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<emphasis id="B934EA81FFCCFF909B8E01BBFEA1F8D8" bold="true" box="[151,377,1770,1796]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="32">Cyphon flavescens</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation id="EFD14B62FFCCFF909A6601B8FDB3F8DF" author="Motschulsky" box="[383,619,1769,1795]" pageId="6" pageNumber="50" refString="Motschulsky, V. (1858) Insectes des Indes orientales. Etudes entomologiques, 7, 20 - 122." type="journal article" year="1858">Motschulsky, 1858</bibRefCitation>
: 63
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(
<figureCitation id="137B2A16FFCCFF909B86005CFEC8F8FB" box="[159,272,1805,1831]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 – 8" captionStartId="2.[151,272,1512,1536]" captionTargetBox="[161,1424,428,1511]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[151,1436,407,1523]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURES 1 – 8. Habitus illustrations. 1) Cyphon atratus; 2) Cyphon ovalis; 3) Cyphon flavescens, male; 4) Cyphon flavescens, female; 5) Hydrocyphon rufithorax, male; 6) Hydrocyphon rufithorax, female; 7) Mescirtes gagatinus; 8) Mescirtes gagatunus, close-up. Scale bar = 1.0." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/189844/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="32">Figs. 3–4</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="137B2A16FFCCFF909A05005CFEBFF8FB" box="[284,359,1805,1831]" captionStart-0="FIGURES 28 – 33" captionStart-1="FIGURES 34 – 39" captionStartId-0="7.[151,269,1679,1703]" captionStartId-1="9.[151,270,1104,1128]" captionTargetBox-0="[153,1397,295,1678]" captionTargetBox-1="[153,1431,188,1103]" captionTargetId-0="figure@7.[151,1436,291,1718]" captionTargetId-1="figure@9.[151,1436,158,1146]" captionTargetPageId-0="7" captionTargetPageId-1="9" captionText-0="FIGURES 28 – 33. Cyphon flavescens, female. 28) tergite 8; 29) sternite 8; 30) ovipositor and prehensor; 31) ovipositor, apical part; 32) coxites; 33) prehensor. Scale bar = 0.5 (28, 30), 0.25 (29)." captionText-1="FIGURES 34 – 39. Cyphon flavescens, male. 34) aedeagus; 35) sternite 9; 36) tergite 8; 37) tergite 9; 38) abdomen; 39)" httpUri-0="https://zenodo.org/record/189849/files/figure.png" httpUri-1="https://zenodo.org/record/189850/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="32">28–39</figureCitation>
)
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<treatmentCitationGroup id="AB5011BDFFCCFF909B8E000BFD0EF8AE" box="[151,726,1882,1906]" pageId="6" pageNumber="32">
=
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<emphasis id="B934EA81FFCCFF909BB5000BFEAAF8AD" box="[172,370,1882,1905]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="32">Cyphon infuscatus</emphasis>
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: 62
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A20757FAFFCCFF90996A000BFD0EF8AE" box="[627,726,1882,1906]" pageId="6" pageNumber="32">syn. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<emphasis id="B934EA81FFCCFF909B8E00F1FCEEF866" bold="true" box="[151,822,1952,1978]" pageId="6" pageNumber="32">
<typeStatus id="54FB8831FFCCFF909B8E00F1FF0AF866" box="[151,210,1952,1978]" pageId="6" pageNumber="32">Type</typeStatus>
material.
<typeStatus id="54FB8831FFCCFF909A4A00F1FE1DF866" box="[339,453,1952,1978]" pageId="6" pageNumber="32" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
of
<taxonomicName id="4C404D10FFCCFF909AF200F1FD13F866" box="[491,715,1952,1978]" class="Insecta" family="Scirtidae" genus="Cyphon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="flavescens">
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFCCFF909AF200F1FD13F866" bold="true" box="[491,715,1952,1978]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="32">Cyphon flavescens</emphasis>
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, female:
</emphasis>
[small red square label]; [small round yellow label]; [rectangular red label]; “
<taxonomicName id="4C404D10FFCCFF909ADE0096FDF3F83D" box="[455,555,1991,2017]" class="Insecta" family="Scirtidae" genus="Cyphon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Cyphon</taxonomicName>
/
<taxonomicName id="4C404D10FFCCFF90995C0096FD1EF83D" box="[581,710,1991,2017]" class="Insecta" family="Scirtidae" genus="Cyphon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="32" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="flavescens">flavescens</taxonomicName>
/ Motsch. / Mt. Nura-El. Ceyl.” [rectangular yellow label, handwritten]; deposited in
<collectionCode id="ED51AE56FFCDFF919AC107C9FDE0FF6E" box="[472,568,152,178]" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/49rk-3jpq" name="Zoological Museum, University of Amoy" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">ZMUM</collectionCode>
.
