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1D2A87E83651FFD5369EFD3CFE26F85D.text	1D2A87E83651FFD5369EFD3CFE26F85D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dilatapolochrus Tshernyshev 2021	<div><p>Dilatapolochrus Tshernyshev gen. nov.</p> <p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 1C3ACFC3-5C35-45D7-8C0C-D1766E6800C9</p> <p>Type species: Dilatapolochrus vikhrevi Tshernyshev sp. nov. fixed by monotypy in the present paper.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Diagnosis is mainly based on male special characters. Size moderately large for Malachiidae (c. 5.3–5.7 mm) with the body elongate, oval and parallel-sided, slightly expanded posteriorly, evenly covered with pale brown long erect pubescence and in part with short semi-erect hairs. Body black-brown with metallic green-blue luster. Antennae strong, filiform with flattened and widened 6th to 11th antennomeres, 2.3 mm long, expanding over the base of elytra. Head narrower than pronotum, flat, interocular area almost completely flat or slightly impressed, eyes simple, not large, slightly protruding, round-oval. Pronotum weakly narrowed at base, almost completely equilateral and sub-oval with evenly rounded angles, slightly depressed and flattened at the base and at the posterior angles, with posterior margin slightly elevate and swollen; anterior and posterior margins straight; lateral sides evenly rounded and flattened, distinctly marginate; surface of the disc very sparsely and finely punctured lacking microsculpture, shining. Elytra subparallel, slightly expanded just behind the base, not covering three apical segments of the abdomen, densely and coarsely punctured with distinct microsculpture, with small distinct and weakly protruding shoulders; apices evenly rounded, simple. Hind wings reduced in females. Anterior tarsi with small but distinct transverse comb above the 2nd tarsomere, anterior femora slightly widened and evenly impressed in the middle, sides of the impression covered with a row of short erect hairs, anterior tibiae dilated and strongly excavate in apical half so the basal lobe is bearing flattened oval plate above, intermediate tibiae stout, with three deep round-oval impressions near apices inwards. Metathorax swollen, lacking appendage or tuft of hairs. Pygidium undivided, evenly rounded distally; 8th ultimate abdominal ventrite looks bilaciniate but both lobes distinctly adjoined, evenly rounded and narrowed distally, with triangular emargination in middle; aedeagus straight and strongly narrowed distally, with spiculate narrow lamella with round and flat tip; two groups of dark long sharp bristles are visible in distal part near both sides of the inner sac. Tegmen narrow, elongate, with long and thin parameres.</p> <p>Comparison. Species of the genus are comparable with representatives of Hapalochrops Bourgeois, 1908 and differ in the presence of strong emarginations in fore tibiae and stout intermediate tibia with three impressions in the apical part in ventral side, specifically widened and strong antennae with expanded outer edges in intermediate antennomeres, shortened elytra not covering three abdominal segments, wings reduced in females, and aedeagus, straight and extremely narrowed distally.</p> <p>Etymology. The name of the genus is a combination of two words: dilatatum—(Latin) with regard to the widening of the antennae, and Apalochrus, the name of the nominative genus of the tribe Apalochrini; this generic name reflects the specific male character of the new genus, namely flabellate and dilated apical intermediate antennomeres.</p> <p>Notes. A species of the genus is known from two regions of Tanzania, Njombe and Morogoro (Uzungwa Mountains) (Fig. 13).</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1D2A87E83651FFD5369EFD3CFE26F85D	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Tshernyshev, Sergei E.	Tshernyshev, Sergei E. (2021): Dilatapalochrus gen. nov. - a new species and a new genus of soft-winged flower beetle of the tribe Apalochrini (Coleoptera: Malachiidae) from East Africa. Zootaxa 4966 (3): 376-384, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4966.3.9
