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: The specific epithet is the present participle of the Latin verb descendere (to climb down). It alludes to fact that this is the first species of the
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group to be recorded from elevations below
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: Body length
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; length of forebody 3.0
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. Body slender and somewhat flattened; habitus as in
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. Coloration: whole body, including the appendages, reddish.
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Head (
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) 1.021.08 times as long as broad, weakly convex in cross section; punctation rather dense and moderately coarse; interstices on average approximately as broad as diameter of punctures, with shallow microreticulation. Eyes reduced to minute narrowly oblong rudiments without pigmentation and with approximately 5 ommatidia. Antenna long and slender,
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long.
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Pronotum (
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) weakly convex in cross-section and conspicuously slender, 1.4 times as long as broad and 0.800.85 times as broad as head, widest anteriorly; lateral margins very weakly converging posteriorly and nearly straight in dorsal view; punctation similar to that of head; midline moderately broadly impunctate; interstices without microsculpture.
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Elytra (
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) slender, approximately 0.62 times as long as pronotum, combined width only approximately 1.3 times the length of suture; humeral angles completely obsolete; suture gaping posteriorly; punctation very shallow and ill-defined; interstices without distinct microsculpture. Hind wings completely reduced. Protarsomeres IIV without appreciable sexual dimorphism, weakly dilated in both sexes.
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<paragraph id="8BE936E0FFA0FFB3FCF788538A2FFCB8" blockId="5.[794,1399,233,1345]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Abdomen approximately 1.15 times as broad as elytra; punctation fine and dense; interstices with shallow microsculpture; posterior margin of tergite VII without palisade fringe; posterior margin of tergite VIII truncate to weakly convex in both sexes.</paragraph>
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: sternite VII (
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) strongly transverse and with unmodified pubescence, posterior margin broadly concave, in the middle weakly convex; sternite VIII (
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) transverse, approximately 1.25 times as broad as long, in the middle with narrow band without pubescence, posterior excision approximately 0.2 times as deep as length of sternite; aedeagus (
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)
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long; dorsal plate with very long, distinctly sclerotized, and apically hooked apical portion, and with short membranous basal portion; internal sac with a pair of apically acute, weakly sclerotized apical structures.
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: sternite VIII (
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) approximately as long as broad and with convex posterior margin; tergite IX (
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) undivided in the middle, postero-lateral processes apically acute and rather short, but distinctly extending beyond apex of tergite X; tergite X (
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) weakly convex in cross-section, of oval shape, and slightly shorter than antero-median portion of tergite IX.
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<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA0FFB3FCF78F538A58FA38" bold="true" box="[794,1040,1385,1409]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Intraspecific variation</emphasis>
: The aedeagus of the male from the locality to the southeast of Taka (
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) is distinguished from those of the males from the
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locality (
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) by a slightly different shape of the ventral process (lateral view). However, since no additional characters were found suggesting that the specimens from the two localities should represent distinct species, this difference is attributed to intra- rather than interspecific variation.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA0FFB3FCF78CB38DAFF918" bold="true" box="[794,999,1673,1697]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Comparative notes</emphasis>
: Based on the external (slender habitus with long legs and antennae; flattened body; eyes reduced to minute rudiments; relatively long and slender elytra) and the male sexual characters (strongly transverse male sternite VII; aedeagus slender; dorsal plate with long, distinctly sclerotized, and apically hooked apical portion; presence of pairs of apical internal structures),
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<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA0FFB3FAE28D708D01F838" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">L. descendens</emphasis>
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undoubtedly belongs to the
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<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA0FFB3FB6F8D508AA9F838" box="[1154,1249,1897,1921]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">L. deuvei</emphasis>
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group, which is distributed in West and Central
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(
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). From the previously described species of this group,
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<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA0FFB3FCF78DF08DEFF858" box="[794,935,1993,2017]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">L. descendens</emphasis>
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is readily distinguished by its distinctly smaller size, by the posteriorly less strongly excavate male sternite VII, the much smaller and narrower posterior excision of the male sternite VII, as well as by the shape of the smaller aedeagus. It is separated from
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<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA2FFB1FD638B308CBCFE98" box="[654,756,265,289]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">L. barthei</emphasis>
COIFFAIT 1987
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, the sole previously known representative of the
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<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA2FFB1FEE58B708F2FFED8" box="[264,359,329,353]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">L. deuvei</emphasis>
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group recorded from West
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, by much smaller size alone (
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<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA2FFB1FE488B508C43FE38" box="[421,523,361,385]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">L. barthei</emphasis>
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: body length
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; length of forebody
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). For illustrations of the previously described representatives of the
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group see
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.
