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material examined.
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Macabé Forest 12.2.[19]63 C.M. Courtois&quot; (
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(3): &quot;
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Macabé
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C.M. Courtois&quot; (13, 1Ƥ
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, 13
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).
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description.
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Length:
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, length of elytra:
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. Body oval, dark reddish brown, shiny; dorsum glabrous, except for a few small setae on the head and elytra; wings fully developed as in all other known
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species.
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<paragraph id="8BD02859414C603BFF729917B929FEAA" blockId="0.[151,1436,1649,2019]" lastBlockId="1.[151,1436,152,279]" lastPageId="1" lastPageNumber="66" pageId="0" pageNumber="65">Labroclypeus subtrapezoidal, distinctly wider than long, widest at base; lateral margins weakly convex and strongly convergent to strongly rounded anterior angles; lateral border and ocular canthus producing an indistinct blunt angle; margins moderately reflexed, anteriorly shallowly sinuate medially; surface weakly convex medially, shiny, very densely punctate, distance between punctures irregular sometimes less than their diameter, with a few long, erect setae behind anterior margin. Frontoclypeal suture feebly impressed and weakly curved medially; smooth area in front of eye approximately twice as wide as long; ocular canthus short and moderately broad, finely and densely punctate, without terminal setae. Frons shiny; with fine, very dense punctures on anterior half, almost smooth on posterior half; completely glabrous. Eyes moderately large, ratio of diameter / interocular width: 0.7. Antenna yellowish brown, composed of ten antennomeres; club with three antennomeres, as long as remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum anteriorly elevated and flattened.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B91BF44B414D603BFF2098BFB91CF973" bold="true" box="[151,284,1718,1742]" pageId="1" pageNumber="66">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
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(AD: paratype; EG: holotype). A: habitus, dorsal view; B: habitus, lateral view; C: head and pronotum, perpendicular dorsal view; D: metatibia (lateral view); E: aedeagus, left side lateral view; F: parameres, perpendicular dorsal view; G: aedeagus, right side lateral view. AD: not to scale, EG: scale 1 mm.
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Legs moderately broad and shiny; femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate; metafemur with anterior edge acute, lacking an adjacent serrate line, posterior ventral margin medially slightly convexly curved, convergent with anterior margin in apical third and not serrate; dorsally not serrate, finely setose. Metatibia moderately broad and long (
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D), widest at apex, ratio width / length: 1 / 3.0; dorsally longitudinally convex, with three groups of spines, basal one at first quarter, median one at one-third, and apical one at second third of metatibial length; basally with a few punctures, each bearing short single setae; lateral face longitudinally convex, with moderately dense and fine punctures, glabrous, apically punctures more sparse; ventral edge moderately sharp and only slightly serrate, with 5 fine spines equidistant from each other, medial face not punctate; apex interiorly near tarsal articulation deeply concavely sinuate at middle; serrate line from ventral margin extending onto the dorsal portion of sinuation. Tarsomeres dorsally smooth, ventrally with sparse, short setae; metatarsomeres ventrally glabrous, with a strongly serrate ridge, beside which is a strong longitudinal carina; first metatarsomere as long as the following tarsomere but a little longer than the upper tibial spur. Protibia short, tridentate, basal tooth small, external basal margin completely smooth. All claws symmetrical, feebly curved and long, with normally developed basal tooth.
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Aedeagus:
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EG.
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Length:
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, length of elytra:
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, width: 7.0
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. Female: eyes slightly smaller (ratio diameter / interocular width: 0.6) (antennal club lacking in female
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<emphasis id="B91BF44B414E6038FF729A36B93AFBEA" bold="true" box="[197,314,1087,1111]" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B91BF44B414E6038FEF69A49BA22FBEA" box="[321,546,1088,1111]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Hyposerica courtoisi</emphasis>
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is most similar to
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<emphasis id="B91BF44B414E6038FD5A9A49BB5BFBEA" box="[749,859,1088,1111]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">H. vinsoni</emphasis>
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Arrow,
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in external appearance and shape of the male genitalia. It may be differentiated from the latter by larger body size and the general shape of parameres: in the new species the right paramere is significantly shorter than the left and has a large, basal lobe interiorly while the left paramere has a strong, lateral tooth apically (
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EG).
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<emphasis id="B91BF44B414E6038FF729AC3B945FB5F" bold="true" box="[197,325,1226,1250]" pageId="2" pageNumber="67">Etymology.</emphasis>
The new species is dedicated to its collector, C. M. Courtois.
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