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<mods:title>Beetles that live with ants (Carabidae, Pseudomorphini, Pseudomorpha Kirby, 1825): A revision of the santarita species group</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Erwin, Terry L.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Amundson, Lauren M.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>Hyper-diversity Group Summer Intern, Department of Entomology, MRC- 187, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, P. O. Box 37012, DC 20013 - 7012, USA</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:date>2013</mods:date>
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/DE1AD618-8FD9-4138-871F-56ECF6D2B8C9" authority="Amundson & Erwin" authorityName="Amundson & Erwin" authorityYear="2013" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Pseudomorpha" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pseudomorpha (Pseudomorpha) penablanca" order="Coleoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="penablanca" status="sp. n." subGenus="Pseudomorpha">Pseudomorpha (Pseudomorpha) penablanca Amundson & Erwin</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="9" pageNumber="38">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1–6" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1 - 6. 1 Pseudomorpha huachinera sp. n., male holotype, ADP 110112; Arroyo El Cocono, Sierra Huachinera, Sonora, Mexico. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 5.88 mm 2 Pseudomorpha patagonia sp. n., male holotype, ADP 110694; Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, AZ. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 4.39 mm 3 Pseudomorpha penablanca sp. n., female holotype, CAS 8111005; Pena Blanca Lake, Arizona. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 6.37 mm 4 Pseudomorpha pima sp. n., female holotype, CAS 8111006; Madera Canyon (lower), Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 6.76 mm 5 Pseudomorpha santacruz sp. n., male holotype, ADP 111870; Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 5.78 mm 6 Pseudomorpha santarita sp. n., male holotype, ADP 110817; Pajarito Mountains, AZ. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 5.33 mm." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/27289" pageId="9" pageNumber="38">Figures 3</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 7–12" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 7 - 12. 7 Pseudomorpha huachinera sp. n., male holotype, ADP 110112; Arroyo El Cocono, Sierra Huachinera, Sonora, Mexico. Head, dorsal planar aspect 8 Pseudomorpha patagonia sp. n., male paratype, ADP 110694; Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, AZ. Head, dorsal planar aspect 9 Pseudomorpha penablanca sp. n., female holotype, CAS 8111005; Pena Blanca Lake, Arizona. Head, dorsal planar aspect 10 Pseudomorpha pima sp. n., female holotype, CAS 8111006; Madera Canyon (lower), Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona. Head, dorsal planar aspect 11 Pseudomorpha santacruz sp. n., male holotype, ADP 111870; Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona. Head, dorsal planar aspect 12 Pseudomorpha santarita sp. n., male holotype, ADP 110817; Pajarito Mountains, AZ. A Head, dorsal planar aspect." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/27290" pageId="9" pageNumber="38">, 9</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 18" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 18. Distribution map for species of the santarita group of Pseudomorpha." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/27292" pageId="9" pageNumber="38">, 18</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="38">Holotype.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="38">USA</emphasis>
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: Arizona,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="38">Santa Cruz County</emphasis>
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, 3.2 km S of
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Peña">Pena</normalizedToken>
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Blanca Lake,
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<geoCoordinate degrees="31.473" direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="55" value="31.473">31.473°N</geoCoordinate>
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<geoCoordinate degrees="110.849" direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="55" value="-110.849">110.849°W</geoCoordinate>
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, 1283m, 14-15 August 1971 (W.H. Tyson) (CAS: 8111005, female). Unique.
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="38">Derivation of specific epithet.</paragraph>
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The epithet
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<normalizedToken originalValue="“penablanca”">"penablanca"</normalizedToken>
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is a singular feminine noun used in apposition and refers to the lake in Santa Cruz County near the locality at which the holotype was collected.
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Peña">Pena</normalizedToken>
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Blanca was built in 1957 by the Arizona Game and Fish Department, and is bordered by oak-savannah hills, some of which are topped with bluffs of limestone.
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="38">Proposed English vernacular name.</paragraph>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Peña">Pena</normalizedToken>
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Blanca False-form beetle.
