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M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: 
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: 1, Ma'agar Yeroham, 
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, pitfall, 
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, leg. Drees (cAss).
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C o m m e n t: According to 
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, this species is widespread in the Mediterranean region, but was previously unknown from 
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.
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(
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) 
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(SAULCY
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(
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) 
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. T y p e m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d 
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, present designation: &quot; 
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/ 
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/ 
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Saulcy
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, desig. 
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2014 / 
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, det. 
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2014&quot; (
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). A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: 
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: 3, same data as neotype
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(MNHNP). 
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: 1, N-Golan, Mount Hermon Reserve, 
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, 
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, leg. Heinz
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C o m m e n t: The original description of 
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is based on &quot;Un seul mâle, trouvé a Naplouse [= Nablus]&quot; (
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). According to the curator in charge at the MNHNP, where the Saulcy collection is housed (
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), a careful search for the 
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proved unsuccessful; it yielded only four non-type specimens in the Jarrige collection (TAGHAVIAN e-mail 27 May, 2014). Thus, like many other types of species described by Saulcy, the 
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of 
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<emphasis id="B933EAF35547FE27FD47FDFEFCE1FDCA" box="[647,782,587,609]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="1183">A. platynotus</emphasis>
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is most likely lost. This species belongs to a group of very similar, possibly myrmecophilous species, at least three of which are represented in 
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. In the interest of the stability of nomenclature, therefore, one of the 
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from Nablus in the Jarrige collection is designated as the 
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. The specimen is in agreement with the original description and was collected only some 
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from the original type locality of 
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.
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R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Body length 
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; length of forebody 2.0- 
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. Habitus as in 
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. Coloration: body black, with the posterior margins of the elytra occasionally indistinctly and narrowly paler; legs dark-yellowish; antennae reddish.
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Head (
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) 1.15-1.20 times as broad as long; posterior margin strongly concave; punctation shallow, very dense, and umbilicate; interstices reduced to narrow ridges. Eyes approximately as long as postocular region. Antenna (
<figureCitation id="137C2A645547FE27FCF1FC2FFC9DFC1E" box="[817,882,925,948]" captionStart="Figs 1-9" captionStartId="5.[178,218,1514,1536]" captionTargetBox="[187,1079,224,1495]" captionTargetId="figure-1@5.[178,1091,212,1505]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="Figs 1-9: Astenus platynotus (SAULCY) (1-6: neotype; 7-9: male from Mt. Hermon): (1) habitus; (2) forebody; (3) antenna; (4) male sternite VIII; (5, 8) aedeagus in lateral view; (6, 9) apical portion of aedeagus in ventral view; (7) apical portion of aedeagus in lateral view. Scale bars: 1-2: 1.0 mm; 3- 6, 8-9: 0.2 mm; 7: 0.1 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5308303" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5308303/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="1183">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
) 
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long; antennomeres IV-X of distinctly conical shape and very weakly oblong.
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Pronotum (
<figureCitation id="137C2A645547FE27FEE5FC52FE8CFC5C" box="[293,355,992,1014]" captionStart="Figs 1-9" captionStartId="5.[178,218,1514,1536]" captionTargetBox="[187,1079,224,1495]" captionTargetId="figure-1@5.[178,1091,212,1505]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="Figs 1-9: Astenus platynotus (SAULCY) (1-6: neotype; 7-9: male from Mt. Hermon): (1) habitus; (2) forebody; (3) antenna; (4) male sternite VIII; (5, 8) aedeagus in lateral view; (6, 9) apical portion of aedeagus in ventral view; (7) apical portion of aedeagus in lateral view. Scale bars: 1-2: 1.0 mm; 3- 6, 8-9: 0.2 mm; 7: 0.1 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5308303" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5308303/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="1183">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
) approximately as broad as long and 0.9 times as broad as head, laterally or antero-laterally usually with a very shallow impression on either side; lateral margins straight to weakly convex in dorsal view, distinctly converging posteriad; anterior and posterior angles each with a long black seta (often broken off) of approximately half the length of lateral margin; posterior margin convexly produced in the middle; punctation similar to that of head.
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Elytra (
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) 0.62-0.66 times as long as pronotum; humeral angles moderately marked; punctation distinctly granulose; interstices glossy. Hind wings completely reduced.
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<paragraph id="8BF836E15547FE27FF72FB68FF19FAE2" blockId="4.[178,1085,1242,1352]" pageId="4" pageNumber="1183">Abdomen 1.00-1.10 times as broad as elytra; punctation very dense on anterior tergites, gradually decreasing in density from tergite III to tergite VIII, moderately dense on tergites VII and VIII; posterior margin of tergite VII with narrow rudiment of a palisade fringe.</paragraph>
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: sternite VIII shaped as in 
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; aedeagus approximately 
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long, shaped as in
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<figureCitation id="137C2A645547FE27FF72FAC7FEE3FA20" box="[178,268,1396,1419]" captionStart="Figs 1-9" captionStartId="5.[178,218,1514,1536]" captionTargetBox="[187,1079,224,1495]" captionTargetId="figure-1@5.[178,1091,212,1505]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="Figs 1-9: Astenus platynotus (SAULCY) (1-6: neotype; 7-9: male from Mt. Hermon): (1) habitus; (2) forebody; (3) antenna; (4) male sternite VIII; (5, 8) aedeagus in lateral view; (6, 9) apical portion of aedeagus in ventral view; (7) apical portion of aedeagus in lateral view. Scale bars: 1-2: 1.0 mm; 3- 6, 8-9: 0.2 mm; 7: 0.1 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5308303" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5308303/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="1183">Figs 5-9.</figureCitation>
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D i s t r i b u t i o n a n d n a t u r a l h i s t o r y The confirmed distribution is confined to 
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and 
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. The species has been reported also from 
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(
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), but this record requires revision. The external morphology (broad body; short antennae) suggests that 
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may be associated with ants of the genus 
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MAYR, 1855.
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