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<mods:title>Recognition and revision of the Phelister blairi group (Histeridae, Histerinae, Exosternini)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Caterino, Michael S.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Tishechkin, Alexey K.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>California Dept. of Food and Agriculture Plant Pest Diagnostics Center, Sacramento, CA 95832, USA</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1001.58447</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="170725725" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:9248F2CCD8FC59A2A6FF6BE9FF2A667B" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/9248F2CCD8FC59A2A6FF6BE9FF2A667B" lastPageNumber="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
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18.
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<taxonomicName LSID="9248F2CC-D8FC-59A2-A6FF-6BE9FF2A667B" authority="Reichensperger, 1939" authorityName="Reichensperger" authorityYear="1939" class="Insecta" family="Histeridae" genus="Phelister" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Phelister praedatoris" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="praedatoris">Phelister praedatoris Reichensperger, 1939</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="F18" captionText="Figure 11. A, b Phelister sculpturatus: A dorsal habitus B ventral habitus C, D P. tunki: C dorsal habitus D ventral habitus E, F P. praedatoris: E dorsal habitus F ventral habitus G, H P. ifficus: G dorsal habitus H ventral habitus." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1001.58447.figure11" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/484947" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figs 11E, F</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 12" captionStartId="F19" captionText="Figure 12. Male genitalia A, B Phelister sculpturatus: A aedeagus, dorsal B aedeagus, lateral C, D P. praedatoris: C aedeagus, dorsal D aedeagus, lateral E, F P. ifficus: E aedeagus, dorsal F aedeagus, lateral." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1001.58447.figure12" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/484948" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">, 12C, D</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Map 8" captionStartId="F20" captionText="Map 8. Collecting records for Phelister vazdemelloi (black circles), P. praedatoris (white star), P. ifficus (black squares), P. genieri (hexagon), and P. marginatus (black stars)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1001.58447.map8" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/484949" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">, Map 8</figureCitation>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Reichensperger" authorityYear="1939" class="Insecta" family="Histeridae" genus="Phelister" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Phelister praedatoris" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="praedatoris">Phelister praedatoris</taxonomicName>
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Reichensperger, 1939: 281.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Reichensperger" authorityYear="1939" class="Insecta" family="Histeridae" genus="Phelister" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Phelister praedatorius" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="praedatorius">Phelister praedatorius</taxonomicName>
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Mazur, 1984: 284, 1997: 28, 2011: 28 (misspelling).
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="type material">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Type material.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Lectotype</emphasis>
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, hereby designated: "F. Plaumann Nova Teutonia Brasilien" / "
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Smith" authorityYear="1858" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Eciton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eciton praedator" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="praedator">Eciton praedator</taxonomicName>
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" / "
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Reichensperger" authorityYear="1939" class="Insecta" family="Histeridae" genus="Phelister" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Phelister praedatoris" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="praedatoris">Phelister praedatoris</taxonomicName>
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Reichensp."; Bonn (not seen).
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Paralectotypes</emphasis>
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(3), hereby designated: same data as type (CHND, FMNH-INS0000069298 and FMNH-INS0000069356, examined by the authors).
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</paragraph>
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<caption doi="10.3897/zookeys.1001.58447.figure12" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/484948" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" start="Figure 12" startId="F19">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 12.</emphasis>
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Male genitalia
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">A, B</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Schmidt" authorityYear="1893" class="Insecta" family="Histeridae" genus="Phelister" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Phelister sculpturatus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sculpturatus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Phelister sculpturatus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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:
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">A</emphasis>
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aedeagus, dorsal
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">B</emphasis>
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aedeagus, lateral
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C, D</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName lsidName="P. praedatoris" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="praedatoris">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">P. praedatoris</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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:
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C</emphasis>
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aedeagus, dorsal
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">D</emphasis>
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aedeagus, lateral
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E, F</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName lsidName="P. ifficus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="ifficus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">P. ifficus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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:
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E</emphasis>
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aedeagus, dorsal
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">F</emphasis>
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aedeagus, lateral.
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="materials_examined">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Other material.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Brazil</emphasis>
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: Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia (
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,
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<geoCoordinate degrees="52.3833" direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="5" value="-52.3833">-52.3833</geoCoordinate>
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), 22.vi.1939, F. Plaumann,
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<taxonomicName lsidName="E. praed" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="praed">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E. praed</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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., EXO-00005 (NHMUK, 1ex.); Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia (
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<geoCoordinate degrees="52.3833" direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="5" value="-52.3833">-52.3833</geoCoordinate>
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), i[?].14.193[?], F. Plaumann, (FMNH-INS0000069239, 1ex.); Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia (
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,
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), x.-.1939, F. Plaumann, (FMNH, 1ex.); Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia (
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,
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<geoCoordinate degrees="52.3833" direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="5" value="-52.3833">-52.3833</geoCoordinate>
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), 1953, F. Plaumann, FMNH-INS 0000 069 305 (FMNH, 2ex.); Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia (
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<geoCoordinate degrees="27.1833" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="5" value="-27.1833">-27.1833</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate degrees="52.3833" direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="5" value="-52.3833">-52.3833</geoCoordinate>
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), May 1953, F. Plaumann, EXO-02984 (FMNH, 1ex.); Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia (
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<geoCoordinate degrees="27.1833" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="5" value="-27.1833">-27.1833</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate degrees="52.3833" direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="5" value="-52.3833">-52.3833</geoCoordinate>
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), April 1952, F. Plaumann, Host:
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Smith" baseAuthorityYear="1858" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Labidus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Labidus praedator" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthorpoda" rank="species" species="praedator">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Labidus praedator</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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(FMNH, 3ex.); Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia (
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<geoCoordinate degrees="52.3833" direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="5" value="-52.3833">-52.3833</geoCoordinate>
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), 1951, F. Plaumann,
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1804" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Eciton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eciton" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Eciton</taxonomicName>
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(Lab.)
