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Nelson
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(
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Bronzy­black in color; head with frontovertex feebly convex, without median carina; antennomeres longer than wide; pronotum with disk feebly convex without evident impressions, almost twice as wide as long; elytra without scutellar costae, intervals two, four, six and eight prominent; strial punctures small; abdominal sternum one shallowly, longitudinally concave, posterior margin broadly shallowly lobed; tarsomeres three and four with broad membranous lobes beneath.
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Description,
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Female.
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Head with frontovertex feebly convex, without median carina, slightly impressed between antennae; surface a mixture of irregular smooth raised areas and moderately large deep punctures that are smaller on vertex; clothed with long, erect, slender, white, hair­like setae; antennae slender, piceous, antennomeres longer than wide, serrate from antennomere 4, 11 oval; clypeus shallowly, triangularly emarginate.
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Present address: 1308 NW Hawk Creek, Blue Springs, MO 64015­1787
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<emphasis id="B91F93167D24FF85FEA1B726092A8047" bold="true" box="[264,332,1055,1074]" pageId="2" pageNumber="264">Fig. 1.</emphasis>
Holotype,
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Length, 18.0 mm; width,
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.
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female and
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,
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,
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is similar to the
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, except
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shorter and missing head, right mesotarsus and left metatarsus.
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Nothing is known about the host for this species, nor about its geographic range, since the
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and
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are the only specimens available.
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<emphasis id="B91F93167D25FF84FEBAB28C09C885BF" bold="true" box="[275,430,437,458]" pageId="3" pageNumber="265">Comparisons.</emphasis>
This species does not fit well into any of the subgenera proposed by
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. In size, color and elytral costate pattern
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<emphasis id="B91F93167D25FF84FC72B2E90C5C8590" box="[987,1082,464,485]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="265">P. plana</emphasis>
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resembles
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LeC.; however, in pronotal shape and proportion to elytra, it resembles
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Barr. The
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surface configuration of the pronotum is more even than among other North American species, including the recently described
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, and the strial punctures are distinctly smaller than in other species, except for
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<emphasis id="B91F93167D25FF84FCBFB16F0BAE861E" box="[790,968,598,619]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="265">P. flavomaculata</emphasis>
Nelson. It
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can be fit into the key to the species presented by
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as follows:
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3. Pronotum without distinct depressions, at most the disk may be flattened; third and fourth tarsomeres with membranous lobes beneath
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3b Pronotum with a broad median and narrow lateral depressions behind middle; only fourth tarsomeres with membranous lobes beneath
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5
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3b. Elytra with distinct scutellar costae ------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Elytra without scutellar costae -------------------------------------------------
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,
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<emphasis id="B91F93167D25FF84FEBAB07C09F5872F" bold="true" box="[275,403,837,858]" pageId="3" pageNumber="265">Etymology.</emphasis>
The specific name refers to the rather even surface of the pronotum.
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