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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.547.9375" ID-GBIF-Dataset="b31f5b07-a219-4ce2-aa79-659c789bd8d1" ID-PMC="PMC4714333" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-547-63" ID-PubMed="26798314" ID-ZBK="51E9F4CD75E24AC9A8F8514014482F33" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2015" ModsDocID="1313-2970-547-63" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 547" ModsDocTitle="Revision of the Afrotropical genus Notomela Jacoby, 1899 with description of N.joliveti sp. n. from Principe Island (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)" checkinTime="1451243609671" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Biondi, Maurizio &amp; D'Alessandro, Paola" docDate="2015" docId="9D27318F2261A5FE95B2CF00DA2CE616" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 547: 63-74" docOrigin="ZooKeys 547" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.547.9375" docTitle="Notomela joliveti Biondi &amp; D'Alessandro, 2015, sp. n." docType="treatment" docUuid="103F908A-AB0A-4F6E-AD61-A52C2FBB72B8" docUuidSource="ZooBank" docVersion="5" lastPageNumber="71" masterDocId="FFF6FFB3FF86A8769752FFBAFF99FF82" masterDocTitle="Revision of the Afrotropical genus Notomela Jacoby, 1899 with description of N. joliveti sp. n. from Principe Island (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)" masterLastPageNumber="74" masterPageNumber="63" pageNumber="68" updateTime="1668162365674" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Revision of the Afrotropical genus Notomela Jacoby, 1899 with description of N. joliveti sp. n. from Principe Island (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Biondi, Maurizio</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>D'Alessandro, Paola</mods:namePart>
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<mods:date>2015</mods:date>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="68">Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Chrysomelidae</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/103F908A-AB0A-4F6E-AD61-A52C2FBB72B8" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Notomela" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Notomela joliveti" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="68" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="joliveti">Notomela joliveti</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="5" pageNumber="68">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="68">Type series.</paragraph>
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Holotype ♂: &quot;Is. Principe, Roca Inf. D. Henrique, iv.1901, L. Fea&quot; [
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and Principe: Principe Island, Infante Dom Enrique
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,
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] (MSNG). Paratypes (2 ♂♂): same locality, date and collector of the holotype (MSNG, BAQ).
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="68">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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sp. n. is the smallest species of the genus (LB ♂ = 3.90-4.20 mm). This new species is easily distinguishable from both
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Notomela" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Notomela cyanipennis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="68" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cyanipennis">Notomela cyanipennis</taxonomicName>
and
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for having: dorsal integuments unicolor (Fig. 3); head with densely and strongly punctated vertex and frons (Fig. 5); pronotum with weak but evident depressions on surface near anterior angles and base (Fig. 12); median lobe of aedeagus comparatively longer and less thickset (LE/LAED &lt;2.50) in ventral view and less curved, almost straight, in lateral view (Fig. 16).
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="68">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="68">Holotype ♂. Dorsal integument (Fig. 3) entirely dark green black with evident metallic reflection. Body elliptical elongate (LB = 4.20 mm), clearly convex. Maximum pronotal width at distal third (WP = 1.98 mm); maximum elytral width at basal fifth (WE = 2.56 mm).</paragraph>
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Frons and vertex (Fig. 5) subrugose, clearly punctate on microreticulate surface shagreened; frontal tubercles distant from each other, sub-quadrate, clearly delimited, with almost smooth surface; frontal grooves distally deep, particularly along ocular margin; interantennal space wide, distinctly wider than length of first antennomere; frontal carina large, not raised; clypeus short, sub-triangular; labrum sub-trapezoidal, brownish, with six setiferous punctures; palpi dark brown; eye sub-elliptical, normally sized; antennae filiform, about as long as half body length (LAN = 2.20 mm; LAN/LB = 0.52), with
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1-5 brownish and 6-11 gradually darker; length of each antennomere proportional to numerical sequence 26:14:18:14:15:16:15:16:18:18:25 (right antenna).
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="69">Pronotum (Fig. 12) sub-rectangular, strongly transverse (LP = 1.16 mm; WP/LP = 1.71), laterally clearly rounded forward and basally narrower than elytra; pronotal surface laterally and basally weakly depressed; basal margin very finely bordered, evenlyarcuate; lateral margin distinctly bordered, with small anterior setiferous pore; punctation finely and sparsely impressed on disc, more strongly and densely impressed on sides; surface sub-smooth. Scutellum large, sub-triangular, reddish-brown; surface almost smooth, just with very sparse and fine punctulation.</paragraph>
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Elytra elongate (LE = 3.56 mm; LE/LP = 3.07), covering entire pygidium, laterally sub-parallel, very weakly arcuate, apically jointly rounded; punctures small but clearly impressed (Fig. 13), arranged in 9 semi-regular rows (+ 1 short scutellar row); first row in epipleural area very strongly impressed; interstriae flat with smooth and
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punctulated surface; humeral callus clearly prominent; macropterous metathoracic wings.
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="70">Leg strongly blackened, with partially reddish tarsi and femoro-tibial joints; hind tibia straight with no dentate external margin; apical spur of hind tibia short, reddish. First anterior and middle tarsomeres clearly dilated (Fig. 3).</paragraph>
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<pageBreakToken pageId="8" pageNumber="71" start="start">Ventral</pageBreakToken>
surface blackish, partially reddish, with dense and rather uniformly distributed yellow pubescence; last abdominal sternite with a clear preapical depression with strongly punctated surface.
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="71">Median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 16) thickset (LAED = 1.45 mm; LE/LAED = 2.45), in ventral view, smooth, laterally larger in distal half and distinctly narrowed in basal half; apex widely truncate, sub-trapezoidal; ventral sulcus weakly impressed in basal half, with evident longitudinal wide median carina basally and distally clearly expanded; dorsal sulcus obliterate; dorsal ligula well-developed, apically sub-rectangular; median lobe in lateral view almost straight, just slightly sinuate in distal half with apex bent in ventral direction.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="71">Variation.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="71">♂ (n = 2): LE = 3.28 and 3.28 mm; WE = 2.32 and 2.60 mm; LP = 1.04 and 1.12 mm; WP = 1.76 and 1.92 mm; LAN = 1.88 and 2.00 mm; LAED = 1.45 and 1.45 mm; LB = 3.95 and 4.00 mm; LE/LP = 3.15 and 2.93; WE/WP = 1.32 and 1.35; WP/LP = 1.69 and 1.71; LE/LAED = 2.26 and 2.26; LAN/LB = 0.48 and 0.50.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="71">Paratypes (two males) very similar in shape, sculpture and color to the holotype; one paratype not completely mature. Female unknown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="71">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="71">With great pleasure we name the new species after our friend Pierre Jolivet, the &quot;Great Old Man&quot; of all the chrysomelid workers around the world.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="71">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Tomé">Tome</normalizedToken>
and Principe: Principe Island (Eastern Cape Province) (Fig. 17).
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="71">Ecological notes.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="71">Host plant is unknown. Species probably associated with forest ecosystems.</paragraph>
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