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<emphasis id="B907EA87B25E1A6CFF5AFB79FE55FB6A" bold="true" box="[151,496,1196,1222]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="198">Megistoleon thaumatopteryx</emphasis>
Badano
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,
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(
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,
<figureCitation id="13482A10B25E1A6CFF37FB1BFEAFFB4A" box="[250,266,1230,1254]" captionStart="FIGURES 3 4" captionStartId="3.[151,264,698,721]" captionTargetBox="[252,1338,204,666]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[241,1346,193,677]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURES 3 4. Pronotum of Megistoleon species. 3. M. ritsemae (Gabon, Ipassa), alcohol preserved specimen. 4. M. thaumatopteryx sp. nov., holotypus, female (Mozambique, Sofala prov.)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/223274/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="198">4</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="13482A10B25E1A6CFEDBFB1BFEEAFB4A" box="[278,335,1230,1254]" captionStart="FIGURES 9 10" captionStartId="5.[151,264,1171,1194]" captionTargetBox="[161,1429,634,1141]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[151,1436,625,1150]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURES 9 10. Megistoleon thaumatopteryx sp. nov., holotypus. 9. Apex of the right forewing. 10. Female terminalia, lateral view. Ectoproct (epr), anterior gonapophysis (ga), posterior gonapophysis (gp), lateral gonapophysis (gl), pregenital plate (prg)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/223276/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="198">9, 10</figureCitation>
)
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<paragraph id="8BCC3695B25E1A6CFF5AFAC3FD91FA36" blockId="4.[151,1436,1302,1975]" pageId="4" pageNumber="198">
<emphasis id="B907EA87B25E1A6CFF5AFAC3FEB4FA83" bold="true" box="[151,273,1302,1327]" pageId="4" pageNumber="198">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Thorax mostly pale brown with three parallel and well defined black stripes running for all its length; both wing pairs broad; forewing membrane hyaline with apex and
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margin smoky, mottled and with large markings all along the wing, apex with a brown pseudo-fringe; hind wing dark marking encircling a round white area on the
<taxonomicName id="4C734D16B25E1A6CFED4FA57FED8FA36" box="[281,381,1410,1434]" pageId="4" pageNumber="198" rank="species" species="posterior">posterior</taxonomicName>
margin (
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).
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<emphasis id="B907EA87B25E1A6CFF0AFA73FE30FA13" bold="true" box="[199,405,1446,1471]" pageId="4" pageNumber="198">Description. Size.</emphasis>
Body length 50.0 mm; forewing length
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, ratio width/length 0.034; hind wing length
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, ratio width/length 0.027.
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<emphasis id="B907EA87B25E1A6CFF0AFA3BFE3EF9AB" bold="true" box="[199,411,1518,1543]" pageId="4" pageNumber="198">General coloring.</emphasis>
Dorsally light brown with alternating black stripes and dark brown abdomen, ventrally noticeably paler; wings heavily marked and dotted of dark brown with some delimited white areas.
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<paragraph id="8BCC3695B25E1A6CFF0AF9E2FD45F916" blockId="4.[151,1436,1302,1975]" pageId="4" pageNumber="198">
<emphasis id="B907EA87B25E1A6CFF0AF9E2FEABF9E3" bold="true" box="[199,270,1591,1615]" pageId="4" pageNumber="198">Head.</emphasis>
Vertex moderately raised, vertex and occiput pale brown with a central black stripe; frons light brown with a large circular black marking; clypeus with a large central dark marking and lateral light brown margins; labrum light brown; genae light brown; maxillary and labial palpi light brown; antennae completely black, from the scape to the flagellum, covered by short black setae.
