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Plazi
Diagnosis. Body rather large, relatively narrow. Labium reaching between metacoxae. Antennomere 1 shorter than antennomere 2, much shorter than length of pronotum. Sexual dimorphism markedly developed. Callar lobe strongly gibbose in males, only slightly gibbose in females. Profemora strongly incrassate in males, ventrally provided with a longitudinal furrow along its entire length, bordered with a number of spines on both sides of the furrow ( Figs 19 , 98 ). Profemora distinctly more slender in females, with fewer spines. Protibia of males with a row of small denticles along its entire length but without any strong tooth ventrally near the apex. In females protibia unarmed. The presence or absence of the longitudinal furrow and small denticles on the meso- and metafemora vary among the species of this subgenus. The small denticles as well as the longitudinal furrow may be present on the ventral surface of the mesofemora but missing on the metafemora, or be present on both the meso- and metafemora; in males, more rarely also in females, the denticles could be very small, or may be completely missing. There are also differences between allometric males with strongly expressed sexual characters and less developed specimens. In Physopelta slanbuschii ( Fabricius, 1803 ) , the meso- and metafemora lack any longitudinal furrow and denticles. In allometric males of Ph. trimaculata Stehlík & Jindra, 2008 with pronounced sexual characters, the tibiae are curved. A stridulatory organ occurs in the form of a tooth on the ventral surface of the procoxa (strigil), and a flat, wrinkled area of cuticule on the protrochanter (plectrum) ( Figs 17−18 ). The peritreme of the metathoracic scent glands is roughly horizontal, ca. scimitar-shaped, with a rounded apex, from the ostiole directed posterolaterad ( Figs 20, 22 ). The paramere with its apex shorter and wider and its outer margin basally without angulate process ( Figs 30−34 ).