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E-Y: 2537 Fungi &amp; for. litter leg Endrody-Younga” (
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Body length:
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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: 0.6. 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: 1/1.53. Metatibia, ratio of width/length: 1/4.38. Metatarsi dorsally smooth; first metatarsomere as long as subsequent one. Aedeagus:
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. Female genitalia:
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.
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Diagnosis:
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is similar to
<taxonomicName id="4C62A3F2FF9538453A0AF94390ABF8BE" box="[310,461,1779,1801]" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Pleophylla" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="338" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ferruginea">
<emphasis id="B9160463FF9538453A0AF94390ABF8BE" box="[310,461,1779,1801]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="338">P. ferruginea</emphasis>
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in external morphology.
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<emphasis id="B9160463FF9538453B9AF8A590A2F891" box="[166,452,1810,1831]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="338">Pleophylla transkeiensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A225B918FF9538453AE9F8A59351F891" box="[469,567,1810,1831]" pageId="17" pageNumber="338" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
differs from the latter by the wider labroclypeus and the distinctly asymmetric parameres.
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<emphasis id="B9160463FF9538453801FF7092D7FF6A" box="[829,945,199,220]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="338">Variation:</emphasis>
Body length:
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9.7
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10.6 mm
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, elytral length:
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7.2
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7.4 mm
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, maximum width:
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5.1
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5.7 mm
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. Density of dark spot may vary, sometimes completely without spots. Female: antennal club of female straight, composed of five antennomeres, as long as the remaining antennomeres combined; sixth antennomere short, a quarter as long as club length. Eyes smaller than in male: ratio of eye diameter/ interocular width: 0.51.
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<emphasis id="B9160463FF9538453801FE4692DDFDB0" box="[829,955,497,518]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="338">Etymology:</emphasis>
The new species is named
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<emphasis id="B9160463FF9538453E36FE4694F9FDB0" box="[1290,1439,497,518]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="338">transkeiensis</emphasis>
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after its occurrence in the Transkei Region of
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.
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<emphasis id="B9160463FF9538453801FDD792CFFDC3" box="[829,937,608,629]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="338">Remarks:</emphasis>
In a previous publication we referred to this species as SpM-16 (Ozg € ul-Siemund € &amp;
<bibRefCitation id="EFF3A580FF9538453FD1FDC994E0FD22" author="Ahrens D" box="[1261,1414,638,660]" pageId="17" pageNumber="338" pagination="167 - 178" refId="ref23910" refString="Ozg € ul-Siemund € A, Ahrens D. 2015. Taxonomic utility of female copulation organs in Sericini chafers (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae), with special reference to asymmetry. Contributions to Zoology 84 (2): 167-178." type="journal article" year="2015">Ahrens, 2015</bibRefCitation>
).
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