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<paragraph id="8BCC3695B25E1A6CFF0AF912FC1DF8C2" blockId="4.[151,1436,1302,1975]" pageId="4" pageNumber="198">
<emphasis id="B907EA87B25E1A6CFF0AF912FE82F973" bold="true" box="[199,295,1735,1759]" pageId="4" pageNumber="198">Thorax.</emphasis>
Pronotum light brown with one central and two lateral black stripes, covered by long and dark setae along the
<taxonomicName id="4C734D16B25E1A6CFEC8F93FFECCF8AE" box="[261,361,1770,1794]" pageId="4" pageNumber="198" rank="species" species="posterior">posterior</taxonomicName>
margin (
<figureCitation id="13482A10B25E1A6CFE02F93FFDB1F8AE" box="[463,532,1770,1794]" captionStart="FIGURES 3 4" captionStartId="3.[151,264,698,721]" captionTargetBox="[252,1338,204,666]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[241,1346,193,677]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURES 3 4. Pronotum of Megistoleon species. 3. M. ritsemae (Gabon, Ipassa), alcohol preserved specimen. 4. M. thaumatopteryx sp. nov., holotypus, female (Mozambique, Sofala prov.)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/223274/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="198">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
); mesonotum and metanotum light brown, perfectly prosecuting the dark pattern of the pronotum, with a central large stripe traversing prescutum, central mesoscutum, mesoscutellum, central metascutum and metascutellum and two lateral narrower stripes on mesoscutum and metascutum; pleural area traversed by a large black stripe; sternal portion of the thorax very pale.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BCC3695B25E1A6CFF0AF8AEFDE0F81A" blockId="4.[151,1436,1302,1975]" pageId="4" pageNumber="198">
<emphasis id="B907EA87B25E1A6CFF0AF8AEFEA3F83F" bold="true" box="[199,262,1915,1939]" pageId="4" pageNumber="198">Legs.</emphasis>
Coxae very pale; all pairs of legs uniform in coloring, completely light brown with darker last tarsal segments. Legs covered by dark setae.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BCC3695B25F1A6DFF0AFF42FE24FD90" blockId="5.[151,1437,151,572]" pageId="5" pageNumber="199">
<emphasis id="B907EA87B25F1A6DFF0AFF42FEBCFF1C" bold="true" box="[199,281,151,176]" pageId="5" pageNumber="199">Wings.</emphasis>
Wings broad with rounded apex, venation dark brown with alternating, and not very definite, pale dashes on longitudinal veins; forewing with costal area biareolated from Rs insertion, triareolated from middle length; forewing presectoral crossveins distally divided in two rows;
<taxonomicName id="4C734D16B25F1A6DFC53FF0AFB87FF5B" box="[926,1058,223,247]" pageId="5" pageNumber="199" rank="species" species="pterostigma">pterostigma</taxonomicName>
very evident, white and preceded by a dark marking; the costal margin is noticeably swollen in proximity of the
<taxonomicName id="4C734D16B25F1A6DFBEFFED1FB0FFEB0" box="[1058,1194,260,284]" pageId="5" pageNumber="199" rank="species" species="pterostigma">pterostigma</taxonomicName>
; forewing membrane hyaline proximally, smoky distally and with a thick brown maculation; a series of small brown spots are present at the crossveins insertion on R; large markings are presents along CuA with a “&gt;” shaped marking in the rhegmal area; apical area and
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margin heavily dotted with brown spots; along the apex, from the
<taxonomicName id="4C734D16B25F1A6DFB1FFEBAFAF3FE2B" box="[1234,1366,367,391]" pageId="5" pageNumber="199" rank="species" species="pterostigma">pterostigma</taxonomicName>
to the Cubital area, a series of contiguous small markings creates a pseudo-fringe (
<emphasis id="B907EA87B25F1A6DFC39FE40FB97FE00" box="[1012,1074,405,428]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="199">sensu</emphasis>
Akoudjin &amp; Michel 2011) (
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); hind wing membrane basally hyaline except some small infuscations along MP and the
<taxonomicName id="4C734D16B25F1A6DFB53FE62FAA7FE63" box="[1182,1282,439,463]" pageId="5" pageNumber="199" rank="species" species="posterior">posterior</taxonomicName>
margin, apex with a very large irregular brown marking encircling a white round area on the
<taxonomicName id="4C734D16B25F1A6DFBE1FE09FB35FE58" box="[1068,1168,476,500]" pageId="5" pageNumber="199" rank="species" species="posterior">posterior</taxonomicName>
margin; a second large white marking, linked to the white
<taxonomicName id="4C734D16B25F1A6DFDEAFE2AFD0BFDBB" box="[551,686,511,535]" pageId="5" pageNumber="199" rank="species" species="pterostigma">pterostigma</taxonomicName>
, is present in the apex; apical margin of both wings suffused with darker color (
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).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B907EA87B25F1A6DFF5AFB46FEE3FB04" bold="true" box="[151,326,1171,1194]" pageId="5" pageNumber="199">FIGURES 910.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B907EA87B25F1A6DFE81FB46FDCBFB05" box="[332,622,1171,1193]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="199">Megistoleon thaumatopteryx</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A23457FCB25F1A6DFDB9FB41FD61FB05" box="[628,708,1172,1193]" pageId="5" pageNumber="199" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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, holotypus.
