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: The specific epithet is an adjective derived from the name of the mountain range where the
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: Small species; body length
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. Habitus as in
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. Coloration: head dark-reddish; pronotum bright-reddish; elytra dark-brown, with the anterior portion reddish; abdomen blackish; legs dark-yellowish; antennae reddish.
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Head (
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) 1.03 times as long as broad; lateral margins behind eyes subparallel; punctation coarse and moderately dense, sparse in median dorsal portion; interstices without microsculpture. Eyes rather small, slightly more than half as long as postocular region in dorsal view. Antenna 1.0 mm long.
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Pronotum (
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) 1.05 times as long as broad and 0.85 times as broad as head; punctation coarse and rather dense; interstices without microsculpture; midline rather broadly impunctate.
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Elytra (
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) short and slender, 0.85 times as long as pronotum; punctation dense, rather coarse, but weakly defined. Hind wings completely reduced.
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: sternite VII with weakly concave posterior margin; sternite VIII (
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) weakly transverse, with rather shallow posterior excision, otherwise unmodified; aedeagus (
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)
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long; ventral process smoothly curved and apically very acute in lateral view; internal sac with two series of numerous small sclerotized spines and with a pair of larger apical spines.
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: Based on the external (coarse punctation) and the male sexual characters (aedeagus with two series of numerous sclerotized spines),
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undoubtedly belongs to the
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<emphasis id="B949EAC15954744DFE1FBCE9FD91F783" box="[459,546,2025,2049]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="290">S. viator</emphasis>
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group (see
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). Previously, only three micropterous species of this group were known, all of them distributed in
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:
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<emphasis id="B949EAC15954744DFCCFBA09FCCAFEA3" box="[795,889,265,289]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="290">S. bohaci</emphasis>
ASSING, 2008
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,
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<emphasis id="B949EAC15954744DFBF9BA09FB2BFEA3" box="[1069,1176,265,289]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="290">S. inflexus</emphasis>
ASSING, 2008
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, and
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<emphasis id="B949EAC15954744DFCCEBA29FC21FEC3" box="[794,914,297,321]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="290">S. pennatus</emphasis>
ASSING, 2008
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.
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<emphasis id="B949EAC15954744DFB84BA29FB4CFEC3" box="[1104,1279,297,321]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="290">Sunius alaianus</emphasis>
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is distinguished from all of them by the different shape of the ventral process of the aedeagus (species from
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: apical portion of aedeagus straight in lateral view) and by the shapes of the internal structures of the aedeagus. For illustrations of the three species from
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see
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.
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<emphasis id="B949EAC15954744DFCCEB929FB3CFDC3" bold="true" box="[794,1167,553,577]" pageId="3" pageNumber="290">Distribution and natural history</emphasis>
: The type locality is situated in the Alai range in southwestern
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at an altitude of
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. The
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was collected from a sandy stream bank below shrubs (FRISCH pers. comm.).
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