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(
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,
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)
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material.
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, male,
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,
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,
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(A0184;
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<emphasis id="B926FE0F3805595733D6E357C2601211" bold="true" box="[199,321,286,311]" pageId="5" pageNumber="582">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B926FE0F3805595732E4E357C1141211" bold="true" box="[501,565,286,311]" pageId="5" pageNumber="582">sp. n.</emphasis>
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resembles externally other
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<emphasis id="B926FE0F38055957307AE357C0D91211" box="[875,1016,286,311]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="582">Diatrichalus</emphasis>
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species with the black body and blue metallic shine of elytra (i.e.
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<emphasis id="B926FE0F3805595732C5E30DC165127D" box="[468,580,324,347]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="582">D. aeneus</emphasis>
Bocak
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,
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<emphasis id="B926FE0F3805595731B0E30DC063127D" box="[673,834,324,347]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="582">D. cyanescens</emphasis>
Bourgeois
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,
<taxonomicName id="4C52599E3805595730DBE30DC7BC127D" authority="Bocak" authorityName="Bocak" box="[970,1181,322,347]" class="Insecta" family="Lycidae" genus="Diatrichalus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="582" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dilatatus">
<emphasis id="B926FE0F3805595730DBE30DC76E127D" box="[970,1103,322,347]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="582">D. dilatatus</emphasis>
Bocak
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,
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<emphasis id="B926FE0F3805595737BDE30DC663127D" box="[1196,1346,322,347]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="582">D. metallicus</emphasis>
Kleine
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;
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), but differs in the extremely robust phallus (
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) and very small male eyes.
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<emphasis id="B926FE0F3805595733D6E3C3C2781285" bold="true" box="[199,345,394,419]" pageId="5" pageNumber="582">Description.</emphasis>
Male. Body medium-sized, slightly widened posteriorly; black colored, only elytra dark brown to black; head, pronotum, elytra, antennomere 1 and also femora with blue metallic shine (
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). Head small, with small prominent eyes, interocular distance 1.52 times longer than maximum eye diameter. Antennae compressed, acutely serrate. Pronotum medium sized, trapezoidal, 1.67 times wider than long at midline, median areola well developed with very weak lateral carinae. Elytra 3.84 times longer than width at humeri, with three fully developed primary costae, costa 1 reaching only one seventh of elytral length, secondary costae weak, often interrupted, cells rectangular, irregular. Phallus robust, with strongly projected ventral apical process, ventrally with characteristic hook (
<figureCitation id="13693E983805595733CFE0CFC27E11B9" box="[222,351,646,671]" captionStart="FIGURES 7 24" captionStartId="4.[151,264,1857,1880]" captionTargetBox="[152,1432,205,1794]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[151,1436,195,1934]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURES 7 24. Male genitalia (ventral and lateral views, respectively). 7, 8 — D. buruensis sp. n.; 9, 10 — D. manokwarensis sp. n.; 11, 12 — D. mindikensis sp. n.; 13, 14 — D. robustus sp. n.; 15, 16 — D. mancus; 17, 18 — D. dilatatus; 19, 20 — D. sinuaticollis; 21, 22 — D. xylobanoides; 23, 24 — D. niger. Scales 0.5 mm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/439182/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="582">Figs 1112</figureCitation>
). Phallobase slender, extensively sclerotized.
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<emphasis id="B926FE0F3805595733D6E0E3C25C11E5" bold="true" box="[199,381,682,707]" pageId="5" pageNumber="582">Measurements.</emphasis>
BL
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, WH
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, PL
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, PW
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, Edist
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, Ediam
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.
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<emphasis id="B926FE0F3805595733D6E087C26F11C1" bold="true" box="[199,334,718,743]" pageId="5" pageNumber="582">Etymology.</emphasis>
The specific name refers to the locality data.
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<emphasis id="B926FE0F3805595733D6E0BBC241102D" bold="true" box="[199,352,754,779]" pageId="5" pageNumber="582">Distribution.</emphasis>
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<collectingRegion id="4996ECFF380559573276E0BAC28A102C" box="[359,427,755,778]" country="Indonesia" name="Papua Barat" pageId="5" pageNumber="582">Papua</collectingRegion>
New Guinea
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, Mindik, known only from the
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locality.
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This distribution of this species partially overlaps with occurrences of several other similar metallic blue species. The metallic coloration of these taxa probably evolved as an aposematic signal and strong diversification in the shape of genitalia can be considered as an evidence that these species are probably distantly related (
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) and their coloration represents an aposematic signal and not an inherited ancestral character.
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