 3­9. Synonychimorpha immaculata sp. nov. 3. Antenna; 4. Labrum; 5. Labium; 6. Maxilla; 7. Prosternal process; 8. First abdominal sternite, showing postcoxal line; 9. Elytral epipleuron; 10­12. Male genitalia of Synonychimorpha chittagongi: 10. Aedeagus, lateral view; 11. Aedeagus, ventral view; 12. Sipho. 13. Female genital plate of Synonychimorpha immaculata." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5014251" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5014251/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Figs. 10­12</figureCitation>
) also are similar to those of these two species. The sipho illustrated by Vazirani is very long as in this case (
<figureCitation id="A1BB3C9F117EFFD1A530C4B72D4BFD35" box="[273,359,708,734]" captionStart="FIGURES 1­13" captionStartId="2.[264,382,1674,1698]" captionTargetBox="[325,1276,325,1639]" captionTargetId="figure-91@2.[299,1288,321,1645]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURES 1­13. Details of Synonychimorpha Miyatake. 1. Synonychimorpha immaculata sp. nov., dorsal habitus; 2. Synonychimorpha chittagongi (Vazirani) comb.nov., dorsal habitus. Figs. 3­9. Synonychimorpha immaculata sp. nov. 3. Antenna; 4. Labrum; 5. Labium; 6. Maxilla; 7. Prosternal process; 8. First abdominal sternite, showing postcoxal line; 9. Elytral epipleuron; 10­12. Male genitalia of Synonychimorpha chittagongi: 10. Aedeagus, lateral view; 11. Aedeagus, ventral view; 12. Sipho. 13. Female genital plate of Synonychimorpha immaculata." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5014251" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5014251/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Fig. 12</figureCitation>
), but the siphonal capsule is lacking. The siphonal capsule in the specimens examined was found to be broad, but very membranous and not easy to observe, with a basal, slightly more sclerotized area, as figured by
<bibRefCitation id="5D115DEB117EFFD1A737C5672FFDFCC5" author="Vazirani, T. G." box="[790,977,788,814]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" pagination="301 - 303" refId="ref2296" refString="Vazirani, T. G. (1983) Sticholotis chittagongi sp. n. (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), a predator on aphids on Ziziphus in Bangladesh. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 73, 301 - 303." type="journal article" year="1983">Vazirani (1983)</bibRefCitation>
. Apparently, Vazirani did not observe the membranous area.
<bibRefCitation id="5D115DEB117EFFD1A6A2C54F2F7BFCBD" author="Canepari, C." box="[643,855,828,854]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" pagination="1 - 65" refId="ref2087" refString="Canepari, C. (1997) Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from the Nepal Himalayas. Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, Serie A (Biologie), 565 (65), 1 - 65." type="journal article" year="1997">Canepari's (1997)</bibRefCitation>
illustration of the sipho also does not show the siphonal capsule clearly as it is broken at the top, but the aedeagus is similar. Dr. Wolfgang Schawaller, Stuttgart Museum, and Dr. Claudio Canepari (
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.) confirm that the
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and
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of
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are apparently identical to the specimens I have examined from south and northeastern
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. Hence,
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is combined with
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, and
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<emphasis id="0BF4FC08117EFFD1A6F3C2772F56FBF6" box="[722,890,1028,1053]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">S. rufolimbata</emphasis>
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is placed in synonymy with it.
