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Description of the
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Body length: 4.0 mm, length of elytra:
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. Body short-oval, brown, dull tomentum of pronotum somewhat grey, antennal club and legs as well as a large spot on disc of elytra and posterior pronotum yellowish brown, dorsal surface dull and nearly glabrous, labroclypeus and anterior third of frons shiny.
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<paragraph id="8BF636C55377957F34D317FC8009FF0F" blockId="4.[151,1437,1086,2013]" lastBlockId="5.[151,1437,151,1185]" lastPageId="5" lastPageNumber="185" pageId="4" pageNumber="184">Elytra short oval, widest at posterior third; striae weakly impressed, finely and moderately densely punctate; intervals flat, with sparse, fine punctures mainly concentrated along striae, with minute setae in punctures. Epipleural edge fine, ending at moderately curved external apical angle of elytra; epipleura densely setose; apical border with a fine rim of microtrichomes (visible at 100x magnification).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF636C55376957F34D3113D861BFE27" blockId="5.[151,1437,151,1185]" pageId="5" pageNumber="185">Ventral surface dull, finely and densely punctate. Metasternum except long setae on disc nearly glabrous, sparsely covered with minute setae in punctures. Metacoxa glabrous, with a few single setae laterally. Abdominal sternites finely and densely punctuate, glabrous except minute setae in punctures, with a transverse row of coarse punctures each bearing a robust long seta. Mesosternum between mesocoxae as wide as mesofemur. Ratio of length of metepisternum/metacoxa: 1/1.16. Pygidium moderately convex and dull, coarsely and densely punctate, without smooth midline, with short adpressed, partly only minute setae in punctures, beside apical margin with longer setae.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF636C55376957F34D311E58676FCAB" blockId="5.[151,1437,151,1185]" pageId="5" pageNumber="185">Legs moderately slender. Femora with two longitudinal rows of setae, finely and sparsely punctate. Metafemur dull and sparsely finely punctate; anterior margin acute, behind anterior margin without serrated line; posterior ventral margin in apical half not serrated and moderately widened at apex; posterior dorsal margin finely serrated, glabrous. Metatibia slender and short, widest at apex, ratio of width/length: 1/3.1; dorsal margin sharply carinate, with two groups of spines; basal group at first third, apical group at two thirds of metatibial length; basally with a single fine seta but without serrated longitudinal margin; lateral face longitudinally convex, finely and sparsely punctate; ventral margin finely serrated, with three robust setae, with the apical one being more distant; medial face impunctate, glabrous, apex concavely moderately deeply truncate interiorly near tarsal articulation. Tarsomeres ventrally with sparse, short setae, not carinate laterally, impunctate dorsally; metatarsomere 1 almost twice as long as dorsal metatibial spur and little shorter than following two tarsomeres combined. Protibia short, bidentate, not widened laterally before basal tooth; anterior claws symmetrical, basal tooth of inner claw sharply truncate at apex.</paragraph>
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Aedeagus:
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. Habitus:
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.
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<emphasis id="B93DEAD75376957F34D313B48209FC52" bold="true" box="[199,322,906,932]" pageId="5" pageNumber="185">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B93DEAD75376957F355C13B581C9FC53" box="[328,642,907,933]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="185">Neoserica champassakensis</emphasis>
Ahrens
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,
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differs from
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<emphasis id="B93DEAD75376957F301513B58790FC53" box="[1025,1243,907,933]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="185">N. rufoplagiatoides</emphasis>
Ahrens &amp; Pham, 2021
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, the only other bicolored species of the
<taxonomicName id="4C494D465376957F368E139181B2FC3F" baseAuthorityName="Frey" baseAuthorityYear="1972" box="[666,761,943,969]" class="Insecta" family="Melolonthidae" genus="Neoserica" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="185" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="calva">
<emphasis id="B93DEAD75376957F368E139181B2FC3F" box="[666,761,943,969]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="185">N. calva</emphasis>
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group, by parameres being almost subequal in total length, and which both are being straight and have distinct basal lobes.
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<emphasis id="B93DEAD75376957F34D313C88274FBE6" bold="true" box="[199,319,1014,1040]" pageId="5" pageNumber="185">Variation.</emphasis>
Body length: 4.0
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, length of elytra:
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, width:
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. Female: Eyes as small as in male; antennal club composed of three short lamellae, club little shorter than remaining antennomeres combined; light spots on elytra more extended than in male, reducing the dark parts to the margins; pygidium moderately convex.
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<emphasis id="B93DEAD75376957F34D314B98205FB57" bold="true" box="[199,334,1159,1185]" pageId="5" pageNumber="185">Etymology.</emphasis>
Named after its occurrence in the
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(adjective in nominative singular case).
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