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<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF9857F55375FDA9FB0F" bold="true" box="[151,526,1137,1163]" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Additional material examined</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF9857A552DDFEE5FA77" bold="true" box="[199,322,1497,1523]" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Forewing length
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. The distinctive characters between
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and the species of the
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group are discussed under the diagnosis of the latter taxa and the characterisation of the
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF98527252FAFA3BF99C" box="[1296,1436,1534,1560]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">A. deportata</emphasis>
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species-group.
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF9857A55141FE61F9DB" bold="true" box="[199,454,1605,1631]" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Genetic information.</emphasis>
This species has been assigned the BIN URI: BOLD:AAL0851. The intraspecific divergence between the two DNA barcoded specimens is 0.00%.
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shows similar short pairwise distances when compared to multiple, distantly related
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF98546B518AFC2FF92C" box="[777,904,1678,1704]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Afroracotis</emphasis>
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taxa. For instance, it differs from
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF98526D518AFAD4F92C" box="[1295,1395,1678,1704]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">A. milesi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF985219518AFF09F948" bold="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A20594545D19FF985219518AFF09F948" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
(belonging to the subgenus
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF98569F51B6FDD2F948" box="[509,629,1714,1740]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Zebracotis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF9855E251B6FD5AF948" bold="true" box="[640,765,1714,1740]" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A20594545D19FF9855E251B6FD5AF948" box="[640,765,1714,1740]" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" rank="subGenus">subgen. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
) by 5.196.02%, from
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF98537051B7FB42F948" box="[1042,1253,1714,1740]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Racotis ugandaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(attributed to a monotypic genus
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF98560051D2FE7AF974" box="[354,477,1750,1776]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Chorocotis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF98568551D2FD9FF974" bold="true" box="[487,568,1750,1776]" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A20594545D19FF98568551D2FD9FF974" box="[487,568,1750,1776]" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" rank="genus">gen. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
described below) by 5.535.59% not reflecting a relationship to these taxa. The morphologically most similar species is
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF9855C751FEFCE4F890" box="[677,835,1786,1812]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">A. apodosima</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
diverging from
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF98536751FEFB32F890" box="[1029,1173,1786,1812]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">A. deportata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
at a pairwise distance of 5.946.02%. The uncertainties regarding the phylogenetic position of
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF985482501AFBC8F8BC" box="[992,1135,1822,1848]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">A. deportata</emphasis>
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are also expressed by the different topologies observed in the ML and BI trees: in the former analysis, the species recovered as a sister clade of a cluster comprising the sole species
<taxonomicName id="4C428EBE5D19FF9855FB5062FC8CF804" authorityName="Warren" authorityYear="1900" box="[665,811,1894,1920]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" genus="Alcis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="argillacea">
<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF9855FB5062FC8CF804" box="[665,811,1894,1920]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">A. argillacea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and the
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF9854E95062FB81F804" box="[907,1062,1894,1920]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">A. apodosima</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species-group, whereas in the BI cladogram,
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF985679508EFE01F820" box="[283,422,1930,1956]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">A. deportata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
forms a distinct sister clade of the
<taxonomicName id="4C428EBE5D19FF985448508EFC57F820" authority="László &amp; Hausmann &amp; Karisch, 2023" authorityName="László &amp; Hausmann &amp; Karisch" authorityYear="2023" box="[810,1008,1930,1956]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" genus="Afroracotis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aristophanousi" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF985448508EFC57F820" box="[810,1008,1930,1956]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">A. aristophanousi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF985495508EFB91F820" bold="true" box="[1015,1078,1930,1956]" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A20594545D19FF985495508EFB91F820" box="[1015,1078,1930,1956]" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C428EBE5D19FF985333508EFAA6F820" authority="László &amp; Hausmann &amp; Karisch, 2023" authorityName="László &amp; Hausmann &amp; Karisch" authorityYear="2023" box="[1105,1281,1930,1956]" class="Insecta" family="Geometridae" genus="Afroracotis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="longicornuta" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF985333508EFAA6F820" box="[1105,1281,1930,1956]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">A. longicornuta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF985265508EFAE1F820" bold="true" box="[1287,1350,1930,1956]" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A20594545D19FF985265508EFAE1F820" box="[1287,1350,1930,1956]" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
cluster. The significantly larger pairwise distances between
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF9855BF50AAFCCDF84C" box="[733,874,1966,1992]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">A. deportata</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF9854C250AAFB96F84C" box="[928,1073,1966,1992]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">A. argillacea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF98532250AAFAA0F84C" box="[1088,1287,1966,1992]" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">A. aristophanousi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF98526C50AAFAE9F84C" bold="true" box="[1294,1358,1966,1992]" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A20594545D19FF98526C50AAFAE9F84C" box="[1294,1358,1966,1992]" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
and
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF9852E650AAFE8FF868" italics="true" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">A. longicornuta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B936292F5D19FF98564C50D6FECAF868" bold="true" box="[302,365,2002,2028]" pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A20594545D19FF98564C50D6FECAF868" box="[302,365,2002,2028]" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
(6.366.69%, 6.477.36% and 7.018.30%, respectively) suggest that the closest relative of the Madagascan endemism is most probably the south-east African
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D18FF9954015793FC5AFF35" box="[867,1021,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="37" pageNumber="38">A. apodosima</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BFDF53D5D18FF9957A557BEFAE0FF51" blockId="37.[151,1351,151,213]" box="[199,1351,186,213]" pageId="37" pageNumber="38">
<emphasis id="B936292F5D18FF9957A557BEFEFEFF50" bold="true" box="[199,345,186,212]" pageId="37" pageNumber="38">Distribution</emphasis>
(
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).
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<emphasis id="B936292F5D18FF9956AB57BFFD1BFF51" box="[457,700,187,213]" italics="true" pageId="37" pageNumber="38">Afroracotis deportata</emphasis>
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is only known from
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and the
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.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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