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Plazi
Description. Holotype male ( Fig. 3a ). Coleoptera : Scarabaeoidea: Ochodaeidae . Length 7.6 mm . Width 4.1 mm . Color: Everywhere reddish brown, surface shiny. Head: Surface strongly granulate; granules setose, shiny; surface between granules shagreened. Eyes large, globose, lacking ventral projection of canthus. Antennal club moderately large, approximately size of eye in distal view. Mandibles broadly concave, basal angle broadly rounded, apices falcate; left mandible with triangular internal tooth and second tooth behind; right mandible with internal teeth weakly developed. Frons weakly convex. Frontoclypeal suture triangular (projecting posteriorly, not transverse). Clypeus rhomboidal, long (about 1/2 as long as wide), with small horn on posterior margin; anterior margin distinctly beaded throughout, bead slender, bisinuate. Labrum with deep, U-shaped emargination. Mentum slightly wider than long, anteriorly emarginate with broad, subtriangular fovea. Pronotum: Form convex. Surface densely granulate everywhere (except furrowed midline in basal fourth); granules shiny, with short seta; surface shagreened between granules. Elytra: Form convex, distinctly narrower than pronotum, slightly elongate, elytra together as long as wide. Surface with striae moderately impressed, punctate, surface smooth between punctures (except sutural stria with connecting groove); strial punctures large, separated by ~1 puncture diameter, lacking setae. Intervals irregularly tuberculate; tubercles uniformly small, setose; setae slightly longer than diameter of largest strial punctures. Legs: Protibia broad ( Fig. 3b ), tridentate externally, with moderately long pollex. Profemur with strong, apical and median teeth ( Fig. 3b ). Mesofemur and metafemur with apical teeth large, acute. Metatibia flattened, dorsal surface with internal margin blade-like basally. Venter/Abdomen: Metasternum and abdomen sparsely punctate; punctures large with long, golden setae. Last abdominal segment with erect setae. Pygidium rugopunctate, setose, setae sparse. Stridulatory peg oblong ( Fig. 3c ). Male genitalia: Sclerotized patch on internal sac between parameres broadly triangular, apex rounded; internal sac lacking complex armature. Paratype variation. Male ( n = 1; length 7.4 mm ; width 4.0 mm). Female ( n = 1; length 8.2 mm ; width 4.5 mm ). The female specimen has much narrower protibiae, the median tooth on the profemur is reduced, and the setae on the last abdominal segment are recumbent rather than erect.