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Rix &amp; Harvey
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, 
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.
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The specific epithet refers to the 
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locality of this species.
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<emphasis box="[185,307,1469,1495]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="56" pageNumber="57" reason="1">Diagnosis</emphasis>
.
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Males of 
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<emphasis box="[433,686,1469,1495]" italics="true" pageId="56" pageNumber="57">Rayforstia lordhowensis</emphasis>
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can be distinguished from all other described congeners except 
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by the absence of a dorsal scute (
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A–B); and from 
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by the shorter embolus and more symmetric, triangular conductor (
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). Females can be distinguished from all other described congeners by the tilted, globular morphology of the spermathecae (
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). Both sexes can also be recognised by the small body size and Lord Howe Island distribution (Fig. 216).
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.
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male
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: Total length 0.68. Carapace 0.34 long, 0.27 wide. Abdomen 0.36 long, 0.25 wide. Leg I femur 0.25. Body colour very pale cream. Carapace raised anteriorly, not fused to sternum except around petiole; dorsal surface of pars cephalica slightly convex in lateral view. Eyes present on anterior margin of pars cephalica, but barely-visible due to faded colour of specimen. Chelicerae without bulging anterior projections; promargin with three peg teeth. Legs relatively short (leg I femur-carapace ratio 0.74); macrosetae absent. Abdomen oval, covered with hair-like setae; dorsal scute and lateral sclerotic strips absent. Pedipalpal patella with retrolaterally-directed, hooked lRPA and rounded, depressed distal region with ornate, ridged cuticular microstructure; tegulum smooth, with excavate ETR and triangular distal conductor; embolus long (length&gt; 5× width), looping dorsal to conductor (
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).
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female
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: Total length 0.86. Carapace 0.41 long, 0.31 wide. Abdomen 0.49 long, 0.37 wide. Leg I femur 0.28. Body colour very pale cream. Carapace raised anteriorly, not fused to sternum except around petiole; dorsal surface of pars cephalica slightly convex in lateral view. Eyes present on anterior margin of pars cephalica, but barely-visible due to faded colour of specimen. Chelicerae without bulging anterior projections; promargin without peg teeth. Legs relatively short (leg I femur-carapace ratio 0.68); macrosetae absent. Abdomen oval, covered with hair-like setae; dorsal scute and lateral sclerotic strips absent. Pedipalp entire, five-segmented. Epigyne with distinctive external morphology (
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); spermathecae globular, tilted mesally; insemination ducts looped; fertilisation ducts sinuous (
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).
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.
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Known only from Lord Howe Island in the western Pacific Ocean, 
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north-east of Sydney (Fig. 216).
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<paragraph blockId="57.[140,1108,166,1284]" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[185,301,1047,1073]" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">
<emphasis box="[185,296,1047,1073]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58" reason="1">Remarks</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[312,575,1047,1073]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">Rayforstia lordhowensis</emphasis>
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seems more similar to Australian species of 
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<emphasis box="[140,252,1082,1108]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">Rayforstia</emphasis>
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than to 
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taxa, as evidenced by the absence of a dorsal scute on the male abdomen and the close similarity to 
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<emphasis box="[726,830,1118,1143]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">R. raveni</emphasis>
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from eastern 
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. The species is found on both the north and mountainous south of Lord Howe Island (
<figureCitation box="[209,314,1187,1214]" captionStart="Figure 220" captionStartId="313.[140,212,1280,1302]" captionTargetBox="[140,1108,165,1260]" captionTargetId="figure@313.[140,1108,165,1263]" captionTargetPageId="313" captionText="Figure 220. Lord Howe Island, western Pacific Ocean – home to three genera of Micropholcommatidae, including Patelliella adusta sp. n., the only known member of the tribe Patelliellini. A view across Lord Howe Island from Kims Lookout, showing southern mountains in the distance B Mount Lidgbird and Mount Gower from Transit Hill, showing cloud-covered summits C–E fern- and moss-covered vegetation on the summit of Mount Gower, habitat of P. adusta F lowland kentia palm rainforest at Stephens Reserve, habitat of Rayforstia lordhowensis sp. n. Images by M. Rix." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3767873" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3767873/files/figure.png" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">Fig. 220</figureCitation>
); the habitat at Stephens Reserve is lowland, subtropical rainforest dominated by Kentia palms (
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<emphasis box="[480,557,1223,1248]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">Howea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
spp.) (
<figureCitation box="[638,758,1223,1249]" captionStart="Figure 220" captionStartId="313.[140,212,1280,1302]" captionTargetBox="[140,1108,165,1260]" captionTargetId="figure@313.[140,1108,165,1263]" captionTargetPageId="313" captionText="Figure 220. Lord Howe Island, western Pacific Ocean – home to three genera of Micropholcommatidae, including Patelliella adusta sp. n., the only known member of the tribe Patelliellini. A view across Lord Howe Island from Kims Lookout, showing southern mountains in the distance B Mount Lidgbird and Mount Gower from Transit Hill, showing cloud-covered summits C–E fern- and moss-covered vegetation on the summit of Mount Gower, habitat of P. adusta F lowland kentia palm rainforest at Stephens Reserve, habitat of Rayforstia lordhowensis sp. n. Images by M. Rix." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3767873" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3767873/files/figure.png" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">Fig. 220F</figureCitation>
). It is the smallest known species of 
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<emphasis box="[221,333,1258,1284]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">Rayforstia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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