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(®gures 2c,
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±w, 17a±g, 18)
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).
<emphasis id="60B87368FF83FB2CFDAF3431FD1BFAB5" box="[629,704,1376,1400]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="1057">Colour</emphasis>
light brown to dark brown.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF83FB2CFF8634D1FE55FA55" box="[92,398,1408,1432]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="1057">Outer margin of mandible</emphasis>
feebly sinuate (®gure 2c).
<emphasis id="60B87368FF83FB2CFD0F34D1FCF6FA55" box="[725,813,1408,1432]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="1057">Clypeus</emphasis>
with bituberculate, feebly arcuate transverse posterior carina; tubercles in line with antennal insertions (®gure 2c); posterior carina as long as or shorter than anterior carina.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF83FB2CFC563490FC11FA15" box="[908,970,1473,1496]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="1057">Frons</emphasis>
feebly depressed posterior to posterior clypeal carina.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF83FB2CFDA4348EFCCCFA3A" box="[638,791,1503,1527]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="1057">Antennal club</emphasis>
with glabrous area of basal segment about one-half of exposed surface.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF83FB2CFD703751FCCCF9DA" box="[682,791,1536,1559]" italics="true" pageId="46" pageNumber="1057">Pronotum</emphasis>
with anterior margin medially raised, in major males in dorsal view with bisinuate curvature and slightly projecting over frons (®gure 2c), in minor males in dorsal view with simple curvature and not projecting over frons; with one outer and one inner pair of equally long, slightly inward curved horns along posterior margin in major males (®gure
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), but protrusions more approximated, shorter and eventually reduced to small tubercles in minor males (®gure 3u, v); disc sometimes with scattered ®ne punctures but always with large, fairly densely spaced punctures, these increasingly conūent and more densely spaced towards sides and along anterior margin; punctures decreasing in size and density and increasingly interspersed by ®ne punctures usually in between and always on pronotal protrusions.
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with surface coarsely punctate.
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with strial punctures separate d by three and a half to ®ve puncture diameters; intervals with approximately four to ®ve punctures between two striae.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFC663035FBCCFEB1" box="[956,1047,356,380]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Protibia</emphasis>
®ve-dentate.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFF2F30D2FE4EFE56" box="[245,405,387,411]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Protibial spur</emphasis>
more or less as long as ®fth tarsomere, acuminate.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFF8630F2FED3FE76" box="[92,264,419,443]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Metatrochanter</emphasis>
of unmodi®ed shape; with very dense, long setation except for an asetose area along anterior margin where metatrochanter is attached to metafemur.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFF8630B2FF0CFE36" box="[92,215,483,507]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Metafemur</emphasis>
in ventral view in posterior third with line of densely spaced, moderately long and long setae; with dense, long setae in basal area and basal third along posterior margin; with fairly dense, long setae in anterior third; remaining areas with sparse, long setation.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFE4E3313FDDAFD97" box="[404,513,578,602]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Metatibia</emphasis>
in lateral view with subapical carina bilobed; with unmodi®ed spurs.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFEB23333FE0DFDB7" box="[360,470,610,634]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Underside</emphasis>
with posterior margin of sternite 4 medially feebly and roundedly produced (®gure 17b) and with dense setation; posterior margin of sternite 5 broadly triangularly emarginate (®gure 17b); posterior margin of sternite 6 medially deeply divided as in ®gure 17b; pygidium unmodi®ed (®gure 17a).
<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFF8633B3FF1AFD37" box="[92,193,738,762]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Genitalia</emphasis>
with aedeagus as in ®gure 17c±e; genital capsule apically with moderately long setation.
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFF863212FEF6FC97" box="[92,301,834,858]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Description female</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFF5E3233FEDCFCB7" box="[132,263,866,890]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Body length</emphasis>
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(
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).
