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<mods:title>The Mecyclothorax beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Moriomorphini) of Haleakala-, Maui: Keystone of a hyperdiverse Hawaiian radiation</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Liebherr, James K.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:date>2015</mods:date>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="127853568" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:D00B7183-9F21-47C6-953B-44A5F935139F" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/AAF15F9C212D09B6E1FC31E5361DC6F4" lastPageId="236" lastPageNumber="237" pageId="234" pageNumber="235">
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<paragraph pageId="234" pageNumber="235">Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Carabidae</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="234" pageNumber="235" type="nomenclature">
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<paragraph pageId="234" pageNumber="235">
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(096)
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/D00B7183-9F21-47C6-953B-44A5F935139F" class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax kuiki" order="Coleoptera" pageId="234" pageNumber="235" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kuiki">Mecyclothorax kuiki</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="234" pageNumber="235">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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Figs 117F, 118F, 121, 122
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<normalizedToken originalValue="D–E">D-E</normalizedToken>
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, 125
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<subSubSection lastPageId="235" lastPageNumber="236" pageId="234" pageNumber="235" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="234" pageNumber="235">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph lastPageId="235" lastPageNumber="236" pageId="234" pageNumber="235">
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This fourth species of the
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax vitreus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="234" pageNumber="235" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vitreus">Mecyclothorax vitreus</taxonomicName>
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group complex can be diagnosed by the pronotal median base with large punctures traversing the midline of the base, and small longitudinal wrinkles dissecting or at least disturbing the basal margin (Fig. 122
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<normalizedToken originalValue="D–E">D-E</normalizedToken>
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). The median base also has well-developed isodiametric microsculpture between the punctures. The elytra are ellipsoid, the base narrow with the margins laterad the humeri barely extended, resulting in high ratios of MEW/HuW = 2.30-2.39 that are mirrored in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax kipahulu" order="Coleoptera" pageId="234" pageNumber="235" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kipahulu">Mecyclothorax kipahulu</taxonomicName>
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(Fig. 122A) and
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax kipwilli" order="Coleoptera" pageId="234" pageNumber="235" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kipwilli">Mecyclothorax kipwilli</taxonomicName>
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(Fig. 115
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<normalizedToken originalValue="D–E">D-E</normalizedToken>
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), but greater
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<pageBreakToken pageId="235" pageNumber="236" start="start">than</pageBreakToken>
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those derived from
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax kaumakani" order="Coleoptera" pageId="235" pageNumber="236" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kaumakani">Mecyclothorax kaumakani</taxonomicName>
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(Fig. 122
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<normalizedToken originalValue="B–C">B-C</normalizedToken>
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). The male aedeagal median lobe is of the most plesiomorphic configuration within this species complex, as the median lobe is gracile and moderately curved, and apex is narrowly extended beyond the ostial opening, the tip narrowly rounded and slightly downturned (Fig. 125
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<normalizedToken originalValue="A–C">A-C</normalizedToken>
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,
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<normalizedToken originalValue="F–G">F-G</normalizedToken>
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). The male aedeagal internal sac corroborates the median
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<normalizedToken originalValue="lobe’s">lobe's</normalizedToken>
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relative plesiomorphy, as it is unilobate, long, and generally of the configuration observed across the genus (Fig. 125B, F, G). Setal formula 2 1 2 0. Standardized body length 4.4-5.5 mm.
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<caption pageId="235" pageNumber="236">
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<paragraph pageId="235" pageNumber="236">
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Figure 125. Male aedeagus,
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax kuiki" order="Coleoptera" pageId="235" pageNumber="236" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kuiki">Mecyclothorax kuiki</taxonomicName>
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(for abbreviations see Table 2, p. 23).
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<normalizedToken originalValue="A–B">A-B</normalizedToken>
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Right, and right with sac everted views (New Greensword Bog, 1850 m)
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<normalizedToken originalValue="C–E">C-E</normalizedToken>
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Right and ventral views (ESE Kuiki, 2090 m)
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<normalizedToken originalValue="F–G">F-G</normalizedToken>
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Right view, sac everted F (ESE Kuiki, 2145 m) G (ESE Kuiki, 2105 m).
