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y p e m a t e r i a l:
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: &quot;N
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42°46'10,
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, Brachat &amp; Meybohm /
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det.
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.
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;
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: &quot;N
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42°48'55,
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, Brachat &amp; Meybohm&quot; (cAss)
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.
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E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet (adjective) alludes to the short flagellum in the internal sac of the aedeagus, one of the characters distinguishing this species from the similar and geographically close
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(EPPELSHEIM, 1878).
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D e s c r i p t i o n: Body length 2.4-3.0 mm; length of forebody 1.0-
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. Coloration: body, including antennae, reddish to dark-reddish; legs yellow. Eyes strongly reduced, without ommatidia and pigmentation. External characters as in
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, except as follows:
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Large
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: elytra with pronounced sutural carinae, these carinae broad anteriorly and strongly tapering posteriad (
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); tergite VIII with a pair of posteriorly converging carinae in postero-median portion; medial lobe of aedeagus approximately
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long and shaped as in
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; internal sac with short flagellum.
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: spermatheca as in
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<paragraph id="CF3436DAB51E3C591AC41DFEFE7CFCEB" blockId="8.[178,1085,746,798]" pageId="8" pageNumber="1041">I n t r a s p e c i f i c v a r i a t i o n: The male secondary sexual characters are more or less reduced in small males.</paragraph>
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C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s:
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differs from other species of the
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group recorded from the Lesser Caucasus as follows:
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from
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by a smaller aedeagus (
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: approximately
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) with a broader ventral process, a differently shaped crista apicalis, and a much shorter flagellum;
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from
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<emphasis id="FDFFEAC8B51E3C591A991CC5FE1BFC11" box="[239,398,975,997]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1041">G. batumiensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by less strongly impressed male elytra with shorter, anteriorly broader and posteriorly less sharp sutural carinae, more pronounced carinae on the male tergite VII, a smaller aedeagus (
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<emphasis id="FDFFEAC8B51E3C5918771B1FFD0EFBEA" box="[513,667,1034,1055]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1041">G. batumiensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
: approximately
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), and a shorter and less slender spermatheca;
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from
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PACE, 1996 (male unknown) by more strongly reduced eyes (
<emphasis id="FDFFEAC8B51E3C5919BB1B58FBA3FB97" box="[973,1078,1101,1122]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1041">G. zerchei</emphasis>
: eyes composed of few ommatidia).
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D i s t r i b u t i o n a n d n a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Thespecimenswerecollected in two localities in the
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, Lesser Caucasus, Southwest
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. They were sifted from leaf litter in a mixed deciduous forest with chestnut, beech, and rhododendron (
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locality) and from chestnut litter at the base of a slope (MEYBOHM pers. comm.). The altitudes range from
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290 to
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.
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