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.
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:
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: ♀
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, Jizan Aiban, Sabia Road, Wadi Qusai, 17° 15 248”N, 42° 57 960”E,
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,
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, light trap, H. Al Dhafer (KSUM).
<typeStatus id="5486882DF952FFE4FCF07EF5FC58FFA2" box="[840,953,655,679]" pageId="4" pageNumber="19" type="paratype">Paratypes</typeStatus>
: 4♀ same data as a
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, 1♀ same data as a
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, beating, H. Fadl (KSMA);
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Jizan, Aiban, Sabia Road, Wadi Shahdan, 17° 28 266”N, 42° 51 191”E,
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,
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, light trap, H. Al Dhafer (KSMA); 1♀ Jizan Aiban Sabia Road, Wadi Dafa, 17° 22 495”N, 43° 04 529”E,
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,
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, hand collecting, H. Al Dhafer (KSMA);
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, 6♀, Jizan Abu Arish Al Redhah road W. Dhamad, 17° 12 324”N, 43° 01 580”,
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,
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, light trap, H. Al Dhafer (KSMA); 1♀ Wadi Qounonah, 19° 24 673”N, 41° 36 388”,
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,
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, light trap, H. Al Dhafer &amp; H. Fadl (KSMA);
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same data, Abdeldayem and A. El Torkey (KSMA);
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AlMajardah, Wadi Baqrah, 18° 55 642”N, 42° 02 829”E,
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,
<date id="FF83104FF952FFE4FF5C7FF1FE8AFEA6" box="[228,363,907,931]" pageId="4" pageNumber="19" value="2012-11-10">10-XI-2012</date>
, hand collecting, H. Al Dhafer (KSMA);
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Wadi Targ, 19° 37 365”N, 42° 18 020”E,
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,
<date id="FF83104FF952FFE4FF2F7FD5FEFDFEC2" box="[151,284,943,967]" pageId="4" pageNumber="19" value="2012-03-14">14-III-2012</date>
, light trap, H. Al Dhafer and H. Fadl (KSMA); 1♀, Baha Thee Ain 19° 55 774”N, 41° 28 574”E,
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, H. Setyaningrum (KSMA);
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Baha, Wadi Bawa, 20° 44 976”N, 41° 14 846”E,
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, beating, H. Fadl (KSMA).
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. Head: black, fine punctures with scattered larger round punctures, covered with decumbent pale hair; frons convex becoming flat toward anterior margin with well-developed apical carina; antennae just reaching the hind angles in males, not reaching the hind angles by about one antennomere in females, antennomere 2 subconical, as long as antennomere 3; antennomeres 310 dilated at apex, longer than wide; antennomere 11 subellipsoidal, narrowed at apex.
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<paragraph id="8B82368FF952FFE4FF7F78B5FF16F82A" blockId="4.[151,1436,618,2011]" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">Pronotum: Slightly wider than long, convex, widest at middle, dark brown to black, dense and fine round punctures with scattered larger round punctures, lateral margins subparallel; hind angles sharply truncate, carinate dorsally.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B82368FF952FFE4FF7F7940FB31F856" blockId="4.[151,1436,618,2011]" box="[199,1232,1338,1363]" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">Scutellum: Brown to dark brown, slightly wider than long, heart shaped, emarginate at base.</paragraph>
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Elytra: Yellowish brown, medially black (
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) or completely black, covered with dense yellow setae; striae densely and finely punctate, interstriae deeply punctate.
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<emphasis id="B949EA9DF952FFE4FF7F79DCFE99F8BA" bold="true" box="[199,376,1446,1471]" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">Male genitalia</emphasis>
: Parameres without a distinctly produced subapical rounded lobe, apicolateral expansion reduced, teardrop-like, two setae below expansion, distal setae long, medial lobe simple, subparallel margins beyond middle apically rounded (
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).
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<paragraph id="8B82368FF952FFE4FF7F7A68FCD4FB4A" blockId="4.[151,1436,618,2011]" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">
<emphasis id="B949EA9DF952FFE4FF7F7A68FE6DFB2E" bold="true" box="[199,396,1554,1579]" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">Female genitalia</emphasis>
: Proximal sclerite of bursa copulatrix with 8 large marginal teeth, terminal teeth almost bifid in appearance, and 10 smaller internal discal teeth (
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).
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<emphasis id="B949EA9DF952FFE4FF7F7A20FEA7FB76" bold="true" box="[199,326,1626,1651]" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">Etymology</emphasis>
. The patronym honors Bushra H. Al Dhafer.
