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<mods:title>Afrotropical ground beetles of Macrocheilus Hope, 1838 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) description of four new species and faunistic notes</mods:title>
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<taxonomicName authority="Serrano, 2023" authorityName="Serrano" authorityYear="2023" box="[151,424,1446,1473]" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Macrocheilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="schuelei" status="n. sp.">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,424,1446,1473]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Macrocheilus schuelei</emphasis>
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<figureCitation box="[151,243,1483,1509]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="7.[152,255,1916,1940]" captionTargetBox="[165,1321,160,1875]" captionTargetId="figure-80@7.[151,1340,151,1890]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="FIGURE 1. Habitus of Macrocheilus (dorsal view). a, M. assmanni n. sp. (holotype); b, M. kudrnai n. sp. (holotype); c, M. philippeorum n. sp. (holotype); d, M. schuelei n. sp. (holotype); e, M. allardi (holotype, plus labels); f, M. alluaudi (holotype, plus labels); g, M. alluaudi, CON (PSC); h, M. basilewskyi (holotype, plus labels); i, M. biguttatus (MRAC, plus labels)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7745283" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7745283/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Figs. 1d</figureCitation>
,
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,
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,
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,326,1554,1581]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Type material.</emphasis>
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male: “
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,
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, Camp 1, Chablis 1,\
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, 2425.II.\ 2012 forêt diversifiée, piège
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. Exp.\ Sangha 12,
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leg. -117-“ \\ “
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̧le, Herrenberg\ Shanga Projekt 2012” \\ “
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male\
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det. 2022” [t] [h] [red card]
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.
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: “
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, Camp 1, Chablis 1,\
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, 20\
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forêt diversifiée, piège
<collectionCode box="[1237,1277,1663,1689]" country="Colombia" name="Departamento de Biologia de la Universidad del Valle" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">UV</collectionCode>
.\ Exp. Sangha 12,
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leg. -105-“ \\ “Macr-01” (yellow label) (
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) \\ “
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female\
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det. 2022” [t] [h] [red card]
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.
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deposited in
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.
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deposited in
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,463,1770,1796]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Differential diagnosis.</emphasis>
Slender. Head, pronotum, elytrae and abdomen fuscous black or dark brown; labrum, mouthparts, antennae and legs brown; first half of each elytrum with a large longitudinal orange band; shiny, without microreticulation, pubescent.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,345,1878,1904]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Description.</emphasis>
Length of
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: 7.0 mm. Length of
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:
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(female).
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<emphasis box="[199,260,1915,1941]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Head</emphasis>
(
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). Much wider than long (male: length
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, width:
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; female: length
<quantity box="[1252,1354,1915,1941]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.28" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" unit="mm" value="1.28">1.28 mm</quantity>
; width:
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). Surface shining, coarsely and deeply punctured, less dense in middle of the frons, each puncture with a long, decumbent and fine brown-yellowish seta, without microsculpture; antero-lateral impressions not marked,
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[152,282,1916,1940]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
Habitus of
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<emphasis box="[404,542,1916,1940]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Macrocheilus</emphasis>
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(dorsal view). a,
<taxonomicName authority="Serrano, 2023" authorityName="Serrano" authorityYear="2023" box="[725,856,1917,1940]" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Macrocheilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="assmanni" status="n. sp.">
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(holotype); b,
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<emphasis box="[1076,1190,1916,1940]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">M. kudrnai</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[1198,1256,1917,1941]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[1198,1256,1917,1941]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
(holotype); c,
<taxonomicName authority="Serrano, 2023" authorityName="Serrano" authorityYear="2023" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Macrocheilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="philippeorum" status="n. sp.">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">M. philippeorum</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[294,352,1953,1977]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">
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</emphasis>
(holotype); d,
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<emphasis box="[504,621,1952,1976]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">M. schuelei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" box="[628,686,1953,1977]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">
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(holotype); e,
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<emphasis box="[836,938,1952,1976]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">M. allardi</emphasis>
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(holotype, plus labels); f,
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<emphasis box="[1207,1326,1952,1976]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">M. alluaudi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(holotype, plus labels); g,
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<emphasis box="[306,431,1988,2012]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">M. alluaudi,</emphasis>
CON
</taxonomicName>
(PSC); h,
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<emphasis box="[597,748,1988,2012]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">M. basilewskyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(holotype, plus labels); i,
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<emphasis box="[1019,1154,1988,2012]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">M. biguttatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(MRAC, plus labels).
