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,
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det.
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: same data as holotype, but leg.
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<emphasis id="B9184C652C7DF4519084F9ECF74EF9D3" bold="true" box="[189,308,1609,1633]" pageId="12" pageNumber="115">Etymology</emphasis>
: The specific epithet (adjective) alludes to the remarkably large elytra (in relation to the head and pronotum).
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: Body length 3.0
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. Habitus as in
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. Colouration: body blackish; legs pale-brown, with the metafemora darker brown and the tarsi yellowish; antennae with antennomeres IIV reddish-yellow and VXI dark-brown to blackish-brown.
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Head (
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) weakly transverse; punctation coarse, very dense, and somewhat umbilicate; interstices reduced to narrow ridges, with shallow microsculpture. Eyes large and strongly convex, longer than postocular region in lateral view. Antennae slender, gradually and weakly incrassate apically, preapical antennomeres less than 1.5 times as broad as long.
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Pronotum (
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) 1.2 times as broad as long and 1.2 times as broad as head; maximal width in anterior half; posterior angles angularly marked; punctation coarse, very dense, asperate, and partly rugosely confluent, particularly along middle; interstices without microsculpture.
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Elytra (
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) conspicuously large in relation to head and pronotum, approximately 1.2 times as long and nearly 1.4 times as broad as pronotum; punctation coarse, dense, and defined.
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: posterior margin of tergite VIII weakly concave in the middle (Fig. 28); posterior margin of sternite VII truncate, without pronounced fringe of long setae; posterior margin of sternite VIII angularly pointed in the middle (Fig. 29); median lobe of aedeagus small, only
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long, and shaped as in Figs 2627; apical lobe of paramere of similar shape as in
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<emphasis id="B9184C652C7DF4519306FBCCF26FFB33" bold="true" box="[831,1045,1129,1153]" pageId="12" pageNumber="115">Comparative notes</emphasis>
: Among the species of the subgenus
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<emphasis id="B9184C652C7DF4519348FB2CF277FB13" box="[881,1037,1161,1185]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="115">Aphaireleptusa</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B9184C652C7DF4519419FB2FF2BDFB13" box="[1056,1223,1161,1185]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="115">L. grandipennis</emphasis>
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is most similar to
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<emphasis id="B9184C652C7DF4519306FB0FF5C2FB73" box="[831,952,1193,1217]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="115">L. chinensis</emphasis>
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, from which it differs by much more slen- der antennae, much larger and more prominent eyes, a relatively smaller and more slender head and pronotum, larger and longer elytra (in relation to the pronotum), confluent punctation of the pronotum, and a significantly smaller aedeagus (
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<emphasis id="B9184C652C7DF451944FFAEFF295FAD3" box="[1142,1263,1353,1377]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="115">L. chinensis</emphasis>
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: median lobe approximately
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long). For illustrations of other
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species known from mainland
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see
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,
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,
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,
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) and
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,
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).
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<emphasis id="B9184C652C7DF4519306FA4CF2CBF9B3" bold="true" box="[831,1201,1513,1537]" pageId="12" pageNumber="115">Distribution and natural history</emphasis>
: The
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locality is situated to the north of Songpan,
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. The specimens were sifted from litter in a forest with dominant spruce and interspersed birch at an altitude of
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.
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