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFCDFF91995D07C6FBC6FF6D" bold="true" box="[580,1054,151,177]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">
<typeStatus id="54FB8831FFCDFF91995D07C6FD6FFF6D" box="[580,695,151,177]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
of
<taxonomicName id="4C404D10FFCDFF9199F807C6FC10FF6D" box="[737,968,151,177]" class="Insecta" family="Scirtidae" genus="Cyphon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="33" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="infuscatus">
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFCDFF9199F807C6FC10FF6D" bold="true" box="[737,968,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">Cyphon infuscatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, male:
</emphasis>
[small red square label]; [small round yellow label]; [rectangular red label]; “
<taxonomicName id="4C404D10FFCDFF9199F007EFFC89FF04" box="[745,849,190,216]" class="Insecta" family="Scirtidae" genus="Cyphon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="33" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Cyphon</taxonomicName>
/
<taxonomicName id="4C404D10FFCDFF91987407EFFC28FF04" box="[877,1008,190,216]" class="Insecta" family="Scirtidae" genus="Cyphon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="33" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="infuscatus">infuscatus</taxonomicName>
/ Motsch. / Mt. Nura-Ell. Ceyl.” [rectangular yellow label, handwritten]; deposited in
<collectionCode id="ED51AE56FFCDFF91981F07B4FCBDFF23" box="[774,869,229,255]" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/49rk-3jpq" name="Zoological Museum, University of Amoy" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">ZMUM</collectionCode>
. Severely damaged by pests, head missing, only left marginal part of pronotum, and part of left elytra present.
</paragraph>
<caption id="DF3F661BFFCDFF919B8E01DEFC71F915" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/189849/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="33" targetBox="[153,1397,295,1678]" targetPageId="7">
<paragraph id="8BFF3693FFCDFF919B8E01DEFC71F915" blockId="7.[151,1436,1679,1738]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFCDFF919B8E01DEFE86F97B" bold="true" box="[151,350,1679,1703]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">FIGURES 28–33.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C404D10FFCDFF919A7D01C1FDF4F97B" box="[356,556,1680,1703]" class="Insecta" family="Scirtidae" genus="Cyphon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="33" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="flavescens">
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFCDFF919A7D01C1FDF4F97B" box="[356,556,1680,1703]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">Cyphon flavescens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, female.
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFCDFF91998901DEFD6CF97B" bold="true" box="[656,692,1679,1703]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">28)</emphasis>
tergite 8;
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFCDFF91983801DEFC9DF97B" bold="true" box="[801,837,1679,1703]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">29)</emphasis>
sternite 8;
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFCDFF9198A401DEFC39F97B" bold="true" box="[957,993,1679,1703]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">30)</emphasis>
ovipositor and prehensor;
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFCDFF919E1901DEFAFBF97B" bold="true" box="[1280,1315,1679,1703]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">31)</emphasis>
ovipositor, apical part;
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFCDFF919A0D01E3FEE1F916" bold="true" box="[276,313,1714,1738]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">32)</emphasis>
coxites;
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFCDFF919A8101E3FE64F916" bold="true" box="[408,444,1714,1738]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">33)</emphasis>
prehensor. Scale bar = 0.5 (28, 30), 0.25 (29).
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="8BFF3693FFCDFF919BDC0073FECBF86C" blockId="7.[151,1437,1826,1968]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFCDFF919BDC0073FD51F8E0" bold="true" box="[197,649,1826,1852]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">Additional material studied. Male:</emphasis>
“
<collectingCountry id="F3577603FFCDFF9199850073FD24F8E0" box="[668,764,1826,1852]" name="Sri Lanka" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">Ceylon</collectingCountry>
”, on reverse “67 / 46” [round blue label, handwritten]; “
<taxonomicName id="4C404D10FFCDFF919BB80018FED9F8BF" box="[161,257,1865,1891]" class="Insecta" family="Scirtidae" genus="Cyphon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="33" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Cyphon</taxonomicName>
/
<taxonomicName id="4C404D10FFCDFF919A0F0018FE55F8BF" box="[278,397,1865,1891]" class="Insecta" family="Scirtidae" genus="Cyphon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="33" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="infuscatus">infuscatus</taxonomicName>
/
<collectingCountry id="F3577603FFCDFF919ABA0018FE2FF8BF" box="[419,503,1865,1891]" name="Sri Lanka" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">Ceylon</collectingCountry>
Mots.” [rectangular label, handwritten, probably by Motschulsky]; deposited in NHM.