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<subSubSection lastPageId="236" lastPageNumber="237" pageId="235" pageNumber="236" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="235" pageNumber="236">Description</paragraph>
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<paragraph lastPageId="236" lastPageNumber="237" pageId="235" pageNumber="236">
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(n = 5). [The above description of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax kipwilli" order="Coleoptera" pageId="235" pageNumber="236" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kipwilli">Mecyclothorax kipwilli</taxonomicName>
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can serve to describe this species with the following substitutions.] Eyes of similar convexity to
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax kipwilli" order="Coleoptera" pageId="235" pageNumber="236" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kipwilli">Mecyclothorax kipwilli</taxonomicName>
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; ocular ratio = 1.46-1.58, ocular lobe ratio = 0.76-0.81. Pronotum appearing elongate
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<pageBreakToken pageId="236" pageNumber="237" start="start">but</pageBreakToken>
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slightly transverse, MPW/PL = 1.10-1.15, variably constricted basally, MPW/BPW = 1.46-1.65; median base bearing 10-13 isolated punctures across midlength of base, plus fine longitudinal wrinkles along the basal margin. Metathoracic flight wing an ellipsoid strap 1.4
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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long as broad, remnant R + M veins present; strap not reaching hind margin of metanotum. Microsculpture of elytral disc shallow, evident, comprising a transversely stretched isodiametric mesh arranged in transverse rows, elytral apex with evident isodiametric mesh. Coloration of vertex rufous with piceous cast; pronotal disc rufobrunneous with piceous cast, margins narrowly paler, rufous; elytral disc rufobrunneous, sutural interval rufous basally and apically, concolorous on disc.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="236" pageNumber="237">
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Male genitalia (n = 11). Aedeagal median lobe robust, dorsal surface broadly convex, distance from parameral articulation to tip 2.3
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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depth at midlength (Fig. 125
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<normalizedToken originalValue="A–C">A-C</normalizedToken>
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,
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<normalizedToken originalValue="E–G">E-G</normalizedToken>
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); apex very narrowly extended, the tip obliquely rounded with dorsoapical face slightly flattened; median lobe sinuously curved in ventral view, right margin slightly concave, left margin briefly convex before narrow, bluntly rounded tip (Fig. 125D); internal sac very broad, cylindrical (Fig. 125B,
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<normalizedToken originalValue="F–G">F-G</normalizedToken>
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), length variable, from 1.0
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<normalizedToken originalValue="–1.2×">-1.2x</normalizedToken>
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parameral articulation-tip distance; a small basal lobe may (Fig. 125B) or may not (Fig. 125 F, G) be present on dorsal surface of sac; ventral sac surface covered with shaggy pelage of longer microtrichia; flagellar plate robust, very large, length 0.61
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<normalizedToken originalValue="–0.67×">-0.67x</normalizedToken>
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parameral articulation-tip distance (plate size is positively associated with sac length, Fig. 125B,
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<normalizedToken originalValue="F–G">F-G</normalizedToken>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="236" pageNumber="237">
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Female reproductive tract (n = 1). Bursa copulatrix columnar, broad and elongate, length 1.48 mm, breadth 0.57 mm (Fig. 117F); bursal walls translucent, surface more thickly wrinkled near base, apex with only thin wrinkles; gonocoxite 1 with 3-4 apical fringe setae and 6-9 smaller setae along medial surface (Fig. 118F); gonocoxite 2 falcate, apex subacuminate, basal extension elongate with curved terminus, 2 thin lateral ensiform setae, apical nematiform setae on medioventral surface at 0.71
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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gonocoxite length.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="236" pageNumber="237" type="holotype">
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<paragraph pageId="236" pageNumber="237">Holotype.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="236" pageNumber="237">
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Male (CUIC) dissected and labeled: HI: Maui Haleakala N.P. / Kipahulu west rim below / Kuiki sift humus ex ohia / 14-V-1993 lot 02 / el. 2090 m // J.K. Liebherr & / A.C. Medeiros / Collectors //
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax kuiki" order="Coleoptera" pageId="236" pageNumber="237" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kuiki">Mecyclothorax kuiki</taxonomicName>
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♂ #80 // HOLOTYPE /
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax" order="Coleoptera" pageId="236" pageNumber="237" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Mecyclothorax</taxonomicName>
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/
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<taxonomicName lsidName="kuiki" pageId="236" pageNumber="237" rank="species" species="kuiki">kuiki</taxonomicName>
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/ Liebherr / det. J.K. Liebherr 2015 (black-margined red label).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="236" pageNumber="237" type="paratypes">
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<paragraph pageId="236" pageNumber="237">Paratypes.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="236" pageNumber="237">84 specimens (see Appendix).</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="236" pageNumber="237" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="236" pageNumber="237">Etymology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="236" pageNumber="237">
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As most specimens of this species have been found in proximity to Kuiki, the summit of
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Kīpahulu">Kīpahulu</normalizedToken>
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Valley’s">Valley's</normalizedToken>
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west rim, that locality name is used as the epithet for this final species in the
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax kipwilli" order="Coleoptera" pageId="236" pageNumber="237" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kipwilli">Mecyclothorax kipwilli</taxonomicName>
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+
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax kipahulu" order="Coleoptera" pageId="236" pageNumber="237" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kipahulu">Mecyclothorax kipahulu</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax kaumakani" order="Coleoptera" pageId="236" pageNumber="237" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kaumakani">Mecyclothorax kaumakani</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax kuiki" order="Coleoptera" pageId="236" pageNumber="237" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kuiki">Mecyclothorax kuiki</taxonomicName>
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species quartet.
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<subSubSection pageId="236" pageNumber="237" type="distribution and habitat">
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<paragraph pageId="236" pageNumber="237">Distribution and habitat.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="236" pageNumber="237">
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Analogous to the distribution of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax kaumakani" order="Coleoptera" pageId="236" pageNumber="237" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kaumakani">Mecyclothorax kaumakani</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Carabidae" genus="Mecyclothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mecyclothorax kuiki" order="Coleoptera" pageId="236" pageNumber="237" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kuiki">Mecyclothorax kuiki</taxonomicName>
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is disjunctly distributed north and south of
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Kīpahulu">Kīpahulu</normalizedToken>
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Valley (Fig. 121). In the
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Hāna">Hana</normalizedToken>
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Bogs region it is known only from New Greensword Bog, 1850 m elevation, whereas various Manawainui Planeze localities range 1525-2145 m elevation. Records are primarily associated with
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘ōhi‘a">'ōhi'a</normalizedToken>
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, with one collecting event associated with
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Ericaceae" genus="Leptecophylla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Leptecophylla" order="Ericales" pageId="236" pageNumber="237" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Leptecophylla</taxonomicName>
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(pūkiawe).
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