<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFD873233FD73FCB7" box="[605,680,866,890]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Colour</emphasis>
as in male.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFCEB3233FF65FC57" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Outer margin female mandible</emphasis>
rounded.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFEEE32D2FEA9FC57" box="[308,370,899,922]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Frons</emphasis>
with distinctly raised bituberculate, transverse carina; position of carina variable, from in line with to mostly slightly posterior to posterolateral genal angle; carina straight and distinctly shorter than, usually half length of anterior clypeal carina.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFEB632B0FDDEFC34" box="[364,517,993,1017]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Antennal club</emphasis>
as in male.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFD4832B3FD24FC34" box="[658,767,994,1017]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Pronotum</emphasis>
with anterior margin as in minor males; with transverse, feebly carinate swelling at median portion of disc; carina in dorsal view more or less straight, in frontal view more or less straight but laterally arcuate (®gure 3w); swelling either without or with very few ®ne punctures, but always with some large punctures; with large, mostly conūent punctures anterior, lateral and posterior to carinate swelling.
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and elytron
</emphasis>
as in male.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFF8635F1FE55FB75" box="[92,398,1184,1208]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Protibia and protibial spur</emphasis>
as in male.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFDF235F1FD0FFB75" box="[552,724,1184,1208]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Metatrochanter</emphasis>
of unmodi®ed shape; with sparse, long setation in basal third and along posterior margin; surface otherwise asetose.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFF1B35B1FEE7FB35" box="[193,316,1248,1272]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Metafemur</emphasis>
in ventral view in posterior third with line of fairly dense, moderately long and long setae; with fairly dense and long setae in anterior third and apical area; with fairly dense, moderately long setae along posterior margin; remaining areas with few isolated setae.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFDFB3411FD55FA95" box="[545,654,1344,1368]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Metatibia</emphasis>
as in male.
<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFCCF3411FC58FA95" box="[789,899,1344,1368]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Underside</emphasis>
with sternite 5 postero-medially feebly but discernibly swollen (®gure 17f); posterior margin of sternite 6 and pygidium medially in ventral view somewhat pointed (®gure
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), otherwise unmodi®ed (®gure 17f, g).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF82FB2DFF5E3491FED3FA15" box="[132,264,1472,1496]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Distribution</emphasis>
(®gure 18). West Africa, from
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eastward to
<collectingCountry id="2ADBEFEAFF82FB2DFCB53491FC18FA15" box="[879,963,1472,1496]" name="Nigeria" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Nigeria</collectingCountry>
.
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.
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l[diss.]:`
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[
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], N.
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,
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<collectingDate id="36367052FF82FB2DFF1E34AEFEEEF9DA" box="[196,309,1535,1559]" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058" value="1954-07">July 1954</collectingDate>
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,
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B.M. 1962-270. (
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)
</materialsCitation>
;
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m: same data (
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); 10
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, same data (
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;
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1 l[diss.],
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</quantity>
: same data but:`
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<collectingDate id="36367052FF82FB2DFE16376EFD9EF99A" box="[460,581,1599,1623]" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058" value="1953-07">July 1953</collectingDate>
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... (
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)
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;
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1 l[diss.], same data but:`
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... (
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)
</materialsCitation>
;
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1, 2mm,`[
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],
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,
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[SeÂdhiou,
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],
<collectorName id="FF39CAACFF82FB2DFF08372EFE8EF95B" box="[210,341,1662,1686]" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">E. Laglaize</collectorName>
1891
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<collectorName id="FF39CAACFF82FB2DFE77372FFD8DF95B" box="[429,598,1662,1686]" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Museum Paris</collectorName>
