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Quickly separated from the two other species of 
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<emphasis id="04F9EAB1FF85FFC26FB17AF84C25F86E" bold="true" box="[189,277,1962,1988]" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Fig. 11.</emphasis>
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. Dorsal habitus. 
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. Spermatheca. 
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. Head ×695. 
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. Ventral habitus ×370. 
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. Pygidium.
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<emphasis id="04F9EAB1FF84FFC36FB17C594C74FE8F" bold="true" box="[189,324,267,293]" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Etymology</emphasis>
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leg.; pitfalls in alluvial forest; 
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SIZE. Habitus (
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HEAD. Head and antennal insertions concealed beneath pronotum in dorsal view but eyes visible; distance across eyes 
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PRONOTUM. Strongly domed, anterior margin with projecting corners to acco mmodate eyes, posterior margin sinuate the medial portion shallowly concave and the corners acutely angled. Prosternum almost absent in front of procoxae. Mesosternum with a large spatulate plate of length 
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).
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ELYTRA. Length 
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, width 
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, leaving three abdominal tergites exposed.
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VENTRUM. Metaventrum short, no epiventral sutures apparent, metacoxae almost contiguous separated by short rounded process, coxal plates large rounded/triangular (
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). Wings of usual ptiliid form.
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ABDOMEN. Pygidium (
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).
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FEMALE GENITALIA. Spermatheca very small and difficult to locate (
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).
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Placed in 
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<emphasis id="04F9EAB1FF84FFC36E3B7B3C4CE8F922" box="[311,472,1646,1672]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kuschelidium</emphasis>
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on grounds of priority. The size of the mesoventral spatulate plate which is much larger than that of any described species of 
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<emphasis id="04F9EAB1FF84FFC36DF37BC34E90F901" box="[767,928,1681,1707]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kuschelidium</emphasis>
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begs the question as to whether the new species belongs in a different genus. I have seen an undescribed species from Tioman, 
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, with a similar plate of smaller size but larger than 
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<emphasis id="04F9EAB1FF84FFC36DB47B8A4E10F95B" box="[696,800,1752,1777]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">K. maori</emphasis>
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and given the presence of this possibly transitional species, it seems safer to assign the new species to 
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<emphasis id="04F9EAB1FF84FFC36C017BA84E9EF8BE" box="[781,942,1786,1812]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Kuschelidium</emphasis>
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until more specimens have been found to provide a better basis for analysis. Although the specimen was not found in association with termites its peculiar morphological modifications do suggest a life adapted for the hostile environment of the termites’ nest.
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