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<paragraph id="393F201A117EFFD1A519C25F2EA1FA3D" blockId="3.[264,1324,468,1894]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">
This species is also remarkably similar in general appearance to
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<emphasis id="0BF4FC08117EFFD1A07DC25F2907FBAE" box="[1116,1323,1068,1093]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Jauravia limbata</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="5D115DEB117EFFD1A529C2272DD2FB85" author="Motschulsky, V." box="[264,510,1108,1134]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4" pagination="117 - 122" refId="ref2275" refString="Motschulsky, V. (1858) Insectes des Indes Orientales. Etudes Entomologiques, 7, 117 - 122." type="journal article" year="1858">Motschulsky (1858)</bibRefCitation>
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. It is smaller in size and the dorsum is more convex with more broadly explanate lateral borders of elytra than the latter, and can be readily distinguished by the lack of dense dorsal pubescence. It is interesting to note that
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transferred
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<emphasis id="0BF4FC08117EFFD1A577C2BF2E0CFB0E" box="[342,544,1228,1253]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Jauravia limbata</emphasis>
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to
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<emphasis id="0BF4FC08117EFFD1A667C2BF2EEDFB0E" box="[582,705,1228,1253]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Sticholotis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and later,
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again shifted it to
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<emphasis id="0BF4FC08117EFFD1A09AC2BF290FFB0E" box="[1211,1315,1228,1253]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Jauravia</emphasis>
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. It is possible that Weise had specimens of this species, which is very similar in coloration and elytral marking to
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<emphasis id="0BF4FC08117EFFD1A633C36F2EA4FADE" box="[530,648,1308,1333]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">J. limbata</emphasis>
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, when he effected the change of combination. Two specimens of a colour morph uniformly yellowish on both dorsal and ventral sides were also examined (from southern
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) and found to be much smaller in size, but other characters, including male genitalia, are identical to those of the nominate form. A brief redescription of this species is provided below.
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<emphasis id="0BF4FC08117EFFD1A519C3972DE5FA15" bold="true" box="[312,457,1508,1534]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Description</emphasis>
. Length
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, width
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. Form (
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) subrounded, only slightly longer than broad and subhemispherical. Head and pronotum yellowish testaceous. Scutellum pitchy brown. Elytra with a large black discal patch leaving only lateral margins yellowish testaceous, rarely plain yellowish. Ventral side yellowish brown, except meso­ and metasterna, and middle of first two abdominal sternites darker, pitchy brown to black; rarely uniform yellowish. Head with sparse silvery white pubescence, coarsely and closely punctate, interspaces microreticulate. Pronotum with posterior margin very strongly bisinuate; punctures on disk even and dense, shallowly impressed, separated by 0.5­2.0 diameters, coarser towards sides; interspaces between punctures strongly microreticulate. Scutellum very small, triangular. Elytra with lateral borders strongly explanate and narrowly grooved; punctures on disk smaller than those on pronotum, slightly more deeply impressed and more widely separated by 1­4 diameters, coarser towards lateral margins; interspaces between punctures shiny and smooth. Prosternal process quadrate, with carinae distinctly but gently divergent in anterior half. Male genitalia (
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) with aedeagus (
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) having very elongate median lobe and long and slender parameres; sipho (
<figureCitation id="A1BB3C9F1179FFD6A5FEC7972E1FFE15" box="[479,563,484,510]" captionStart="FIGURES 1­13" captionStartId="2.[264,382,1674,1698]" captionTargetBox="[325,1276,325,1639]" captionTargetId="figure-91@2.[299,1288,321,1645]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURES 1­13. Details of Synonychimorpha Miyatake. 1. Synonychimorpha immaculata sp. nov., dorsal habitus; 2. Synonychimorpha chittagongi (Vazirani) comb.nov., dorsal habitus. Figs. 3­9. Synonychimorpha immaculata sp. nov. 3. Antenna; 4. Labrum; 5. Labium; 6. Maxilla; 7. Prosternal process; 8. First abdominal sternite, showing postcoxal line; 9. Elytral epipleuron; 10­12. Male genitalia of Synonychimorpha chittagongi: 10. Aedeagus, lateral view; 11. Aedeagus, ventral view; 12. Sipho. 13. Female genital plate of Synonychimorpha immaculata." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5014251" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5014251/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Fig. 12</figureCitation>
) very slender, extremely long, bent almost at right angles around middle, siphonal capsule broad and spatulate, very membranous, with a basal, slightly more sclerotized area.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="0BF4FC081179FFD6A519C4282E65FD9E" bold="true" box="[312,585,603,629]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Specimens examined.</emphasis>
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:
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,
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<elevation id="B2ADC7291179FFD6A7C0C42F286FFD9D" box="[993,1091,604,630]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.067" pageId="4" pageNumber="5" unit="m" value="1067.0">1067 m</elevation>
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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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,
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;
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: without locality,
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, feeding on
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sp.,
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, one unsexed (partially damaged).
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<emphasis id="0BF4FC081179FFD6A519C48F2DF4FCFD" bold="true" box="[312,472,764,790]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Distribution.</emphasis>
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:
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;
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.
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.
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.
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