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<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA3FFB0FF508D828F64F874" bold="true" box="[189,300,1976,1998]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Figs 1629:</emphasis>
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(
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) and
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<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA3FFB0FD0B8D828D14F874" box="[742,860,1976,1997]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">L. ascendens</emphasis>
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(
<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA3FFB0FC468D828DAFF874" bold="true" box="[939,999,1976,1997]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">2529</emphasis>
): habitus (
<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA3FFB0FBB58D828AD0F874" bold="true" box="[1112,1176,1976,1997]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">16, 25</emphasis>
); forebody (
<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA3FFB0FAF48D828B11F874" bold="true" box="[1305,1369,1976,1997]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">17, 26</emphasis>
); male sternite VII (
<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA3FFB0FED58DEF8F18F853" bold="true" box="[312,336,2005,2026]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">18</emphasis>
); male sternite VIII (
<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA3FFB0FDF48DEF8C1BF853" bold="true" box="[537,595,2005,2026]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">19, 27</emphasis>
); aedeagus in lateral and in ventral view (
<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA3FFB0FC378DEF8A14F853" bold="true" box="[986,1116,2005,2026]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">2022, 2829</emphasis>
); female sternite VIII (
<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA3FFB0FADB8DEF8B06F853" bold="true" box="[1334,1358,2005,2026]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">23</emphasis>
); female tergites IXX (
<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA3FFB0FEA78DC88F2AF7BE" bold="true" box="[330,354,2034,2055]" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">24</emphasis>
). Scale bars: 1617, 2526: 1.0 mm; 1824, 2729: 0.5 mm.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<subSubSection id="C34C656BFFA2FFB1FF7A88338F53FD58" pageId="7" pageNumber="8" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="8BE936E0FFA2FFB1FF7A88338F53FD58" blockId="7.[151,756,521,737]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">
<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA2FFB1FF7A88338FB1FD98" bold="true" box="[151,505,521,545]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Distribution and natural history</emphasis>
: The species was found in three localities in Jumla District, West
<collectingCountry id="F3417670FFA2FFB1FDBF88138CD9FDF8" box="[594,657,553,577]" name="Nepal" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Nepal</collectingCountry>
(
<figureCitation id="136D2A65FFA2FFB1FD7288138CACFDF8" box="[671,740,553,577]" captionStart="Map 1" captionStartId="4.[189,234,890,911]" captionTargetBox="[189,1436,232,880]" captionTargetId="figure-533@4.[189,1436,232,880]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="Map 1: Distributions of Lathrobium species in Nepal: L. semicirculatum (white triangles), L. constrictum (black triangle), L. descendens (white circles), L. ascendens (black circle), L. rude (white star), L. latibasale (black star), L. eques (white diamond), L. equitans (black diamond), L. abruptum (black square), L. kemum (white square)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4753538" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4753538/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Map 1</figureCitation>
), at altitudes of
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. The only record from above
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, however, is based on a female and requires confirmation. The previously described species of the
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<emphasis id="B922EAF2FFA2FFB1FF7A88908EBEFD78" box="[151,246,681,705]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">L. deuvei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group were recorded at elevations between 4100 and
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.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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