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<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFAFAD13FF76FF0EFEB59CF5" bold="true" box="[151,359,359,385]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="190">Micraspis unicus</emphasis>
Poorani
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,
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: This species can be separated from its Indian congeners by its medium-large size, uniform yellow-orange body, small scutellum, epipleuron at its widest almost half as wide as metaventrite, and the distinctive male genitalia. It is similar to two other Oriental species,
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(
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(from
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and
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) and
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(from
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) in having broadly explanate elytral margins, but the latter two have a much more strongly convex and almost hemispherical body outline, a pronotum with a posterior black border, and the elytra have reddish discal markings with the suture and lateral margins bordered black, and the male genitalia differ as follows. In
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, the penis guide of the tegmen is progressively narrowed along its entire length in ventral view and in lateral view, it is distinctly curved and much narrower in the posterior half. In
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too, the penis guide of the tegmen is posteriorly distinctly narrowed and curved in lateral view and the inner process of penis capsule is shorter than outer process (in
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,
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penis guide is cylindrical and subparallel for nearly four-fifths of its length and in lateral view, it is not apically curved; the penis has a more elongate capsule and a narrower, pointed apex). The spermatheca of female genitalia in
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has a robust cornu and an elongate, tubular ramus, but in
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<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFAFAD13FB07FD61FA479E6B" box="[1254,1429,776,799]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="190">M. quichauensis</emphasis>
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, the cornu of spermatheca is regularly curved with a much shorter ramus.
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, male
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: TL:
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; TL/TW: 1.10; PL/PW: 0.47; EL/EW: 0.93. Body outline (
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) broad oval to almost round, nearly as long as wide, broadest around middle of elytra and apically narrowed; dorsum convex and glabrous except head with white hairs around clypeal margin. Head creamy white-yellow, rest of dorsum and ventral side yellowish, pronotum with an indistinct pale yellowish-brown median marking, pronotum and elytra with lateral margins transparent. Head 0.46
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as wide as pronotum, with deep, prominent antennal canthus (
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), interocular distance 2.11
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as wide as eye, punctures very fine, shallow and widely separated, interspaces between punctures with strong, reticulate microsculpture. Pronotum with fine punctures, very shallowly impressed, denser and closer around posterior margin, irregular and widely separated on disc, more confused and somewhat obsolete on lateral sides, interspaces between punctures with reticulate microsculpture weaker than that on head. Elytra with punctures fine, shallow, but slightly larger, more deeply impressed and denser than those on pronotum, separated by 23 diameters, interspaces between punctures smooth, shiny. Prosternal intercoxal process (
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) tubular, with a pair of fine carinae not reaching beyond middle of process. Mesoventrite anteriorly very shallowly emarginate. Epipleuron (
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) unusually wide, nearly half as wide as metaventrite at widest. Intercoxal process of abdomen anteriorly triangularly produced. Abdominal postcoxal line (
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) short, incomplete laterally, not reaching posterior margin of ventrite 1. Posterior margin of ventrite 5 truncate, ventrite 6 very shallowly emarginate. Tarsal claws appendiculate. Male genitalia (
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Figs
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j
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) with penis guide of tegmen in ventral view (
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) elongate-cylindrical and subparallel up to four-fifths of its length, thereafter narrowed rather abruptly to a short tubular projection with a truncate apex; parameres (
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) broad, apically with a hook-like projection, lateral and inner apical margins densely pubescent; penis guide in lateral view (
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) gradually narrowed from anterior, apically inwardly produced acutely with parameres medially distinctly narrowed. Penis (
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Figs
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) with well-developed capsule with inner and outer processes subequal, penis apex (
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) produced into an acutely pointed projection (
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Fig.
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).
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<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFAFAD13FF26F841FEC89B4B" bold="true" box="[199,282,1576,1599]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="190">Female</emphasis>
: Externally similar to male (
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). Posterior margin of ventrite 5 medially slightly produced, that of ventrite 6 arcuate. Spermatheca (
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) with a short nodulus and much more elongate, tubular ramus, cornu robust, crescent shaped; sperm duct short; infundibulum prominent, bottle shaped; coxites club-handle like.
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<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFAFAD13FF26F8FBFEB39BDD" bold="true" box="[199,353,1682,1705]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="190">Type material</emphasis>
:
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<paragraph id="917236C5FFAFAD13FF26F8B1FA869A65" blockId="1.[151,1437,325,2017]" pageId="1" pageNumber="190">
<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFAFAD13FF26F8B1FEEE9B9B" bold="true" box="[199,316,1752,1775]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="190">Etymology</emphasis>
: The specific epithet is a Latin adjective and refers to the unique / singular features of this species such as unusually broad epipleuron and the male genitalia, which stand out from other Indian and Oriental
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<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFAFAD13FB57F893FAF39A65" box="[1206,1313,1786,1809]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="190">Micraspis</emphasis>
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spp.
