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EF
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As indicated below,
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was erroneously used to identify the medium-sized African
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species. Robbins (1978: 212) showed that the correct name for this species should be
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Hayman
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, map 83) reported “
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” from over almost the entire
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and from northern
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, with the exception of the northwestern part of the
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and the most central part. Here, we include additional specimens from the northwestern, southwestern and southeastern parts of the country as well as from
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and
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. This still leaves the central part of the
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unoccupied by this species. The only central
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record is a specimen from Boende (Tshuapa Province), but this is a juvenile specimen, which is probably too young to be identified with certainty.
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Furthermore, we removed a number of localities from the northeastern part of the
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as the underlying specimens belonged to the next species.
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am: 674) based her distribution map on data from
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Robbins
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(1985: 63)
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, which resulted in a rather detailed map with a lot of finger-like extrusions and areas which almost touch one another. We believe that the species has a wider distribution, only lacking in eastern
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, southern
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and most of the
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and probably also from the west and central African rainforest as mentioned by Happold. However, we need to point out that some of the east African records might need to be reassigned to a separate species, e.g.,
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as was tentatively suggested by
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Vallo
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(2011: 350)
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.
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