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="38">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="38">Color tone of dorsum pale castaneous with head slightly darker; body robust and rectangulate, lateral margins of elytra tapering to an apically truncated and laterally slightly rounded apex; dorsum mostly glabrous with irregularly and wide-spaced short erect setae; pronotum with lateral margins moderately explanate, wider than elytra across humeri, disc markedly convex and medially sloped markedly anteriorly; elytral interneurs minimally impressed yet more or less visible under low magnification, 10 umbilicate setae present near lateral margin, dorsal edge of epipleuron lined with long laterally erect setae.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="38">Description.</paragraph>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1–6" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1 - 6. 1 Pseudomorpha huachinera sp. n., male holotype, ADP 110112; Arroyo El Cocono, Sierra Huachinera, Sonora, Mexico. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 5.88 mm 2 Pseudomorpha patagonia sp. n., male holotype, ADP 110694; Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, AZ. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 4.39 mm 3 Pseudomorpha penablanca sp. n., female holotype, CAS 8111005; Pena Blanca Lake, Arizona. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 6.37 mm 4 Pseudomorpha pima sp. n., female holotype, CAS 8111006; Madera Canyon (lower), Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 6.76 mm 5 Pseudomorpha santacruz sp. n., male holotype, ADP 111870; Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 5.78 mm 6 Pseudomorpha santarita sp. n., male holotype, ADP 110817; Pajarito Mountains, AZ. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 5.33 mm." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/27289" pageId="9" pageNumber="38">Figs 3</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 7–12" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 7 - 12. 7 Pseudomorpha huachinera sp. n., male holotype, ADP 110112; Arroyo El Cocono, Sierra Huachinera, Sonora, Mexico. Head, dorsal planar aspect 8 Pseudomorpha patagonia sp. n., male paratype, ADP 110694; Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, AZ. Head, dorsal planar aspect 9 Pseudomorpha penablanca sp. n., female holotype, CAS 8111005; Pena Blanca Lake, Arizona. Head, dorsal planar aspect 10 Pseudomorpha pima sp. n., female holotype, CAS 8111006; Madera Canyon (lower), Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona. Head, dorsal planar aspect 11 Pseudomorpha santacruz sp. n., male holotype, ADP 111870; Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona. Head, dorsal planar aspect 12 Pseudomorpha santarita sp. n., male holotype, ADP 110817; Pajarito Mountains, AZ. A Head, dorsal planar aspect." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/27290" pageId="9" pageNumber="38">9</figureCitation>
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<tableCitation captionStart="Table 3" captionStartId="T3" captionText="Table 3. Tables with measurements and ratios for Pseudomorpha penablanca sp. n.; all measurements are in millimeters." httpUri="http://table.plazi.org/id/D294CA60A5A8747975AB802525E0171D" pageId="9" pageNumber="38" tableUuid="D294CA60A5A8747975AB802525E0171D">Table 3</tableCitation>
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: Large for genus, ABL = 6.4 mm, SBL = 6.3 mm, TW = 5.6 mm. Preocular lobe-eye ratio: 0.53. Pronotum ratio (L/W): 0.28. Elytron ratio (L/W): 1.5.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="39">Color</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="39">Luster</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="39">Head:</emphasis>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 7–12" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 7 - 12. 7 Pseudomorpha huachinera sp. n., male holotype, ADP 110112; Arroyo El Cocono, Sierra Huachinera, Sonora, Mexico. Head, dorsal planar aspect 8 Pseudomorpha patagonia sp. n., male paratype, ADP 110694; Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, AZ. Head, dorsal planar aspect 9 Pseudomorpha penablanca sp. n., female holotype, CAS 8111005; Pena Blanca Lake, Arizona. Head, dorsal planar aspect 10 Pseudomorpha pima sp. n., female holotype, CAS 8111006; Madera Canyon (lower), Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona. Head, dorsal planar aspect 11 Pseudomorpha santacruz sp. n., male holotype, ADP 111870; Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona. Head, dorsal planar aspect 12 Pseudomorpha santarita sp. n., male holotype, ADP 110817; Pajarito Mountains, AZ. A Head, dorsal planar aspect." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/27290" pageId="10" pageNumber="39">Fig. 9</figureCitation>
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); eye not exceeding preocular lobe/gena boundary, shallowly arcuate; clypeus fused to frons with pigmented furrow entire and visible, bisetose, setae laterad on margin; labrum with four setae projecting anteriorly (
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); antennal flagellum markedly setose, antennomeres 1-3 bisetose.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="39">Prothorax:</emphasis>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1–6" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1 - 6. 1 Pseudomorpha huachinera sp. n., male holotype, ADP 110112; Arroyo El Cocono, Sierra Huachinera, Sonora, Mexico. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 5.88 mm 2 Pseudomorpha patagonia sp. n., male holotype, ADP 110694; Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, AZ. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 4.39 mm 3 Pseudomorpha penablanca sp. n., female holotype, CAS 8111005; Pena Blanca Lake, Arizona. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 6.37 mm 4 Pseudomorpha pima sp. n., female holotype, CAS 8111006; Madera Canyon (lower), Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 6.76 mm 5 Pseudomorpha santacruz sp. n., male holotype, ADP 111870; Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 5.78 mm 6 Pseudomorpha santarita sp. n., male holotype, ADP 110817; Pajarito Mountains, AZ. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 5.33 mm." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/27289" pageId="10" pageNumber="39">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
