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Image of Platerodrilus sibayakensis Masek & Bocak 2014
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Platerodrilus sibayakensis Masek & Bocak 2014

Description

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Body medium-sized, dark brown to black, pronotum testaceous to brown and basal third of elytra orange (Fig. 10). Head small, including eyes slightly narrower than frontal margin of pronotum, antennal tubercles small. Eyes hemispherically prominent, eye diameter 1.7 times frontal interocular distance. Antennae compressed, pubescent, length of antennomere 3 0.7 times antennomere 2. Pronotum transverse, 1.9 times wider than long at midline, anterior margin almost straight, with marked anterior angles, lateral margins straight, posterior margin of pronotum bisinuate, posterior angles acutely projected, surface of disc weakly glabrous, finely punctuate, with long pubescence (Fig. 25). Elytra almost parallel-sided, elytra 3.5 times longer than width at humeri; slightly widened posteriorly, widest at apical fourth, elytral costae inconspicuous. Legs compressed, with dense pubescence. Male genitalia with short rounded parameres bearing slender membranous processes; phallus curved, phallobase wide, deeply emarginate (Figs 71–72).
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Michal Masek, Ladislav Bocak
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Masek M, Bocak L (2014) The taxonomy and diversity of Platerodrilus (Coleoptera, Lycidae) inferred from molecular data and morphology of adults and larvae ZooKeys 426: 29–63
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Michal Masek
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Ladislav Bocak
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Distribution

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Indonesia: Sumatra.
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Michal Masek, Ladislav Bocak
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Masek M, Bocak L (2014) The taxonomy and diversity of Platerodrilus (Coleoptera, Lycidae) inferred from molecular data and morphology of adults and larvae ZooKeys 426: 29–63
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Michal Masek
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Ladislav Bocak
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