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Plazi
Description. Holotype male ( Fig. 1a ). Coleoptera : Scarabaeoidea: Ochodaeidae . Length 7.3 mm . Width 3.7 mm . Color: Uniformly dark reddish brown; surface shiny. Head: Surface granulate; granules transverse, setose. Eyes large, globose; lacking ventral projection of canthus. Antennal club subequal to eye in size. Mandibles broadly concave, basal angle prominent (ventral portion strongly produced); apices blunt; left mandible with apex blade-like, distal internal tooth triangular; right mandible with simple apex and distal internal tooth triangular and closer to apex. Frons weakly convex. Clypeus trapezoidal, short (at most 1/3 as long as wide), with central tubercle; anterior margin lacking bead medially. Labrum shallowly emarginate. Mentum (as in Fig. 1d ) 2 × wider than long, broadly excavated anteriorly; anterolaterally with knobby protuberance on each side. Pronotum: Form convex. Surface densely granulate; granules shiny, setose. Elytra: Form convex, somewhat elongate, elytra together slightly longer than wide. Surface with striae moderately impressed, punctate, surface smooth between punctures (except sutural stria with connecting groove); strial punctures separated by 1–2 puncture diameters, lacking setae. Intervals smooth, with small, setose punctures; setae longer than diameter of strial punctures. Legs: Protibia tridentate externally, with short, acute pollex directed anteriorly ( Fig. 1b ). Profemur with apical tooth strong, acute. Mesofemur and metafemur with apical tooth reduced to rounded lobe. Metatibia cylindrical near base. Venter/Abdomen: Metasternum and abdomen sparsely punctate; punctures large with long, erect, golden setae. Pygidium punctate, setose; setae sparse. Stridulatory peg strongly bent, rasp-like, produced posteriorly ( Fig. 1c ). Male genitalia: Sclerotized lobe on internal sac between parameres broadly triangular, internal sac with complex armature including a large sclerotized denticle. Paratype variation. Males ( n = 4; length 8.7–10.2 mm ; width 4.5–8.4 mm ), females ( n = 7. length 7.3–9.5 mm ; width 3.5–5.0 mm). This species exhibits minimal sexual dimorphism, the protibiae being equal in the sexes and females apparently differing only by having the seta of the last abdominal segment recumbent rather than erect.