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<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7EB148FF6E0707D570F8E2" bold="true" box="[151,309,1865,1890]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="37">Ploiaria weiri</emphasis>
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<figureCitation id="131270EA1A7EB148FF6E0723D547F805" box="[151,258,1901,1925]" captionStart="FIGURE 7" captionStartId="17.[151,250,1749,1772]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,337,1728]" captionTargetId="figure@17.[151,1436,337,1728]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="FIGURE 7. Ploiaria weiri, male habitus." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/207015/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="37">Figures 7</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="131270EA1A7EB148FEF70723D55EF805" box="[270,283,1901,1925]" captionStart="FIGURE 8" captionStartId="18.[151,250,1708,1731]" captionTargetBox="[163,1418,1004,1616]" captionTargetId="figure@18.[151,1436,949,1687]" captionTargetPageId="18" captionText="FIGURE 8. Ploiaria weiri: A, Forewing; B, head and pronotum, lateral view. (Not to scale)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/207016/files/figure.png" pageId="16" pageNumber="37">8</figureCitation>
AB, 9AF
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<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7EB148FF6E07FBD554F84E" bold="true" box="[151,273,1973,1998]" pageId="16" pageNumber="37">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
This species is most similar to
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<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7EB148FD9407F8D708F84E" box="[621,845,1974,1998]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="37">Ploiaria cunnamula</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFB8119E1A7EB148FCAD07FBD076F84D" author="Wygodzinsky" box="[852,1075,1973,1997]" pageId="16" pageNumber="37" refString="Wygodzinsky, P. (1956) Synopsis of the Australian Emesinae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). University of California Publications in Entomology, 11, 193 - 246." type="journal article" year="1956">Wygodzinsky, 1956</bibRefCitation>
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, and can be distinguished by the following combination of features: body mostly brown, with broad yellowish midline stripe on dorsum of thorax; unique wing colouration; legs mostly concolourous brown, with meso- and metafemora apically white. As in
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<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7FB149FA7E00D7D556FF54" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="38">P. cunnamula</emphasis>
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, the posterior margin of the pygophore bears a single median spine.
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<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7FB149FF3C0091D513FF78" bold="true" box="[197,342,223,248]" pageId="17" pageNumber="38">Description.</emphasis>
Male. Body length 9.21; head length 1.07; head width 0.71. AI length 6.08; AII length 5.50; AIII length 1.19; AIV length 0.61.
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<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7FB149FF6E069BD556F96B" bold="true" box="[151,275,1749,1772]" pageId="17" pageNumber="38">FIGURE 7.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7FB149FEE00698D5EDF96C" box="[281,424,1750,1772]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="38">Ploiaria weiri</emphasis>
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, male habitus.
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Colour. As shown in
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and
<figureCitation id="131270EA1A7FB149FD980756D62AF8B0" box="[609,623,1816,1840]" captionStart="FIGURE 8" captionStartId="18.[151,250,1708,1731]" captionTargetBox="[163,1418,1004,1616]" captionTargetId="figure@18.[151,1436,949,1687]" captionTargetPageId="18" captionText="FIGURE 8. Ploiaria weiri: A, Forewing; B, head and pronotum, lateral view. (Not to scale)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/207016/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="38">8</figureCitation>
A. Body mostly brown and copper brown with yellow markings. Head mostly copper brown; prescence of golden microchaetae on dorsal surface causing a slightly paler appearance; ventrally faintly yellow below eyes. Eyes red. Antennae mostly brown with AIII and AIV slightly paler. Labrum yellowish; labium orange-brown. Thorax mostly brown, dorsally with broad yellowish mid-longitudinal stripe; mesonotal lateral carinae dorsally faintly yellow, laterally brown, and ventrally with a broad yellow stripe medially, sometimes with a thin brown stripe. Wings basally smoky brown, apically clear with broad brown markings within each cell, outer apical margin faintly reddened. Legs mostly orange-brown; foretibia and tarsi yellowish; meso- and metafemora apically white; meso- and metatibiae becoming pale apically, with tarsi white. Abdomen mostly orange-brown, with pygophore slightly paler laterally.
