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            <p>Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Dytiscidae</p>
            <p> Novadessus gen. n.</p>
            <p>Type species.</p>
            <p> Novadessus viracocha sp. n., by current designation. </p>
            <p>Diagnosis.</p>
            <p> Novadessus is characterized by the following combination: (1) a transverse occipital line absent on the head; (2) the anterior clypeal margin not modified;  ( 3) a pair of basal pronotal striae present; (4) the basal elytral stria absent; (5) the elytral sutural stria absent; (6) the elytron without longitudinal carinae; (7) the epipleuron without a transverse carina at the humeral angle; (8) the lateral lobes of the male aedeagus two-segmented; (9) the overall habitus elongate and oval, with lateral pronotal and elytral margins discontinuous; (10) without distinct denticles along the posterior margins of the abdominal sternites; (11) the male genitalia (both median lobe and lateral lobes) bilaterally symmetrical; and (12) the metatrochanter small relative to the metafemur, approximately 0.6  × the length of the metafemur. </p>
            <p> The genus is relatively similar in appearance and overall shape of the male genitalia to  Liodessus Guignot, a rather generalized group of  Bidessini species. However,  Novadessus is missing both the transverse occipital line across the back of the head and the basal elytral striae, each of which is characteristic of  Liodessus . In Miller and Bergsten (2016) the genus keys out to couplet 13 which separates  Fontidessus Miller and Spangler and  Neobidessodes Hendrich and Balke, neither of which is a convincing fit.  Fontidessus , though Neotropical like  Novadessus , have a characteristic ventral sclerite on the male median lobe and very large metatrochanters, neither of which are present in  Novadessus .  Neobidessodes have a rather different body shape (elongate oval with a continuous lateral body line), are Australian, and do not appear to be similar in any other particular way to  Novadessus .  Spanglerodessus Miller and  García and  Amarodytes Régimbart (both Neotropical) each also have the combination of absence of an occipital line, presence of pronotal striae and absence of elytral striae, but the first is very broad and broadly rounded laterally with a broad pronotal bead and the second has the pronotal striae generally short, curved and located somewhat laterally. In addition, each group is superficially quite distinct from  Novadessus in many other less discrete characters such as body shape, overall coloration, surface sculpture, etc. Even so, the relationships of  Novadessus to these other taxa, and to other  Bidessini genera in general, is unknown and needs investigation. </p>
            <p>Etymology.</p>
            <p> This genus is named  Novadessus from the Latin word, novus, meaning  “new” and dessus, a common root for genera in the  Bidessini . </p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/01E4644008B08A3BF6E8FCBD616B6D70	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Miller, Kelly B.	Miller, Kelly B. (2016): Novadessus viracocha, a new genus and species of Bidessini Sharp from Peru (Coleoptera, Adephaga, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae). ZooKeys 623: 125-130, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.623.10018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.623.10018
6135B013EE618AABC2F8CCF242C0BBF1.text	6135B013EE618AABC2F8CCF242C0BBF1.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Novadessus viracocha Miller	<html xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
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            <p>Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Dytiscidae</p>
            <p> Novadessus viracocha Miller sp. n. Figs 1-4, 5 </p>
            <p>Type locality.</p>
            <p>Peru, Department Huanuco, Shishmay.</p>
            <p> Diagnosis . </p>
            <p>Monotypic. The male median lobe in lateral aspect is expanded medially and evenly curved to a narrowed, apically narrowly rounded apex (Fig. 2). The coloration is overall brownish.</p>
            <p>Description.</p>
            <p>Measurements. TL = 2.0-2.2mm, GW = 0.9-1.0mm, PW = 0.8-0.9mm, HW = 0.6-0.7mm, EW = 0.4-0.5mm, TL/GW = 2.1-2.2, HW/EW = 1.4-1.5. Body elongate oval, lateral outline somewhat discontinuous between pronotum and elytron (Fig. 1).</p>
            <p>Coloration. Head, including appendages, evenly brown. Pronotum brown, somewhat darker along anterior and posterior margins. Elytron brown, lighter brown laterally. Ventral surfaces brown, legs, head and epipleuron lighter brown than thoracic and abdominal sternites.</p>
            <p> Sculpture and structure. Head surface finely but distinctly microreticulate and micropunctate; without occipital line or modifications to evenly rounded clypeal margin. Pronotum surface smooth and shiny with few micropunctures scattered across surface; lateral margins broadly rounded with bead narrow; broadest anteriorly, narrowed posteriorly; lateral striae distinctive, extending anteriorly more than half distance across pronotum. Elytron smooth and shiny with fine, distinctive punctures distributed evenly; lateral margins subparallel anteriorly, narrowed to posteriorly pointed apex; basal and sutural striae absent. Prosternum moderately broad; prosternal process nar  row , apically sharply pointed, medially rounded. Mesoventrite and metacoxal surfaces smooth and shiny with few, scattered fine punctures; metacoxal lines anteriorly somewhat divergent. Abdominal surfaces smooth and shiny with few scattered punctures. Metatrochanter small, ventrally rounded, not strongly offset from line of metafemur; metafemur slender, unmodified. </p>
            <p>Male genitalia. Median lobe in lateral aspect evenly curved, medially distinctly and broadly expanded, apically narrowed to elongate, narrowly rounded apex (Fig. 2); in ventral aspect slender with lateral margins somewhat sinuate to narrowly rounded apex (Fig. 3). Lateral lobe with apical segment elongate slender with small ventral hook apically; ventral segment shorter, moderately broad (Fig. 4).</p>
            <p>Variation. Specimens vary somewhat in intensity of coloration, but are otherwise similar.</p>
            <p>Etymology.</p>
            <p> This species is named  viracocha after the Inca creator god. </p>
            <p>Distribution.</p>
            <p>The species is known from two series. The type series bears label data indicating it is from "Vic. of Shishmay." Shishmay is a small town in the Andes of Peru (Fig. 5). The other series has label data indicating "Vic. San Domingo," in Huanuco, Peru. This second locality could not be located.</p>
            <p> Habitat . </p>
            <p> The type series was collected from "highland lakes." Nothing else is known of the habitat of  Novadessus viracocha . </p>
            <p>Type material.</p>
            <p> Holotype in United States National Entomological Collection, Smithsonian Institution (USNM), male labeled, "Peru, S. A. Sept. 15-20, 1937 F. Woytkowski. No. 3787/ Dept. of Huanuco Vic. of Shishmay Andes 3600-4100 m Highland Lakes/ HOLOTYPE  Novadessus viracocha Miller, 2016 [red label with black line border]." Paratypes (in USNM and The Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico), 4 labeled same as holotype. Nine labeled, "Peru, S. A. Nov. 11-23, 1937 F. Woytkowski No. 3812/ Dept. Huanuco Vic. San Domingo Andes 3000 M. el./ PARATYPE  Novadessus viracocha Miller, 2016 [blue label with black line border]." </p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6135B013EE618AABC2F8CCF242C0BBF1	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Miller, Kelly B.	Miller, Kelly B. (2016): Novadessus viracocha, a new genus and species of Bidessini Sharp from Peru (Coleoptera, Adephaga, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae). ZooKeys 623: 125-130, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.623.10018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.623.10018
