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<emphasis id="7DBF1A5DFF86FFBCFF4EF812FE3577CA" bold="true" box="[151,401,1941,1967]" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="597">Megalota bahamana</emphasis>
Brown and Matthews
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(
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<emphasis id="7DBF1A5DFF86FFBCFF4EF83FFEA077AA" bold="true" box="[151,260,1976,1999]" pageId="0" pageNumber="597">Diagnosis</emphasis>
.
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is assigned convincingly to the
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species group (sensu
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) based on the following features of the male and female genitalia: a large, distally free, densely spined, incurved process from the
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<paragraph id="4F74C64FFF87FFBDFF4EFF1FFC697172" blockId="1.[151,1436,152,1635]" pageId="1" pageNumber="598">valva that most likely represents the termination of the sacculus; a moderately stout, distally dilated, subbasal process from the costa of the valva, bearing 35 stout spines terminally (somewhat bearclaw-like); a stellate or comblike signum; and the colliculum comprising one-third or less of the ductus bursae. Males of the group also lack modified secondary scaling of the hindleg and a hairpencil from the anal portion of the hindwing.</paragraph>
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As in other species of the
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group,
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likely exhibits a variable forewing pattern; however, our specimens are represented by two distinct “forms,” neither of which is superficially similar to any other New World congener. In one form (
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) pattern elements are nearly absent with only a trace of a dark costal triangular patch; in the other form (
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), which has a slightly grayer ground color, there is a well-defined, dark triangular patch from near mid-costa.
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Based on male genitalia,
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is closely related to
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<emphasis id="7DBF1A5DFF87FFBDFC94FE47FC4671B2" box="[845,994,447,471]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="598">M. submicans</emphasis>
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from
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,
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; the male genitalia of the two are nearly indistinguishable.
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can be distinguished by the absence of a small thorn at the distal end of the phallus (present in
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) and the absence of cornuti in the vesica of the phallus (two in
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).
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. Head: Scales of vertex cream to pale gray, tipped with brown to dark gray; scales of frons cream to pale fawn; length of labial palpus (all segments combined) ca. 1.2 times horizontal diameter of compound eye, pale gray mixed with dark gray on outer surface, paler on inner surface; scales of antenna cream to pale gray. Thorax: Dorsum and tegula dingy cream to pale gray; legs unmodified. Forewing (
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) length
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; n = 4); one form (
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) with forewing pale brick red, sparsely and faintly reticulated with pale brown, slightly darker in terminal region, with extremely faint indication of brown triangular patch from near mid-costa to the discal cell terminus; other form (
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) pale gray, sparsely and faintly reticulated with brown, with well-defined brown subtriangular patch from near mid-costa. Hindwing with grayish scales, without anal fold or hairpencil. Abdomen: Male genitalia (
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) with tegumen elongate-ovate; uncus broadly cordate with shallow, rounded, mesal notch, densely spined in dorso-posterior portion; socius short, rounded, membranous, with few bristles; valvae asymmetrical, venter of left valva bent at ca. 90° angle ca. 0.33 distance from base with patch of long setae at bend, setae ca. 0.8 as long as valva; venter of right valva rather evenly curved with sparse, shorter setae; a broad, free, incurved projection from valva ca. 0.65 distance from base to apex, probably representing termination of sacculus, strongly sclerotized along one side with dense patch of long, fine setae in distal portion of projection; subbasal process of costa of valva short, stout, ca. 2.5 times as long as wide, with 3 5 stout spines at blunt distal end. Phallus slender, ca. 0.15 as wide as long, elongate, ca. 0.5 as long as valva, slightly curved throughout, without external thorn near tip; vesica lacking cornuti. Female genitalia (
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, D. Matthews genitalia prep. #1890, MGCL 2239257 (MGCL).
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genitalia prep. #1889,
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(1♂), Bartsch, USNM genitalia slide 150,245 (USNM).
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<emphasis id="7DBF1A5DFF87FFBDFF1EFA49FEE47580" bold="true" box="[199,320,1486,1509]" pageId="1" pageNumber="598">Etymology</emphasis>
. The species name refers to
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, where the
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series was collected.
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<emphasis id="7DBF1A5DFF87FFBDFF1EFA6AFE467661" bold="true" box="[199,482,1517,1540]" pageId="1" pageNumber="598">Distribution and Biology</emphasis>
.
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San
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islands in
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. Adults were captured in June, July, and September. Although the early stages are unknown, it is suspected that the larvae feed on
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).
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