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Bickel
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(
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<emphasis id="B7DE334DFFE8E91AFF5CE2BAD32D70F8" bold="true" box="[136,306,1670,1696]" pageId="6" pageNumber="481">Type material.</emphasis>
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:
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,
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:
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:
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,
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strata of the
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formation,
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<collectingDate id="E1503077FFE8E91AFDE8E2F2D09870B0" box="[572,647,1742,1768]" bridgedPair="/" pageId="6" pageNumber="481" value="2009-01">I/2009</collectingDate>
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.
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&amp;
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, Tad-476-B
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.
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:
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, same but Tad-476-A;
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, same but KU-173-A; #f, same but Tad-124 (all
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)
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.
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<emphasis id="B7DE334DFFE8E91AFF69E362D3AB7120" bold="true" box="[189,436,1886,1912]" pageId="6" pageNumber="481">Additional material.</emphasis>
Specimens that are obscured or damaged but possibly belong to this species.
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, similar to
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<typeStatus id="5A1151FDFFE8E91AFF79E39AD3107198" box="[173,271,1958,1984]" pageId="6" pageNumber="481" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
data, but Tad-483;
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, same but Tad-448 (
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)
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.
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<emphasis id="B7DE334DFFE8E91AFF69E3D2D35B7E50" bold="true" box="[189,324,2030,2056]" pageId="6" pageNumber="481">Etymology.</emphasis>
The specific epithet
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<emphasis id="B7DE334DFFE8E91AFDE7E3D2D0DD7E50" box="[563,706,2030,2056]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="481">cambayensis</emphasis>
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refers to this species presence as inclusions in
<collectingCountry id="FDBDAFCFFFE8E91AFD9DEC2ED0B97E74" box="[585,678,2066,2092]" name="India" pageId="6" pageNumber="481">Cambay</collectingCountry>
amber.
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<emphasis id="B7DE334DFFE8E91AFC8BE4A2D1C676E0" bold="true" box="[863,985,158,184]" pageId="6" pageNumber="481">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
As for genus.
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<emphasis id="B7DE334DFFE8E91AFC8BE4FED6787684" bold="true" box="[863,1127,194,221]" pageId="6" pageNumber="481">Locality and horizon.</emphasis>
<collectingCountry id="FDBDAFCFFFE8E91AFBA7E4FFD6CF7685" box="[1139,1232,195,221]" name="India" pageId="6" pageNumber="481">Cambay</collectingCountry>
and Kutch basins,
<collectingRegion id="476E21BDFFE8E91AFCFEE4DBD1DF7759" box="[810,960,231,257]" country="India" name="Gujarat" pageId="6" pageNumber="481">Gujarat State</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingCountry id="FDBDAFCFFFE8E91AFC1FE4DBD6177759" box="[971,1032,231,257]" name="India" pageId="6" pageNumber="481">India</collectingCountry>
; Eocene.
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<emphasis id="B7DE334DFFE8E91AFC8BE537D1EE777D" bold="true" box="[863,1009,267,293]" pageId="6" pageNumber="481">Description.</emphasis>
Male. Length:
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; wing: 1.5 ×
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.
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<emphasis id="B7DE334DFFE8E91AFC8BE568D1837736" box="[863,924,340,366]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="481">Head</emphasis>
. Dorsal postcranium slightly concave; vertex not excavated between ocellar tubercle; frons apparently dark metallic green, without pruinosity; postorbital setae major setae black; short postvertical setae; strong ocellar and slightly weaker vertical setae present; face and clypeus slightly narrowed beneath base of antennae, and parallel sided; eye with anterior facets enlarged; palp brown, with strong apical seta; proboscis brown; scape and pedicel dark brown; scape bare; pedicel with ring of short subapical setae, and with stronger dorsal and ventral seta: postpedicel dull brown, rounded subrectangular, with dorsoapical arista arising in subapical notch; arista about as long as head height; ventral postcranium with black setae; dorsal postorbital setae short and black.
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<emphasis id="B7DE334DFFE8E91AFC8BE76FD1AF7535" box="[863,944,851,877]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="481">Thorax</emphasis>
. Rather short and rounded in lateral view; posterior mesonotum not distinctly flattened and almost entirely dark brown with little apparent pruinosity; setae black; ac biseriate, 89 regular pairs; 6 strong dc, decreasing in size anteriorly; 1 postalar seta, 1 posterior supra-alar seta, 1 sutural intraalar and 1 shorter intraalar anteriad; 1 postpronotal seta, and 2 notopleural setae; scutellum with strong median setae and short hairlike lateral seta; ventral pronotum with strong seta projecting anteriorly just above base of CI.
