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<mods:title>On Neotropical Merophysiinae with descriptions of a new genus and new species (Coleoptera, Endomychidae)</mods:title>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="140563093" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:305A07DA-3A5B-461B-A213-600667D60BD4" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/7800C378B7619557478D229856597FE4" lastPageId="9" lastPageNumber="10" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/305A07DA-3A5B-461B-A213-600667D60BD4" class="Insecta" family="Endomychidae" genus="Lycoperdinella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycoperdinella boliviensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="boliviensis">Lycoperdinella boliviensis</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="6" pageNumber="7">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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Figs 1, 3, 4
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, 6, 21
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Etymology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">The name of this species is derived from the country of origin of the holotype.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Differential diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Endomychidae" genus="Lycoperdinella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycoperdinella boliviensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="boliviensis">Lycoperdinella boliviensis</taxonomicName>
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closely resembles
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<taxonomicName lsidName="L. subcaeca" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" rank="species" species="subcaeca">L. subcaeca</taxonomicName>
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in its overall body shape, color and vestiture, but can be separated from
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<taxonomicName lsidName="L. subcaeca" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" rank="species" species="subcaeca">L. subcaeca</taxonomicName>
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by having the pronotum more transverse (0.68-0.70 times as long as broad), eyes composed of 36 facets (based on studied specimens), mentum subrectangular with its anterior margin weakly arcuate, and the abdominal ventrite 1 shorter than the mesoventrite, and by the presence of well-developed hind wings.
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Description.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
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Length 1.30-1.40 mm, width 0.60 mm, height 0.43 mm; body elongate-oval, moderately convex, 2.25 times as long as wide, 2.85 times as long as high (Fig. 3
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<normalizedToken originalValue="a–c">a-c</normalizedToken>
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). Surfaces shiny; sparsely covered with long, decumbent, golden setae. Color homogeneously reddish brown.
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<caption pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">
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Figure 3.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Endomychidae" genus="Lycoperdinella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycoperdinella boliviensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="7" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="boliviensis">Lycoperdinella boliviensis</taxonomicName>
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sp. n. a dorsal habitus b ventral habitus c lateral habitus d female genitalia of Bolivian paratype e female genitalia of Brazilian paratype.
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Head with interocular distance 0.75 times as wide as head including eyes (Fig. 6a, b). Eyes small, composed of 36 facets. Antenna rather short and slender (Fig. 1e), 0.72 times as long as head and pronotum combined; scape 1.33 times longer than wide, 1.15 times as long as pedicel; pedicel 1.15 times longer than wide; third antennomere 1.15 times longer than wide, 0.65 times as long as pedicel; antennomeres 4-8 getting very gradually shorter and wider towards antennomere 9 which is 1.28 times wider than long and 0.6 times as long as pedicel; terminal antennomere inflated, asymmetrical, 2.30 times as long at longer margin than pedicel, its longest margin 1.16 times longer than shorter lateral one, and 1.16 as long as apical margin, apical margin truncate. Mentum subquadrate, with lateral margins weakly rounded and anterior margin slightly arcuate (Fig. 6b).</paragraph>
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<pageBreakToken pageId="7" pageNumber="8" start="start">Pronotum</pageBreakToken>
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weakly transverse (Fig. 6c), 0.68-0.70 times as long as wide, 1.53-1.57 times wider than head, about 1.05 times wider at widest part than at base, widest at about mid length, weakly convex; front angles weakly produced, rounded, lateral margins almost continuously rounded, subparallel to weakly sinuate in basal fifth, comparatively widely bordered with edges distinctly crenulate; hind angles right-angled to weakly obtuse, rounded at tips. Anterior half of disc with a vaguely defined longitudinal impression. Longitudinal lateral sulci distinctly convergent anteriorly, reaching anteriorly
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<pageBreakToken pageId="8" pageNumber="9" start="start">beyond</pageBreakToken>
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half-length of pronotum; well defined transversal sulcus connecting deep pores; area between transverse sulcus and basal, shallow depression/sulcus weakly convex, with a guitar-shaped shallow, median depression; posterior margin distinctly lobed at mid-line. Prosternal process widely separates front coxae, widest at mid length (Fig. 6e).
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="9" pageNumber="10" start="start">Elytra</pageBreakToken>
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0.82-0.88 mm long, 1.38-1.45 times longer than wide; 2.60-2.70 times as long as and 1.25 times as wide as pronotum; widest at basal fourth then continuously distinctly converging to rounded apex; with hooked tooth present at anterolateral corner. Punctation composed of small setiferous punctures, and sparse larger, shallow foveate punctures (Fig. 6d). Hind wings well developed, 1.3 times longer than elytra.
