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Geocharidius comayaguanus Sokolov & Kavanaugh 2014

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Size. Small to medium for genus (SBL range 1.19–1.34 mm, mean 1.28±0.072mm, n=20). Habitus. Body form (Fig. 18C) moderately convex, ovoid, general proportions (WE/SBL 0.40±0.011), proportions of head (WH/WPm 0.74±0.017) and pronotum (WPm/WE 0.78±0.018) moderately wide. Color. Body brunneorufous, appendages testaceous. Microsculpture. Mesh pattern of irregularly isodiametric sculpticells present over all dorsal surfaces of head and elytra. Pronotum and proepisternum smooth (without evident microsculpture). Prothorax. Pronotum moderately transverse (WPm/LP 1.29±0.024), with lateral margins markedly constricted posteriorly (WPm/WPp 1.35±0.027). Posterior angles obtuse (110–120°). Width between posterior angles equal to the width between anterior angles (WPa/WPp 1.02±0.026). Ventral aspect (Fig. 3C). Pterothorax (Fig. 3F). Elytra (Fig. 2C). Moderately convex, slightly depressed along suture, moderately wide (WE/LE 0.68±0.022), without traces of striae. Humeri rounded, in outline forming right angle with longitudinal axis of body. Lateral margins convex, evenly divergent at basal third, evenly rounded to apex in apical third. Legs. Protibia (Fig. 6H). Mesotibia (Fig. 7D). Metatibia (Fig. 7H). Male genitalia. Median lobe (Fig. 19K) with shaft long and dorsally convex, apex small and narrowly rounded. Ventral margin straight. Dorsal sclerites of internal sac small, in form of a short hook-like fig, slightly varied among different populations (Fig. 19K–L, O–P). Right paramere with long apical constriction (Fig. 19N). Left paramere with long and narrow apical constriction (Fig. 19M). Ring sclerite with handle triangular, pointed at apex (Fig. 20D). Female internal genitalia. Spermatheca sclerotized, fusiform, slightly tapered apically, straight, with cornu and nodulus of equal length (Fig. 21D). Length of spermathecal gland less than length of spermatheca. Spermathecal duct not coiled.
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Igor M. Sokolov, David H. Kavanaugh
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Sokolov I, Kavanaugh D (2014) The integripennis species group of Geocharidius Jeannel, 1963 (Carabidae, Bembidiini, Anillina) from Nuclear Central America: a taxonomic review with notes about biogeography and speciation ZooKeys (443): 61–118
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