Neorthrius Gerstmeier & Eberle
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Neorthrius Gerstmeier & Eberle |
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Neorthrius Gerstmeier & Eberle ZBK gen. n. Figs 162533425263
Type species:
Neorthrius monticola Schenkling, 1906 Schenkling 1906: 267.
Distribution:
Indo-Australian region.
Material examined:
Neorthrius monticola (Holotype), Kina-Balu-Geb., 1500m, Coll. Waterstrad; Schenkling det (SDEI); and several unidentified specimens of this genus.
Description
Head:
Eyes strongly protruding, conspicuously emarginate at antennal insertion; interocular space at least more than one eye width; gular sutures converging, gular process broad, compact, only slightly emarginate at middle; antennae long, A1 about two times longer than A2, A2 shorter than A3, A3-A8 filiform, A9 and A10 slightly dilated distally, A3-A5 more or less equal in length, A6-A8 becoming shorter, A11 sub-ovate, apical half pinched, sometimes without club, sometimes terminal three antennomeres forming a loose club.
Thorax:
Proepimeron short to medium-sized, more rounded than acute; anterior mesosternal process absent; metendosternite with normal furcal stalk length, furcal arms normal, stalk base slightly emarginate (Fig. 16). Elytra long, subparallel, sometimes constricted apically, apices rounded separately, elytral punctation arranged into ten striae.
Legs:
Of normal size, sometimes with thickened femora; tarsal pulvillar formula 4-4-3, tibial spur formula 1-2-2; tibiae with longitudinal carinae; claws simple.
Abdomen:
Apical margin of male ventrite 6 sometimes deeply emarginate (Fig. 52); phallobasic struts not fused, phallic struts and phallobasic apodeme dilated distally (Fig. 42).
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