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Structure. As shown in
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,
<figureCitation id="131270EA1A7CB14AFDB4014AD61CFE9C" box="[589,601,260,284]" captionStart="FIGURE 8" captionStartId="18.[151,250,1708,1731]" captionTargetBox="[163,1418,1004,1616]" captionTargetId="figure@18.[151,1436,949,1687]" captionTargetPageId="18" captionText="FIGURE 8. Ploiaria weiri: A, Forewing; B, head and pronotum, lateral view. (Not to scale)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/207016/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="39">8</figureCitation>
AB and 9AF. Male, elongate, parallel-sided, with elongate appendages (antennae, and mid and hind legs longer than body). Head elongate, dorsally nearly flat; interocular groove shallow, medially with conspicuous pit (
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A); anteocular lobe subquadrate, postocular lobe circular, anteocular lobe slightly longer. First and second antennal segments subequal, first slightly longer and arcuate; third and fourth segments short. Labium slightly longer than head. Pronotum subrectangulate, elongate, weakly campanulate with posterior margin slightly flared (
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) and elevated (
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B); anterolateral angles of collar rounded and tumid (
<figureCitation id="131270EA1A7CB14AFA9601F9D4E0FE74" captionStart="FIGURE 9" captionStartId="19.[151,250,1696,1719]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,340,1674]" captionTargetId="figure@19.[151,1436,340,1676]" captionTargetPageId="19" captionText="FIGURE 9. Ploiaria weiri, male: A, Head, dorsal view; B, head, lateral view C, base of foreleg; D, metathorax and scutellum, dorsal view; E, foretarsus; F, pygophore, ventral view. PA = paramere; SC = scutellum." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/207017/files/figure.png" pageId="18" pageNumber="39">Fig. 9</figureCitation>
A), proepimeron with a swollen, rounded lobe; dorsal surface of pronotum with a shallow mid-longitudinal furrow. Mesonotum subrectangulate, bilobulate with medial longitudinal furrow; lateral margins carinate; posterior margin with faint transverse, densely textured, V-shaped depression, with a deeper sulcus in front. Scutellum medially with Y-shaped tumescence (
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D). Metanotum concave, partly obscured by wings. Forecoxa fusiform, foretrochanter with two elongate spines, one directed ventrally and the other medially. Forefemora weakly incrassate, subfusiform, armed ventrally with two series of spines decreasing in size towards apex, lateroventral series mostly straight, medioventral series proximally curving towards dorsal margin of femur. Foretibia apically weakly expanding. Foretarsi three-segmented, evenly arcuate, ventral margin weakly carinate with two claws, the medial claw slightly larger. Meso- and metacoxae obovate, tumid. Meso- and metafemora elongate, thin, cylindrical, weakly curved. Meso- and metatibiae elongate, thin, cylindrical, apically curved. Meso and metatarsi three-segmented; claws symmetrical and simple. Pregenital abdomen elongate, weakly expanded caudally. Pygophore posteromedially with single medial spinose process.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7CB14AFF6E06E2D557F941" bold="true" box="[151,274,1708,1731]" pageId="18" pageNumber="39">FIGURE 8.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7CB14AFEE006E2D5EDF942" box="[281,424,1708,1730]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="39">Ploiaria weiri</emphasis>
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: A, Forewing; B, head and pronotum, lateral view. (Not to scale).
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<paragraph id="8B966C6F1A7CB14AFF3C06BED6BBF8AB" blockId="18.[151,1436,1775,2022]" pageId="18" pageNumber="39">Texture and vestiture. Body finely textured to smooth, clothed in fine layer of pale microchetae. Antennae and legs with sparse distribution of short, decumbent setae.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7CB14AFF3C0778D51BF8CF" bold="true" box="[197,350,1846,1871]" pageId="18" pageNumber="39">Distribution.</emphasis>
Known only from
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.
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<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7CB14AFF3C0712D50EF8F4" bold="true" box="[197,331,1884,1908]" pageId="18" pageNumber="39">Etymology.</emphasis>
This species is named in honour of heteropterist Tom Weir.
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<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7CB14AFF3C07CFD583F81A" bold="true" box="[197,454,1921,1946]" pageId="18" pageNumber="39">Specimens examined.</emphasis>
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: Male:
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: New South
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:
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:
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, near Mt. Bates,
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,
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National Park,
<date id="FF974AAF1A7CB14AFCF707E8D7AAF83E" box="[782,1007,1958,1982]" pageId="18" pageNumber="39" value="1984-03-20" valueMax="1984-03-26" valueMin="1984-03-20">2026 March 1984</date>
, D. C. F. Rentz, stop 3, palm forest (ANIC).
