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Ahrens, Zhao, Pham &amp; Liu
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1330 spec.” (
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Description of
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Length:
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. Body oblong, dark brown, legs reddish brown, antenna yellow, elytra with indistinct, dark spots, dorsal surface dull; pronotum and elytra with sparse, short, adpressed white setae, except densely setose frons otherwise glabrous.
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Labroclypeus slightly wider than long, widest at base, lateral margin straight and moderately convergent anteriorly, anterior angles convex, anterior margin shallowly emarginate medially, margins weakly reflexed; surface flat, shiny, finely and densely punctate, partly transversely wrinkled, with a few erect setae behind anterior margin; frontoclypeal suture distinct, flat, weakly bent medially; smooth area anterior to eye 1.2 times as wide as long; ocular canthus moderately long and narrow (1/4 of ocular diameter), smooth, without terminal seta. Frons flat, dull; surface with fine and dense punctures, with fine, long, semierect setae throughout. Eyes moderately large, ratio diameter/interocular width: 0.7. Antenna with nine antennomeres; club with four (!) antennomeres, 1.2 times as long as remaining antennomeres combined and straight; only antennomere five transverse and short, all other antennomeres of footstalk elongate.
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elevated and anteriorly flattened. Labrum transverse, short, moderately produced, deeply emarginate medially.
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Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate, metasternum partly densely setose, metacoxa glabrous, with a few long setae only laterally; abdominal sternites finely and densely punctate, with a transverse row of coarse punctures, each bearing a short, robust seta, otherwise finely densely setose. Mesosternum between mesocoxae half as wide as the slender mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.34. Pygidium of
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lost.
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Legs slender; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, coarsely and not densely punctate between the rows, with robust setae on basal half; metafemur shiny, anterior margin acute, without a continuously serrated line behind anterior margin, ventral posterior margin serrated in apical half and not widened, dorsal posterior margin completely serrated, in basal half with a few long setae which are half as long as width of metafemur. Metatibia slender and long, widest at apex, ratio of width/length: 1/5; dorsal margin sharply carinate, with two groups of spines, basal group at middle, apical group at four fifths of metatibial length, basally with a few single, robust setae; lateral face longitudinally concave, impunctate but densely wrinkled; ventral margin serrated, with two widely separated robust setae; medial face with a shallow longitudinal groove medially, sparsely punctate and glabrous; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation distinctly but bluntly truncate. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, minute setae, dorsally impunctate but with dense, fine wrinkles; metatarsomeres laterally and dorsally carinate, with a strongly serrated ridge ventrally, ventrally glabrous; metatarsomeres 24 missing in
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; metatarsomere one slightly more than twice as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia long, bidentate, external margin almost smooth; anterior claws symmetrical, basal tooth of both claws normal, sharply pointed at apex.
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Aedeagus:
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. Habitus:
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. Female unknown.
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<emphasis id="2082EAECFFC47C74FF1DA9A4EC69FAF3" bold="true" box="[199,322,1266,1292]" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="2082EAECFFC47C74FE96A9A5ECDFFAF2" box="[332,500,1267,1293]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Serica jiulaoci</emphasis>
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is in external appearance similar to
<taxonomicName id="D5F64D7DFFC47C74FBE3A9A5E99FFAF2" authorityName="Ahrens &amp; Zhao &amp; Pham &amp; Liu" authorityYear="2024" box="[1081,1204,1267,1293]" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Serica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="liyitengi" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="2082EAECFFC47C74FBE3A9A5E99FFAF2" box="[1081,1204,1267,1293]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">S. liyitengi</emphasis>
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and
<taxonomicName id="D5F64D7DFFC47C74FA5DA9A5EC48FACF" authorityName="Ahrens &amp; Zhao &amp; Pham &amp; Liu" authorityYear="2024" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Serica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gongtonggouensis" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="2082EAECFFC47C74FA5DA9A5EC48FACF" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">S. gongtonggouensis</emphasis>
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, whose genitalia share some of the general appearance, which have most species of the subgenus
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<emphasis id="2082EAECFFC47C74FE8AA86DECB3FAAA" box="[336,408,1339,1365]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Serica</emphasis>
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in common, but also species from the
<taxonomicName id="D5F64D7DFFC47C74FC8AA86DE901FAAB" authorityName="Brenske" authorityYear="1898" box="[848,1066,1339,1365]" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Serica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nigroguttata">
<emphasis id="2082EAECFFC47C74FC8AA86DE901FAAB" box="[848,1066,1339,1365]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Serica nigroguttata</emphasis>
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group and the
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<emphasis id="2082EAECFFC47C74FB0FA86DE867FAAA" box="[1237,1356,1339,1365]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">S. velutina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group. From all these species, however,
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<emphasis id="2082EAECFFC47C74FDD0A809EF85FA86" box="[522,686,1375,1401]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Serica jiulaoci</emphasis>
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differs by the antenna with a 4-lamellate club in male. Of course, also the shape of parameres of this new species is well different from all other species.
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<subSubSection id="5AEC6575FFC47C74FF1DA8F1EC76FA1A" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" type="etymology">
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<emphasis id="2082EAECFFC47C74FF1DA8F1EC65FA3E" bold="true" box="[199,334,1447,1473]" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Etymology.</emphasis>
The name of this new species (noun in apposition) is derived from its
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locality, Jiulaoci (
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,
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).
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