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Plazi
Description. Holotype male ( Fig. 2a ). Coleoptera : Scarabaeoidea: Ochodaeidae . Length 5.3 mm . Width 3.1 mm . Color: Uniformly light yellowish brown; surface shiny. Head: Surface weakly tuberculate; tubercles transverse, setose. Eyes large, globose, lacking ventral projection of canthus. Antennal club relatively small, approximately 1/2 size of eye. Mandibles broadly concave, basal angle prominent, apices falcate; left mandible with triangular internal tooth and second tooth behind; right mandible with first internal tooth weaker, also with second tooth behind. Frons weakly convex. Frontoclypeal suture straight, transverse. Clypeus trapezoidal, short (about 1/4 as long as wide), with central tubercle (minute horn); anterior margin with bead eroded medially. Labrum deeply, semicircularly emarginate. Mentum slightly wider than long, anteriorly emarginate with broad semicircular fovea. Pronotum: Form convex. Surface densely granulate; granules shiny, with short seta, some flattened. Elytra: Form convex, not 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 shorter than diameter of largest strial punctures. Legs: Protibia broad ( Fig. 2b ), tridentate externally, with moderately long, curved pollex. Profemur with apical tooth strong, acute. Mesofemur and metafemur with apical teeth reduced to obtuse lobe. 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 rugosely punctate, setose, setae. Stridulatory peg subcircular ( Fig. 2c ). Male genitalia: Sclerotized patch on internal sac between parameres broadly triangular, rounded apically; internal sac lacking complex armature. Paratype variation. Males ( n = 9; length 5.0– 7.8 mm ; width 2.5–3.8 mm ), females ( n = 8; length 5.3–6.5 mm ; width 2.8–3.3 mm ). Color is not informative, varying from testaceous to dark reddish brown. Larger males have the apical teeth of the middle and hind femora distinct and acute. Females have narrower protibiae, and the setae on the last abdominal segment are recumbent rather than erect.