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFCDFF919BF0003EFE96F855" bold="true" box="[233,334,1903,1929]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">Female:</emphasis>
“
<collectingCountry id="F3577603FFCDFF919A460021FE01F856" box="[351,473,1904,1930]" name="Sri Lanka" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">CEYLAN</collectingCountry>
Sabaragamuwa / Kalawang
<date id="FFFE1053FFCDFF91983E0021FCA2F856" box="[807,890,1904,1930]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33" value="1970-01-20">20.I.70</date>
/ MUSSARD BESUCHET
<collectionCode id="ED51AE56FFCDFF919FDA0021FACEF856" box="[1219,1302,1904,1930]" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">LÖBL</collectionCode>
”; deposited in
<collectionCode id="ED51AE56FFCDFF919BAC00C7FED7F86C" box="[181,271,1942,1968]" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/2jyg-xmd2" name="Museum d'Histoire Naturelle" pageId="7" pageNumber="33">MHNG</collectionCode>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C35A6518FFC2FF9E9BDC07C6FE5BFACF" pageId="8" pageNumber="34" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph id="8BFF3693FFC2FF9E9BDC07C6FE2CFF23" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1956]" pageId="8" pageNumber="34">
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFC2FF9E9BDC07C6FE9EFF6D" bold="true" box="[197,326,151,177]" pageId="8" pageNumber="34">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Body is small, oval, yellowish-brown, female has reduced hind wings. Penis and tegmen are Y-shaped, last ventrite in male is armed with a pair of small tubercules. Coxites of ovipositor are strongly sclerotized, prehensor is oval.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BFF3693FFC2FF9E9BDC065AFC79FE90" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1956]" pageId="8" pageNumber="34">
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFC2FF9E9BDC065AFEA6FEF9" bold="true" box="[197,382,267,293]" pageId="8" pageNumber="34">Redescription.</emphasis>
<typeStatus id="54FB8831FFC2FF9E9A9F065DFE20FEFA" box="[390,504,268,294]" pageId="8" pageNumber="34" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
, female. Measurements: TL 2.30, EW 1.30, EL 1.85, PW 0.95, PL 0.50, HW 0.65, HL 0.35, interocular space 0.50, greatest depth of body 0.85.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BFF3693FFC2FF9E9BDC0608FCA9FE46" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1956]" pageId="8" pageNumber="34">Body small, oval, moderately convex, covered with yellowish suberect setae, which are relatively long on elytra. Entire body yellowish-brown. Body length 1.8X width.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BFF3693FFC2FF9E9BDF06F7FEA1FD74" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1956]" pageId="8" pageNumber="34">
Head broad, width 1.9X length, 1.3X width of interocular space, with very indistinct granulate punctation; eyes small, coarsely facetted, slightly protuberant. Only two basal antennomeres present in the
<typeStatus id="54FB8831FFC2FF9E9E30069CFA4FFE3B" box="[1321,1431,461,487]" pageId="8" pageNumber="34" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
; antennomere 1 broad and globular, antennomere 2 smaller, cylindrical; length ratios of antennomeres 1.3: 1.0; L/W ratios of antennomeres 1.4, 2.0. Anterior clypeal margin straight, anteclypeus present. Labrum relatively long, with rounded anterior angles and slightly prominent membranous lobes, somewhat narrower than anterior margin of clypeus. Mandibles symmetrical, mesal mandibular edge with one subtriangular tooth and a sharp basal lamina.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BFF3693FFC2FF9E9BDC05E4FAF4FC9F" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1956]" pageId="8" pageNumber="34">Pronotal width 1.9X length, pronotum widest at base. Pronotal disc with indistinct granulate punctation similar to that on the head. Posterior margin of pronotum bisinuate. Anterior angles rounded, anterior and lateral margins continuous, semicircular; posterior angles more or less straight. Base of elytra evenly wider than base of pronotum. Scutellum subtriangular, slightly wider than long, with indistinct punctation.</paragraph>
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Elytra oval, without traces of ridges, length 1.4X width and 3.7X length of pronotum, broadest at its base. Sides regularly converging to apex in posterior half. Humeri indistinct. Punctation sparse, but more distinct than on pronotum, finely granulate, distance between punctures ca. 2.0–3.0 diameters. Epipleura regularly narrowing towards apices.
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wings reduced, slightly shorter than elytra.
