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(orig. descr.); 
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(male description). 
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(Omer-Cooper)
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Nilsson &amp; 
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(1992: 287)
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; 
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locality.
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&gt; 
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&gt; Hanover [Hanover Road? In the eastern part of the 
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].
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According to the original description (
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), three type-specimens, 
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and 
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, should stand in BMNH. I have been able to find only two in the Museum’s collection: 
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, dissected, with some legs disarticulated and glued on the same card, bearing red, circular BMNH label &quot; 
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&quot; and with the following data &quot;E. 
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, 
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. Chutter 1960 \ 
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O-C., type 
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. 
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1978-308&quot;; 
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bearing yellow circular BMNH label &quot; 
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&quot;, with the following data &quot;E. 
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, 435, Hanover, 
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\ 
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<emphasis id="B96EEAF9FA6CFFE3D4AEFA9CFD4EE669" box="[456,738,1351,1376]" italics="true" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">Potamonectes solivagus</emphasis>
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det. 
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, 
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. 1978-308&quot;. In spite of the circular type labels, the female from Hanover should be considered the 
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: 
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from this locality, in fact, was designated as 
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in 
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original description, while the male was described subsequently, in appendix in the same publication. I therefore add a red label &quot; 
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&quot; to the female specimen and a yellow &quot; 
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&quot; label to the male
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.
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<emphasis id="B96EEAF9FA6CFFE3D5A0F9DCFDE4E528" bold="true" box="[198,584,1543,1569]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">Additional material examined.</emphasis>
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, shallow well vegetated ponds by roadside on road before border post, 
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, 
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, leg. 
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(
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)
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.
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<emphasis id="B96EEAF9FA6CFFE3D5A1F98EFEF3E566" bold="true" box="[199,351,1621,1647]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">Description.</emphasis>
TL 
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; MW 
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. Externally very similar to 
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. 
<emphasis id="B96EEAF9FA6CFFE3D102F98EFB6FE567" box="[1124,1219,1621,1646]" italics="true" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">vagrans</emphasis>
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(see below), from which can be separated by the following characters: body form slightly more elongate, dorsal colouration paler. Discal maculae on pronotum poorly developed and elytral vittae thinner and diffuse. Prosternal process keeled and bordered, with acuminate tip (
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). Legs completely testaceous, tarsi not darkened.
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Male: posterior angles of pronotum rounded. Foreclaws unmodified (
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). Median lobe of aedeagus (
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) dorsally more straight than in 
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<emphasis id="B96EEAF9FA6CFFE3D714F8CCFD29E439" box="[626,645,1815,1840]" italics="true" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">N</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="B96EEAF9FA6CFFE3D7F2F8CCFD5EE439" box="[660,754,1815,1840]" italics="true" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">vagrans</emphasis>
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; parameres (
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) apically broader and rounded.
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<emphasis id="B96EEAF9FA6CFFE3D5A1F8B8FE82E474" bold="true" box="[199,302,1891,1917]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">Habitat.</emphasis>
The only habitat data available is from C.R. Turner (personal communication, 2007), who encounter this species in a pair of pools at high altitude just inside the 
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border. These pools were shallow (&lt;
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deep) and fairly well vegetated with emergent and aquatic vegetation, suggesting the pool was seasonal.
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<emphasis id="B96EEAF9FA6DFFE2D5A1FF4CFECCE3B8" bold="true" box="[199,352,151,177]" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">Distribution</emphasis>
(
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): Southern Africa: known, at present, only for the 
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locality and 
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(at the border with Kwazulu-Natal). First record for 
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.
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