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<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFAFAD13FF26F974FE539A40" bold="true" box="[199,385,1821,1844]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="190">Taxonomic notes</emphasis>
: This species is related to
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<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFAFAD13FD7AF974FC459A40" box="[667,919,1821,1844]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="190">Micraspis quichauensis</emphasis>
(
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)
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and
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<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFAFAD13FB8CF974FAB09A40" box="[1133,1378,1821,1844]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="190">Micraspis yunnanensis</emphasis>
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Jing,
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in having outwardly flat elytra. Specimens of these two species could not be examined and the differential diagnosis given here is based on the descriptions and illustrations provided by
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,
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, and
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Ren
<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFAFAD13FA87F90BFA479A0D" box="[1382,1429,1890,1913]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="190">et al</emphasis>
. (2009)
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. The male genitalia of
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<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFAFAD13FE09F9ECFD869AE8" box="[488,596,1925,1948]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="190">M. unicus</emphasis>
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are closer to those of
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<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFAFAD13FC7CF9ECFB829AE8" box="[925,1104,1925,1948]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="190">M. quichauensis</emphasis>
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and to a lesser degree, to
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,
</emphasis>
but the shape of the penis guide and penis apex illustrated by
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and
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Ren
<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFAFAD13FB26F9C1FB259ACB" box="[1223,1271,1960,1983]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="190">et al</emphasis>
. (2009)
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for the latter two species are different. The spermatheca of the female genitalia in
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<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFAFAD13FC59F9A3FBB59A95" box="[952,1127,1994,2017]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="190">M. quichauensis</emphasis>
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is also different from that of
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<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFACAD10FF76FEF1FED09DDB" box="[151,258,152,175]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="191">M. unicus</emphasis>
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in having a regularly curved, less robust cornu and a shorter ramus.
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<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFACAD10FC1BFEF1FB2B9DDB" box="[1018,1273,152,175]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="191">Micraspis quichauensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was originally described as
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<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFACAD10FEC6FED3FDFC9DA5" box="[295,558,186,209]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="191">Mononeda quichauensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="F55C4B34FFACAD10FDD9FED3FD169DA5" author="Hoang, D. N." box="[568,708,186,209]" pageId="2" pageNumber="191" pagination="10 - 15" refId="ref2382" refString="Hoang, D. N. (1982) A new genus and some new species of subfamily Coccinellinae (Coccinellidae, Coleoptera) from Vietnam. Tap Chi Sinh Vat Hoc, 4 (3), 10 - 15." type="journal article" year="1982">Hoàng, 1982</bibRefCitation>
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from Quichau,
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, who subsequently also noted that it was close to
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<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFACAD10FF0FFEB4FE8A9D80" box="[238,344,221,244]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="191">Micraspis</emphasis>
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and established a new subgenus
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<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFACAD10FD57FEB4FC0C9D80" box="[694,990,221,244]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="191">Mononeda (Paramicraspis)</emphasis>
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to place this species (
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).
<taxonomicName id="56CD4D46FFACAD10FF02FF69FE339C63" authority="Crotch 1874" authorityName="Crotch" authorityYear="1874" box="[227,481,256,279]" class="Insecta" family="Coccinellidae" genus="Mononeda" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="191" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFACAD10FF02FF69FE879C63" box="[227,341,256,279]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="191">Mononeda</emphasis>
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, a South American genus, has little in common with this species except for its explanate elytral margins and differs in having a much wider scutellum.
<bibRefCitation id="F55C4B34FFACAD10FC8EFF4BFC339C4D" author="Yu, G." box="[879,993,290,313]" pageId="2" pageNumber="191" refId="ref2868" refString="Yu, G. (2010) Chinese Lady Beetles (The Subfamily Coccinellinae). China Scientific Press, 180 pp. [In Chinese]" type="book" year="2010">Yu (2010)</bibRefCitation>
transferred
<taxonomicName id="56CD4D46FFACAD10FB8EFF4BFAA89C4D" authorityName="Hoang" authorityYear="1982" box="[1135,1402,290,313]" class="Insecta" family="Coccinellidae" genus="Mononeda" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="191" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="quichauensis">
<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFACAD10FB8EFF4BFAA89C4D" box="[1135,1402,290,313]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="191">Mononeda quichauensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to
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<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFACAD10FF76FF2CFED09C28" box="[151,258,325,348]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="191">Micraspis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and provided the habitus illustrations of both
<taxonomicName id="56CD4D46FFACAD10FCFFFF2CFC1E9C28" authorityName="Jing" authorityYear="1985" box="[798,972,325,348]" class="Insecta" family="Coccinellidae" genus="Micraspis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="191" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yunnanensis">
<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFACAD10FCFFFF2CFC1E9C28" box="[798,972,325,348]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="191">M. yunnanensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFACAD10FBEDFF2CFB139C28" box="[1036,1217,325,348]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="191">M. quichauensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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Ren
<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFACAD10FAEDFF2CFA9A9C28" box="[1292,1352,325,348]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="191">et al.</emphasis>
(2009)
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illustrated the habitus and male genitalia of
<emphasis id="A3B9EAD7FFACAD10FD8BFF01FCCB9C0B" box="[618,793,360,383]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="191">
<taxonomicName id="56CD4D46FFACAD10FD8BFF01FCC69C0B" authorityName="Jing" authorityYear="1985" box="[618,788,360,383]" class="Insecta" family="Coccinellidae" genus="Micraspis" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="191" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="yunnanensis">M. yunnanensis</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
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