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<mods:title>The Mecyclothorax beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Moriomorphini) of Tahiti, Society Islands</mods:title>
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64.
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<paragraph pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Identification.</paragraph>
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This species shares the expanded pronotal and elytral lateral margins of other members of the
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group (Fig. 34B), but deviates by the larger body size, standardized body length 6.2 mm. The elytra are broadly extended laterad from the humeri, moreso even than in
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(Fig. 35B), resulting in broadly quadrate elytra. The head surface is glossy, with only small micropunctures - i.e., pore canals - disturbing the smooth surface. An obsolete transverse mesh, sculpticell breadth 3
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length, is visible on the pronotal disc, best seen in areas partially in shadow from illumination due to the curvature of the surface; micropunctures also visible across the pronotal surface. The discal elytral intervals are covered with elongate transverse microsculpture consisting of a mixture of transverse sculpticells, breadth 2
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length, and transverse lines. The male aedeagal median lobe is broadly expanded both dorsally and ventrally forming a spoon-shaped apex with a broadly convex apical face (Fig. 36B), a configuration that exaggerates the apical expansion of the median lobe in males of
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(Figs 36
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). The setal formula 2122 is shared with both
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and
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.
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<paragraph pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
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This Tahiti Iti representative of the species group is known from specimens collected 900-1100 m elevation on Mont Teatara. A teneral female specimen was obtained by beating
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plants with rotten leaves, upon some of which lay
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tree fern fronds.
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