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r ons not excavated behind clypeus; last maxillary palpomere slightly securiform, pubescent; eyes strongly prominent, temples short, some large setae along posterior margin of eyes. Clypeus almost smooth, anterior half with a row of five submarginal large setiferous punctures. Labrum smooth, dark brown and shiny, 1.1 times wider than long (male: length
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; female: length
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), anterior half converging, rounded along margins and apex, posterior half lateral margins slightly rounded; a large seta at the widest point near the rim, at the apex 4 setae, two exactly on the margin from the top, and two beneath the margin just on the top (
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); posterior lateral half up to widest point with a fringe of short setae underneath. A pair of supraorbital setae on each side (
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). Mentum with a central tooth, acuminate and sharp. Antennae with the first three antennomeres less densely pubescent with rather long setae, from the fourth antennomere densely pubescent with shorter setae, first and third antennomeres almost cylindrical, second and fourth subpyriform, the remaining depressed, slightly longer than wide, with a slight basal thin median longitudinal smooth area; last antennomere more or less acuminate.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[152,281,1463,1487]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
Labrum of
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<emphasis box="[405,543,1464,1488]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Macrocheilus</emphasis>
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(dorsal view). a,
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<emphasis box="[726,857,1464,1487]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">M. assmanni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel box="[864,923,1464,1488]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
(holotype); b,
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<emphasis box="[1077,1190,1464,1488]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">M. kudrnai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1198,1256,1464,1488]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[1198,1256,1464,1488]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
(holotype); c,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">M. philippeorum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" box="[294,351,1500,1524]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[294,351,1500,1524]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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(paratype); d,
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<emphasis box="[501,618,1500,1524]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">M. schuelei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" box="[624,682,1500,1524]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[624,682,1500,1524]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
(holotype); e,
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<emphasis box="[831,949,1500,1524]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">M. alluaudi</emphasis>
, CON
</taxonomicName>
(PSC); f,
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<emphasis box="[1119,1270,1500,1524]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">M. basilewskyi</emphasis>
, TAN
</taxonomicName>
(TAC); g,
<taxonomicName authority=", SEN" authorityName="SEN" box="[151,347,1536,1560]" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Macrocheilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="biguttatus">
<emphasis box="[151,286,1536,1560]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">M. biguttatus</emphasis>
, SEN
</taxonomicName>
(ACC); h,
<taxonomicName authority=", RCA" authorityName="RCA" box="[461,682,1536,1560]" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Macrocheilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bimaculatus">
<emphasis box="[461,619,1536,1560]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">M. bimaculatus</emphasis>
, RCA
</taxonomicName>
(TAC); i,
<taxonomicName authority=", RCI" authorityName="RCI" box="[787,982,1536,1560]" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Macrocheilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="clasispilus">
<emphasis box="[787,927,1536,1560]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">M. clasispilus</emphasis>
, RCI
</taxonomicName>
(ACC).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[152,279,1844,1868]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
Aedeagus of
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<emphasis box="[413,551,1844,1868]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Macrocheilus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
: median lobe and right paramere (left, lateral view) and median lobe (right, dorsal view). a,
<taxonomicName authority="Serrano, 2023" authorityName="Serrano" authorityYear="2023" box="[177,291,1880,1904]" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Macrocheilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kudrnai" status="n. sp.">
<emphasis box="[177,291,1880,1904]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">M. kudrnai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel box="[299,358,1881,1905]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
(holotype); b,
<taxonomicName authority="Serrano, 2023" authorityName="Serrano" authorityYear="2023" box="[514,686,1880,1904]" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Macrocheilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="philippeorum" status="n. sp.">
<emphasis box="[514,686,1880,1904]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">M. philippeorum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" box="[694,753,1881,1905]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[694,753,1881,1905]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
(holotype); c,
<taxonomicName authority="Serrano, 2023" authorityName="Serrano" authorityYear="2023" box="[907,1026,1880,1904]" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Macrocheilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="schuelei" status="n. sp.">
<emphasis box="[907,1026,1880,1904]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">M. schuelei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel box="[1034,1093,1881,1905]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
(holotype); d,
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<emphasis box="[1248,1368,1880,1904]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">M. alluaudi</emphasis>
, CON
</taxonomicName>
(PSC); e,
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<emphasis box="[250,385,1916,1940]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">M. biguttatus</emphasis>
, GBI
</taxonomicName>
(ASC); f,
<taxonomicName authority=", GBI" authorityName="GBI" box="[549,750,1916,1941]" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Macrocheilus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="diplospilus">
<emphasis box="[549,694,1916,1940]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">M. diplospilus</emphasis>
, GBI
</taxonomicName>
(ASC).
