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Type material.
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, primary evergreen mountainous cloud forest with very sparse undergrowth vegetation, sifting wet leave litter, leg.
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Body length 4.0 mm, body shape oval. Dorsal side brown without colour pattern or metallic shine, surface shiny and without distinct setation; antennae and legs lighter brown. Head with similar punctures as on pronotum, sparser on clypeus. Clypeal membrane not exposed. Eyes small, slightly globose. Antennae (
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) 10-segmented with separated 3-segmented club. Pronotum widest across middle, 1.5x as wide as long; anterior corners rounded and not protruding, posterior corners rectangular; lateral margins rounded and slightly excavated before posterior corners, without dentation; basal margin finely beaded; surface shiny with similar punctures as on head, disc convex without any impressions; prothoracic hypomera with a few separate punctures, surface smooth and shiny; prosternal apophysis conical, pointing posteriorly. Elytra oval, 1.27x as long as wide, widest across middle, with punctures irregularly arranged in rows, and distinctly larger than pronotal punctures; lateral margins with fine dentation and visible in dorsal view nearly over complete length of elytra; humeral angles not pronounced; epipleura diminishing somewhat before apex, scattered with a few punctures similar as those on metasternum. Hind wings completely absent. Abdominal ventrites (
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) laterally with punctures as large as in rows on elytra, last visible ventrite 5 unbeaded and without modifications. Legs without specific characters; tibiae rounded in cross section and exteriorly without any keels. Aedeagus as in
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; apicale short and broad triangular, with rounded apex.
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can be recognised by the 3-segmented antennal club in combination with the shapes of the pronotum and the aedeagal apicale. This combination of characters is unknown among the so far known five species from
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. The structure of the distal antennomeres of
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of both species), however, the shapes of the pronotum and the aedeagal apicale are different (compare Figs.
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from southwestern Yunnan and northeastern
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with 3-segmented antennal club is similar as
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however the pronotum is widest across base, and the aedeagal apicale is longer and narrower (compare
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Figs.
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, 6 in
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). Another clear difference is the elytral punctation. In
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they are much more irregularly distributed, not forming any row. While in
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it is possible to see most rows, and only few puncture between the rows.
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Named after the northeastern Indian province
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, where the
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was collected.
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