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<emphasis id="B92CEAD8FF802762B510DE8B24EBFA04" box="[264,430,1478,1501]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Phora papuana</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B92CEAD8FF802762B510DEAB24BDFA24" box="[264,504,1510,1533]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Dohrniphora papuana</emphasis>
(
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: 96
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.
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<emphasis id="B92CEAD8FF802762B510DD4B24B3F9C4" box="[264,502,1542,1565]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Dohrniphora schmitzi</emphasis>
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: 121
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. (Female only). Male,
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<bibRefCitation id="EFC94B3BFF802762B7AEDD4B2184F9C4" author="Disney" box="[950,1217,1542,1565]" pageId="15" pageNumber="24" refString="Disney, R. H. L. &amp; Kistner, D. H. (1989) Phoridae from termite colonies in Africa, including two new species (Diptera; Isoptera, Termitidae). Sociobiology, 16, 75 - 90." type="journal article" year="1989">Disney &amp; Kistner, 1989</bibRefCitation>
: 80
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.
<emphasis id="B92CEAD8FF802762B0E1DD482422F9E4" bold="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Syn. nov.</emphasis>
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This species is included in the key to Oriental species (
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). I have a series of males and females from the
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which clearly belong to the problem species,
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<emphasis id="B92CEAD8FF802762B0FBDDDB2420F90E" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">Dohrniphora</emphasis>
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sp.?, for which
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had only a single female. He rightly compared it with
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<emphasis id="B92CEAD8FF802762B551DDAB249DF926" box="[329,472,1766,1791]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="16">D. papuana</emphasis>
(
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)
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, but dismissed this species from further consideration because his specimen had “a long proboscis” but the female of
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had, according to Collin, a proboscis “of normal length”. In his original description of both sexes Brues makes no reference to the proboscis. However,
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commented on the “elongated proboscis” of the female
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.
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Furthermore,
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refers to the “elongated proboscis” of
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(=
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<emphasis id="B92CEAD8FF9F277DB6F8DA212627FE5C" box="[736,866,364,389]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">D. cornuta</emphasis>
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) females. In fact the females of both species covered by Collin have the lengths of the proboscis subequal. However, the males of Collins species has now been compared with males from the Oriental Region (referred to by
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) and have proven to be a different species, which is described above (see
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<emphasis id="B92CEAD8FF9F277DB55BD9412482FDFC" box="[323,455,524,549]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">D. confusa</emphasis>
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). However, the good series of males of this complex from
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are indistinguishable from the Oriental specimens of
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.
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Furthermore, a comparison of these males with those of
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<emphasis id="B92CEAD8FF9F277DB675D91127B1FDAC" box="[621,756,604,629]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">D. schmitzi</emphasis>
(
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)
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, a species from mainland Africa described from females only but whose male was subsequently described by
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, again indicates that they are indistinguishable from
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<emphasis id="B92CEAD8FF9F277DB007D9E121ECFD1C" box="[1055,1193,684,709]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">D. papuana</emphasis>
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apart from the fact that these
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<emphasis id="B92CEAD8FF9F277DB5FBD999272DFD34" box="[483,616,724,749]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">D. schmitzi</emphasis>
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males have no posterodorsal hair palisade on segment 5 of the front tarsus, whereas in the available Oriental specimens of
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there is typically (but not invariably) an incomplete palisade on this segment. A comparison of the females from
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with those from mainland Africa show that the number of anteroventral spinules above the apical spurs of the hind tibia ranges from
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the Arabian specimens but
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the West African specimens. Otherwise these females are indistinguishable. With the identical male hypopygia and spinule complexes at the base of the male hind femora I conclude that
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<emphasis id="B92CEAD8FF9F277DB6CAD8A1261DFBDC" box="[722,856,1004,1029]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">D. schmitzi</emphasis>
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is a synonym of
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<emphasis id="B92CEAD8FF9F277DB037D8A121F9FBDC" box="[1071,1212,1004,1029]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">D. papuana</emphasis>
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, but it is either a distinct subspecies (recognizable in the female sex only) or, more likely, that there is an East­West cline in the number of spinules on the female hind tibia and the likelihood of an incomplete hair palisade on the fifth segment of the front tarsus.
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