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Length:
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. Body oval, dark brown, antenna yellowish brown, elytra with irregular reddish spots, legs and pronotal base reddish brown, dorsal surface with dense, short, yellow setae which incline posteriorly, head and pronotum with long erect setae inclined anteriad.
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Figure 2. (A-D)
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(holotype). (A, E) Aedeagus, left side lateral view; (C, G) aedeagus, right side lateral view; (B, F) parameres, dorsal view; (D, H) habitus. Scale: 0.5 mm.
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Elytra oblong, widest at middle, striae moderately impressed, with fine and dense punctures, intervals weakly convex, with fine, dense punctures and fine setae, some darker spots glabrous and smooth, with only single coarse punctures bearing a long erect seta (partly abraded in the
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); epipleural edge very fine, ending widely before strongly rounded external apical angle of elytra, epipleura densely setose, apical border chitinous, without short microtrichomes.
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<paragraph id="8BBFFC3FD646FFFE7AFC1C34FDC2B849" blockId="9.[144,1104,168,1276]" pageId="9" pageNumber="2388">Ventral surface dull, with large, dense punctures and dense, short adpressed setae, metacoxa with similar punctation and pilosity and with a few robust setae laterally. Abdominal sternites finely and densely punctate, with fine, adpressed setae in punctures, each sternite with transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a long, robust seta. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur, with a few longer setae. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.41. Pygidium weakly convex, with fine and dense punctures and fine short setae, with a few longer setae on apical half, without smooth midline.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BBFFC3FD646FFFE7AFC1D34FCD7BFAB" blockId="9.[144,1104,168,1276]" pageId="9" pageNumber="2388">Legs moderately slender and slightly shiny, femora with fine and dense punctures, densely setose; anterior edge of metafemur acute lacking an adjacent serrated line, posterior margin weakly convex, with a few fine setae medially, weakly widened ventrally in apical half but not serrate, serrate dorsally. Metatibia moderately wide, weakly convexly widened at middle, ratio width/length: 1/3.9, dorsally sharply carinate, beside dorsal margin with a sharp, serrated carina being convergent with the dorsal margin from base to apex, groups of spines reduced to single spine along the carina; lateral face longitudinally convex, with dense, coarse punctures and short, dense setae, ventral edge serrate, with five nearly equidistant spines; medial face impunctate and smooth, apex sharply truncate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres glabrous and finely punctate dorsally, with sparse, short setae ventrally; metatarsomeres with strong longitudinal impressions dorsally and a strongly serrated ridge ventrally, with a distinct longitudinal carina laterally, first metatarsomere as long as following two tarsomeres combined and almost twice as long as dorsal tibial spur. Protibia short, bidentate, protarsal claws symmetrical.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B974202DD646FFFE7AD61B41FF17BE3D" box="[144,250,1362,1386]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="2388">Aedeagus</emphasis>
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<figureCitation id="133BE0BAD646FFFE7AD61B6AFEC8BEC6" box="[144,293,1401,1425]" captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="8.[212,279,982,1004]" captionTargetBox="[213,1172,169,950]" captionTargetId="figure@8.[212,1172,168,950]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="Figure 2. (A-D) Neoserica (s. str.) taibaiensis Liu &amp; Ahrens sp. nov. (holotype); (E-H) Neoserica (s. str.) yongkangensis Liu &amp; Ahrens sp. nov. (holotype). (A, E) Aedeagus, left side lateral view; (C, G) aedeagus, right side lateral view; (B, F) parameres, dorsal view; (D, H) habitus. Scale: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4000148" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4000148/files/figure.png" pageId="9" pageNumber="2388">Figure 2AC</figureCitation>
.
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<emphasis id="B974202DD646FFFE7AD61BF4FF11BEA9" box="[144,252,1511,1534]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="2388">Diagnosis</emphasis>
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The new species differs from the externally similar
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<emphasis id="B974202DD646FFFE78A7181CFC76BD71" box="[737,923,1551,1574]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="2388">Neoserica ursina</emphasis>
(
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)
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and
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<emphasis id="B974202DD646FFFE7A84183CFEA9BD11" box="[194,324,1582,1606]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="2388">N. fukiensis</emphasis>
(
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in having the left paramere bifid. From other taxa with bifid left parameres, it differs distinctly in the strongly developed basal lobe of right paramere (
<figureCitation id="133BE0BAD646FFFE7B4D187EFE90BDD2" box="[267,381,1645,1669]" captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="8.[212,279,982,1004]" captionTargetBox="[213,1172,169,950]" captionTargetId="figure@8.[212,1172,168,950]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="Figure 2. (A-D) Neoserica (s. str.) taibaiensis Liu &amp; Ahrens sp. nov. (holotype); (E-H) Neoserica (s. str.) yongkangensis Liu &amp; Ahrens sp. nov. (holotype). (A, E) Aedeagus, left side lateral view; (C, G) aedeagus, right side lateral view; (B, F) parameres, dorsal view; (D, H) habitus. Scale: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4000148" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4000148/files/figure.png" pageId="9" pageNumber="2388">Figure 2B</figureCitation>
) and, in part, the narrow and smaller body.
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<emphasis id="B974202DD645FFFD7A921EBBFEA0BB97" box="[212,333,168,192]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="2389">Etymology</emphasis>
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The new species is named after the
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locality, Taibai.
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