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<paragraph id="8BF2290E3321FFF5FF3AEF8401D6FF1A" blockId="10.[151,499,151,212]" box="[151,499,186,212]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">(Figs. 2B, 14AB, 15D, 18D)</paragraph>
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Dimensions,
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(
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ɗ
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: total (without rostrum)
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, head
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, rostrum
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, scape 0.74, mm, funicle
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, segments (1st/ 2nd/ 3rd/ 4th) 0.16 /0.14 /0.9 /
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, club
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, eyes 0.22 pronotum
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, elytra
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, tibiae (pro- /meso- /meta-) 0.80 /0.68 /
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.
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: head (with eyes)
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, head (between eyes)
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, rostrum (with pterygia)
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, rostrum (minimum dorsal /ventral) 0.30 /
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, club 0,13 mm, pronotum (anterior /maximum /posterior) 0.68 /1.08/
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: abdomen
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.
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Length
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, short-oblong, subparallel. Integument piceous, densely covered with linear, decumbent scales of testaceous and dark colour, arranged in mosaic pattern on elytra, and protruding, curved, short, dark, recurved setae; legs ferrugineous.
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short; scape hardly longer than pronotum, sinuate, heavily capitate at apical third; funicle slightly shorter than scape, segments 12 elongated, subequal, 34 much shorter but still longer than broad, 57 globular; club large, oval, twice as thick as funicle, longer than three previous segments combined.
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subconical, with broad base; rostrum short, dorsally fairly trapezoidal and slightly canaliculate; prorostrum weakly delimited; epistomal carina poorly marked; pterygia small, hardly protruding; frons depressed, with long and fine median impression. Eyes prominent, almost hemispherical (convexity 40%); close to but not reaching frontal border; peri-ocular sulcus noticeable. Scrobes slightly curved downwards. Integument at vertex more or less strongly rugose and punctate, on prorostrum uneven, microreticulated, with a few punctures, devoid of scales.
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subconvex, transverse (L/W ratio 0.70), not rimmed; sides strongly curved except at base and apex; widest at or slightly behind middle; densely covered with large, deep, almost coalescent, but sharply impressed punctures and short, decumbent, fulvescent, hair-like scales, with some intermixed setae.
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small, acute, covered by adjacent scales.
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oblong, 3.1
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longer and 1.5
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broader than pronotum, laterally weakly curved, widest and subparallel in middle portion, apex blunt, shoulders not marked; striae with large deep separated punctures (larger than on pronotum); intervals noticeably convex, with row of short, curved, brown, recurved setae protruding from dense vestiture of loose moderate-sized linear decumbent scales of flavescent or dark colour (in patches); 10th interval not narrowing at metacoxal level; scales 11.5
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diameter of a strial puncture in length, setae twice as long.
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without brushes; protibia straight, hardly emarginate, apex externally rounded off, internally expanded into an acute point bearing a strong sharp mucro flanked on either side by an incrassate fringing seta; meso- and metatibia with smaller mucro.
<emphasis id="B939F51C3321FFF5FD7BEA770307FAAC" box="[726,802,1353,1378]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Ven t er.</emphasis>
Vestiture of thinner and larger hair-like scales very sparse; intermesocoxal keel short and low; last ventrite uniformly rounded, as in females. Abdominal convexity 76%.
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(fig. 14AB) with median lobe curved; apical plate evenly narrowing, with blunt tip; internal sac short, with a few large sclerotized denticles.
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. As male but broader, more quadrangular (length
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). Elytral L/W ratio 1.3 (instead of 1.5); intervals less convex; protibia with smaller mucro but apex hardly expanded internally; mesotibial mucro small, metatibial mucro tiny. Last ventrite rounded. Sternite VIII as in fig. 15D, with triangular-pointed plate, spermatheca as in fig. 18D.
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<emphasis id="B939F51C3321FFF5FF6BE9B6016EF96C" bold="true" box="[198,331,1672,1698]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Etymology</emphasis>
. The specific epithet refers to the small size of the species.
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.
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<emphasis id="B939F51C3321FFF5FEE4E98E0265F907" box="[329,576,1712,1737]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Laparocerus exiguus</emphasis>
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is the smallest
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<emphasis id="B939F51C3321FFF5FD51E98E03B5F907" box="[764,912,1712,1737]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Laparocerus</emphasis>
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species with eyes known from La Gomera, easy to recognize by its size, small, protruding, hemispherical eyes, trapezoidal rostrum, internally expanded and mucronate protibial apex, large antennal club, globular funicle segments 57, densely and sharply punctate pronotum and the subconvex elytral intervals, beset with strong curved setae protruding above the scale vestiture. The Gomeran species most similar in size is
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<emphasis id="B939F51C3321FFF5FC84E86E0417F8A7" box="[809,1074,1872,1897]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">L. puncticollis indutus</emphasis>
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, which has a strongly emarginate male protibia, elevated pronotal base in the female and soft, elongate, suberect, elytral hairs. Similar in appearance and often even smaller in size is
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<emphasis id="B939F51C3321FFF5FC38E89E0436F877" box="[917,1043,1952,1977]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">L. tenellus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFDC54FF3321FFF5FBB2E89E04C6F874" author="Wollaston" box="[1055,1251,1952,1978]" pageId="10" pageNumber="38" refString="Wollaston, T. V. (1864) Catalogue of the Coleopterous Insects of the Canaries in the Collection of the British Museum. Taylor &amp; Francis, London, 13 + 648 pp." type="book" year="1864">Wollaston, 1864</bibRefCitation>
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from Tenerife, which, however, has a narrower, squarer snout, smaller and more appressed scales and funicular segments 34 also globular, in addition to 57.