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<emphasis box="[199,280,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Thorax</emphasis>
. Pronotum slightly cordiform (
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), strongly transverse, 1.6 times wider than long (male: length
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, width:
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; female: length
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, width
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), maximum width just ahead of the middle length; surface covered with coarsely punctures, more or less uniformly distributed on all areas, bearing each one a long and fine brown-yellowish seta, intervals smooth; anterior angles rounded, anterior margin almost straight; posterior margin straight in the middle, oblique sinuate towards the posterior angles which are rounded and bear a long seta; anterior and posterior margins not margined, lateral margins with complete and distinct margination since the anterior angles, reaching the posterior angles, sinuate just anterior to posterior angles, without forming a tooth before the angles, a long seta in front of the widest part of pronotum, anterior angles with some large bristles; anterior transverse sulcus not distinct, pronotal base with a pair of round faint foveae near the posterior angles, a median slight sulcus in a flat and depressed area that reaches the posterior edge. Scutellum triangular, setiferous punctured. Prosternum coarsely punctured, without microsculpture.
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<emphasis box="[199,269,547,573]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Elytra</emphasis>
(
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) 1.7 times longer than wide (male: length
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, width
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; female: length
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, width
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), subparallel-sided, widening slightly towards the posterior third, not covering the last two tergites; only seven striae visible, the first six well-marked, the seventh faint, all slightly punctured and not reaching the base and the apex; intervals slightly convex, without microreticulation, coarse setiferous punctured in two rows on 1
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7
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intervals, decumbent seta brown-yellowish sub-erected and directed posteriad; lateral margin rounded in the shoulders, ending in deep furrow moderately densely punctured towards the scutellum. Scutellar striae visible between the two row of punctures in the anterior region of first interval. Basal pore present. Umbilicate series with 24 (male) and 29 (female) pores, irregular row in the first half, not interrupted in the middle although they are more separated from each other; 1 subapical pore shifted inward in the lengthening of the imaginary 8
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interval; apex with 4 extra pores,
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the lengthening of the imaginary 7
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striae, respectively, and
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the lengthening of 5
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interval.
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<paragraph blockId="10.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">
The longitudinal sub-humeral orange band extends obliquely from the 6
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to the 2
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intervals in the anterior region, reaching the intermediate region of the elytra in 3
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to 5
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intervals (
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).
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<emphasis box="[199,260,1015,1040]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Legs.</emphasis>
Brown coloured; all tarsomeres pubescent, first three fore tarsomeres not dilated, fourth tarsomere slightly triangulate; fore tibiae on the outer edge with two blunt spines.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="10.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">
<emphasis box="[199,371,1087,1113]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Ventral surface</emphasis>
. Almost all underside blackish, last abdominal sternite brownish; whole underside, including abdominal sternites coarsely punctured and pubescent (yellowish color), except gula, ventral and lateral sides of neck. Pubescence of prosternum and proepisternum erect; pubescence of the remaining ventral sclerites dressed and directed posteriad. Elytral epipleura moderately punctured, pubescence dressed and directed posteriad.
