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<mods:title>Nineteen new species of Desmopachria Babington, 1841 (Coleoptera, Adephaga, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Hyphydrini) with notes on the taxonomy of the genus</mods:title>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Type locality.</paragraph>
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Venezuela, Bolivar State, Rio Caripito, near Rio Orinoco, 
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.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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This species belongs to the 
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subgroup based on the small articulable, subapical process on the lateral lobe (Fig. 
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). Specimens are similar to those of 
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Braga &amp; Ferreira Jr. in size, shape, general features, and the presence of a setose depression medially on abdominal sternite VI. However, 
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has a distinctly different dorsal color pattern (Fig. 
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; Braga and Ferreira-Jr. 2010: fig. 3A) and similar, but differently shaped 
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">male genitalia.</emphasis>
In 
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the male median lobe terminates in two short rami which are apically rounded and evenly and strongly curved mediad (Fig. 
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). In 
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these rami are more linear and are apically more distinctly pointed (Braga and Ferreira-Jr. 2010: figs 3D, E). Also, although both species are extremely small diving beetles, 
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(TL = 1.1-1.2 mm) are even smaller than 
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(TL = 1.3-1.5 mm, Braga and Ferreira-Jr. 2010).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Description.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Measurements.</emphasis>
TL = 1.1-1.2 mm, GW = 0.8 mm, PW = 0.6 mm, HW = 0.4-0.5 mm, EW = 0.2 mm, TL/GW = 1.4-1.5, HW/EW = 2.3-2.4. Body broad, ovoid, laterally broadly curved, lateral margins continuous between pronotum and elytron, body broadest across elytra at midlength of body (Fig. 
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Coloration.</emphasis>
Dorsal surface of head and pronotum yellow. Elytron brown with diffuse, complex maculae, margins of maculae indistinct (Fig. 
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). Head appendages, legs, and ventral surfaces yellow.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Sculpture and structure.</emphasis>
Head broad, anteriorly rounded, anterior margin of clypeus curved, flattened, margined with conspicuous, continuous flattened narrow bead; surface of head shiny, very finely and sparsely punctate; eyes very large (Fig. 
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, HW/EW = 2.3-2.4); antennae short, scape and pedicel relatively large and rounded, flagellomere III long and slender, apically expanded, antennomeres IV-X short and broad, lobed at anterodorsal angle, antennomere XI elongate, apically pointed. Pronotum short, lateral margins short, curved with continuous narrow bead of even width throughout; surface shiny, impunctate to very finely and sparsely punctate. Elytron broad, laterally broadly curved; surface shiny, very finely and sparsely punctate. Prosternum extremely short, longitudinally compressed, medially slightly carinate; prosternal process slender anteriorly, with distinctive, small, sharp medial tubercle, apically short and broad, medially slightly carinate, concave, apically acutely pointed. Metaventrite broad and evenly smoothly convex medially, surface shiny, impunctate; metaventrite wings extremely slender. Metacoxa with medial portion short, &lt;1/3 length of metaventrite medially, metacoxal lines divergent anteriorly; lateral portion of metacoxa extremely large, anteriorly strongly expanded; surface shiny, impunctate. Metatrochanter large, subequal to length of ventral margin of metafemur; legs otherwise not noticeably modified. Abdomen with surfaces shiny and smooth, very finely and sparsely punctate; abdominal sternite VI with medial longitudinally oval depression with field of setae around margins (Fig. 
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Male genitalia.</emphasis>
Male median lobe in lateral aspect short, slightly curved ventrad; in ventral aspect broad basally, narrowed apically, apex formed as lateral, curved rami with medial rounded emargination (Fig. 
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). Lateral lobe in ventral aspect robust, subapically concave on lateral margin, apex truncate, with distinct small subapical articulable process (Fig. 
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Sexual dimorphism.</emphasis>
No obvious sexually dimorphic features were discovered.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Variation.</emphasis>
There is substantial variation in the extent and distinctiveness of the dorsal coloration on the elytra (Fig. 
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), though the basic pattern seems to be conserved. The humeral and anteromedial maculae and the apical maculae are nearly always present and distinctive. The medial longitudinal macula and lateral maculae are range from nearly absent to vague or indistinct to distinctive.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Etymology.</paragraph>
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This species is named 
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, Latin for resembling 
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, for the similarities of this species to 
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Braga &amp; Ferreira Jr.
