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43.
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,
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,
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,
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locality.
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<location id="E616603F1B2CFF9EFE90FD89FEB69349" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:6B6087F21B2CFF9FFF34FE45FCBE9022:E616603F1B2CFF9EFE90FD89FEB69349" box="[307,369,607,631]" country="Morocco" name="Glaui" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Glaui</location>
(
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<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFF64FD53FE9693A2" box="[199,337,645,668]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Type series.</emphasis>
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species was described from specimens from
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(Ait-Agia, Tarudant, Glaui).
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) labelled: “Glaui /
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<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFC83FD7EFBC293FE" box="[800,1029,680,704]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Mecinopsis lixoides</emphasis>
Esc.
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, tipo” (male,
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here designated), “Tarudant, 4.1912” (female,
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and “Ait Agia, 3.1912” (female,
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).
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<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFF64FD26FEAD9236" box="[199,362,752,776]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Redescription.</emphasis>
Male. Length
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.
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long, cylindrical, slender (
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).
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFBF1FD26FB029236" bold="true" box="[1106,1221,752,776]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Rostrum:</emphasis>
black with reddish apex, long (Rl/Pl 0.98), subcylindrical; in lateral view moderately curved, about of same width from base to apex (as in
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, fig. 93); in dorsal view with subparallel sides weakly enlarged near antennal insertion, distinctly striate-punctured in basal two thirds then smooth and shining, in basal half with recumbent, somewhat dense, whitish, moderately long to long (l/w 36), seta-like scales.
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFC27FC56FC0B92A6" bold="true" box="[900,972,896,920]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Head:</emphasis>
frons as wide as rostrum at base, without fovea; eyes moderately convex.
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFDAAFC75FD429282" bold="true" box="[521,645,931,956]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Antennae:</emphasis>
brown, inserted just in front of middle of rostrum; scape long, 7.0x longer than wide; funicle about as long as scape, segment 1 3.0x longer than wide, about as stout as and 20x longer than segment 2, which is 1.7x longer than wide, segment 3 about as long as wide, segments 4 and 5 transverse; club long, oval, segment 1 about as pubescent as others.
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black, with dense and regular punctures, intervals between punctures weakly convex and shining, hardly visible between recumbent, dense, whitish, long (l/w 47), seta-like scales; moderately transverse (Pw/Pl 1.27), with weakly rounded sides, with weakly prominent apical constriction, widest at basal third, weakly convex.
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFC48FBAAFB8795AA" bold="true" box="[1003,1088,1148,1172]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Elytra:</emphasis>
black; very long (El/Ew 1.78), at base weakly concave, with parallel sides, moderately wider than pronotum (Ew/Pw 1.32), somewhat convex on disc; interstriae hardly visible between almost recumbent, dense, white, long (about 0.5x as long as width of interstria; l/w 47), seta-like scales, arranged in 23 irregular rows; striae ill distinguishable from interstriae, with a row of scales similar to those of interstriae.
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFD21FADAFD04941A" bold="true" box="[642,707,1292,1316]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Legs:</emphasis>
moderately slender, with recumbent to subrecumbent, somewhat dense, whitish, seta-like scales, which are distinctly shorter than width of tibia; femora black, subclavate, profemora with stout tooth, meso- and metafemora with very small tooth; tibiae blackish brown, somewhat long; protibiae with apical part of ventral surface weakly directed outward; unci blackish, moderately stout, all equal in size and length; tarsi reddish brown, long, tarsomere 1 2.7x longer than wide, tarsomere 2 1.5x longer than wide, segment 3 distinctly bilobed and much wider than tarsomere 2, onychium thin and shorter than tarsomeres 13 taken together; claws dark brown, equal in length, fused in basal half.
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFC07FA32FC3A94C2" bold="true" box="[932,1021,1508,1532]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Venter:</emphasis>
metasternum blackish brown, hardly visible between recumbent, somewhat dense (especially at sides), whitish, long, seta-like scales; mesothoracic epimera and meso- and metathoracic episterna with dense, whitish, long, subelliptical scales; abdomen black, with dense and somewhat regular small punctures, which are hardly visible between recumbent to subrecumbent, dense, white, long, seta-like scales; ventrites length ratio 12/34 1.83.
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFCC8F9A5FC7497B2" bold="true" box="[875,947,1651,1676]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Penis:</emphasis>
fig. 136.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="E37636E41B2CFF9EFF64F941FBA797C9" blockId="72.[151,1436,607,2036]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">
Female. As in male except rostrum distinctly longer (Rl/Pl 1.30) (as in
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<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFB95F94FFB20978E" box="[1078,1255,1688,1712]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">M. kaemmereri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, fig. 89), only moderately punctured with broader intervals between punctures, antennae inserted at middle of rostrum, femora unarmed, uncus of metatibiae very small.
