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The sclerites of pleuron in the prothorax of Coleoptera are newly homologized. What I identified as anepisternum in the Adephaga and Archostemata is katepisternum. It is hypothesized that the endopleural ridge of prothorax may be a candidate of internalized anepisternum in the Adephaga, Archostemata, and also some Myxophaga and Polyphaga. Some morphological terms used in the paper of Naomi (2014) are corrected.
ZooBank LSID: https://zoobank.org/References/5449E231-D30D-49A2-B89C-3389A9393FDB