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<emphasis id="B949EA9DF952FFE4FF7F7A04FEDBFB92" bold="true" box="[199,314,1662,1687]" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">Diagnosis</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis id="B949EA9DF952FFE4FEF07A04FDD6FB93" box="[328,567,1662,1686]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">Dicronychus bushrae</emphasis>
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is most similar to both
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<emphasis id="B949EA9DF952FFE4FCFA7A05FC3DFB93" box="[834,988,1662,1686]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">D. brancuccii</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B949EA9DF952FFE4FBAB7A05FBC6FB93" box="[1043,1063,1663,1686]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">D</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B949EA9DF952FFE4FB8E7A04FB9CFB93" box="[1078,1149,1662,1686]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">latifae</emphasis>
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, but can be distinguished in the female by the sclerite of the bursa copulatrix with eight large teeth (
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). Additionally, in the male, the median lobe of the aedeagus of
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<emphasis id="B949EA9DF952FFE4FE437ABDFD96FBDB" box="[507,631,1734,1758]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">D. bushrae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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) is not as narrowly rounded as
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D0CF952FFE4FB8F7ABDFB40FBDB" box="[1079,1185,1734,1758]" class="Insecta" family="Elateridae" genus="Dicronychus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="latifae">
<emphasis id="B949EA9DF952FFE4FB8F7ABDFBAAFBDB" box="[1079,1099,1735,1758]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">D</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B949EA9DF952FFE4FBE17ABCFB40FBDB" box="[1113,1185,1734,1758]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">latifae</emphasis>
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(
<figureCitation id="13062A0AF952FFE4FB087ABCFB12FBDA" box="[1200,1267,1734,1759]" captionStart="FIGURES 6 8" captionStartId="3.[151,264,1425,1448]" captionTargetBox="[167,1427,532,1388]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[152,1437,517,1393]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURES 6 8. Dicronychus latifae n. sp. 6. Habitus. 7. Male genitalia, dorsal. 8. Bursa copulatrix sclerite." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/285168/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">Fig. 7</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C3276504F952FFE5FF7F7A90FBF7FDFD" lastPageId="5" lastPageNumber="20" pageId="4" pageNumber="19" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8B82368FF952FFE5FF7F7A90FBF7FDFD" blockId="4.[151,1436,618,2011]" lastBlockId="5.[151,1436,151,248]" lastPageId="5" lastPageNumber="20" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">
<emphasis id="B949EA9DF952FFE4FF7F7A90FDE5FA06" bold="true" box="[199,516,1770,1795]" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">Remarks on other species.</emphasis>
Platia and Schimmel (1997) indicated in their key to the species of
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D0CF952FFE4FAB67A91FA7DFA06" box="[1294,1436,1771,1795]" class="Insecta" family="Elateridae" genus="Dicronychus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B949EA9DF952FFE4FAB67A91FA7DFA06" box="[1294,1436,1771,1795]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">Dicronychus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from the Arabian Peninsula, that
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<emphasis id="B949EA9DF952FFE4FDB17B75FD67FA23" box="[521,646,1806,1830]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">D. talhouki</emphasis>
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has “claw distinctly dilated in their first half,” but in the description of the species (page 314), the claws are described as “Feebly dilated in basal half.” Examination of the
<typeStatus id="5486882DF952FFE4FAA27B48FA9DFA4E" box="[1306,1404,1842,1867]" pageId="4" pageNumber="19" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
of this species confirms that the claws are feebly dilated in the basal half (
<figureCitation id="13062A0AF952FFE4FC0B7B2CFBE7FA6A" box="[947,1030,1878,1903]" captionStart="FIGURES 12 15" captionStartId="6.[151,264,1984,2007]" captionTargetBox="[165,1401,402,1927]" captionTargetId="figure@6.[151,1436,375,1962]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURES 12 15. Dicronychus talhouki. 12. Claw. 13. Prosternum without V-shaped suture. 14. Habitus, 15. Male genitalia, dorsal. 16. Bursa copulatrix sclerite." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/285170/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="19">Fig. 12</figureCitation>
). Additionally, Platia and Schimmel (1997) illustrated the sclerite of the bursa copulatrix with at least 8 large marginal relatively slender teeth, However, the sclerite of the bursa copulatrix of the
<typeStatus id="5486882DF952FFE4FD517BE4FCB0FAB2" box="[745,849,1950,1975]" pageId="4" pageNumber="19" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
female has 67 large thick marginal teeth with the distal teeth either bifid or trifid, a condition not illustrated by Platia and Schimmel (1997, fig. 70). All material listed below fits well within the concept of the
<typeStatus id="5486882DF953FFE5FD057CEDFCC4FDB5" box="[701,805,151,176]" pageId="5" pageNumber="20" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
of
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<emphasis id="B949EA9DF953FFE5FCE87CE3FC31FDB5" box="[848,976,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="20">D. talhouki</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. An undetermined number of
<typeStatus id="5486882DF953FFE5FA897CE2FA7DFDB5" box="[1329,1436,152,176]" pageId="5" pageNumber="20" type="paratype">paratypes</typeStatus>
from
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and
<collectingCountry id="F32A761FF953FFE5FE257CC7FE0AFDD1" box="[413,491,189,212]" name="Yemen" pageId="5" pageNumber="20">Yemen</collectingCountry>
were not examined (Platia and Schimmel, 1997 indicate
<specimenCount id="9D3BFD06F953FFE5FBD37CC6FB2EFDD0" box="[1131,1231,188,213]" pageId="5" pageNumber="20" type="male">20 males</specimenCount>
and
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but the number listed is 20 and “several spms.”). A redescription is provided below.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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