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. Identifiable as a male
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Only
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, 3.4 × as long as wide. Pronotum length
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, 1.3 × as long as wide. Elytra length
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, 2.1 × as long as wide.
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<paragraph id="8BD43C65DF27FFA62B83FF580137FEEA" blockId="3.[151,1437,151,717]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">Male with clusters of a few tiny pores at anterior end of the median line on pronotum: two pores on one side, three on the other, the clusters nearly touching the median line. These tiny pores are presumably mycangial, as they are in the usual location of mycangial pores and are different in appearance from normal punctures on the pronotum.</paragraph>
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Anterior margin of the metanepisternal-metaventrite impression with three tiny spines above (upper two nearly imperceptible, lower spine more obvious), one small spine below. Spines on ventrite 3 widely spaced as is typical in
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, but unusually long, their height being greater than the length of the ventrite. Most elytral striae and interstriae end at or slightly before the base of the declivity (interstriae 3 and 5 overhang slightly), not overhanging the vertical declivity as in
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.
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; declivity vertical, bilaterally weakly concave, upper declivity including overhang with dense short setae. Posterolateral angle roughly a right angle, no projecting tooth or spine. Posterolateral margin anterior to angle with five or six tiny serrations on each elytron.
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<emphasis id="B91FE077DF27FFA62B83FDED015AFDCB" bold="true" box="[199,353,546,572]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">Distribution.</emphasis>
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(
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): known only from the
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.
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<emphasis id="B91FE077DF27FFA62B83FD89011AFD97" bold="true" box="[199,289,582,608]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">Biology</emphasis>
. Little is known, just that it was collected at a low elevation.
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<subSubSection id="C3716FEEDF27FFA62B83FDA40546FD3A" pageId="3" pageNumber="304" type="etymology">
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<emphasis id="B91FE077DF27FFA62B83FDA40173FD72" bold="true" box="[199,328,619,645]" pageId="3" pageNumber="304">Etymology</emphasis>
. The species epithet honors Alexander Petrov, whose tireless collecting in
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has yielded a treasure trove of Platypodinae (
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) and
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(e.g.
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,
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;
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,
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;
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). Alexander collected the sole specimen of this new species. Genitive noun.
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