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:
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: New South
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:
<collectingCountry id="F33E2CFF1A7CB14AFCF50783D7F2F865" box="[780,951,1997,2021]" name="Norfolk Island" pageId="18" pageNumber="39">Norfolk Island</collectingCountry>
:
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, near Mt. Bates,
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,
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National Park,
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, D. C. F. Rentz, stop 3, palm forest, 1Ƥ,
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, sex unknown (abdomens missing) (ANIC). Other specimens examined:
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: New South
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:
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: Palm Glen Track,
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National Park,
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<geoCoordinate id="EE1D0AA81A7DB14BFD1200ACD716FF7A" box="[747,851,223,250]" direction="east" orientation="longitude" pageId="19" pageNumber="40" precision="555" value="167.57">167.57o E</geoCoordinate>
,
<date id="FF974AAF1A7DB14BFC9A00ACD0B6FF7A" box="[867,1267,226,250]" pageId="19" pageNumber="40" value="1984-11-14" valueMax="1984-12-02" valueMin="1984-11-14">14 November 2 December 1984</date>
, T. A. Weir, 3 nymphs, sex unknown (ANIC).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph id="8B966C6F1A7DB14BFF6E06EED04CF955" blockId="19.[151,1436,1696,1749]" pageId="19" pageNumber="40">
<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7DB14BFF6E06EED557F936" bold="true" box="[151,274,1696,1719]" pageId="19" pageNumber="40">FIGURE 9.</emphasis>
<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7DB14BFEE006EFD5EBF937" box="[281,430,1697,1719]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="40">
<taxonomicName id="4C2917EC1A7DB14BFEE006EFD5EEF937" box="[281,427,1697,1719]" class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Ploiaria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="40" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="weiri">Ploiaria weiri</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
male: A, Head, dorsal view; B, head, lateral view C, base of foreleg; D, metathorax and scutellum, dorsal view; E, foretarsus; F, pygophore, ventral view. PA = paramere; SC = scutellum.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C3333FE41A7DB14CFF3C074DD62EFE07" lastPageId="20" lastPageNumber="41" pageId="19" pageNumber="40" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8B966C6F1A7DB14CFF3C074DD5F7FF77" blockId="19.[151,1436,1794,2034]" lastBlockId="20.[151,1436,151,391]" lastPageId="20" lastPageNumber="41" pageId="19" pageNumber="40">
<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7DB14BFF3C074DD57CF89B" bold="true" box="[197,313,1795,1819]" pageId="19" pageNumber="40">Remarks.</emphasis>
Although we have not seen specimens of
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<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7DB14BFCDE074DD78CF89A" box="[807,969,1794,1818]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="40">P. cunnamulla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, based on the figures and description of
<bibRefCitation id="EFB8119E1A7DB14BFF6E0768D5C6F8BE" author="Wygodzinsky" box="[151,387,1830,1854]" pageId="19" pageNumber="40" refString="Wygodzinsky, P. (1956) Synopsis of the Australian Emesinae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). University of California Publications in Entomology, 11, 193 - 246." type="journal article" year="1956">Wygodzinsky (1956)</bibRefCitation>
it appears to be closely related to
<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7DB14BFCFF0766D71DF8BE" box="[774,856,1831,1855]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="40">P. w e i r i</emphasis>
. These species are highly congruent and differ primarily in their colouration, which in
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<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7DB14BFDC00705D694F8E2" box="[569,721,1866,1890]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="40">P. cunnamula</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is more stramineous and lacks the yellow stripe on the dorsum characteristic of
<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7DB14BFEAC073ED5EDF806" box="[341,424,1903,1927]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="40">P. w e i r i</emphasis>
.
