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Pic
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Pic, 1896: 96
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locality.
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(southern
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<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B23FF91FF64FC8DFE8B924C" box="[199,332,859,882]" italics="true" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Type series.</emphasis>
This species was described from specimens collected by
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in the Sahara. We examined one of them (
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collection,
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) labelled “Tiout / 69 / Mis. Ent. IV n°7(96) p. 96 /
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m. type Pic xx [sic] / type /
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/ Reitter vid.” (male,
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here designated).
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<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B23FF91FF64FC10FEAD92E0" box="[199,362,966,990]" italics="true" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Redescription.</emphasis>
Male. Length
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.
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B23FF91FDD5FC11FD7A92E1" bold="true" box="[630,701,967,991]" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Body:</emphasis>
long, cylindrical, slender.
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B23FF91FC49FC11FB9A92E1" bold="true" box="[1002,1117,967,991]" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Rostrum:</emphasis>
black, moderately long (Rl/ Pl 0.92); in lateral view weakly curved, weakly narrowed in apical half (
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); in dorsal view with sides weakly convergent from base to apex, with hardly visible scrobes, distinctly striate-punctured in basal two thirds then smooth and shining, in basal half with scales somewhat dense, white, moderately long (l/w 35), subelliptical, recumbent.
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B23FF91FE83FB81FEAF9551" bold="true" box="[288,360,1111,1135]" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Head:</emphasis>
frons slightly wider than rostrum at base, without fovea; eyes nearly flat.
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B23FF91FB41FB80FA999551" bold="true" box="[1250,1374,1110,1135]" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Antennae:</emphasis>
dark brown, inserted just in front of middle of rostrum; scape long, 6.0x longer than wide; funicle segment 1 3.0x longer than wide, slightly stouter and 1.5x longer than segment 2, which is 1.3x longer than wide, segments 35 gradually more transverse; club long, oval, with segment 1 about as pubescent as others.
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B23FF91FB99FB15FB7A95E5" bold="true" box="[1082,1213,1219,1243]" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Pronotum:</emphasis>
black, densely and slightly irregularly punctured, intervals between punctures narrow, rugose, moderately shining, moderately visible between scales somewhat dense, white, subelliptical to lanceolate, recumbent; moderately transverse (Pw/Pl 1.43), with weakly rounded sides, widest at middle, with weakly prominent apical constriction, moderately convex.
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B23FF91FF34FA85FF2B9455" bold="true" box="[151,236,1363,1387]" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Elytra:</emphasis>
black; long (El/Ew 1.75), weakly concave at base, slightly wider than pronotum (Ew/Pw 1.08), with parallel sides, moderately convex on disc; interstriae clearly visible between, recumbent to subrecumbent, sparse, white, moderately long (0.500.75x as long as width of interstria; l/w 35), subelliptical to lanceolate scales, arranged in a somewhat regular row; striae clearly visible, as wide as half of interstria, with a row of white scales, shorter and narrower than those of interstriae.
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B23FF91FD6CFA35FCD794C5" bold="true" box="[719,784,1507,1531]" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Legs:</emphasis>
moderately slender, with recumbent to subrecumbent, somewhat dense, whitish, seta-like scales, which are distinctly shorter than width of tibia; femora black, profemora with big sharp tooth, mesofemora with small tooth, metafemora unarmed; tibiae blackish, moderately slender; protibiae with apical part of ventral surface weakly directed outward; unci black, moderately stout, all equal in length and size; tarsi reddish brown, tarsomere 1 twice as long as wide, tarsomere 2 1.5x longer than wide, tarsomere 3 bilobed, distinctly wider than tarsomere 2, onychium slightly shorter than tarsomeres 13 taken together; claws blackish brown, equal in length, fused in basal half.
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B23FF91FC65F96DFBD897ED" bold="true" box="[966,1055,1723,1747]" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Venter:</emphasis>
metasternum moderately visible between somewhat dense, white, moderately long, subelliptical scales; mesothoracic epimera and meso- and metathoracic episterna with moderately dense, white, moderately long, subelliptical scales; abdomen with dense and somewhat regular punctures, which are clearly visible between moderately dense, whitish, moderately long to long, subelliptical to seta-like scales; ventrites length ratio 12/34 2.00.
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B23FF91FC68F89CFBD3965D" bold="true" box="[971,1044,1866,1891]" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Penis:</emphasis>
as in
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<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B23FF91FBF5F89DFB23965D" box="[1110,1252,1867,1891]" italics="true" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">M. janthinus</emphasis>
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(
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).
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<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B23FF91FF64F845FE849695" box="[199,323,1939,1963]" italics="true" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Variability.</emphasis>
We examined only the
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of this species.
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<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B23FF91FF64F860FDFE96F0" box="[199,569,1974,1998]" italics="true" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">Remarks and comparative notes.</emphasis>
Based only on study of the
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, since we did not find other specimens of this taxon,
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appears to be mainly related to
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<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B23FF91FC81F80DFC6996CD" box="[802,942,2011,2035]" italics="true" pageId="71" pageNumber="72">M. barbarus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, with which it shares the shape of the penis. It differs distinctly from this species in the pattern of the dorsal vestiture which is composed of distinctly wider scales (on pronotum and elytral interstriae only 34x vs. 810x longer than wide) and the shorter elytra.
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<paragraph id="E37636E41B2CFF9EFF64FF36FD4791C9" blockId="72.[151,1436,151,320]" box="[199,640,223,248]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFF64FF36FE4291C6" box="[199,389,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Biological notes.</emphasis>
No data are available.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="ABD3656F1B2CFF9EFF64FED2FDAB9001" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="E37636E41B2CFF9EFF64FED2FDE29022" blockId="72.[151,1436,151,320]" box="[199,549,260,284]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFF64FED2FE909022" box="[199,343,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Distribution.</emphasis>
Southern
<collectingCountry id="9BDE76741B2CFF9EFE69FED2FDE59022" box="[458,546,260,284]" name="Algeria" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Algeria</collectingCountry>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="E37636E41B2CFF9EFF64FEFFFDAB9001" blockId="72.[151,1436,151,320]" box="[199,620,296,320]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">
<emphasis id="D1BDEAF61B2CFF9EFF64FEFFFDE5907E" box="[199,546,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Non-type specimens examined.</emphasis>
None.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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