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<emphasis id="B901EAA6FF895A66BE8A7A4BFDFA7781" bold="true" box="[151,547,1643,1669]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="190">Schelodontes baviaanskloofensis</emphasis>
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,
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,
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D, 4G-K)
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material.
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, pinned, male (Ditsong National Museum of Natural History in Pretoria): “
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Baviaanskloof near
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// -33.616, 24.253; under stone // Leg. Marcin Jan Kamiński”
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.
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, preserved in 96% ethanol, male and female (Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences), male and female (Ditsong National Museum of Natural History in Pretoria): same data as holotype
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.
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<emphasis id="B901EAA6FF895A66BEDA7BAAFE9876A7" bold="true" box="[199,321,1930,1955]" pageId="7" pageNumber="190">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
This species resembles
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<emphasis id="B901EAA6FF895A66BC467BAAFCB076A7" box="[603,873,1930,1955]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="190">Schelodontes chevrolati</emphasis>
(Mulsant and Rey, 1853)
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,
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<emphasis id="B901EAA6FF895A66BABF7BABFAD476A7" box="[1186,1293,1930,1955]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="190">S. oblitus</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B901EAA6FF895A66BED77B8FFEF276C2" box="[202,299,1967,1990]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="190">S. omeri</emphasis>
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Koch,
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in having the anterior pronotal angles rounded, pronotal disc with dense and clearly visible punctation (punctures separated by 2 diameters or less), scutellum situated below the level of elytral humeri (in longitudinal axis) and elytral humeri protruding laterally (
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DG).
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can be distinguished from
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<emphasis id="B901EAA6FF865A69BF6D7C9DFE0171D1" box="[368,472,188,213]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="191">S. oblitus</emphasis>
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(
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F) and
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<emphasis id="B901EAA6FF865A69BC657C9DFD0C71D0" box="[632,725,189,212]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="191">S. omeri</emphasis>
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(
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G) by its shiny body. Moreover, it differs from
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<emphasis id="B901EAA6FF865A69BB297C9DFA4571D1" box="[1332,1436,188,213]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="191">S. oblitus</emphasis>
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based on the pronotum lacking a posterior border (fine, but visible in the middle in
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<emphasis id="B901EAA6FF865A69BA2A7CC0FB4671FC" box="[1079,1183,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="191">S. oblitus</emphasis>
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). From
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<emphasis id="B901EAA6FF865A69BAE47CC0FA5C71FC" box="[1273,1413,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="191">S. chevrolati</emphasis>
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it can be distinguished by having prominent denticles on the inner side of metafemora (
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K).
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<emphasis id="B901EAA6FF865A69BEDA7D07FE807044" bold="true" box="[199,345,295,320]" pageId="8" pageNumber="191">Description.</emphasis>
Measurements. Body—length ca. 8.0 mm; width ratio elytra / pronotum ca. 0.9; length ratio elytra / pronotum ca. 1.3. Clypeus—clypeal emargination width / depth ratio ca. 15.0. Antennae—length ratio antenna / pronotum ca. 0.8; ratio length of antenna / width of 3rd antennomere ca. 12.5; length ratio of antennomere 3rd / 2nd ca. 2.0; ratio length / width of 5th antennomere ca. 1.4. Maxillary palp—ratio width of maxillary palp / length of 3rd antennomere ca. 1.3. Pronotum—pronotum length / width ratio ca. 0.8; length ratio pronotum (measured in the middle) / side of pronotum (measured at the level of anterior angle) ca. 1.0. Elytra—elytra length / width ratio ca. 1.4. Scutellum—width ratio anterior margin of elytra / scutellum at base ca. 2.8. Metaventritelength ratio cavity of hind coxa / metaventrite between the insertions of mid and hind coxae ca. 3.1. Abdomenwidth ratio process of 1st abdominal ventrite / process of metaventrite ca. 1.6. Legs—protibia length / width ratio ca. 2.1; profemur length / width ratio ca. 2.7. Tarsi—length ratio metatarsomere 1st / 2nd ca. 1.6. Male genitalialength of parameres / basal part of aedeagus ca. 0.4; length of clavae / parameres ca. 0.6.
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Body surface bare and shiny (
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D). Head with dense punctures, 23 diameters apart. Clypeus scarcely emarginated. Mentum widest at middle; narrowing towards apex. Submentum triangular. Prosternite medially glabrous. Hypomeron glabrous and impunctate. Pronotum covered with fine punctures, 34 diameters apart; anterior border complete; basal border absent; lateral border widened basally, relatively wide (width
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greater than submarginal depression width); lateral margins actuate from anterior to posterior ends. Intercoxal process of prosternum angular in lateral view. Scutellum triangular, with fine punctures. Elytral striae punctate-sulcate; punctures fine, 45 diameters apart. Intervals shiny; with visible microsculpture (magnification
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); punctures scarcely visible, 34 diameters apart. Elytral humeri protruding laterally. 5th abdominal ventrite with submarginal sulcus; with irregularly distributed punctures, 12 diameters apart. Pro- and mesotarsi in both sexes not widened. Female protibiae evenly widened towards apex. Male protibiae with preapical concavity on the inner side. Inner face of male metafemorae with longitudinal concavities ending with large denticles. Female metafemora simple. Other leg segments without modifications. Parameres evenly narrowing towards apex; not fused basally. Ovipositor with coxites subequal in length to paraproct. Valvifers short and wide, other lobes elongate. Gonostyli situated on dorsal part of apical lobe of coxities.
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<emphasis id="B901EAA6FF865A69BEDA789CFE9775D1" bold="true" box="[199,334,1212,1237]" pageId="8" pageNumber="191">Etymology.</emphasis>
The name refers to the
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locality, Baviaanskloof Nature Reserve;
<emphasis id="B901EAA6FF865A69BA6E789CFACA75D1" box="[1139,1299,1212,1237]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="191">Baviaanskloof</emphasis>
—Dutch for “Valley of Baboons”).
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<emphasis id="B901EAA6FF865A69BEDA7924FEB97419" bold="true" box="[199,352,1284,1309]" pageId="8" pageNumber="191">Distribution.</emphasis>
This species has been collected in the central part of the Baviaanskloof Nature Reserve, near the Geelhoutbos campsites (GPS coordinates: -33.616, 24.253) (
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,
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).
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