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Plazi
Description. Holotype male ( Fig. 2a ). Coleoptera : Scarabaeoidea: Ochodaeidae . Length: 8.4 mm . Width: 4.1 mm . Color: Everywhere uniformly dark reddish brown; surface nitid. Head: Surface lacking tubercles, irregularly punctate; punctures mixed, moderately large and setose or smaller and lacking setae, separated by ~ 4 puncture diameters. Eyes large, globose; lacking ventral projection of canthus. Antennal club large, subequal in size to eye. Mandibles broadly scooped, basal angle rounded, apices falcate; left mandible with large triangular internal tooth; right mandible with complimenting tooth obtuse, second tooth larger, bicusped. Frons weakly convex; surface impunctate behind frontoclypeal suture. Clypeus flat with disc short (at most 1/10 as long medially as wide), anterior margin strongly beaded; bead thick (at least 2× as thick as clypeal disc), anterior margin of bead subtrapezoidal, posterior margin of bead bisinuate. Mentum ( Fig. 5 ) with strongly excavated rounded furrow on nearly entire length, lateral margins of furrow roughly thickened. Pronotum: Form convex. Surface densely punctate, appearing smooth between punctures laterally, disc with slight indication of tiled granules; punctation mixed, predominantly large setose punctures with few smaller naked punctures interspersed. Elytra: Form convex, relatively elongate, elytra together longer than wide. Surface with striae moderately impressed, punctate, surface smooth between punctures (except sutural stria with connecting groove); strial punctures large, separated by 1 diameter, lacking setae. Intervals irregularly punctate; punctures small, setose, with tubercle anteriorly. Legs: Protibia tridentate externally, internal side with strong, acute pollex ½ length of apical spur, with second triangularly acute pollex proximally ( Fig. 2b ). Profemur lacking apical tooth. Mesofemur and metafemur with strong subapical tooth connected by fin-like extension to apex. Venter/Abdomen: Metasternum and abdominal segments 1 to 5 sparsely punctate; punctures large with long, erect, golden setae; abdominal segment 6 with dense, small punctures resulting in setal patch. Pygidium roughly punctate. Stridulatory peg long, arcuate ( Fig. 11 ). Male genitalia: Internal sac with elongate-oval patch of sclerites between parameres ( Fig. 8 ). Paratype variation. In males the second pollex becomes less distinct as body size decreases, with only the smallest of the 13 males lacking any sort of angulation. Females lack the second pollex, and also lack the setal patch on the last abdominal segment, instead displaying only sparse setation.
description · Plazi
Description. Holotype male ( Fig. 2a ). Coleoptera : Scarabaeoidea: Ochodaeidae . Length: 8.4 mm . Width: 4.1 mm . Color: Everywhere uniformly dark reddish brown; surface nitid. Head: Surface lacking tubercles, irregularly punctate; punctures mixed, moderately large and setose or smaller and lacking setae, separated by ~ 4 puncture diameters. Eyes large, globose; lacking ventral projection of canthus. Antennal club large, subequal in size to eye. Mandibles broadly scooped, basal angle rounded, apices falcate; left mandible with large triangular internal tooth; right mandible with complimenting tooth obtuse, second tooth larger, bicusped. Frons weakly convex; surface impunctate behind frontoclypeal suture. Clypeus flat with disc short (at most 1/10 as long medially as wide), anterior margin strongly beaded; bead thick (at least 2× as thick as clypeal disc), anterior margin of bead subtrapezoidal, posterior margin of bead bisinuate. Mentum ( Fig. 5 ) with strongly excavated rounded furrow on nearly entire length, lateral margins of furrow roughly thickened. Pronotum: Form convex. Surface densely punctate, appearing smooth between punctures laterally, disc with slight indication of tiled granules; punctation mixed, predominantly large setose punctures with few smaller naked punctures interspersed. Elytra: Form convex, relatively elongate, elytra together longer than wide. Surface with striae moderately impressed, punctate, surface smooth between punctures (except sutural stria with connecting groove); strial punctures large, separated by 1 diameter, lacking setae. Intervals irregularly punctate; punctures small, setose, with tubercle anteriorly. Legs: Protibia tridentate externally, internal side with strong, acute pollex ½ length of apical spur, with second triangularly acute pollex proximally ( Fig. 2b ). Profemur lacking apical tooth. Mesofemur and metafemur with strong subapical tooth connected by fin-like extension to apex. Venter/Abdomen: Metasternum and abdominal segments 1 to 5 sparsely punctate; punctures large with long, erect, golden setae; abdominal segment 6 with dense, small punctures resulting in setal patch. Pygidium roughly punctate. Stridulatory peg long, arcuate ( Fig. 11 ). Male genitalia: Internal sac with elongate-oval patch of sclerites between parameres ( Fig. 8 ).