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species:
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, by present designation.
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<emphasis id="B95FF64A9C11FFCBFF12228AFEE8FC53" bold="true" box="[151,274,973,999]" pageId="1" pageNumber="280">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
The
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species of the new subgenus differs from all known
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in the presence of short, fine recumbent setation on dorsal surface (at least on pronotum and elytra); this is a significant difference from all known extant
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(body dorsally glabrous), and the new species is further distinguished by flattened lateral sides of the pronotum. In addition, the prosternal process in
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is roundly bent down and weakly projecting posterior to procoxae, in contrast to extant species.
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<emphasis id="B95FF64A9C11FFCBFF4225C6FEB4FB2F" bold="true" box="[199,334,1153,1179]" pageId="1" pageNumber="280">Etymology.</emphasis>
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-“ prefix comes from Greek
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,
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for “hair”, and is combined with
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<emphasis id="B95FF64A9C11FFCBFB7525C6FAA4FB2F" box="[1264,1374,1153,1179]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="280">Metaclisa</emphasis>
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,
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genus for the tribe. Gender feminine.
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<emphasis id="B95FF64A9C11FFCBFF42258EFEEBFB57" bold="true" box="[199,273,1225,1251]" pageId="1" pageNumber="280">Notes.</emphasis>
The taxonomic placement of the studied species within the family
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is based on the following combination of features: tarsal formula 5-5-4, antennae 11-segmented, genae conceal base of antennomere 1, five abdominal ventrites with intersegmental membranes between ventrites 35 (tenebrionoid lineage of the family). The specimen is externally very similar to genera of the tribe
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(extinct, Early Cretaceous),
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Stephens, 1829
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Jacquelin du Val, 1861
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(extant). However, it can be distinguished from these genera based upon the following characters, which have been indicated partly by
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Kirejtshuk
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and completely by
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: basal tarsomeres ventrally bear dense pads of fine golden setae, not arranged in two rows; the first (epipleural) elytral punctate stria tapers to end before the elytral apex and does not join the sutural stria at the apex; and epipleura ending before elytral apex (only this character of the three listed is visible on the compression fossil of
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). The combination of other external characters also corresponds to the diagnosis of the tribe
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Metaclisini (
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. The elytral setation of
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<emphasis id="B95FF64A9C11FFCBFDC82712FD0DF9DB" box="[589,759,1621,1647]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="280">Metaclisa ottoi</emphasis>
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is an unusual character for
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, but we believe that only this one character is not enough to give a genus rank to a new taxon.
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<emphasis id="B95FF64A9C11FFCBFC5C273EFB7BF927" box="[985,1153,1657,1683]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="280">Metaclisa ottoi</emphasis>
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additionally differs from extinct
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<emphasis id="B95FF64A9C11FFCBFF6F27DAFE3FF903" box="[234,453,1693,1719]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="280">Alphitopsis initialis</emphasis>
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base upon the structure of its antennae (antennomeres 610 possess a stick-shaped base in
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<emphasis id="B95FF64A9C11FFCBFF312786FEC8F96F" box="[180,306,1729,1755]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="280">Alphitopsis</emphasis>
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).
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