Protapatophysis hindukushensis, Miroshnikov, 2020
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https://doi.org/ 10.15298/rusentj.29.2.09 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D6810F-B749-9976-FF54-AD487FF914B5 |
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Felipe |
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Protapatophysis hindukushensis |
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KEY TO SPECIES OF PROTAPATOPHYSIS, BASED ON View in CoL ♂ CHARAC- TERS
1. Lateral tubercles of pronotum attenuated and sharpened, as in Figs 9–13 ............................................................. 2
— Lateral tubercles of pronotum subrectangularly protruded, as in Figs 14–16 ................................................... 4
2. Lateral tubercles of pronotum longer, as in Figs 10–13; pronotal disc with or without poorly expressed shiny area in basal part at midline, as in Figs 10–13; antennae longer, as in Figs 2–5 View Figs 1–6 ; apical part of both penis and tergite 8 as in Figs 18–21, 26–29 ....................................................... 3
— Lateral tubercles of pronotum shorter, as in Fig. 9; pronotal disc with a very well-expressed shiny area in basal part at midline, as in Fig. 9; antennae shorter, as in Fig. 1 View Figs 1–6 ; apical part of both penis and tergite 8 as in Figs 17, 25 ................................................. P. hindukushensis View in CoL sp.n.
3. Median longitudinal groove between upper lobes of eyes noticeably extends beyond the line connecting their lower margins; scutellum distinctly triangular, narrowly rounded at apex, as in Fig. 41 View Figs 41–44 ; pronotal disc with a less sharply expressed puncturation ..................................... ........................................... P. kashmiriana (Semenov) View in CoL
— Median longitudinal groove between upper lobes of eyes distinctly does not reach the line connecting their lower margins; scutellum widely rounded at apex, as in Figs 42– 44 View Figs 41–44 ; pronotal disc with a more sharply expressed puncturation ..................................... P. vartianae (Heyrovský) View in CoL
4. Elytra more strongly elongated, distinctly narrowed towards apex, as in Fig. 8; tergite 8 emarginate apically, as in Fig. 32 ....................................... P. montana (Gahan) View in CoL
— Elytra less strongly elongated, barely narrowed towards apex, as in Figs 6 View Figs 1–6 –7; tergite 8 widely rounded or subtruncate apically, as in Figs 30–31 ...................................... ................................................. P. kabakovi Danilevsky View in CoL
Acknowledgements. I am very grateful to Svetlana V. Andreeva (ZIN), Maxwell V.L. Barclay and Michael F. Geiser (BMNH) for the opportunity to study the museum material, to Sergey V. Murzin (Moscow, Russia) who has provided some specimens from his private collection. I would like to express my sincere thanks to my wife Tatiana P. Miroshnikova (Krasnodar, Russia) for having rendered great help in the preparation of pictures.
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