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Michez
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male, Natural History Museum (London,
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, leg. K. Guichard.
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Derived from the Latin
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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 male gonostylus shorter than gonocoxite. This species seems to be closely related to
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,
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,
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and
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as they share terga with apical hair bands, S6 with apicomedian bushy hairs, column of S8 with carinae, volsella apically rounded and gonostylus apically straight and pointed. However, the galea of
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is shiny and the distitarsus three times as long as wide unlike in
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<emphasis id="B9039270E4476760FEEA61FEFE3493BF" box="[320,456,980,1003]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">M. japonica</emphasis>
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; its face does not have black lateral fringes unlike in
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, the apical area of S8 is circular unlike in
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. The genitalia of
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are unique due to the “hook”-shaped gonostylus (
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d).
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<emphasis id="B9039270E4476760FF3D6590FEEE9784" bold="true" box="[151,274,1978,2001]" pageId="7" pageNumber="64">FIGURE 7.</emphasis>
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male; a. Habitus in dorsal view (scale = 2 mm); b. Sterna 67 in ventral view (scale = 0.5 mm); c. Habitus in lateral view (scale = 2 mm); d. Genitalia in dorsal view (scale = 0.5 mm).
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<emphasis id="B9039270E448676FFF6362BDFEA890E4" bold="true" box="[201,340,151,176]" pageId="8" pageNumber="65">Description</emphasis>
3 (
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:
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.
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. Cuticle black, shiny, densely punctate (d&gt;i) except labrum and apical margin smooth. Ventral side of antenna with two light carinae. A3 shorter than A4. Galea smooth, shiny and sparsely punctate. Glossa as long as maxillary palpus. Malar area shorter than A2. Pilosity whitish. Face laterally without fringe of black hairs.
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. Cuticle black, densely punctate (d&gt;i), smooth between punctures. Propodeal triangle mat and sculptured, with median vertical median carina. Mesosoma ventrally with whitish hairs, dorsally with white yellowish hairs.
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. Cuticle black except distitarsi 13 reddish. Distitarsi 13 three times as long as wide. Hairs on the ventral side of F3 longer than the width of F2.
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. Hyaline. Tegula brown.
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. W =
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. Cuticle black, shiny and densely punctate (d&gt;i). T24 with white apical hair bands. Disc of T13 with yellowish erected hairs. Disc of T46 with black erected hairs. S25 with apical hair band. S6 with dense brown apical hairs. S7 with apicolateral blade and apicolateral fringes of long simple hairs. Column of S8 with carinae, nearly hairless (
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b). Apical area of S8 circular. Volsella apically rounded. Gonostylus apically straight and hook-shaped (
<figureCitation id="134C52E7E448676FFF35606DFF20920B" box="[159,220,583,607]" captionStart="FIGURE 7" captionStartId="7.[151,250,1978,2001]" captionTargetBox="[340,1247,1127,1956]" captionTargetId="figure@7.[340,1247,1127,1956]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="FIGURE 7. Melitta singular sp. nov. male; a. Habitus in dorsal view (scale = 2 mm); b. Sterna 6 7 in ventral view (scale = 0.5 mm); c. Habitus in lateral view (scale = 2 mm); d. Genitalia in dorsal view (scale = 0.5 mm)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/281354/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="65">Fig.7</figureCitation>
d). Gonostylus with dense brown hairs (
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d).
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<paragraph id="8BC84E62E448676FFF636046FE9E92D0" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,824]" box="[201,354,620,644]" pageId="8" pageNumber="65">Ƥ. Unknown.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C36D1DE9E448676FFF6360A5FC9B92F3" box="[201,871,655,680]" pageId="8" pageNumber="65" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="8BC84E62E448676FFF6360A5FC9B92F3" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,824]" box="[201,871,655,680]" pageId="8" pageNumber="65">
<emphasis id="B9039270E448676FFF6360A5FE9E92FC" bold="true" box="[201,354,655,680]" pageId="8" pageNumber="65">Distribution.</emphasis>
Only known from the
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locality in
<collectingCountry id="F3600EF2E448676FFCBB60A5FC9F92F3" box="[785,867,655,679]" name="Turkey" pageId="8" pageNumber="65">Turkey</collectingCountry>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C36D1DE9E448676FFF636099FC879363" pageId="8" pageNumber="65" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BC84E62E448676FFF636099FC879363" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,824]" pageId="8" pageNumber="65">
<emphasis id="B9039270E448676FFF636099FEBA9298" bold="true" box="[201,326,691,716]" pageId="8" pageNumber="65">Comment.</emphasis>
The species morphologically most closely related to
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<emphasis id="B9039270E448676FFC19609EFB969298" box="[947,1130,692,716]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="65">
<collectingCountry id="F3600EF2E448676FFC19609EFBF89298" box="[947,1028,692,716]" name="Malta" pageId="8" pageNumber="65">Melitta</collectingCountry>
singular
</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, namely
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<emphasis id="B9039270E448676FFB7D609FFA919298" box="[1239,1389,692,716]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="65">M. hispanica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B9039270E448676FFAD7609FFF0592A4" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="65">M. japonica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B9039270E448676FFE9B60F3FE3692A4" box="[305,458,728,752]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="65">M. udmurtica</emphasis>
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, have relictual distributions. This group of species is distributed throughout the Palaearctic region but with disjunct ranges (Michez &amp; Eardley 2007).
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far as known they are oligolectic on
<taxonomicName id="4C7735E1E448676FFA9E60D6FA609340" box="[1332,1436,764,788]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Fabaceae" kingdom="Plantae" order="Fabales" pageId="8" pageNumber="65" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="family">Fabaceae</taxonomicName>
(
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;
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;
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Michez
<emphasis id="B9039270E448676FFD59610BFCD0936C" box="[755,812,800,824]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="65">et al.</emphasis>
2008
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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