Hylurgops palliatus

Mature adult brown to reddish brown, ventral sclerites dark reddish-brown to black. Dorsal middle line elevated, extending from base to anterior dorsal impression, surface smooth; inter-puncture area smooth or with sparse reticulation. Vestiture of short, recumbent, yellowish hair-like setae, as long as size of large puncture. Interstriae convex, surface rugose, minutely punctured (visible at >115×), each with a median row of erect bristles about 1.5× longer than diameter of strial puncture, rising behind each interstrial granule, separated by distance of two strial punctures. Vestiture consisting of three rows of semi-erect whitish to reddish, scale-like setae, close in length as diameter of strial puncture, a median row of erect, thicker, reddish-brown hair-like setae projecting behind each granule, 1.5× the length of a declivital puncture.

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