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FIGURE 7 in Two new genera of Australian dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) with the description of six new species and transfer of six described species

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FIGURE 7. Key characters of Monteithocanthon new genus, all scale bars 0.25 mm. A, lateral view of elytra (M. arator); B, ventral view of profemur, note the absence of trochantofemoral anterior pit and presence of ornamentation on apex of protibia (M. arator); C, close up of ornamentation on apex of protibia, arrows pointing to comb and brush of setae (M. arator); D, dorsal view of male protibia with three tibial teeth each with only one group of setae dorsally (M. arator ♂); E, ventral view of male protibia (M. arator ♂); F, dorsal view of female protibia, note the apical spur is long and narrow (M. arator ♀); G, view of narrow anterior margin of lateral lobe of mesoventrite (M. arator); H, dorsal view of male mesotibia (M. arator ♂); I, ventral view of male mesotibia (M. arator ♂); J, male metatibia (M. arator ♂); K, view of broad anterior margin of lateral lobe of metaventrite (M. koombooloomba).

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Published as part of Gunter, Nicole L. & Weir, Thomas A., 2017, Two new genera of Australian dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) with the description of six new species and transfer of six described species, pp. 201-243 in Zootaxa 4290 (2) on page 226, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4290.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/828965

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