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belongs to the group of
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<emphasis id="B939F51C3320FFF4FB90EFA604EEFF7F" box="[1085,1227,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">L. mendicus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFDC54FF3320FFF4FB79EFA605BDFF7C" author="Wollaston" box="[1236,1432,152,178]" pageId="11" pageNumber="38" refString="Wollaston, T. V. (1864) Catalogue of the Coleopterous Insects of the Canaries in the Collection of the British Museum. Taylor &amp; Francis, London, 13 + 648 pp." type="book" year="1864">Wollaston, 1864</bibRefCitation>
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. Its closest relative is an undescribed vicariant species from the summit region of La Palma (unpublished molecular data), which is similar in appearance but much larger and with marked shoulders.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<emphasis id="B939F51C3320FFF4FF6BEE310191FEE7" bold="true" box="[198,436,271,297]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Material examined</emphasis>
.
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<typeStatus id="54F697AC3320FFF4FE68EE31021EFEE7" box="[453,571,271,297]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
:
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La Gomera: Laguna Grande,
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(UTM = 28R 0 27830 311330),
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, leg. A. Machado, 1 ɗ (
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, reg. CO-15512).
<typeStatus id="54F697AC3320FFF4FCECEE09039BFE9F" box="[833,958,311,337]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" type="paratype">
<emphasis id="B939F51C3320FFF4FCECEE09039BFE9F" bold="true" box="[833,958,311,337]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Paratypes</emphasis>
</typeStatus>
: same locality and collector,
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, 52 exx.;
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, 2 exx. (
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,
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,
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,
<collectionCode id="ED5CB1CB3320FFF4FD4FEE5E0309FEB4" box="[738,812,352,378]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">NHM</collectionCode>
); same locality,
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, 2 exx.; Pajarito,
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,
<date id="FFF30FCE3320FFF4FF3AEEB60107FE6C" box="[151,290,392,418]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" value="2001-10-20">20-10-2001</date>
, leg. P. Oromí, 4 exx. (POM); same locality,
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, leg. R. García, 58 exx. (RGB).
<emphasis id="B939F51C3320FFF4FAFCEEB90133FE07" bold="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Other specimens</emphasis>
: Las Hayas N,
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,
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, leg. A. Machado, 2 exx. (
<collectionCode id="ED5CB1CB3320FFF4FC47EE8E0416FE04" box="[1002,1075,432,458]" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/2xyg-zxc2" name="Department of Biologics Research" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">AMC</collectionCode>
); Cruce las Hayas,
<date id="FFF30FCE3320FFF4FAB6EE8E05BDFE04" box="[1307,1432,432,458]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" value="2006-12-06">6-12-2006</date>
, leg. R. García, 2 exx. (RGB); Pinar del Infierno [Infante?],
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,
<date id="FFF30FCE3320FFF4FC7EEEE6046AFE3C" box="[979,1103,472,498]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" value="1985-03-19">19-3-1985</date>
, leg. A. Vigna (
<collectionCode id="ED5CB1CB3320FFF4FABDEEE6054EFE3C" box="[1296,1387,472,498]" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/ek3c-66y7" name="Museo di Zoologia dell'Universita La Sapienza" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">MZUR</collectionCode>
), El Cedro,
<date id="FFF30FCE3320FFF4FF40ED3E017EFDD4" box="[237,347,512,538]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" value="1983-01-07">7-1-1983</date>
, leg. P. Oromí, 1 ex. (POM).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C3577A853320FFF4FF6BED190168FD74" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" type="distribution">
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<emphasis id="B939F51C3320FFF4FF6BED190226FD8F" bold="true" box="[198,515,551,577]" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Distribution and ecology.</emphasis>
An endemic species of La Gomera, occurring in the high central parts of the island. It has been found in numbers under small stones and sticks in an open grassy spot and was occasionally beaten at night from bushy vegetation of
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<emphasis id="B939F51C3320FFF4FD2DED46033EFD5F" box="[640,795,632,657]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Adenocarpus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B939F51C3320FFF4FCF8ED4603BBFD5F" box="[853,926,632,657]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Cistus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. It appears to be associated with very lowgrowing plants.
</paragraph>
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</treatment>
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