ex
<collectorName id="FF39CAACFF82FB2DFD5C372FFC84F95B" box="[646,863,1662,1686]" pageId="47" pageNumber="1058">Coll. R. Oberthur</collectorName>
(
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)
</materialsCitation>
;
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</quantity>
,`
<collectingCountry id="2ADBEFEAFF9DFB32FFB83213FF63FC97" box="[98,184,834,858]" name="Senegal" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">Senegal</collectingCountry>
,
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[
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], 1943,
<collectorName id="FF39CAACFF9DFB32FD9E3213FD71FC97" box="[580,682,834,858]" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">J.Risbec.</collectorName>
<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FD6B3213FD1AFC97" bold="true" box="[689,705,834,864]" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">/`</emphasis>
<collectorName id="FF39CAACFF9DFB32FD1B3213FD22FC94" box="[705,761,834,858]" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">Pres.</collectorName>
by
<collectorName id="FF39CAACFF9DFB32FCFE3213FC87FC97" box="[804,860,834,858]" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">Com</collectorName>
,
<collectorName id="FF39CAACFF9DFB32FCB03213FBCDFC94" box="[874,1046,834,857]" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">Inst. Ent. B.M.</collectorName>
1948-525. (
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)
</materialsCitation>
;
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<quantity id="9534029FFF9DFB32FE823233FEA8FCB7" box="[344,371,866,890]" metricMagnitude="0" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.0" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059" unit="m" value="1.0">
<elevation id="D9E14849FF9DFB32FE823233FEA8FCB7" box="[344,371,866,890]" metricMagnitude="0" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.0" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059" unit="m" value="1.0">1m</elevation>
</quantity>
,`
<collectorName id="FF39CAACFF9DFB32FE503233FDA9FCB4" box="[394,626,866,890]" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">Coll. Mus. Tervuren</collectorName>
,
<collectingCountry id="2ADBEFEAFF9DFB32FD593233FCD5FCB7" box="[643,782,866,890]" name="Burkina Faso" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">Haute-Volta</collectingCountry>
,
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u [
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] (leg.
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) X-70 (
<collectionCode id="34DD37BFFF9DFB32FDCA32D3FDBDFC57" box="[528,614,898,922]" country="Belgium" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/z14b-bb31" name="Musée Royal de lAfrique Centrale" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059" type="Museum">MRAC</collectionCode>
)
</materialsCitation>
.
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FIG. 18. Distributional records:
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FE253386FD00FD20" box="[511,731,727,749]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">BolbaOEer bidenticollis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FD303387FD25FD21" bold="true" box="[746,766,726,748]" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">_</emphasis>
);
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FCCD3389FC4EFD20" box="[791,917,727,749]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">B. nikolajevi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FC7F3387FC62FD21" bold="true" box="[933,953,726,748]" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">E</emphasis>
).
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="5273AF7AFF9DFB32FF5E32F3FDF5FC14" blockId="48.[92,1048,834,1686]" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">
<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FF5E32F3FF20FC77" box="[132,251,930,954]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">Etymology</emphasis>
. The species is named after Dr Georgy Nikolajev in recognition of his revisional work on
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FEBE3290FE11FC14" box="[356,458,961,985]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">BolbaOEer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in 1982.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FF5E32B0FF23FC34" box="[132,248,993,1017]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">Comments</emphasis>
. Males of this new species are easily identi®ed by the following combination of character states: always with four, equally long protrusions along posterior pronotal margin (®gure
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±v); posterior margin of sternite 4 medially feebly and roundedly produced (®gure 17b) and with dense setation; posterior margin of sternite 5 broadly triangularly incised (®gure 17b); sternite 6 medially deeply divided and bilobed (®gure 17b), lobes apically densely setose; pygidium evenly rounded, unmodi®ed (®gure 17a); and distinct aedeagus with relatively broad parameres, their tips acute (®gure 17c±e). A number of character states shared with or similar to
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FC243590FF6DFB35" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">B. princeps</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FF2E35B0FE94FB35" box="[244,335,1249,1272]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">B. gigas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
prompted us to place
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FD8235B0FD3EFB35" box="[600,741,1248,1272]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">B. nikolajevi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FCE035B0FC6CFB35" box="[826,951,1249,1272]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">B. princeps</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
speciesgroup, as already explained above under the discussion of the various species-groups.
