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&
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(
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(fig. 1): Body ovate, length 5.47. Carapace width 3.48, with scattered denticles including single median denticle on anterior margin with one or two denticles along anterior margin on either side, one of which forms the anteriormost denticle of a longitudinal row of three pairs of denticles anterior and lateral to eyemound; clusters of denticles at anterior and posterior corners and on dorsolateral margins of prosoma between insertions of legs II and III; single denticles at each end of elongate ozopores, and transverse rows of denticles across metapeltidium and marking anterior margin of mesopeltidium. Eyemound with three pairs of large denticles. Opisthosomal surface granulate; tergites with transverse rows of denticles; posteriormost tergites with minute setae only. Venter unarmed, with black setae only.
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(fig. 1c) short, robust, length of first segment 1.19, second segment 2.43; first segment with dense cluster of denticles dorsodistally, longitudinal row of denticles ventrolaterally; second segment unarmed, with scattered black setae dorsally.
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<emphasis id="B971EAC1C975FF97FBE3FAEFFBDEFA9C" box="[1043,1144,1320,1344]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="238">Pedipalp</emphasis>
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(fig. 1d) length of femur 2.04, pedipalp 0.96, tibia 1.08, tarsus 2.11; cluster of prominent bristle-bearing nodules on pedipalpal coxa directly below insertion of trochanter; numerous denticles present from trochanter to proximal half of pedipalp, particularly in irregular longitudinal rows dorsally on femur; well-developed short rounded-triangular apophysis present distomedially on pedipalp; numerous black setae present along entire length of pedipalp, plumose setae absent; microtrichia present along entire length of tarsus only.
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<emphasis id="B971EAC1C975FF97FCEEFA1AFCF5FA28" box="[798,851,1501,1524]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="238">Legs</emphasis>
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of moderate length (BLI 1.47), with denticles on anterior and posterior faces of trochanters, longitudinal rows of denticles from femur to tibia, with rows on tibia surrounded by microtrichia becoming more extensive distally; metatarsus of leg I with few small denticles ventrally, metatarsi and tarsi otherwise unarmed except ventral pairs of spine-like setae at distal margins of pseudosegments; femora and tibiae with pseudosegments absent. Length of femur I 5.10, femur II 8.08, femur III 5.01, femur IV 5.53.
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<emphasis id="B971EAC1C975FF97FE71F957FE19F97B" box="[385,447,1680,1703]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="238">Penis</emphasis>
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(figs 1e–g) with banana-shaped glans, distal profile acute, point of reflexion of posterior margin in lateral view close to midpoint, slightly proximal; shaft flattened over most of length, broadening slightly towards distal end with weakly sclerotised margins, with bulbous base.
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<emphasis id="B971EAC1C975FF97FF37F93BFEE9F8C9" bold="true" box="[199,335,1788,1813]" pageId="2" pageNumber="238">Comments.</emphasis>
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The specimen illustrated in figure 1 demonstrates some of the difficulties currently attending identification of Afrotropical harvestmen. Only one species of
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has been recorded from
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to date,
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<taxonomicName id="4C054D50C975FF97FF24F883FD0BF880" authority="Lawrence 1949" authorityName="Lawrence" authorityYear="1949" box="[212,685,1860,1884]" class="Arachnida" family="Phalangiidae" genus="Rhampsinitus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="2" pageNumber="238" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="quadridens">
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<emphasis id="B971EAC1C975FF97FF24F883FE55F880" box="[212,499,1860,1884]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="238">Rhampsinitus quadridens</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation id="EF944B22C975FF97FE0CF882FD0BF880" author="Lawrence" box="[508,685,1860,1884]" pageId="2" pageNumber="238" refString="Lawrence, R. F. (1949) A collection of Opiliones and scorpions from north-east Angola made by Dr. A. de Barros Machado in 1948. Subsidios Para o Estudo da Biologia na Lunda, Lisboa, 20 pp." type="book" year="1949">Lawrence 1949</bibRefCitation>
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, to which this specimen cannot be assigned. It seems likely that it represents a species new to science but one that cannot readily be placed to genus at presence. For this reason, and because of the availability of only a single specimen, no formal description is offered at present.
