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E-Y: 2346 UV-light collection leg.
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: see Appendix S1.
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. Angle between lateral margins of labroclypeus and ocular canthus indistinct; anterior margin of labroclypeus medially straight; margins of labroclypeus moderately reflexed; smooth area in front of eyes twice as wide as long; ratio of eye diameter/interocular width: 0.77. Pronotum with dense and thick erect setae; unicoloured; basal margin of pronotum narrowly interrupted medially (distinctly less than scutellum width); larger punctures on pronotum very coarse. Hypomeron not carinate. Elytra with dark spots; erect dorsal pilosity on elytra dense (more than ten setae per interval); sutural interval in apical declivity of elytra delimited by a sharp carina; white, fine pilosity not condensed to longitudinal patches; intervals punctate at least laterally; adpressed white pilosity long, 1/3 to 1/2 of width of elytral intervals; external apical elytral angle evenly convex. Mesosternal process short. Ratio of length of metepisternum/ metacoxa: 1/1.5. Metatibia, ratio of width/length: 1/ 4.14. Metatarsi dorsally smooth; first metatarsomere as long as subsequent one. Aedeagus:
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Fig.
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. Female genitalia:
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.
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Diagnosis:
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differs from
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<emphasis id="B9160463FF8E385E384CFDBF92B2FDAB" box="[880,980,520,541]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="331">P. pilosa</emphasis>
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in the parameres by having the ventral lobe in lateral view wider and shorter, and from
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<emphasis id="B9160463FF8E385E3856FDF1957AFDEC" box="[874,1052,581,603]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="331">P. pseudopilosa</emphasis>
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by the base of left paramere being widened, the base of dorsal lobe of left paramere with a double medial tooth.
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<emphasis id="B9160463FF8E385E3816FD0792FBFD73" box="[810,925,688,709]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="331">Variation:</emphasis>
Body length:
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7.1
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9.6 mm
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, elytral length:
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5.6
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6.5 mm
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, maximum width:
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3.9
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4.8 mm
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. Density of dark spot may vary slightly, but never completely without spots. Female: antennal club of female straight, composed of five antennomeres, slightly longer than the remaining antennomeres combined; sixth antennomere subequal one to three quarters of club length. Eyes smaller than in male: ratio of eye diameter/interocular width: 0.5.
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<emphasis id="B9160463FF8E385E3814FC6292C0FC5C" box="[808,934,981,1002]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="331">Etymology:</emphasis>
The new species is named after its
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locality, Nelshoogte Forest Station.
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<emphasis id="B9160463FF8E385E3816FB9992F3FBF5" box="[810,917,1070,1091]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="331">Remarks:</emphasis>
In a previous publication we referred to this species as sp1A (Ozg € ul-Siemund € &amp;
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).
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