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFDCFF909FD2F97C6" bold="true" box="[620,744,1759,1784]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Sternite 8:</emphasis>
fig. 154.
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFCF7F909FC3D97C6" bold="true" box="[852,1018,1759,1784]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Spermatheca:</emphasis>
fig. 168.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="E37636E41B2CFF9EFF64F8D2FC2B9601" blockId="72.[151,1436,607,2036]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFF64F8D2FE849622" box="[199,323,1796,1820]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Variability.</emphasis>
Length
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. The colour of antennae, femora, tibiae and abdomen varies from reddish brown to blackish. Sometimes the elytra are weakly enlarged in apical third.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="ABD3656F1B2CFF9EFF64F89AFCD296CA" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="E37636E41B2CFF9EFF64F89AFCD296CA" blockId="72.[151,1436,607,2036]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFF64F89AFDFA965A" box="[199,573,1868,1892]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Remarks and comparative notes.</emphasis>
This is one of the largest species in the genus, like
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<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFB35F89BFA84965A" box="[1174,1347,1868,1892]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">M. kaemmereri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="24C94D671B2CFF9EFADEF89BFEF196B6" authorityName="Tosevski &amp; Caldara" authorityYear="2011" class="Insecta" family="Curculionidae" genus="Mecinus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="janthiniformis">
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFADEF89BFEF196B6" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">M. janthiniformis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. It is easily distinguishable from other species of
<taxonomicName id="24C94D671B2CFF9EFCD7F8A6FC1496B9" authorityName="Caldara &amp; Fogato" authorityYear="2013" box="[884,979,1904,1927]" class="Insecta" family="Curculionidae" genus="Mecinus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFCD7F8A6FC1496B9" box="[884,979,1904,1927]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Mecinus</emphasis>
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with long elytra by the elytral vestiture being denser and more compact, so that the striae are not visible.
<taxonomicName id="24C94D671B2CFF9EFCCFF843FBEF9692" baseAuthorityName="Escalera" baseAuthorityYear="1914" box="[876,1064,1940,1964]" class="Insecta" family="Curculionidae" genus="Mecinus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lixoides">
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFCCFF843FBEF9692" box="[876,1064,1940,1964]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Mecinus lixoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
seems more closely related to
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<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFADEF843FF3996EE" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">M. barbarus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, from which it can be separated also by the pronotum being widest in the basal third (and not at middle) and the rostrum and antennae of the female being longer.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="ABD3656F1B2DFF9FFF64FF4EFD479191" box="[199,640,151,176]" pageId="73" pageNumber="74" type="biology_ecology">
<paragraph id="E37636E41B2DFF9FFF64FF4EFD479191" blockId="73.[151,1435,151,284]" box="[199,640,151,176]" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2DFF9FFF64FF4EFE42918E" box="[199,389,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">Biological notes.</emphasis>
No data are available.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="ABD3656F1B2DFF9FFF64FF6AFE0C91ED" box="[199,459,188,212]" pageId="73" pageNumber="74" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="E37636E41B2DFF9FFF64FF6AFE0C91ED" blockId="73.[151,1435,151,284]" box="[199,459,188,212]" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2DFF9FFF64FF6AFE9091EA" box="[199,343,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">Distribution.</emphasis>
<collectingCountry id="9BDE76741B2DFF9FFEFDFF6AFE0091ED" box="[350,455,188,211]" name="Morocco" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">Morocco</collectingCountry>
.
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<subSubSection id="ABD3656F1B2DFF9FFF64FF37FCBE9022" pageId="73" pageNumber="74" type="materials_examined">
<paragraph id="E37636E41B2DFF9FFF64FF37FCBE9022" blockId="73.[151,1435,151,284]" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2DFF9FFF64FF37FDD991C6" box="[199,542,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">Non-type specimens examined</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2DFF9FFD8CFF09FD1791C6" bold="true" box="[559,720,223,248]" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">
<collectingCountry id="9BDE76741B2DFF9FFD8CFF09FD0C91C6" box="[559,715,223,248]" name="Morocco" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">MOROCCO</collectingCountry>
:
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,
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leg. (3,
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(1,
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<collectingDate id="8733E9CC1B2DFF9FFE52FED2FD8B9022" box="[497,588,260,284]" pageId="73" pageNumber="74" value="1912-04">IV.1912</collectingDate>
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,
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leg. (1,
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.
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