<bibRefCitation id="EFB8119E1A7DB14BFE450720D6EFF806" author="Wygodzinsky" box="[444,682,1902,1926]" pageId="19" pageNumber="40" refString="Wygodzinsky, P. (1956) Synopsis of the Australian Emesinae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). University of California Publications in Entomology, 11, 193 - 246." type="journal article" year="1956">Wygodzinsky (1956)</bibRefCitation>
found
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<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7DB14BFD05073ED7DAF806" box="[764,927,1902,1927]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="40">P. cunnamulla</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
most comparable to
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<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7DB14BFB68073ED102F806" box="[1169,1351,1902,1927]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="40">P. selangorensis</emphasis>
Miller, 1941
</taxonomicName>
[=
<taxonomicName id="4C2917EC1A7DB14BFF0507DDD664F82A" authority="White, 1877" authorityName="White" authorityYear="1877" box="[252,545,1938,1962]" class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Ploiaria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="40" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="insolida">
<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7DB14BFF0507DDD531F82A" box="[252,372,1938,1962]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="40">P. insolida</emphasis>
(White, 1877)
</taxonomicName>
] and
<taxonomicName id="4C2917EC1A7DB14BFD9C07DDD07BF82A" authority="McAtee &amp; Malloch, 1926" authorityName="McAtee &amp; Malloch" authorityYear="1926" box="[613,1086,1938,1963]" class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Ploiaria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="40" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subaequalis">
<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7DB14BFD9C07DDD74FF82A" box="[613,778,1938,1962]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="40">P. subaequalis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFB8119E1A7DB14BFCED07DDD07BF82A" author="McAtee" box="[788,1086,1938,1963]" pageId="19" pageNumber="40" refString="McAtee, W. L. &amp; Malloch, J. R. (1926) Philippine and Malayan Ploiariinae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae). Philippine Journal of Science, 30, 117 - 152." type="journal article" year="1926">McAtee &amp; Malloch, 1926</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
[=
<taxonomicName id="4C2917EC1A7DB14BFB9207DDD499F84E" authority="Dohrn, 1860" authorityName="Dohrn" authorityYear="1860" class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Ploiaria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="40" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macrophthalma">
<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7DB14BFB9207DDD17FF82A" box="[1131,1338,1938,1962]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="40">P. macrophthalma</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFB8119E1A7DB14BFAB507DCD490F84E" author="Dohrn" pageId="19" pageNumber="40" refString="Dohrn, F. A. (1860) Beitrage zu einer monographischen Bearbeitung der Familie der Emesina. Lnnaea Entomologica, 14, 207 - 253." type="journal article" year="1860">Dohrn, 1860</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
], both of which have ranges extending into New
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. Using the key of
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<bibRefCitation id="EFB8119E1A7DB14BFBE407F8D0EEF84E" author="Reidi" box="[1053,1195,1974,1998]" pageId="19" pageNumber="40" refString="Reidi, D. (2007) New and little-known thread-legged assassin bugs from Australia and New Guinea (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 53 (4), 363 - 379." type="journal article" year="2007">Reidi (2007)</bibRefCitation>
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we are confident that
<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7DB14BFF6E0795D4ADF872" box="[151,232,2011,2034]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="40">P. w e i r i</emphasis>
is distinct from both these species: while the leg colouration is identical to that of
<taxonomicName id="4C2917EC1A7DB14BFB740795D11CF872" box="[1165,1369,2010,2034]" class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Ploiaria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="40" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macrophthalma">
<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7DB14BFB740795D11CF872" box="[1165,1369,2010,2034]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="40">P. macrophthalma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(both species possess white apical annulations on the mid and hind femora) it lacks the bifid pygophore process of this species, and while
<taxonomicName id="4C2917EC1A7AB14CFE9600F3D5A3FF54" box="[367,486,188,212]" class="Insecta" family="Reduviidae" genus="Ploiaria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="41" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="insolida">
<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7AB14CFE9600F3D5A3FF54" box="[367,486,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="41">P. insolida</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
possesses a similar spinose pygophore process, it lacks the apical white annulus of the mid and hind femora.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B966C6F1A7AB14CFF3C014BD62EFE07" blockId="20.[151,1436,151,391]" pageId="20" pageNumber="41">
Most species from Lord Howe and
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Islands are either apterous or submacropterous. Of the fully winged species, all but
<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7AB14CFEBC0167D5DDFEC0" box="[325,408,297,320]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="41">P. w e i r i</emphasis>
are also found elsewhere in
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. Examination of specimens from various institutions (QM, DPQI, AM) has thus far not turned up any mainland specimens of
<emphasis id="B95DB07D1A7AB14CFC2A0103D060FEE4" box="[979,1061,333,356]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="41">P. w e i r i</emphasis>
, and for the present we consider this species as endemic to
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.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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