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<emphasis box="[199,363,1231,1257]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Male genitalia</emphasis>
(
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). Median lobe dilated in the median region, slightly constricted between basal bulb and shaft, apical margin rounded and slightly acuminated (dorsal view), apex sharp acuminated and downward (lateral view), ostium with one pair of thin and extensive scaled sclerotized stripes on dorsum, bending laterally downwards and backwards; left paramere longer than wide and straight, without distal tooth.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="10.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">
<emphasis box="[199,391,1375,1401]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Female genitalia</emphasis>
(
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). Gonocoxite 1 subtriangular; gonocoxite 2 largely sickle shaped, apex slightly acuminate; outer margin slightly curved, dorsal surface concave, almost all covered with numerous setae, inner margin with 78 setae; ventral surface convex, smooth.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="10.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,474,1482,1508]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Intraspecific variation.</emphasis>
There is some variability in the number of umbilicate elytral pores (24 to 29). There is also some variation in the number of subapical pores (male:1; female: 2) and in the location of the 4 apical extra pores in the lengthening of the imaginary 6
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striae (male) or 7
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(female), 6
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striae (male) or 7
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interval (female), 5
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intervals (male) or 6
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(female) and 3
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intervals (male) or 4
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(female).
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<subSubSection pageId="10" pageNumber="11" type="etymology">
<paragraph blockId="10.[151,1437,151,2013]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,334,1627,1653]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Etymology.</emphasis>
This species is named in honour of Peter Scḩle (Herrenberg,
<collectingCountry box="[1043,1152,1627,1653]" name="Germany" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Germany</collectingCountry>
), a well-known specialist on tiger and ground beetles of Africa who has strongly collaborated with us and kindly provided all the specimens of this new species.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="11" lastPageNumber="12" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" type="discussion">
<paragraph blockId="10.[151,1437,151,2013]" lastBlockId="11.[151,1437,151,249]" lastPageId="11" lastPageNumber="12" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,315,1735,1761]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Remarks.</emphasis>
The new species is more akin to
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<emphasis box="[683,959,1735,1761]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Macrocheilus scapularis</emphasis>
(Reiche, 1843)
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and
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<emphasis box="[1184,1295,1735,1761]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">M. allardi</emphasis>
Basilewsky, 1957
</taxonomicName>
than to the other African species by the elytral colour pattern (cf.
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<emphasis box="[1043,1066,1771,1796]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">vs</emphasis>
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and
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).
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Macrocheilus schuelei</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel box="[251,314,1807,1833]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
can be separated from the former species by the more transverse pronotum, the posterior angles of pronotum slightly obtuse and rounded at apex (acute and slightly rounded in
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<emphasis box="[1015,1169,1843,1869]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">M. scapularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), the legs totally brown (tibiae blackish in
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<emphasis box="[364,520,1879,1905]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">M. scapularis</emphasis>
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) and different shape of labrum (cf.
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and
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) and of median lobe of aedeagus (cf.
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and
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). The new species differs from
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<emphasis box="[846,961,1915,1941]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">M. allardi</emphasis>
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by the shorter body, the head, pronotum, scutellum, mouthparts and legs colour (cf.
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), a lesser securiform shape of the last palpomere of maxillary palps, more transverse and different shape of pronotum and of labrum.
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<emphasis box="[1030,1283,1987,2013]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Macrocheilus schuelei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1291,1355,1987,2013]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[1291,1355,1987,2013]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
differs from the other African species of this genus by the elytral colour pattern and the median lobe shape, among other external morphological characters.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection box="[199,873,222,249]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" type="distribution">
<paragraph blockId="11.[151,1437,151,249]" box="[199,873,222,249]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,345,222,248]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Distribution</emphasis>
. Only known from Republic of Central Africa.
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