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: Body length
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. Habitus as in Fig. 7. Colouration: head reddish to brown; pronotum and elytra dark-yellowish to reddish; abdomen reddish to reddishbrown with tergite VI usually somewhat darker; legs yellow; antennae brown with the basal three antennomeres yellowish.
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<paragraph id="8BED6F529A133B03FF0BFB7E484DFA9E" blockId="11.[151,756,681,1793]" pageId="11" pageNumber="98">Elytra little more than half as long as pronotum; punctation extremely fine; interstices with shallow microsculpture. Hind wings completely reduced.</paragraph>
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Abdomen broader than elytra; punctation very fine, moderately dense on anterior tergites and sparse on posterior tergites; interstices with microreticulation composed of predominantly transverse meshes on anterior tergites and of isodiametric meshes on posterior tergites; posterior margin of tergite VII without palisade fringe; tergite VIII (
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) without evident sexual dimorphism, posterior margin weakly convex.
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: sternite VIII (
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) moderately transverse, posterior margin strongly convex; median lobe of aedeagus
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long and shaped as in
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.
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: posterior margin of sternite VIII with pronounced median incision and with moderately modified setae (
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); spermatheca (
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) with long and slender proximal portion.
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:
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is distinguished from the other two pale-coloured micropterous
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species known from
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,
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<emphasis id="B926B3409A133B03FE56F8DE4870F83E" box="[458,611,1897,1921]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="98">A. geostiboides</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B926B3409A133B03FD00F8DE4AE0F81E" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="98">A. bicoloricornis</emphasis>
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, by the primary and secondary sexual characters and additionally as follows:
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- from
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<emphasis id="B926B3409A133B03FF6BF85E4B83F7BE" box="[247,400,2025,2049]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="98">A. geostiboides</emphasis>
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by slightly smaller size, significantly shorter and darker antennae, much finer punctation on the male head, the absence of a median sulcus and less fine punctation on the less transverse pronotum, finer punctation on the elytra, the shape of the male sternite VIII (more oblong and posterior margin truncate in
<taxonomicName id="4C5214D19A133B03FB8BFEDE4EA3FE3E" authorityName="ASSING" authorityYear="2004" box="[1047,1200,361,385]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Franzidota" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="98" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="geostiboides">
<emphasis id="B926B3409A133B03FB8BFEDE4EA3FE3E" box="[1047,1200,361,385]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="98">A. geostiboides</emphasis>
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), and by a much smaller aedeagus;
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- from
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<emphasis id="B926B3409A133B03FCE4FE1E4E31FE7E" box="[888,1058,425,449]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="98">A. bicoloricornis</emphasis>
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by a less strongly microsculptured and consequently less matt head and pronotum, less distinctly bicoloured antennae, a less transverse pronotum, a convex posterior margin of the male tergite VIII (truncate in
<taxonomicName id="4C5214D19A133B03FBD3FD9E4EEAFDFE" authorityName="ASSING" authorityYear="2009" box="[1103,1273,553,577]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Atheta" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="98" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bicoloricornis">
<emphasis id="B926B3409A133B03FBD3FD9E4EEAFDFE" box="[1103,1273,553,577]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="98">A. bicoloricornis</emphasis>
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), and by a smaller aedeagus of different shape. For illustrations of
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<emphasis id="B926B3409A133B03FCA6FDDE49C0FD3E" box="[826,979,617,641]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="98">A. geostiboides</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B926B3409A133B03FB9BFDDE4EA2FD3E" box="[1031,1201,617,641]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="98">A. bicoloricornis</emphasis>
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see
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,
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).
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<emphasis id="B926B3409A133B03FC86FD7E4E9EFD5E" bold="true" box="[794,1165,713,737]" pageId="11" pageNumber="98">Distribution and natural history</emphasis>
: The
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locality is identical to that of
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<emphasis id="B926B3409A133B03FC6EFD5E4ED4FCBE" box="[1010,1223,745,769]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="98">Bellatheta aucticeps</emphasis>
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and situated in the northern Gaoligong Shan, West
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. The
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material was sifted at an altitude of approximately
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.
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