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Length:
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. Head blackish brown, iridescent, with erect, sparse setae. Labroclypeus as wide as frons, subtrapezoidal; surface convex; plain, without an anterior concavity on each side; anterior margin straight, weakly reflexed, with a rim of sparse setae behind anterior margin; lateral margin not incised anteriorly; punctation of surface posteriorly dense; suture between labrum and clypeus invisible. Smooth area in front of eye distinctly separated from frons by a suture. Frons anteriorly flat, punctation irregular, moderately dense. Ocular canthus with terminal setae, ratio of length of ocular canthus/eye diameter: 1/3. Eyes evenly spherical, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.49. Antenna with eight antennomeres. Antennal club with three antennomeres, blackish, straight; width of antennal lamella equal to width of antennomeres of funiculus; apical lamella subequal to basal and median ones; length ratio of antennal club vs remaining antennomeres combined: 1/1.1; length ratio of third vs fourth antennomere: 1/3; fourth antennomere without lateral projection; length ratio of fifth vs fourth antennomere: 1/5. Labrum anteriorly bluntly angled on each side, concave at middle. Setae on mentum moderately dense.
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Head and pronotum without copper iridescent shine. Pronotum unicoloured, iridescent, blackish brown; widest at middle and base, width subequal to width of elytral base at humerus; anterior marginal line not interrupted medially, posterior marginal line absent; lateral margin not serrated, generally bent at middle, otherwise straight, behind anterior angles convex, posteriorly straight; setae of lateral margin sparse; basal margin evenly curved; transverse impression beside basal margin absent; anterior angles produced, sharply pointed; antero-lateral and postero-lateral angles not flattened dorsoventrally; posterior angles blunt; surface without median longitudinal impression, transversal furrows or setae; punctation on disc moderately dense, simple and fine, without well-defined impunctate areas.
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without punctures.
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Abdomen: sternites flat in sagittal plane; lateral carina absent; first visible ventrite with row of setae in posterior edge on an elevated carina; second visible ventrite with row of setae in medial region; basal ventrites medially with half length as laterally; ultimate and penultimate apical ventrites simple and flat; apical ventrite short (as long as preceding ventrite); penultimate apical ventrite with row of setae like preceding one; beside the robust row of setae, almost glabrous.
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strongly convex.
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<paragraph id="D543FE592129FFFBFF7AFE0439C4FB3C" blockId="31.[160,1156,142,1242]" pageId="31" pageNumber="638">Legs blackish and yellow. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.22. Metacoxa entirely plain, without elevated lateral longitudinal carina; without longer lateral bristles, with setae on basal surface, posterior margin glabrous. Metafemur with posterior margin straight. Metatibia widest at apex; ratio of width/length: 1/3.33; dorsal margin not carinated, smooth; interior surface more or less glabrous; median longitudinal punctation present on interior surface; interior margin of apex sharply and deeply truncate towards ventral margin; punctation on entire lateral face present; beside dorsal margin without a row of robust setae along entire length; basal group of spines reduced to a single robust spine; distal groups of spines disposed at two-thirds of metatibia length; ventral margin not serrated. Dorsal surface of tarsi glabrous, with dense punctures. Length ratio of dorsal tibial spur/first metatarsomere: 1/2. Metatarsi at apex weakly widened; first tarsomere straight, its length subequal to second and third tarsomeres combined; laterally not carinate; ventral margin serrated; ventral margin glabrous; medial face glabrous. Protibia with two distinct teeth; spur straight. First protarsomere curved, its length longer than second, third and fourth combined; width ratio of first protarsomere vs second protarsomere: ca. 1/2; second protarsomere enlarged; third and fourth protarsomere short and transverse (distinctly wider than long); fifth protarsomere circular in cross section, a little shorter than third and fourth protarsomere combined. Protarsal claws asymmetrical, shape of inner protarsal claw bifid, apex of basal tooth of inner protarsal claw convex.</paragraph>
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Aedeagus:
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(c,d).
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<paragraph id="D543FE592129FFFBFF7AFB2C38BAFB73" blockId="31.[160,1156,142,1242]" box="[192,393,1217,1242]" pageId="31" pageNumber="638">Female unknown.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="E788224B2129FFFBFF1AFAFC383DFA82" bold="true" box="[160,270,1297,1323]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="638">Variation</emphasis>
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Length: 5.16.0 mm. Elytral length:
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. Width:
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. Pronotum bicoloured, basal lateral margins yellowish; elytra bicoloured, yellowish brown with dark margins.
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<subSubSection id="9DE6ADD22129FFFBFF1AFA453AEFF983" pageId="31" pageNumber="638" type="diagnosis">
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<emphasis id="E788224B2129FFFBFF1AFA453827FA6B" bold="true" box="[160,276,1448,1474]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="638">Diagnosis</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="D543FE592129FFFBFF1AFA263AEFF983" blockId="31.[160,1156,1448,1578]" pageId="31" pageNumber="638">
<taxonomicName id="12FC85DA2129FFFBFF1AFA263859FA4D" authority="Pacheco &amp; Wipfler &amp; Monné &amp; Ahrens, 2022" authorityName="Pacheco &amp; Wipfler &amp; Monné &amp; Ahrens" authorityYear="2022" box="[160,362,1483,1508]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Symmela" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="31" pageNumber="638" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="erichsoni" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="E788224B2129FFFBFF1AFA263859FA4D" box="[160,362,1483,1508]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="638">Symmela erichsoni</emphasis>
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differs from
<taxonomicName id="12FC85DA2129FFFBFDEEFA263B9DFA4D" authorityName="Pacheco &amp; Wipfler &amp; Monné &amp; Ahrens" authorityYear="2022" box="[596,686,1483,1508]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Symmela" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="31" pageNumber="638" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="beskei">
<emphasis id="E788224B2129FFFBFDEEFA263B9DFA4D" box="[596,686,1483,1508]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="638">S. beskei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the enlarged first protarsomere, which is longer than second, third, and fourth protarsomere combined, and by the shorter and stouter parameres which are flattened laterally instead of dorso-ventrally.
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<subSubSection id="9DE6ADD22129FFFBFF1AF98C3A63F969" pageId="31" pageNumber="638" type="etymology">
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<emphasis id="E788224B2129FFFBFF1AF98C382EF9D2" bold="true" box="[160,285,1633,1659]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="638">Etymology</emphasis>
</paragraph>
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The species is named after W.F. Erichson, a German entomologist who described the genus
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<emphasis id="E788224B2129FFFBFF56F94A387CF969" box="[236,335,1703,1728]" italics="true" pageId="31" pageNumber="638">Symmela</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and many other taxa (noun in genitive case).
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