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Smith" authorityYear="1858" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Eciton" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eciton praedator" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="praedator">Eciton praedator</taxonomicName>
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(FMNH, 2ex.); Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia (
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<geoCoordinate degrees="27.1833" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="5" value="-27.1833">-27.1833</geoCoordinate>
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<geoCoordinate degrees="52.3833" direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="5" value="-52.3833">-52.3833</geoCoordinate>
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), ii.1959, F. Plaumann, with
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Eciton</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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prey [maybe an error in transcription?] (FMNH, 9ex.); Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia (
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), no date, F. Plaumann (FMNH, 1ex.).
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</paragraph>
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<caption doi="10.3897/zookeys.1001.58447.map8" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/484949" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" start="Map 8" startId="F20">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Map 8.</emphasis>
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Collecting records for
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Caterino & Tishechkin" authorityYear="2020" class="Insecta" family="Histeridae" genus="Phelister" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Phelister vazdemelloi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vazdemelloi">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Phelister vazdemelloi</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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(black circles),
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<taxonomicName lsidName="P. praedatoris" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="praedatoris">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">P. praedatoris</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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(white star),
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<taxonomicName lsidName="P. ifficus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="ifficus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">P. ifficus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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(black squares),
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<taxonomicName lsidName="P. genieri" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="genieri">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">P. genieri</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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(hexagon), and
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<taxonomicName lsidName="P. marginatus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="marginatus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">P. marginatus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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(black stars).
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Diagnostic description.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Length: 1.97-2.52 mm (avg. 2.18 mm); width: 1.69-2.13 mm (avg. 1.92 mm). Body elongate oval, convex, dark rufescent, with densely intermingled ground and secondary punctation throughout; frons rather wide, moderately depressed along midline; supraorbital stria present at middle, obsolete at sides; frontal stria complete; epistoma subcarinate along sides; labrum emarginate and subcarinate apically; mandibles each with small basal tooth; antennal club with elongate setose patch on dorsal surface; prescutellar impression small, forming an oval ~ equal in size to scutellum; median pronotal gland openings present ~ 3/4 from anterior margin, distinctly annulate, vaguely obscured by punctures; marginal pronotal stria complete along sides and front; submarginal pronotal stria complete, close to margin, barely turning anterior corner; elytron with single, complete epipleural stria; outer subhumeral stria complete, but may be interrupted at middle, inner subhumeral nearly complete, obsolete at base; dorsal striae one and two usually complete, 3rd present in basal 1/2 only, 4th and 5th largely or completely absent, though a basal arch of the 4th may be traceable, sutural stria may be traceable in apical 1/2; prosternal keel narrowed, emarginate at base, striae separate at base, converging and subparallel to near apex, united anteriorly; prosternal lobe reflexed, with marginal stria complete or obsolete at middle; mesoventrite produced, with complete marginal stria continued at sides by postmesocoxal stria, which ends behind mesocoxa; mesometaventral stria angulate at middle crenulate, reaching middle of mesoventrite, continued at sides by lateral metaventral stria toward but not reaching middle of metacoxa; 1st abdominal ventrite with faint, incomplete lateral stria along inner margin of metacoxa; protibia with outer margin strongly dentate, with ~ five marginal spines; protarsal setae of male not flattened; meso- and metatibiae slightly broadened, with a few spines along outer margins. Male: aedeagus very narrow, basal piece ~ 1/3 length of tegmen; tegmen with sides subparallel over most of length, weakly narrowed at middle, apices rounded; tegmen slightly curved in lateral view; medioventral process present, projecting at basal 1/3; median lobe ~ 2/3 tegmen length, basal apodemes abruptly narrowed at bases.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution.</paragraph>
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While the species is well represented in collections, it seems still only to be known from the type locality (in Santa Catarina, Brazil), and only in association with army ants (both
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Labidus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Eciton</emphasis>
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are recorded as hosts).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Remarks.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Reichensperger" authorityYear="1939" class="Insecta" family="Histeridae" genus="Phelister" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Phelister praedatoris" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="praedatoris">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Phelister praedatoris</emphasis>
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was one of the first species in this group to be described, and it remains among the most distinctive, with its inner elytral striae largely obliterated by dense secondary elytral punctation. Few other species treated here are as thoroughly doubly punctate, including on the thoracic and abdominal ventrites, the principal exceptions being the species treated immediately below. Additional distinctive characters include its unusually strongly dentate protibiae, and a raised outer subhumeral stria that almost forms a lateral elytral margin (aligned with the strongly raised marginal pronotal bead).
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</treatment>
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