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<mods:title>Afroprinus cavicola gen. et sp. n. from the Afrotropical region with notes on cave-dwelling Saprininae (Coleoptera, Histeridae)</mods:title>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="1" pageNumber="58">gen. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="58">Type species:</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Histeridae" genus="Afroprinus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Afroprinus cavicola" order="Coleoptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="58" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cavicola">Afroprinus cavicola</taxonomicName>
sp. n.
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="58">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="58">Body length 2.125-2.375 mm, dorsal surface entirely punctate; cuticle dark brown to black, without metallic luster, frontal and supraorbital striae present, well developed; sensory structures of antennal club in form of small sensory area and corresponding vesicle situated on internal distal margin; pronotal hypomeron asetose; elytral disc with four long carinate dorsal elytral striae, fifth stria occasionally present on fourth elytral interval; apex of prosternal process convex, prosternal pre-apical foveae large and deep, connected apically by marginal prosternal stria; carinal prosternal striae shortened apically, not united anteriorly; lateral prosternal striae terminating in large deep prosternal pre-apical foveae; meso-metaventral sutural stria present, undulate. Venter asetose.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="58">Differential diagnosis.</paragraph>
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The general appearance of
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somewhat resembles that of
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, differing chiefly in the large prosternal pre-apical foveae connected by the deep marginal prosternal stria and in the marginal pronotal stria that in
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view is visible along its entire length. By the convex apical third of the prosternal process and by the prosternal pre-apical foveae connected by the marginal prosternal stria
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Histeridae" genus="Afroprinus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Afroprinus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="59" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Afroprinus</taxonomicName>
can also be confused with several Afrotropical species of the genera
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Histeridae" genus="Chalcionellus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chalcionellus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="59" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Chalcionellus</taxonomicName>
or
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. It differs from those species of
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that have the prosternal pre-apical foveae connected by the marginal prosternal stria by the sculpture of dorsal surface, which is metallic and much coarser in
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and by lacking the pronotal depressions of
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. From those species of Afrotropical
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(mainly from South Africa and Namibia) that likewise have their prosternal pre-apical foveae connected by marginal prosternal stria,
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Histeridae" genus="Afroprinus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Afroprinus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="59" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Afroprinus</taxonomicName>
differs by the asetose pronotal hypomeron and much coarser and denser elytral punctuation.
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="59">Biology.</paragraph>
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The type series of
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has been found on bat droppings in a Kenyan cave.
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="59">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="59">Kenya.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="59">Etymology.</paragraph>
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The generic name is a combination of the genus name '
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' with a prefix derived from the continent of Africa. Gender masculine.
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