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(
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<emphasis id="249B1C66C506C230A89DFD84FEAEFD11" box="[151,309,628,650]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="245">Parabisternalis</emphasis>
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: 35
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.
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species
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<emphasis id="249B1C66C506C230A89DFD25FE19FD76" bold="true" box="[151,386,725,749]" pageId="1" pageNumber="245">Notes on the genus.</emphasis>
The diagnosis of
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<emphasis id="249B1C66C506C230AA5AFD26FD71FD76" box="[592,746,726,749]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="245">Myrmozercon</emphasis>
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used here is based on that of
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. Most species of
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, including the
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species
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<emphasis id="249B1C66C506C230AAD7FD0AFD6FFC8A" box="[733,756,762,785]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="245">M</emphasis>
.
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and the new species
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,
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show moderate to strong hypertrichy on the dorsal shield. However,
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Joharchi
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., 2011
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(approximately 33 pairs),
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(33 pairs) and the new species
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(39 pairs), have a reduced dorsal chaetotaxy. All species appear to have asymmetrical and unpaired setae on the dorsal shield, which makes it difficult to recognise their homology, except for
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and the new species
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. In most species the dorsal shield is reduced or truncated posteriorly to expose a strip of unsclerotised opisthonotal skin, but this is not true in every species. Species of
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also vary in the presence or absence of metasternal setae st4, and the extent to which the sternal shield is fused with the endopodal plates. The sternal shield of
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is similar to that of many free-living
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, with three pairs of setae and two pairs of lyrifissures, separate endopodal plates between coxae III and IV, and separate metasternal setae in the soft skin. The leg chaetotaxy of
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species is also variable, and does not provide diagnostic characters that define the genus (
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). The new species
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adds variation to the denticles in the hypostomal groove, by having only seven rows of denticles, where all other species have more than seven rows of denticles.
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described a swelling on the dorso-distal edge of the palp trochanter in several species. This structure is not present in
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<emphasis id="249B1C66C506C230AB49FB02FCC1FA92" box="[835,858,1266,1289]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="245">M</emphasis>
.
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, and the new species
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has a low swelling on the dorsodistal edge of the palp femur. This instability in morphology, and the edentate chelicerae and short peritremes of
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, suggest that
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is parasitic on its ant hosts, and not simply a commensal in its host's nests, but this has not been established experimentally. The specimens examined here were found clinging to the abdomen and head of their host ants.
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