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<emphasis id="B7DE334DFFE8E91AFC8BE0FCD18B7281" box="[863,916,1216,1241]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="481">Legs</emphasis>
. Coxae and remainder of legs dark brown; setae black; CI with short basally and with 34 strong distolateral setae, CII distally with some short anterolateral setae; CIII with single strong lateral seta near 1/3; I: 2.0; 2.0; 0.9/ 0.6/ 0.4/ 0.3/ 0.2; FI bare; TI from ¼ to apex with dorsal row of 8 slanted and spaced subequal setae; II: 2.4; 2.6; 1.4/ 0.7/ 0.5/ 0.4/ 0.2; FII with distinct anterior subapical seta at 5/6; TII with short ad-pd setal pair at 1/5, very strong anterior seta near 1/3 and with subapical circlet of ad, pd, av, and ventral seta; III: 2.5; 2.9; 0.6/1.0/ 0.5/ 0.4/ 0.3; FIII also with anterior subapical seta at 5/6, but weaker than that of FII; TIII with ad setae at 1/5, with irregular dorsal row of 4-5 strong setae and shorter setae, and with subapical circlet of ad, av, ventral, and pd seta.
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<emphasis id="B7DE334DFFE8E91AFC8BE282D186708F" box="[863,921,1726,1751]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="481">Wing</emphasis>
. Hyaline; vein R
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joining costa neat 1/3; R
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joining costa at 7/8; vein R
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4 +
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in gentle curve with slight subapical anterior bend to join margin just anteriad of wing apex; vein M
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unbranched, gently diverging from vein R
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with flexion or
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halfway between crossvein dm-m and apex, then becoming subparallel with R
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to join costa just posteriad of apex; crossvein dm-m straight; CuAx ratio: 0.6; anal vein weak; lower calypter brown with fan of black setae; halter yellow.
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<emphasis id="B7DE334DFFE8E91AFC8BEC3AD1D67E78" box="[863,969,2054,2080]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="481">Abdomen</emphasis>
. Entirely dark brown with some metallic green reflections; tergites 16 with short black vestiture and strong setae along tergite margins; sternite 4 slightly enlarged with row of setae along posterior margin, and forming hood to receive distal hypopygium; tergite and sternite 7 forming short peduncle; sternite 8 ovate with some marginal setae, and covering left lateral hypopygial foramen; hypopygium including cercus mostly dark brown; epandrium rather short and rounded, subrectangular; surstylus short and tapering with some short distal setae; cercus yellowish, broadly subtriangular, and with apical group of some 8 strong setae.
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<paragraph id="8515EF5FFFE9E91BFF69E611D0907433" blockId="7.[136,778,158,1145]" pageId="7" pageNumber="482">Female. Similar to male except as noted: eye facets uniform; podomere ratios and setation similar.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="CDB0BCD4FFE9E91BFF69E648D2B57221" pageId="7" pageNumber="482" type="discussion">
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<emphasis id="B7DE334DFFE9E91BFF69E648D32E74D6" bold="true" box="[189,305,628,654]" pageId="7" pageNumber="482">Remarks.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B7DE334DFFE9E91BFEEFE648D08874D6" box="[315,663,628,654]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="482">Palaeomedeterus cambayensis</emphasis>
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is known from four distinct specimens and three obscured/damaged specimens and appears to be a common species in
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amber. The dark brown legs, tibia I with dorsal row of short, slanted setae, and the broad ovate cercus with its group of apical setae is diagnostic for this species.
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<paragraph id="8515EF5FFFE9E91BFF69E77AD2B57221" blockId="7.[136,778,158,1145]" pageId="7" pageNumber="482">
This species is close to the also common Baltic amber species,
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<emphasis id="B7DE334DFFE9E91BFEEFE755D07F75DB" box="[315,608,873,899]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="482">Palaeomedeterus ignavus</emphasis>
Meunier
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(
<figureCitation id="1D91F3DAFFE9E91BFD08E755D2B575FF" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="4.[136,235,1943,1967]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,887,1919]" captionTargetId="figure-280@4.[151,1435,887,1919]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURE 3. Palaeomedeterus cambayensis sp. nov. A, Male habitus, left lateral, (GIAM-012). B, Male postabdomen, left lateral (GIAM-012). C, Male postabdomen, left lateral (GIAM-014). D, Male habitus, dorsal (GIAM-011). E, Palaeomedeterus ignavus (Meunier), Baltic amber: male habitus, left lateral. (Photo from the collection of Jonas Damzen, Vilnius, Lithuania. Legend: cer, cercus; st4, sternite 4." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7333787" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7333787/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="482">Fig. 3E</figureCitation>
), and despite their separation in both time and space (see Discussion), they share the following diagnostic characters: a strong anterior seta near 1/3 on tibia II (see arrows on
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and
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), sternite 4 slightly enlarged with row of setae along posterior margin, and a large subtriangular cercus with apical setae (
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.
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).
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