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locality.
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depository.
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material.
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to
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and
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, ca.
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.
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Basilw, P. Basilewsky
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det., 1956” / “[White label handwritten]
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Basil.
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det. Emetz 1977” / “[White label]
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.
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.
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Basilewsky”
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[
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]
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.
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<emphasis id="B96526613D3CFFBA04A9C91EF746FEC2" bold="true" box="[199,349,332,357]" pageId="7" pageNumber="164">Recognition.</emphasis>
Medium sized beetles (
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) with TBL
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.
<emphasis id="B96526613D3CFFBA07C2C91EF5ECFEC3" box="[940,1015,332,356]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="164">Color:</emphasis>
head and pronotum rufo-testaceous, elytra castaneous medially, testaceous marginally, and with large testaceous humeral mark.
<emphasis id="B96526613D3CFFBA00DFC922F2EEFE2F" box="[1201,1269,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="164">Head.</emphasis>
elongate (
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), HL
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and HW
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, smooth, eyes small, barely prominent; temples long; antennae long, slender, three antennomeres bypassing the base of pronotum; median tooth of mentum broad, rounded apically.
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almost as long as wide (
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) PL
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and PW
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; not punctate, lateral margins elevated, hind angles with pair of setae, angles slightly sinuate and weakly pointed.
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subovoid, intervals markedly flattened, marginal grooves deep, lateral margins elevated, microsculpture of intervals distinct. Aedeagus without hook (
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;
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). Shape of aedeagus (
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).
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<emphasis id="B96526613D3CFFBA04A9CA3EF41FFD22" bold="true" box="[199,516,620,645]" pageId="7" pageNumber="164">Geographical distribution.</emphasis>
This species was only recorded from
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<emphasis id="B96526613D3CFFBA04A9CADDF7E1FD0F" bold="true" box="[199,506,655,680]" pageId="7" pageNumber="164">Variation among species.</emphasis>
The manifestation of altitude probably not only limits the species richness or abundance, but tends to change the colour pattern too.
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documented the relation between altitudinal range and variation within
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species especially pattern elytra and colour of species. It was found that the specimens of
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(
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, collected from different elevations, ranging from
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to
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, have different color: species tend to be darker with increasing altitudes. At altitude less than
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, elytrae of
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and
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are more or less dark brown with humeral spots at intervals 5, 6 and 7 and macula at intervals 3 near apex; while between
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or higher, elytra turns blackish without any macula (
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). However not in all species colour variation is noticed in relation to altitude. It was found that
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collected from two elevation have variable colour and pattern. The specimens recorded at
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are light reddish to brownish in colour and sometimes with pale macula at apex, while those specimens collected at altitude more than
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are more dark red without any macula. This species had reduced wings or micropterous with limited dispersal ability.
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