1D2A87E83650FFD2369EFE8DFB06FD18.text	1D2A87E83650FFD2369EFE8DFB06FD18.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dilatapolochrus vikhrevi Tshernyshev 2021	<div><p>Dilatapolochrus vikhrevi Tshernyshev sp. nov.</p> <p>(Figs 1–13)</p> <p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 3AC1B444-C24F-47E4-BA78-54C186738DBF</p> <p>Type material examined. Tanzania: Holotype, male, 15 km N of Njombe, alt. 1850 m a.s.l., 9°12’14’’S; 34°47’2’’E; 16.XII.2015, N. Vikhrev leg. (ZIN); allotype, female (teneral), idem (ZIN); paratypes, 10 males, idem (ZIN, SCH); paratype, 1 male, <a href="http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=36.066666&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-8.116667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 36.066666/lat -8.116667)">Uzungwa Mountains</a>, Kiranzi Kitunguru Catchment F. R., alt. 1700 m a.s.l., 8°07’S; 36°04’E; March–April 1996, L. Sørensen leg. (ZMUC).</p> <p>Description. Holotype, male (Figs 1, 2). Body elongate, oval, slightly expanded posteriorly, elytra not covering three ultimate segments of the abdomen.</p> <p>Body black-brown with a weak green-blue metallic luster, second antennomere and apical part of the first antennomere, clypeus and commissure membranes of ventrites yellow. Surface evenly covered with pale brown pubescence, long and erect, head also with semi-erect pale hairs. Vesicles yellow, and thoracic mesepimera blackbrown.</p> <p>Head narrower than pronotum, flat, interocular area almost completely flat, eyes simple, not large, slightly protruding, round-oval, frons flat; genae short and straight; clypeus slightly elongate, transverse, straight; labrum narrow, transverse; palpi simple with apical segment slightly elongate, narrow, sub-oval and truncate at apex; surface of head evenly and finely punctured with distinct microsculpture, densely covered with short pale brown fine adpressed pubescence.</p> <p>Antennae with flattened and widened 6th to 11th antennomeres (Fig. 3), 2.3 mm long, expanding over the base of elytra; 1st antennomere slightly enlarged, subrectangular with rounded angles, 2nd antennomere small, round, almost completely invisible, strongly hidden by the 1st antennomere, 3rd antennomere elongate, as long as the 1st antennomere and 1.5 times narrower, 3rd, 4th and 5th antennomeres short, subtriangular, 6th to 10th with expanded outer edges, 6th and 10th triangular, 7th to 9th antennomeres rectangular and 11th (apical one) elongate and oval, widened to apex; surface sparsely covered with fine short, brown adpressed pubescence.</p> <p>Pronotum weakly narrowed at base, almost completely equilateral and sub-oval with evenly rounded angles, slightly depressed at the base and at the posterior angles, with posterior margin slightly elevate and swollen; anterior and posterior margins straight; lateral sides evenly rounded and flattened, distinctly marginate; very sparsely and finely punctured lacking microsculpture, shining, evenly covered with fine long erect pale brown hairs.</p> <p>Scutellum rectangular, small and narrow, transverse, almost completely covered by pronotum, sparsely punctured and covered with brown short pubescence.</p> <p>Elytra sub-oval, not covering three apical segments of the abdomen, slightly expanded just behind the base, at base not wider than pronotum, humeri small, distinct and protruding; apices evenly rounded, simple; disc distinctly and finely marginate on external sides and widely along suture, edge of suture is restricted near apices of elytra; surface shining, densely and coarsely punctured, with distinct microsculpture, evenly covered with pale-brown long erect pubescence.</p> <p>Hind wings normal.</p> <p>Legs thin, slightly elongate; posterior femora almost completely reaching elytral apices; anterior tibiae dilated and strongly excavated in apical half so the basal lobe appears to have a flattened oval plate above (Figs 5, 6), intermediate tibiae stout, with three deep round-oval impressions near apices at ventral side (Figs 7, 8), posterior tibiae simple, straight; anterior femora slightly widened and evenly impressed in middle, sides of the impression covered with a row of short erect hairs (Fig. 5), all other femora slightly widened and simple, lacking emarginations or indentations; trochanters simple, lacking teeth, elongate; all tarsi 5-segmented, intermediate tarsomeres slightly compressed, apical one flattened, not long, first tarsomere elongate, sub-triangular and the longest of all legs, 2nd segment in anterior tarsi triangular, with small transversal comb above (Fig. 4), in intermediate and posterior legs it is 1.3 times shorter than the 1st tarsomere, 1.3 times as long as the 3rd and twice as long as the 4th; the 3rd and 4th tarsomeres in anterior legs small, equal in length and each twice as short as the 2nd tarsomere; claw-segment elongate and narrow in all legs; claws short, thin, narrow and sharp, with round transparent membrane at base.