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Description of male 
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Body elliptical-elongate, moderately convex (
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; WP/LP = 2.20), weakly rounded laterally; pronotal surface smooth, with lines and groups of differently sized punctures, and with short lateral longitudinal striae reaching basal margin; both apical and basal margins distinctly thinner medially than laterally; lateral margins very finely bordered. Scutellum subtriangular. Elytra moderately elongate (LE = 
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; LE/LAED = 1.98) fusiform in ventral view, distally subtriangular with rounded apex; ventral surface weakly wrinkled laterally on apical third; dorsal ligula apparently formed by one median and two lateral, more elongate, lobes; large, sclerotized and subrectangular median lobe raising from dorsal surface, laterally bent, with apical median tooth; in lateral view, aedeagus regularly curved from phallobase to apex.
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<emphasis id="B90AEC59F05ED879FCD4FD92CD257AF1" bold="true" box="[828,1080,638,661]" pageId="3" pageNumber="502">Differential diagnosis.</emphasis>
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occupies a rather isolated position within the genus, even though closer to the species of 
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, especially to 
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(
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), as also suggested by the herein performed cladistic analysis. The new species shares the following characters with 
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<emphasis id="B90AEC59F05ED879FB88FCF2CDD17B51" box="[1120,1228,798,821]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="502">B. scripta</emphasis>
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: deeply impressed frontal grooves; trapezoidal pronotum with entirely visible lateral margins in dorsal view; pronotal posterior angles weakly obtuse; pronotal base with a latero-longitudinal striae. However, 
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<emphasis id="B90AEC59F05ED879FC21FC72CD507BD1" box="[969,1101,926,949]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="502">B. socotrana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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is easilydistinguishable from 
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<emphasis id="B90AEC59F05ED879FC9CFC52CAC77BB1" box="[884,986,958,981]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="502">B. scripta</emphasis>
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in having: elytral striae arranged in regular single rows (irregular double rows or striae in 
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<emphasis id="B90AEC59F05ED879FACDFC32CC917B91" box="[1317,1420,990,1013]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="502">B. scripta</emphasis>
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); bare head (distinctly hairy in 
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<emphasis id="B90AEC59F05ED879FB68FC12CDF77C71" box="[1152,1258,1022,1045]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="502">B. scripta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
); pale colour of antennae and legs (darker in 
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<emphasis id="B90AEC59F05ED879FB9DFBF2CDC07C51" box="[1141,1245,1054,1077]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="502">B. scripta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). In 
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<emphasis id="B90AEC59F05ED879FAFBFBF2CC817C51" box="[1299,1436,1054,1077]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="502">B. socotrana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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the median lobe of aedeagus is: fusiform in ventral view (thickset in 
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<emphasis id="B90AEC59F05ED879FC19FBB2CD457C11" box="[1009,1112,1118,1141]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="502">B. scripta</emphasis>
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); slender and regularly curved in lateral view (almost straight in 
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<emphasis id="B90AEC59F05ED879FB75FB92CC197CF1" box="[1181,1284,1150,1173]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="502">B. scripta</emphasis>
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); with a large,
</paragraph>
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Figs 1–2. 
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<emphasis id="B90AEC59F05ED879FF01F7E5C8447078" box="[233,345,2057,2076]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="502">Blepharidina</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="B90AEC59F05ED879FE8CF7E5C8FB7078" box="[356,486,2057,2076]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="502">Afroblepharida</emphasis>
) 
<emphasis id="B90AEC59F05ED879FE19F7E5CB5B7078" box="[497,582,2057,2076]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="502">socotrana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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1 – habitus; 2 – median lobe of aedeagus in ventral, dorsal, and lateral view (from left to right).
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="8BC1304BF059D87EFE08FF85CC8B7818" blockId="4.[480,1430,101,124]" box="[480,1430,101,124]" pageId="4" pageNumber="503">Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, volume 59, number 2, 2019 503</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BC1304BF059D87EFF7FFBFEC9FE7C24" blockId="4.[151,1436,1042,1088]" pageId="4" pageNumber="503">
Figs 3–4. 
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<emphasis id="B90AEC59F059D87EFF04FBFEC8407C41" box="[236,349,1042,1061]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="503">Blepharidina</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="B90AEC59F059D87EFE82FBFEC8F07C41" box="[362,493,1042,1061]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="503">Afroblepharida</emphasis>
) 
<emphasis id="B90AEC59F059D87EFE11FBFECB297C41" box="[505,564,1042,1061]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="503">scripta</emphasis>
(Weise, 1904)
</taxonomicName>
. 1 – habitus; 2 – median lobe of aedeagus in ventral, dorsal, and lateral view (from left to right).
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="8BC1304BF059D87EFCD4FB96CD4A7D75" blockId="4.[828,1437,1146,1553]" pageId="4" pageNumber="503">
sclerotized and subrectangular median lobe raising from dorsal surface, laterally bent and with an apical median tooth (absent in 
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<emphasis id="B90AEC59F059D87EFC05FB56CD4B7CB5" box="[1005,1110,1210,1233]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="503">B. scripta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
); dorsal ligula formed by one median and two lateral elongate lobes (short median and lateral lobes in 
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<emphasis id="B90AEC59F059D87EFC37FB16CD5A7D75" box="[991,1095,1274,1297]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="503">B. scripta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C36463C0F059D87EFCD4FAF6CC817DD5" pageId="4" pageNumber="503" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8BC1304BF059D87EFCD4FAF6CD3A7D15" blockId="4.[828,1437,1146,1553]" pageId="4" pageNumber="503">
<emphasis id="B90AEC59F059D87EFCD4FAF6CAA17D55" bold="true" box="[828,956,1306,1329]" pageId="4" pageNumber="503">Etymology.</emphasis>
The specific epithet is a female adjective in the genitive case referring to 
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, where the new species was collected.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BC1304BF059D87EFCD4FA96CC817DD5" blockId="4.[828,1437,1146,1553]" pageId="4" pageNumber="503">
<emphasis id="B90AEC59F059D87EFCD4FA96CA877DF5" bold="true" box="[828,922,1402,1425]" pageId="4" pageNumber="503">Habitat.</emphasis>
The only known specimen was collected in an open woodland with 
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<emphasis id="B90AEC59F059D87EFBFBFA76CDD07DD5" box="[1043,1229,1434,1457]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="503">Boswellia ameero</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
trees, at 
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a.s.l.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C36463C0F059D87EFCD4FA56CA9C7E75" pageId="4" pageNumber="503" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="8BC1304BF059D87EFCD4FA56CA9C7E75" blockId="4.[828,1437,1146,1553]" pageId="4" pageNumber="503">
<emphasis id="B90AEC59F059D87EFCD4FA56CAD77DB5" bold="true" box="[828,970,1466,1489]" pageId="4" pageNumber="503">Distribution.</emphasis>
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(
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). Possibly Northern-Eastern Afrotropical (NEA) chorotype (
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BIONDI &amp; 
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2006
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).
</paragraph>
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</treatment>
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