. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. 152 Paolo AuDisio & Alessio de Biase: A new Meligethes of the M. pubescens species-group from South Africa. verse strigosity, longer golden pubescence, and again am- ply distinct male genitalia. M. Reitter, 1872 eventually shows strongly modified posterior tibiae in males, much less developed elytral transverse strigosity, and different male genitalia. Description. Male. Length mm; breadth (at widest point of elytra) mm. Moderately elongat
. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. 152 Paolo AuDisio & Alessio de Biase: A new Meligethes of the M. pubescens species-group from South Africa. verse strigosity, longer golden pubescence, and again am- ply distinct male genitalia. M. Reitter, 1872 eventually shows strongly modified posterior tibiae in males, much less developed elytral transverse strigosity, and different male genitalia. Description. Male. Length mm; breadth (at widest point of elytra) mm. Moderately elongate, oval, con- vex (Fig. 3); black, with moderately developed silver-gold- en pubescence. Legs orange brown, except for dorsal out- er edges of tibiae, which are slightly darker, nut-brown. Antennae orange brown, with scape and club slightly dark- er. Head with dorsal punctures as large as eye facets, rather strongly impressed, separated by less than one diameter, surface between them smooth; front margin of clypeus completely and very distinctly bordered, widely and shal- lowly emarginate with obtusely rounded side angles. Fron- to-geneal grooves very distinct and complete. Antennae of nonnal size (Fig. 3), third antennal segment slender, as long as second one; antennal club medium-sized. Pronotum times as wide as long (Fig. 3), broadest at posterior third, narrower anteriorly; sides very nan'owly bordered, not explánate; posterior angles obtuse but dis- tinct. Posterior base not sinuate on either side of scutel- lum; punctures as on head, surface between thern smooth and shining. Seutellum medium-sized, finely and sparsely punctate in posterior half; surface showing a faint trace of microscop- ic reticulation. Elytra times as long as wide, broad- est at basal second fifth, scarcely wider than pronotum ( times); shoulders feebly raised, humeral striae al- most absent; elytral punctures as on head and pronotum, but slightly longer and closer, each joined to its l
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