<emphasis id="B907EA87B25F1A6DFC8CFB46FCF6FB04" bold="true" box="[833,851,1171,1192]" pageId="5" pageNumber="199">9.</emphasis>
Apex of the right forewing.
<emphasis id="B907EA87B25F1A6DFBB9FB46FB36FB04" bold="true" box="[1140,1171,1171,1192]" pageId="5" pageNumber="199">10.</emphasis>
Female terminalia, lateral view. Ectoproct (epr), anterior gonapophysis (ga),
<taxonomicName id="4C734D16B25F1A6DFD5EFB67FD48FB64" box="[659,749,1202,1224]" pageId="5" pageNumber="199" rank="species" species="posterior">posterior</taxonomicName>
gonapophysis (gp), lateral gonapophysis (gl), pregenital plate (prg).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B907EA87B25F1A6DFF0AFB21FEE6FAA1" bold="true" box="[199,323,1268,1293]" pageId="5" pageNumber="199">Abdomen.</emphasis>
Tergites mostly brown, sternites yellowish brown; pleural membrane brown; abdominal sclerites covered by numerous black and short setae. Female terminalia as in
<figureCitation id="13482A10B25F1A6DFC66FACDFBA5FA9C" box="[939,1024,1304,1328]" captionStart="FIGURES 9 10" captionStartId="5.[151,264,1171,1194]" captionTargetBox="[161,1429,634,1141]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[151,1436,625,1150]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURES 9 10. Megistoleon thaumatopteryx sp. nov., holotypus. 9. Apex of the right forewing. 10. Female terminalia, lateral view. Ectoproct (epr), anterior gonapophysis (ga), posterior gonapophysis (gp), lateral gonapophysis (gl), pregenital plate (prg)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/223276/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="199">Fig. 10</figureCitation>
. Pregenital plate triangular; anterior gonapophyses relatively large, rounded, provided with numerous long and thick setae;
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gonapophyses elongated, digitiform, longer than the anterior pair, apically equipped with few long setae; lateral gonapophyses rounded, dorsal portion covered by large and strong digging setae, similar to those present on the ectoproct, ventral side provided with numerous thin setae. Male unknown.
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material.
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.
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1♀ pinned, terminalia in glycerol: “
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, Sofala prov./
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S. Condué, Riv. Chinizua,
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/ 4./
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P. Schüle leg.” //
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<emphasis id="B907EA87B25F1A6DFBD8FA24FAF3F9A5" box="[1045,1366,1521,1545]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="199">Megistoleon thaumatopteryx</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B907EA87B25F1A6DFA90FA24FA39F9A5" bold="true" box="[1373,1436,1521,1545]" pageId="5" pageNumber="199">n. sp.</emphasis>
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/ Badano, 2012.
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depository.
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Museo Civico di Storia Naturale “G. Doria”, Genoa,
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.
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<emphasis id="B907EA87B25F1A6DFF0AF9ECFEEBF9FD" bold="true" box="[199,334,1593,1617]" pageId="5" pageNumber="199">Etymology.</emphasis>
Noun compound of Greek derivation:
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, “wonderful wing”, refers to the striking wing pattern.
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<emphasis id="B907EA87B25F1A6DFF0AF955FEC5F935" bold="true" box="[199,352,1664,1689]" pageId="5" pageNumber="199">Distribution.</emphasis>
The new species is known only from the Mozambican
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locality, a lowland forest.
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