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Type material:
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2013&quot; (
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<paragraph id="8BB4FC40FF91BD47FF2EFD628AF2FD50" blockId="6.[178,1086,658,710]" pageId="6" pageNumber="1555">Etymology: The name (Latin, adjective: dark) refers to the blackish-brown legs and antennae, one of the characters distinguishing this species from its congeners.</paragraph>
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Description: Body length
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; length of forebody
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. Habitus as in
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. Coloration: body black; legs and antennae blackish-brown.
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Head (
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) distinctly transverse, nearly 1.2 times as broad as long; punctation coarse and moderately dense; interstices distinct, but narrower than diameter of punctures, without microsculpture. Eyes large, but not reaching posterior margin of head; postocular portion short, but noticeable.
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Pronotum (
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) approximately as long as broad and approximately 0.85 times as wide as head; punctation similar to that of head; impunctate midline of moderate breadth; interstices without microsculpture and glossy.
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Elytra (
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) approximately 0.9 times as long as pronotum; punctation dense, moderately defined, and rather fine. Hind wings fully developed. Metatarsomere I longer than II, but shorter than the combined length of II and III.
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: sternite VII (
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) weakly transverse and with dense pubescence, posterior margin indistinctly concave in the middle, at posterior margin with row of rather long black marginal setae, these setae directed diagonally postero-mediad in the middle; sternite VIII (
<figureCitation id="1330E0C5FF91BD47FF71FB218835FB72" box="[237,311,1233,1255]" captionStart="Figs 17-21" captionStartId="9.[178,218,1270,1290]" captionTargetBox="[189,1082,221,1253]" captionTargetId="figure-76@9.[178,1085,212,1259]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="Figs 17-21: Neosclerus obscurus nov.sp. (Fig. 17) and N. assamensis (CAMERON) (Figs 18-21): (17, 19) male sternite VIII; (18) male sternite VII; (20-21) aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view. Scale bars: 0.2 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5302512" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5302512/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="1555">Fig. 17</figureCitation>
) distinctly oblong, posterior excision V-shaped and of moderate size, anterior portion of sternite and pubescence unmodified; aedeagus (
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)
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long and slender; ventral process long, straight, apically hooked, and weakly sclerotized; internal sac with long series of minute spines (
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).
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Comparative notes: Based on the synapomorphically derived morphology of the aedeagus,
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<emphasis id="B97F2052FF91BD47FEFAFA9D88E3FA17" box="[358,481,1388,1410]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="1555">N. obscurus</emphasis>
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is closely allied to
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<emphasis id="B97F2052FF91BD47FD2AFA9D8A6BFA17" box="[694,873,1388,1410]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="1555">N. fortepunctatus</emphasis>
CAMERON 1924
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,
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<emphasis id="B97F2052FF91BD47FBBAFA9D8838FA0A" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="1555">N. dupleseriatus</emphasis>
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, and
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<emphasis id="B97F2052FF91BD47FEE9FA7A88ECFA0A" box="[373,494,1417,1439]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="1555">N. barbatus</emphasis>
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. It differs from all of them by the shape of the ventral process of the aedeagus, by the dark colour of the legs and antennae, and additionally as follows:
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<paragraph id="8BB4FC40FF90BD46FF2EFA148BADF9A9" blockId="7.[178,1087,1508,1596]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1556">
<emphasis id="B97F2052FF90BD46FF2EFA148809FA6D" bold="true" box="[178,267,1508,1528]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1556">Figs 9-16</emphasis>
:
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<emphasis id="B97F2052FF90BD46FE8BFA1488D7FA6D" box="[279,469,1508,1528]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="1556">Neosclerus obscurus</emphasis>
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: (
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) habitus; (
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) forebody; (
<emphasis id="B97F2052FF90BD46FCB0FA148A41FA6D" bold="true" box="[812,835,1508,1528]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1556">11</emphasis>
) male sternite VII; (
<emphasis id="B97F2052FF90BD46FB9DFA148D37FA6D" bold="true" box="[1025,1077,1508,1528]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1556">12-13</emphasis>
) aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view; (
<emphasis id="B97F2052FF90BD46FDB7FA0B8B40F99A" bold="true" box="[555,578,1531,1551]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1556">14</emphasis>
) apical portion of aedeagus in lateral view; (
<emphasis id="B97F2052FF90BD46FC7EFA0B8AFBF99A" bold="true" box="[994,1017,1531,1551]" pageId="7" pageNumber="1556">15</emphasis>
) apical portion of aedeagus in ventral view; (
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) internal structures of aedeagus in ventral view. Scale bars: 9: 1.0 mm; 10: 0.5 mm; 11-13: 0.2 mm; 14-16: 0.1 mm.
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from
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<emphasis id="B97F2052FF9FBD49FF76FF2B8860FF65" box="[234,354,218,240]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1557">N. barbatus</emphasis>
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by the denser pubescence of the male sternites VII and VIII and by the sparse and less coarse punctation of the head and pronotum;
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from
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<emphasis id="B97F2052FF9FBD49FF72FEEE889AFEA6" box="[238,408,285,307]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1557">N. dupleseriatus</emphasis>
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by the shorter marginal setae of the male sternite VII and the smaller posterior excision of the male sternite VIII;
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from
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<emphasis id="B97F2052FF9FBD49FF72FE9188A0FEE3" box="[238,418,352,374]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="1557">N. fortepunctatus</emphasis>
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by the less coarse and less dense punctation of the head and pronotum.
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For illustrations of the compared species see
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.
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Distribution and bionomics: The type locality is situated in Assam, Northeast
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(
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). The
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was sifted from moist leaf litter in a mixed forest at an altitude of
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.
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