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, Talasskaya Oblast, Talass gebirg, am Fluss Ara-Byik,
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, leg. H. &amp; R. Rausch (98/01).
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, Transalai Mt. R. W Part, Berksu river gorge,
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, leg. S. Zonstein.
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male, American Museum of Natural History (New York,
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, Osh, Guilcha ravin,
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SSW Gultcha,
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, on
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sp. (?),
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, leg. M.S. Engel.
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Named after Michael S. Engel, who collected a part of the
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material.
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shows diagnostic features of the subgenus
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: scutum smooth between punctures, male S7 with apicolateral structure blade-shaped and gonostylus shorter than gonocoxite.
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is closely related to
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<emphasis id="B9039270E4446763FEAC65B2FE6A97FB" box="[262,406,1943,1967]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="61">M. dimidiata</emphasis>
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. Both species have an apically pointed galea and the apical plate of S8 is shaped like a triangle.
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engeli
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can be distinguished from
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<emphasis id="B9039270E4446763FD326591FCD59786" box="[664,809,1978,2002]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="61">M. dimidiata</emphasis>
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by unexpanded vertex, face with lateral black hairs, S8 with a few short hairs and different shape of genitalia (
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).
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<emphasis id="B9039270E4456762FF3D616EFEE8930E" bold="true" box="[151,276,836,859]" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">FIGURE 5.</emphasis>
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Male; a. Habitus in dorsal view (scale = 1.5 mm); b. Habitus in lateral view (scale = 1.5 mm); c. Head in frontal view (scale = 1.2 mm); d. Sternum 7 in ventral view (scale = 0.25 mm); e. Sternum 8 in ventral view (scale = 0.4 mm); f. Genitalia in ventral view (scale = 0.4 mm).
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3 (
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:
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L =
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. W =
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. Cuticle black, densely punctate (d&gt;i), smooth between punctures. Antenna blackish. Galea pointed and shiny. Glossa as long as labial palpus. Face and vertex with whitish hairs and narrow lateral black fringe along the compound eye (
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c).
<emphasis id="B9039270E4456762FB556622FA819474" bold="true" box="[1279,1405,1032,1056]" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">Mesosoma</emphasis>
. L =
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. W (between tegulae) =
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. Cuticle black. Scutum densely punctate (d&gt;i) except in the medio-posterior part (i&gt;d). Scutellum sparsely punctate anteriorly (i&gt;d). Posterior part of scutellum, metanotum and propodeum mat and densely punctate. Propodeal triangle mat and sculptured. Scutum with reddish hairs and a few black hairs intermixed. Mesosoma ventrally with whitish hairs.
<emphasis id="B9039270E4456762FC9C66B2FC9294E4" bold="true" box="[822,878,1176,1200]" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">Legs</emphasis>
. Black except for reddish medio- and distitarsi. Pilosity whitish.
<emphasis id="B9039270E4456762FEFC6691FE5D9480" bold="true" box="[342,417,1211,1236]" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">Wings</emphasis>
. Hyaline.
<emphasis id="B9039270E4456762FDB36696FD699480" bold="true" box="[537,661,1212,1236]" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">Metasoma</emphasis>
. L =
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. W =
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. Cuticle black and shiny. Terga and sterna densely punctate. T25 with apical hair bands. Disc of T13 with whitish erect hairs. Disc of T46 with black hairs. Prepygidial fimbria laterally white and medially black. S6 with dense apical pilosity. S7 with apicolateral plate and apicolateral fringes of long simple hairs (
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d, these hairs are only visible on the right of the illustrated specimen, the left part was destroyed). S8 with disc almost hairless (
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e). Apical plate of S8 triangular shaped in apical view. Genitalia with gonostylus shorter than gonobase (
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f).
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<paragraph id="8BC84E62E4456762FF6367BEFE9E95FF" blockId="5.[151,1437,959,1668]" box="[201,354,1427,1451]" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">Ƥ. Unknown.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C36D1DE9E4456762FF63679DFC349584" box="[201,968,1463,1488]" pageId="5" pageNumber="62" type="distribution">
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<emphasis id="B9039270E4456762FF63679DFE9E9584" bold="true" box="[201,354,1463,1488]" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">Distribution.</emphasis>
Probably endemic to mountain regions of
<collectingCountry id="F3600EF2E4456762FCEA6792FC389584" box="[832,964,1464,1488]" name="Kyrgyzstan" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">Kyrgyzstan</collectingCountry>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C36D1DE9E4456762FF6367F1FDA896D7" pageId="5" pageNumber="62" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BC84E62E4456762FF6367F1FDA896D7" blockId="5.[151,1437,959,1668]" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">
<emphasis id="B9039270E4456762FF6367F1FEBA95A0" bold="true" box="[201,326,1499,1524]" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">Comment.</emphasis>
Like
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<emphasis id="B9039270E4456762FE2D67F1FDB695A7" box="[391,586,1499,1523]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">
<collectingCountry id="F3600EF2E4456762FE2D67F1FE2495A7" box="[391,472,1499,1523]" name="Malta" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">Melitta</collectingCountry>
bicollaris
</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B9039270E4456762FDF367F6FD3E95A7" box="[601,706,1499,1523]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">M. engeli</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
seems to be a montane endemic species derived from
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<emphasis id="B9039270E4456762FA8F67F6FF479643" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">M. dimidiata</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
. The very unusual shape of the S8 apical plate supports the view that
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<emphasis id="B9039270E4456762FAA0642AFA609643" box="[1290,1436,1535,1559]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">M. dimidiata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B9039270E4456762FF6D640EFECD966F" box="[199,305,1571,1595]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">M. engeli</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are sister species. Moreover,
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<emphasis id="B9039270E4456762FD2B640EFD17966F" box="[641,747,1571,1595]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">M. engeli</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is not the only species endemic to the mountains of
<collectingCountry id="F3600EF2E4456762FA95640EFF34960B" name="Kyrgyzstan" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">Kyrgyzstan</collectingCountry>
:
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<emphasis id="B9039270E4456762FF79646DFE55960B" box="[211,425,1607,1631]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">
<collectingCountry id="F3600EF2E4456762FF79646DFED8960B" box="[211,292,1607,1631]" name="Malta" pageId="5" pageNumber="62">Melitta</collectingCountry>
fulvescenta
</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is restricted to the same region although the
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locality is in
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but very close to the Kyrgyz border (Appendix 1;
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).
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