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Holotype male (Fig. 2, 6, 8). Body length 7.1 mm; greatest width 4.1 mm. Form elongate-subovate, sides parallel. Dorsum black, with margins of head, pronotum, and elytron reddish black; isolated brownish orange markings located on each corner of pronotum, shape irregular, subequal in size (Fig. 8); elytral markings across base of striae 1-6 and interval 7, shape transversely rounded (Fig. 2). Head:Labrum with anterior margin feebly triangularly concave centrally, sides notched. Clypeal apex subtrapezoidal (Fig. 6), anterior margin beaded with a small, weakly-developed convexity at middle, surface smooth, coarsely punctate in uneven distribution, confluent or separated by less than 1 puncture diameter. Clypeofrontal suture absent. Vertex with inconspicuous conical convexity at middle of base with apex rounded, punctures on surface shallower and sparser than those on clypeus. Thorax: Outline of pronotum rounded, surface coarsely punctate along side of disc, less dense toward mid-disc; midline moderately indented with shallow and inconspicuous punctures; both sides of midline and area in front of elytral base impunctate with five smaller punctures at anterior end of midline (Fig. 6); disc gradually declined anteriorly when viewed laterally (Fig. 8). Metasternal process poorly developed, narrowly separating middle coxae with anterior margin beaded. Scutellum with scattered secondary punctures, slightly longer than wide medially. Elytron:With 7 striae between suture and humeral umbone, stria 2 interrupted by stria 1 not reaching base, stria 5 terminating at basal one-ninth; interval 4 more convex and wider than others at basal one-fifth, interval 2, 5, and 6 less convex than others (Figs 2, 8). Legs: Protibia with 10 distinct teeth on outer margin, apical 3 teeth protruding, tip of apical tooth downcurved. Male genitalia: Length 1.9 mm. Parameres (Figs 15–16) elongate, dorsal surface concave at basal half when viewed laterally, dorsal margin slightly declined at apical one-third anteriorly (Fig. 20), well sclerotized laterally with medial and apical parts membranous, surface sparsely punctate, glabrous; subequal in length to basal piece. Median lobe (Figs 15–16) trilobate; dorsal sclerite thumb-like with apex slightly swelling; lateral sclerites shorter than dorsal sclerite, broadly crescent-shaped, inwardly curved slightly with tip sharp and highly sclerotized; supporting sclerites L-shaped with central part more sclerotized than lateral side. Internal sac embedded in median lobe. Temones moderately sclerotized, thin and elongate to apical one-third of basal piece (Fig. 15). Basal piece with apical part asymmetrical. Female. Unknown.
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Chun-Lin Li, Ping-Shih Yang, Jan Krikken, Chuan-Chan Wang
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Li C, Yang P, Krikken J, Wang C (2013) Three new species of Bolbochromus Boucomont (Coleoptera, Geotrupidae, Bolboceratinae) from Southeast Asia ZooKeys 290: 39–54
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Chun-Lin Li
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Ping-Shih Yang
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Jan Krikken
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Chuan-Chan Wang
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