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TYPE LOCALITY:
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DISTRIBUTION: &quot;Northern sands of the Rub al Khali in
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COMMENTS: Subgenus
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listed this form as a valid species, but it was later included in
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M.
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(
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;
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).
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reinstated
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as a separate species and reviewed its salient characters. Even from the terse description of its diagnostic traits provided by
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, who recognized the form as a subspecies of
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,
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it is evident that
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is quite morphologically different from populations of
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north of it in
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Arabia. The species was also considered distinct by
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.
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