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<paragraph id="8BFF3693FFC2FF9E9BDF04BBFB7EFB8E" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1956]" pageId="8" pageNumber="34">Prosternal process broad, rhomboidal with rounded sides, twice as long as broad. Mesocoxae separated by a subparallel, relatively narrow process (as long as wide), metaventral discrimen present in posterior 2/3. Ratio of ventrites’ lengths: 1.0: 1.7: 1.8: 1.7: 1.9, apex of ventrite 5 regularly rounded.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BFF3693FFC2FF9E9BDF030FFE5BFACF" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1956]" pageId="8" pageNumber="34">
Female genitalia. Ovipositor (L 1.40,
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) long, coxites broadly triangular, short and strongly sclerotized; prehensor (L 0.33,
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) oval, lightly sclerotized, with granulate surface and small denticles in the inner portion; tergite 8 (L 1.15,
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) with long apodemes, without setation on apical margin; sternite 8 (L 0.65,
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) short, semirectangular, apodemes fused basally, with long setae on strongly sclerotized anterolateral angles.
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<subSubSection id="C35A6518FFC2FF9E9BDF024EFB8CF93F" pageId="8" pageNumber="34" type="description">
<paragraph id="8BFF3693FFC2FF9E9BDF024EFD6EF994" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1956]" pageId="8" pageNumber="34">
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFC2FF9E9BDF024EFB6DFAE5" bold="true" box="[198,1205,1311,1337]" pageId="8" pageNumber="34">Male (description and measurements based on the specimen deposited in NHM).</emphasis>
Measurements: TL 2.75, EW 1.45, EL 2.30, PW 1.10, PL 0.55, HW 0.80, HL 0.45, interocular space 0.55, greatest depth of body 0.90. Length ratios of antennomeres 1.7: 1.0: 1.3: 1.8: 1.7: 1.7: 1.7: 1.7: 1.7: 1.7: 2.2; L/W ratios of antennomeres 1.4, 1.2, 2.0, 1.8, 1.7, 1.7, 1.7, 1.7, 1.7, 1.7, 2.2. Body more elongate, length 1.9X width. Eyes larger, not as coarsely facetted as in female.
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wings fully developed. Humeri distinct, epipleura somewhat narrowed behind metaventrite, mesoventral process more elongate, its length ca. 1.5X width. Ratio of ventrites’ lengths 1.0: 1.7: 1.7: 1.7: 1.9. Terminal ventrite with a pair of small tubercules adjacent to porelike structures, probably of secretory function.
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<paragraph id="8BFF3693FFC2FF9E9BDF0104FB8CF93F" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1956]" pageId="8" pageNumber="34">
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFC2FF9E9BDF0104FEA5F9B3" bold="true" box="[198,381,1621,1647]" pageId="8" pageNumber="34">Male genitalia</emphasis>
. Aedeagus (L 0.35,
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) with penis and tegmen hardly separable; penis Y-shaped, tegmen subrectangular with basal styli; sternite 8 (L 0.18,
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) minute, with few setae at apical edge; tergite 8 (L 0.30,
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) subquadrate, apodemes very short, densely covered with setae in apical portion; tergite 9 (L 0.25,
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) with short apodemes and sparse setae on apical margin.
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<subSubSection id="C35A6518FFC2FF9E9BDF01BEFF04F878" pageId="8" pageNumber="34" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BFF3693FFC2FF9E9BDF01BEFF04F878" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,1956]" pageId="8" pageNumber="34">
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFC2FF9E9BDF01BEFEE0F8D5" bold="true" box="[198,312,1775,1801]" pageId="8" pageNumber="34">Remarks</emphasis>
.
<bibRefCitation id="EFD14B62FFC2FF9E9A5E01A1FDECF8D6" author="Motschulsky" box="[327,564,1776,1802]" pageId="8" pageNumber="50" refString="Motschulsky, V. (1858) Insectes des Indes orientales. Etudes entomologiques, 7, 20 - 122." type="journal article" year="1858">Motschulsky (1858)</bibRefCitation>
mentioned the species was collected in very great numbers by M. Nietner. Probably, although not marked as the
<typeStatus id="54FB8831FFC2FF9E994E0047FD6DF8EC" box="[599,693,1814,1840]" pageId="8" pageNumber="34" type="syntype">syntype</typeStatus>
, the specimen from NHM originates from this particular series and more specimens are likely to be found in other museums. The species seems to be closely related to
<emphasis id="B934EA81FFC2FF9E9B8E0035FE5EF8A1" box="[151,390,1892,1917]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="34">Biroguineus fortipes</emphasis>
Pic. It is tentatively retained within
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<emphasis id="B934EA81FFC2FF9E982F0035FC49F8A1" box="[822,913,1892,1917]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="34">Cyphon</emphasis>
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, until there are more specimens available to study.
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