</p> <p>Ventral body surface evenly punctured, lacking microsculpture, evenly covered with long and fine, adpressed goldish pubescence; metathorax swollen, lacking appendage of hair tuft. Pygidium undivided, evenly rounded distally (Fig. 9); 8th ultimate abdominal ventrite looks bilaciniated, but both lobes distinctly adjoined, evenly rounded and narrowed distally, with triangular emargination in middle (Fig. 10); aedeagus almost completely straight, strongly narrowed distally, spiculate, with elongate narrow and slightly roundly flattened apical lamella; two groups of dark long sharp and narrow bristles are visible in distal part near both sides of the inner sac (Fig. 11). Tegmen narrow, elongate, with long and thin parameres (Fig. 12).</p> <p>Length 5.7 mm, width (at elytral base) 1.3 mm.</p> <p>Female differs in simple filiform antennae with elongate narrow antennomeres, compressed and narrow tarsi lacking a comb above 2nd tarsomere in anterior legs, more narrow bases of elytra allowing apical half of pronotum being wider than elytral base, more strongly ovoid and narrowed posteriorly body, hind wings completely reduced.</p> <p>Length 5.3 mm, width (at elytral base) 1.1 mm.</p> <p>Distribution. Known only from type locality, Tanzania, Njombe environs (Fig. 13).</p> <p>Etymology. The species is named after Dr Nikita E. Vikhrev (Zoological Museum of Moscow State University, Moscow) the famous dipterologist, who kindly has collected Malachiidae beetles for a study.</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1D2A87E83650FFD2369EFE8DFB06FD18	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Tshernyshev, Sergei E.	Tshernyshev, Sergei E. (2021): Dilatapalochrus gen. nov. - a new species and a new genus of soft-winged flower beetle of the tribe Apalochrini (Coleoptera: Malachiidae) from East Africa. Zootaxa 4966 (3): 376-384, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4966.3.9
1D2A87E83656FFD1369EFD3CFA32FDBC.text	1D2A87E83656FFD1369EFD3CFA32FDBC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Apalochrini Mulsant & Rey 1867	<div><p>Key to genera of the tribe Apalochrini occuring in Africa (males only)</p> <p>1. Antennae with 1st, 3rd or/and 4th antennomeres enlarged and modified.......................................... 2</p> <p>- Antennae with simple, not enlarged and modified 1st, 3rd or/and 4th antennomeres, distal antennomeres forming flabellum thin or strongly dilated.................................................................................... 4</p> <p>2. Special male characters are located in modified 1st, 3rd and 4th antennomeres, anterior legs simple.................... 3</p> <p>- Special male characters in modified 1st and 3rd antennomeres and in stout or excavated anterior femora and tibiae.............................................................. Laius Guérin-Méneville, 1831 (= Nossibeus Evers, 1994)</p> <p>3. 2nd tarsomere in anterior legs simple, lacking a comb above............................. Heterolaius Champion, 1920</p> <p>- 2nd tarsomere in anterior legs bears a comb above...................................... Syndesmolaius Evers, 1986</p> <p>4. Male special structures are indistinct, antennae flabellate..................................................... 5</p> <p>- Male special structures distinct and located on antennae, metathorax or legs, antennae flabellate or filiform............. 8</p> <p>5. Antennae flabellate in male and serrate in female, pronotum simple or bisulcate in middle........................... 6</p> <p>- Antennae filiform, 3–6 intermediate antennomeres widened, dorsal side of 5–10 antennomeres sulcate in middle, anterior tibiae simple.................................................................. Acroapalochrus Tshernyshev, 2020</p> <p>6. Pronotum simple, lacking longitudinal grooves, anterior tibiae not emarginate distally in inner side.................... 7</p> <p>- Pronotum bisulcate in middle, anterior tibiae slightly but distinctly emarginate distally in inner side................................................................................................... Airomalachius Pic, 1950</p> <p>7. Anterior tibiae compressed and widened in apical half, intermediate tibiae impressed and flattened in outer side with weakly widened and curved apices, pronotum convex and narrowly depressed at base, elytra and pronotum uniformly dark with green or blue metallic luster and covered with long erect grey hairs...................... Mesapalochrus Tshernyshev, 2020</p> <p>- Anterior tibiae slightly widened anteriorly and weakly impressed beneath, intermediate tibiae simple, not widened and not flattened, pronotum convex, not depressed at base, orange with longitudinal green-bronze stripe in a middle, elytra orangeyellow, each with two bronze metallic oval-triangular spots, surface covered with short erect fine white pubescence....................................................................................... Nudopectinus Evers, 1987</p> <p>8. Anterior tibiae simple, not swollen or emarginate, anterior tarsi with a comb above 2nd tarsomere, intermediate tibiae slightly widened in apical half and sulcate in the middle of inner side........................ Protopectinus Tshernyshev, 2020</p> <p>- Anterior tibiae widened, emarginate at apical part, anterior tarsi with a comb above 2nd tarsomere or lacking it.......... 9</p> <p>9. 2nd tarsomere in anterior legs with a comb above.......................................................... 10</p> <p>- 2nd tarsomere in anterior legs lacking a comb above, antennae serrate, anterior tibiae evenly emarginate, intermediate tibiae widened and narrowly emarginate, with pheromone glands.......... Mesopezus Jacobson, 1911 (= Epitinus Evers, 1987)</p> <p>10. Metathorax strongly swollen and possessing gladiate or rudimentary appendage with hairs in the middle, anterior tibiae slightly emarginate, intermediate tibiae swollen with apical margin simple and lacking setae........................................................................................ Dromanthomorphus Pic, 1921 (= Pectinus Evers, 1987)</p> <p>- Metathorax slightly swollen, lacking appendage or hairs..................................................... 11</p> <p>11. Anterior tibiae strongly modified, deeply emarginate with lamellate processes, antennae flabellate or filiform........... 12</p> <p>- Anterior tibiae simple, slightly emarginate at apical half beneath and apically thickened, antennae filiform............. 14</p> <p>12. Antennae flabellate, distal antennomeres thin or strongly dilated.............................................. 13</p> <p>- Antennae filiform, inner spurs of the anterior legs not lamellate or modified, slightly elongate and curved, 1st tarsomere in anterior legs subquadrate, simple, 2nd tarsomere similar length as the 1st tarsomere, with small and short transverse comb above, anterior tibiae dilated, strongly emarginate above and possessing wide rounded lamellate process, intermediate tibiae strongly widened and convex, emarginate within at apical half and possessing narrow parallel process at apical part of outer side........................................................................................................................................................................... Tibipectinus Tshernyshev, 2020</p> <p>13. Distal antennomeres thin, inner spurs of the anterior legs lamellate, modified and curved, 1st tarsomere in anterior legs enlarged and compressed, leaf-shaped, dorsally with a row of golden hairs forming a tuft, 2nd tarsomere very short, almost completely covered by the vane-shape longitudinal comb, intermediate tibiae strongly widened and modified, emarginate within and possessing a row of long hairs inside the emargination.............................. Hapalochrops Bourgeois, 1908</p> <p>- Distal antennomeres flat and strongly dilated, inner spurs of the anterior legs not lamellate or modified, small and simple, 1st tarsomere in anterior legs subtriangular, simple, 2nd tarsomere shorter than 1st tarsomere, subtriangular, with small and short transverse comb above, anterior tibiae dilated, strongly emarginate above and possessing small rounded lamellate process, intermediate tibiae strongly widened and convex, roundly emarginate within at apical half lacking process or appendage....................................................................... Dilatapolochrus Tshernyshev, gen. nov.</p> <p>14. Intermediate tibiae strongly dilated and convex, with triangular perpendicular process in a middle of inner side and strongly emarginate beneath it............................................................ Hadrocnemus Kraatz, 1895</p> <p>- Intermediate tibiae not widened and with a row of long erect thin hairs on inner side........... Setapalochrus Evers, 1988</p></div> 	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1D2A87E83656FFD1369EFD3CFA32FDBC	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.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Tshernyshev, Sergei E.	Tshernyshev, Sergei E. (2021): Dilatapalochrus gen. nov. - a new species and a new genus of soft-winged flower beetle of the tribe Apalochrini (Coleoptera: Malachiidae) from East Africa. Zootaxa 4966 (3): 376-384, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4966.3.9