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Legs moderately long. Femora very narrow at base, strongly widened at apical half. Tibiae narrow, straight, continuously widened towards their apices. Metatibiae very narrow, 0.35 times as long as elytra. Metatarsus moderately long, 0.55 times as long as metatibia.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Abdomen with ventrite 1 slightly shorter than metaventrite and as long as three following ventrites combined (Fig. 6f). Ventrite 5 arcuate at apex.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Female genitalia with long, narrow coxites, emarginate at their apices, styli indistinct; spermatheca with one chamber rounded and second irregularly long oval; sperm duct moderately long, accessory gland elongate oval (Fig. 3d, e).</paragraph>
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<caption pageId="9" pageNumber="10">
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">
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Figure 4.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Endomychidae" genus="Lycoperdinella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycoperdinella" order="Coleoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Lycoperdinella</taxonomicName>
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species
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Endomychidae" genus="Lycoperdinella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycoperdinella subcaeca" order="Coleoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subcaeca">Lycoperdinella subcaeca</taxonomicName>
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Champion
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Endomychidae" genus="Lycoperdinella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycoperdinella boliviensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="boliviensis">Lycoperdinella boliviensis</taxonomicName>
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sp. n. a dorsal view b ventral view c dorsal view d ventral view.
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<caption pageId="9" pageNumber="10">
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">
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Figure 5.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Endomychidae" genus="Lycoperdinella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycoperdinella subcaeca" order="Coleoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subcaeca">Lycoperdinella subcaeca</taxonomicName>
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Champion, lectotype a ventral view of head b pronotum c antenna d meso- and metatarsus e postero-lateral corner of pronotum and antero-lateral corner of elytron f pro-, meso- and metaventrite g abdominal ventrites.
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</paragraph>
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<caption pageId="9" pageNumber="10">
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">
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Figure 6.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Endomychidae" genus="Lycoperdinella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycoperdinella boliviensis" order="Coleoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="boliviensis">Lycoperdinella boliviensis</taxonomicName>
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sp. n. a dorsal view of head b ventral view of head c pronotum d antero-lateral corner of elytron e pro-, meso- and metaventrite f abdominal ventrites.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Male unknown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Type material.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">
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Holotype, female, BOLIVIA, "BOLIVIA: Cochabamba Dept. Est. Biol. Sacta, Univ Mayor S. Simeon. 17°06.48', 64°46.94', 300 m; rainforest FIT; 16/27-XII-2005; s. & J. Peck 05-47" (MNKM). Paratypes, BOLIVIA, same data as holotype (3 females: FSCA; 1: MIZ; 1: NMPC): BRAZIL, "Brazil: Manaus, AM. INPA/ Smithsonian Res.
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-2.4166667">2°25'S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-59.833332">59°50'W</geoCoordinate>
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, R. Didham. III.1994/ Leaf litter, Winkler method, Terra
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<normalizedToken originalValue="firmé">firme</normalizedToken>
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fst./ BMNH(E), 2003-84/ 900. 2/ Main series in INPA, Manaus Brazil/
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Endomychidae" genus="Lycoperdinella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycoperdinella" order="Coleoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Lycoperdinella</taxonomicName>
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sp./ 0426 [pink label] (1 female: BMNH); "Brazil: Manaus, AM. INPA/ Smithsonian Res.
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-2.4166667">2°25'S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="-59.833332">59°50'W</geoCoordinate>
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, R. Didham. III.1994/ Leaf litter, Winkler method, Terra
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<normalizedToken originalValue="firmé">firme</normalizedToken>
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fst./ BMNH(E), 2003-84/ 320. 1 (1 female: BMNH); same but 770. 5 (1 female: MIZ).
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">South America: Bolivia (Cochabamba), Brazil (Manaus) (Fig. 21).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="9" pageNumber="10" type="comments">
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Comment.</paragraph>
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<bibRefCitation author="Robertson, J" journalOrPublisher="Systematic Entomology" pageId="31" pageNumber="32" pagination="745 - 778" title="Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)." url="https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12138" volume="40" year="2015">Robertson et al. (2015)</bibRefCitation>
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included in their molecular analysis one specimen from Bolivia, Santa Cruz province, identified as
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Endomychidae" genus="Lycoperdinella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lycoperdinella subcaeca" order="Coleoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subcaeca">Lycoperdinella subcaeca</taxonomicName>
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. However, we have studied pictures of the disarticulated voucher and concluded that it certainly does not belong to that species. Most likely it is a member of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="L. boliviensis" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" rank="species" species="boliviensis">L. boliviensis</taxonomicName>
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n. sp.
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">
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Fragments of phragmospores (Fig. 3d) found in the gut content of one Bolivian specimen of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="L. boliviensis" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" rank="species" species="boliviensis">L. boliviensis</taxonomicName>
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suggest that this species probably feeds on
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<taxonomicName class="Ascomycetes" lsidName="Coccinelloidea" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" rank="class">Ascomycetes</taxonomicName>
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fungi.
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