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) mostly glabrous with irregularly and wide-spaced short erect setae, apex straight medially and narrower than ocular boundary, disk markedly convex and medially sloped markedly anteriorly, width slightly wider than elytra across humeri, base and apex fringed with more or less evenly spaced setae, pigmented median line ending about
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Scutellum visible, moderate sized, distinctly rounded apically; elytra smooth, interneurs very shallow, clearly visible under medium magnification, markedly zig-zagged, intervals flat on disc, lateral margin very slightly sinuate at basal third, 10 umbilicate erect setae on the ventrally directed curvature of the elytral lateral portion (
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1–6" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1 - 6. 1 Pseudomorpha huachinera sp. n., male holotype, ADP 110112; Arroyo El Cocono, Sierra Huachinera, Sonora, Mexico. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 5.88 mm 2 Pseudomorpha patagonia sp. n., male holotype, ADP 110694; Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, AZ. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 4.39 mm 3 Pseudomorpha penablanca sp. n., female holotype, CAS 8111005; Pena Blanca Lake, Arizona. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 6.37 mm 4 Pseudomorpha pima sp. n., female holotype, CAS 8111006; Madera Canyon (lower), Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 6.76 mm 5 Pseudomorpha santacruz sp. n., male holotype, ADP 111870; Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 5.78 mm 6 Pseudomorpha santarita sp. n., male holotype, ADP 110817; Pajarito Mountains, AZ. Habitus, dorsal aspect, ABL = 5.33 mm." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/27289" pageId="10" pageNumber="39">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="39">Abdomen:</emphasis>
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All sterna sparsely setiferous, sternum III densely so; male unknown; female with 2 pairs of 4 setae on sternum, and numerous longer setae on sterna IV, V, and VI.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="39">Legs:</emphasis>
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Legs flattened, setiferous, tibia bearing fringed ring of setae on distal end, femur with distinct lateral sulcus, femora and tibia sparsely setose.
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<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="39">Dispersal potential.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="39">These beetles are macropterous, they are probably capable of flight; they are swift and agile runners. Accordingly, the species is expected to be more broadly distributed across a wider geographical range than current records indicate.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="39">Way of life.</paragraph>
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Adults are likely found in ant nests and the surrounding vicinity; females are ovoviviparous (
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<bibRefCitation author="Liebherr, JK" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Natural History" pageId="16" pageNumber="45" pagination="1079 - 1086" publicationUrl="10.1080/00222938500770681" refId="B18" refString="Liebherr, JK, Kavanaugh, DH, 1985. Ovoviviparity in carabid beetles of the genus Pseudomorpha (Insecta: Coleoptera). Journal of Natural History 19: 1079 - 1086, 10.1080/00222938500770681" title="Ovoviviparity in carabid beetles of the genus Pseudomorpha (Insecta: Coleoptera)." url="10.1080/00222938500770681" volume="19" year="1985">Liebherr and Kavanaugh 1985</bibRefCitation>
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); larvae are ant nest inquilines (
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<bibRefCitation author="Erwin, TL" journalOrPublisher="The Coleopterists Bulletin" pageId="16" pageNumber="45" pagination="53 - 68" refId="B8" refString="Erwin, TL, 1981. A synopsis of the immature stages of Pseudomorphini (Coleoptera: Carabidae) with notes on tribal affinities and behavior in relation to life with ants. The Coleopterists Bulletin 35 (1): 53 - 68" title="A synopsis of the immature stages of Pseudomorphini (Coleoptera: Carabidae) with notes on tribal affinities and behavior in relation to life with ants." volume="35" year="1981">Erwin 1981</bibRefCitation>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Amundson & Erwin" authorityYear="2013" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Pseudomorpha" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Coleoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="39" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="penablanca">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="39">Pseudomorpha penablanca</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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occur at midland altitudes in mountainous areas of Arizona; the holotype was found at night on a dead oak tree. Adults are active in August, a very hot month in this area.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="10" pageNumber="39" type="other specimens examined">
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<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="39">Other specimens examined.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="39">None.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="10" pageNumber="39" type="geographic distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="39">Geographic distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="39">
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(
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 18" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 18. Distribution map for species of the santarita group of Pseudomorpha." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/27292" pageId="10" pageNumber="39">Fig. 18</figureCitation>
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). This species is currently known from Arizona.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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