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Archeohomaloplia volkovitchi sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 09195EA9-D30C-455C-8A60-68CB0E656644 Fig. 1 Type material examined. Holotype: ♂ “ Yunnan 70km NNW Xiajuan 24.V.2002 Volkovitch / Asia Sericini sp 1159” (ZIN). Paratypes: 1 ♂, 1 ♀ “Yunnan 70km NNW Xiajuan 20.V.2002 Volkovitch ” (ZIN, ZFMK). Description. Length: 5.9 mm, length of elytra: 4.0 mm, width: 3.1 mm. Body oblong, black, antenna black, dorsal surface shiny, with a few sparse short setae on elytra, otherwise glabrous. Labroclypeus trapezoidal, widest at base and strongly convergent apically, lateral margins convex; anterior angles almost blunt, weakly rounded; lateral border and ocular canthus producing a blunt angle; margins moderately reflexed, anterior margin moderately emarginate medially; surface medially convex and moderately shiny, finely and densely punctate, distance between punctures less than their diameter, with a few robust punctures behind anterior margin bearing each a long, erect seta; frontoclypeal suture weakly incised and moderately curved; smooth area in front of eye approximately 1.3× as wide as long; ocular canthus short and wide, subtriangular, rounded at apex, finely and densely punctate, without terminal seta. Frons shiny, with fine, dense punctures; with a single seta at the end of frontoclypeal suture beside eyes. Eyes small, ratio of diameter/interocular width: 0.51. Antenna brown, with ten antennomeres; club yellow, with three antennomeres, little longer than remaining antennomeres combined. Mentum weakly elevated and flattened anteriorly. Pronotum moderately wide, widest at middle, lateral margins strongly curved and slightly convergent basally, but stronger convergent anteriorly; anterior angles strongly produced and sharp, posterior angles strongly rounded and almost obsolete; anterior margin convexly produced medially, with a broad marginal line; lateral basal margin with marginal line, otherwise without margin; surface with dense and fine punctures, glabrous and only with minute setae in punctures; anterior ... |