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<figureCitation id="F9A62A14ED04FFF4FD822FD3C4F10ED7" box="[585,738,899,924]" captionStart="Figs 116127" captionStartId="67.[182,221,1492,1512]" captionTargetBox="[179,1133,269,1465]" captionTargetId="figure-72@67.[179,1135,265,1465]" captionTargetPageId="67" captionText="Figs 116127. Rhabdogaster species, male terminalia: (116118) R. zebra sp. n., Capangombe holotype: (116) lateral, (117) dorsal, (118) ventral; (119121) R. zilla sp. n., Farmers Brigade paratype: (119) lateral, (120) dorsal, (121) ventral; (122124) R. zopheros sp. n., Tundavala paratype: (122) lateral, (123) dorsal, (124) ventral; (125127) R. cinerascens (Wulp, 1899), Nr Muhail: (125) lateral, (126) dorsal, (127) ventral. Scale bars = 1 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7667303" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7667303/files/figure.png" pageId="47" pageNumber="290">Figs 122124</figureCitation>
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Etymology: From Greek
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(dusky). Refers to the blackish coloration of this species.
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Description: Based on
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ơ.
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: Black, gold-silver pruinose, black and white setose. Antenna black, setae black. Face entirely pruinose, weakly so centrally. Mystax black dorsally, white ventrally, occupying lower half of face. Frons and vertex extensively apruinose except for 2 pruinose areas above antennal insertions; ocellar setae black. Occiput entirely pruinose. Proboscis and palpi black, setae white.
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: Black, gold-silver pruinose, pale yellow-white setose. Mesonotum with extensive apruinose areas including parts of postpronotal and postalar lobes, a pair of dorsomedial stripes and two large areas anterior and posterior of transverse suture. Pleura extensively pruinose except for apruinose spots on an- and katepisternum. Scutellum entirely pruinose, with approx. 6
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. Postmetacoxal bridge entirely silver pruinose. Legs: entirely black;
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silver pruinose; predominantly white setose but some black setae on tibiae (ventrodistally) and tarsi (ventrally). Wing 4.4 x
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, veins yellow-brown, membrane transparent, unstained, entirely microtrichose. Discal and costal cells entirely microtrichose.
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: Black, gold-silver pruinose, white setose. Tergites distally broadly apruinose. Sternites entirely pruinose. Terminalia (
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):
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in lateral view gradually tapering and gently downcurved distally; shorter than external lobe of gonocoxite; lobes narrowly joined proximally and converging distally;
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heavily-built, in lateral view strongly upcurved distally and about as long as external lobe of
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; broadly-rounded basally in ventral view, tapering to bilobed distal end. External lobe of
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longer than
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lobe and of similar length as
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, distal end as a long inverted u-shaped lobe; well-sclerotised long, thin, internal lobes. Gonostyli in ventral view long and straight. Aedeagus with broad dorsoventrally flattened spade-shaped apex.
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Variation:
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agree well with the
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. The mystax of females may be more extensively black and paler setae may be brown.
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: ơ
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: Angola (A6) / Tundavala, / 9 mls. NW. Sa /
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[1400S:1510E] /
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, Southern / Arican Exp. / B.M. 1972-1. (
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).
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: 2ơ 6^same data as holotype (
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, 1ơ
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)
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.
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Distribution, phenology and biology (Tables 1, 2): Recorded only from the
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locality in
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. Collected in February.
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Similar species:
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and
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<emphasis id="53E9EA83ED1BFFEBFDE82E69C4590F1A" box="[547,586,569,593]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="291">nyx</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="48DA57F8ED1BFFEBFD9B2E69C49F0F19" box="[592,652,569,594]" pageId="48" pageNumber="291" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<paragraph id="61223691ED1BFFEBFF5B2EC3C6EC0FE7" blockId="48.[144,1105,622,830]" box="[144,255,659,684]" pageId="48" pageNumber="291">Species A</paragraph>
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The following unique female is interesting as it possesses distinctively marked wings, reminiscent of
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<emphasis id="53E9EA83ED1BFFEBFF5B2E9AC7150F95" box="[144,262,714,734]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="291">maculipennis</emphasis>
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, but comes from Namaqualand, a region otherwise poorly represented by
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records. I refrain from describing this species in the absence of a male specimen, but include the record in plotting the generic distribution (
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).
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: 1^R.S.A.: N
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#94 /
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Two large female specimens are of interest as one is definitely from
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and the other probably also from that country, where only two other species are known. These specimens have distinctively marked wings unlike any other known species. A description must await better material that includes a male. The known locality is plotted in
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A well-preserved unique female from the Krantzkloof Nature Reserve is not conspecific with other species in
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, although with its rather orange-brown wings and shiny black apruinose abdomen it is reminiscent of
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, known only from higher altitude (montane) areas of the province. Its identification will be clarified with the discovery of a male from the same locality. The locality is plotted in
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A pair of females collected at the Katani Game Reserve,
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, appear to belong to an undescribed species. These specimens are unusual in having a black mystax (a character state only found in a few South African species). Clarification of the status of these specimens must await the discovery of males. The locality is plotted in
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