</paragraph>
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We are con®dent that the female specimens designated above as
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and
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are correctly associated with the males because most of them were collected together in male
<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FECF3431FEC5FAB3" bold="true" box="[277,286,1376,1406]" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">/</emphasis>
female combinations. Male
<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FD893431FD87FAB3" bold="true" box="[595,604,1376,1406]" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">/</emphasis>
female combinations of
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FCB53430FC38FAB5" box="[879,995,1376,1400]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">B. bremeri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FF8634D0FF0CFA55" box="[92,215,1409,1432]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">B. princeps</emphasis>
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were, incidentally, also collected from the
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locality of
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FC7234D0FF59FA75" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">B. nikolajevi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, with all of them sharing identical label data. But because the male
<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FC1934F1FC17FA73" bold="true" box="[963,972,1440,1470]" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">/</emphasis>
female associations for
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FEC63490FE48FA15" box="[284,403,1472,1496]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">B. bremeri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FE0F3490FD88FA15" box="[469,595,1473,1496]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">B. princeps</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are already clearly manifested from a number of other localities not shared by
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FDE734B1FD10FA3A" box="[573,715,1503,1527]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">B. nikolajevi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, a possible mix up is out of the question. Females of
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FEA63751FDDCF9DA" box="[380,519,1535,1559]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">B. nikolajevi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
can be identi®ed in ventral view by the feeble but discernible postero-median swelling on sternite 5 and the somewhat pointed posterior margins of the otherwise unmodi®ed sternite 6 and pygidium. Although females of members of the
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9DFB32FE763731FD95F9BA" box="[428,590,1631,1655]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="1059">B. abyssinicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species-group also display a more or less pronounced swelling on sternite 5, they are immediately distinguishable from
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9CFB33FF8631D4FF3DFF51" box="[92,230,132,156]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="1060">B. nikolajevi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by their strongly modi®ed pygidium (e.g. compare ®gures 17f and 24h). Furthermore, at least with regard to females of
<taxonomicName id="95CCD4F9FF9CFB33FD4231F4FCDCFF71" authorityName="Gussmann &amp; Scholtz" authorityYear="2001" box="[664,775,164,188]" class="Insecta" family="Bolboceratidae" genus="Bolbaoeer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="49" pageNumber="1060" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sasakii">
<emphasis id="60B87368FF9CFB33FD4231F4FCDCFF71" box="[664,775,164,188]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="1060">B. sasakii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="95CCD4F9FF9CFB33FCC031F4FC67FF71" authorityName="Gussmann &amp; Scholtz" authorityYear="2001" box="[794,956,164,188]" class="Insecta" family="Bolboceratidae" genus="Bolbaoeer" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="49" pageNumber="1060" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="namibiensis">
<emphasis id="60B87368FF9CFB33FCC031F4FC67FF71" box="[794,956,164,188]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="1060">B. namibiensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9CFB33FC2431F4FF1DFF11" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="1060">B. sebastiani</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the pronotal punctation consists of small, deep and densely spaced punctures anterior to transverse carinate swelling as opposed to large, shallow and densely spaced punctures in
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9CFB33FE8B3054FE3BFED1" box="[337,480,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="1060">B. nikolajevi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Lastly the
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9CFB33FDAF3054FCCEFED1" box="[629,789,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="1060">B. abyssinicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species-group and
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9CFB33FC243054FF1EFEF1" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="1060">B. nikolajevi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are clearly allopatric (compare ®gure 18 with 25). DiOEerences between
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9CFB33FC243074FF1EFE91" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="1060">B. nikolajevi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
females and females of the closely related
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9CFB33FD103014FC93FE91" box="[714,840,325,348]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="1060">B. princeps</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="60B87368FF9CFB33FC503014FC33FE91" box="[906,1000,325,348]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="1060">B. gigas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are discussed under the latter two.
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</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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