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This species is known from Venezuela from the states of Amazonas, Anzoategui, Apure, Bolivar, and Monagas (Fig. 
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Type material.</paragraph>
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Holotype in MIZA, male labeled, &quot;VENEZUELA: Amazonas State 
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, 
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; 95m Communidad 
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Gato, on Rio Sipapo; 16.i.2009; leg. Short, Miller, Camacho, Joly, and 
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VZ09-0116-01X: along stream/ SM0842899 KUNHM-ENT [barcode label]/ HOLOTYPE 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Desmopachria pseudocavia</emphasis>
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Miller, 2021 [red label with black line border].&quot; Paratypes, 94 specimens, each with paratype label, 
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/ PARATYPE 
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Desmopachria pseudocavia</emphasis>
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Miller, 2021 [blue label with black line border]&quot; and different barcode labels (Table 
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); 69 in in MIZA, MSBA and SEMC labeled same as holotype; 3 in SEMC labeled, &quot;VENEZUELA: Amazonas State 
<geoCoordinate degrees="4" direction="north" minutes="58.845" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="4.98075">4°58.845'N</geoCoordinate>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="67" direction="west" minutes="44.345" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="-67.73908">67°44.345'W</geoCoordinate>
; 100m Communidad 
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Gato on Rio Sipapo; sandy stream; 7.i.2006 AS-06-016; leg. A.E.Z. Short/ 
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; 4 in SEMC labeled, &quot;VENEZUELA: Amazonas State 
<geoCoordinate degrees="4" direction="north" minutes="55.849" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="4.9308167">4°55.849'N</geoCoordinate>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="67" direction="west" minutes="44.645" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="-67.74408">67°44.645'W</geoCoordinate>
, 87m Stream along 
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Sipapo 16.i.2009; leg. Short, Garcia, Camacho, Miller, &amp; Joly VZ09-0116-02X: stream habitats/ 
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; 3 in SEMC labeled, &quot;VENEZUELA: Anzoategui State 
<geoCoordinate degrees="9" direction="north" minutes="05.808" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="9.0968">9°05.808'N</geoCoordinate>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="64" direction="west" minutes="19.445" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="-64.32408">64°19.445'W</geoCoordinate>
, 236 m River along highway, N. El Tigre 3.ii.2010; leg. A. Short; vegetated backwaters; VZ10-0203-03B/ 
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; 2 in SEMC labeled, &quot;VENEZUELA: Apure State 
<geoCoordinate degrees="7" direction="north" minutes="37.298" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="7.6216335">7°37.298'N</geoCoordinate>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="69" direction="west" minutes="3.679" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="-69.06132">69°3.679'W</geoCoordinate>
, 83m side road ca. 10 km E. Mantecal leg. Short, Garcia, &amp; Camacho 18.i.2009; marshy area and pool by road; VZ09-0118-02X/ 
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; 2 in SEMC labeled, &quot;VENEZUELA: Apure State 
<geoCoordinate degrees="7" direction="north" minutes="38.660" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="7.6443334">7°38.660'N</geoCoordinate>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="69" direction="west" minutes="18.004" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="-69.300064">69°18.004'W</geoCoordinate>
, 90m between &quot;La Ye&quot; &amp; Bruzual 19.i.2009; Short, Camacho, &amp; 
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; VZ09-0118-03X: lagoon/ 
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; 3 in SEMC labeled, &quot;VENEZUELA: 
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State 
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; 
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Río">Rio</normalizedToken>
Caripito, nr. 
<normalizedToken originalValue="Río">Rio</normalizedToken>
Orinoco, 12.i.2009; leg. Short &amp; Miller VZ09-0112-02A: river margin/ 
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7 in SEMC labeled, &quot;VENEZUELA: Monagas State 
<geoCoordinate degrees="9" direction="north" minutes="36.591" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="9.60985">9°36.591'N</geoCoordinate>
, 
<geoCoordinate degrees="63" direction="west" minutes="8.295" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="-63.13825">63°8.295'W</geoCoordinate>
, 45 m S. of Maturin; vegetated river/ morichal margin;2.ii.2010; leg. Short &amp; Garcia; VZ10-0202-01B/ 
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.
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