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The penile morphology of the Caconda specimen places it firmly in the ‘banana-shaped glans’ group, with the glans closely resembling that of
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<emphasis id="B971EAC1C975FF97FDF0F813FD6CF830" box="[512,714,2004,2028]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="238">Cristina crassipes</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation id="EF944B22C975FF97FD21F812FCF9F830" author="Loman" box="[721,863,2004,2028]" pageId="2" pageNumber="238" refString="Loman, J. C. C. (1902) Neue aussereuropaische Opilioniden. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere, 16, 163 - 216." type="journal article" year="1902">Loman 1902</bibRefCitation>
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(
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<bibRefCitation id="EF944B22C975FF97FC9DF813FBDCF830" author="Starega" box="[877,1146,2004,2029]" pageId="2" pageNumber="238" refString="Starega, W. (1984) Revision der Phalangiidae (Opiliones), III. Die afrikanischen Gattungen der Phalangiinae, nebst Katalog aller afrikanischen Arten der Familie. Annales Zoologici, 38 (1), 1 - 79." type="journal article" year="1984">Staręga 1984, figs 9–11</bibRefCitation>
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). However, it differs from
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<emphasis id="B971EAC1C974FF96FF67FF5FFF55FF73" box="[151,243,152,175]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="239">Cristina</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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species in lacking the enlarged and incrassate first pair of legs of that genus. Species of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C054D50C974FF96FB07FF5FFAEEFF73" box="[1271,1352,152,175]" class="Arachnida" family="Phalangiidae" genus="Guruia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="3" pageNumber="239" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="B971EAC1C974FF96FB07FF5FFAEEFF73" box="[1271,1352,152,175]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="239">Guruia</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
|
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have a glans that is more sinuous at the base and more rounded in the distal profile (
|
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<bibRefCitation id="EF944B22C974FF96FC04FF7BFB2BFF08" author="Starega" box="[1012,1165,188,212]" pageId="3" pageNumber="239" refString="Starega, W. (1984) Revision der Phalangiidae (Opiliones), III. Die afrikanischen Gattungen der Phalangiinae, nebst Katalog aller afrikanischen Arten der Familie. Annales Zoologici, 38 (1), 1 - 79." type="journal article" year="1984">Staręga 1984</bibRefCitation>
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||
).
|
||
<emphasis id="B971EAC1C974FF96FB50FF7BFA3AFF08" box="[1184,1436,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="239">Camerobunus okucola</emphasis>
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="EF944B22C974FF96FF67FF27FE6DFF24" author="Starega" box="[151,459,224,248]" pageId="3" pageNumber="239" refString="Starega, W. & Snegovaya, N. Yu. (2008) A new harvestman from Cameroon (Arachnida: Opiliones: Phalangiidae). Polish Journal of Entomology, 77, 321 - 327." type="journal article" year="2008">Staręga & Snegovaya 2008</bibRefCitation>
|
||
has small denticles on the cheliceral lamellae, unarmed pedipalps and the shaft of the penis less broadened apically. Perhaps the closest of the genera of this group named to date is
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C054D50C974FF96FB43FEC3FAF6FEC0" box="[1203,1360,260,284]" class="Arachnida" family="Phalangiidae" genus="Megistobunus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="3" pageNumber="239" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B971EAC1C974FF96FB43FEC3FAF6FEC0" box="[1203,1360,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="239">Megistobunus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
which
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="EF944B22C974FF96FF67FEEFFE9BFE9C" author="Starega" box="[151,317,296,320]" pageId="3" pageNumber="239" refString="Starega, W. (1984) Revision der Phalangiidae (Opiliones), III. Die afrikanischen Gattungen der Phalangiinae, nebst Katalog aller afrikanischen Arten der Familie. Annales Zoologici, 38 (1), 1 - 79." type="journal article" year="1984">Staręga (1984)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
also described as having a genital morphology similar to that of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C054D50C974FF96FBD2FEEFFBD8FEE3" box="[1058,1150,296,319]" class="Arachnida" family="Phalangiidae" genus="Cristina" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="3" pageNumber="239" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B971EAC1C974FF96FBD2FEEFFBD8FEE3" box="[1058,1150,296,319]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="239">Cristina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. Of the species currently included in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C054D50C974FF96FED5FE8BFE64FEB8" box="[293,450,332,356]" class="Arachnida" family="Phalangiidae" genus="Megistobunus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="3" pageNumber="239" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B971EAC1C974FF96FED5FE8BFE64FEB8" box="[293,450,332,356]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="239">Megistobunus</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C054D50C974FF96FE25FE8AFCA5FEB8" authority="Hansen 1921" authorityName="Hansen" authorityYear="1921" box="[469,771,332,356]" class="Arachnida" family="Phalangiidae" genus="Megistobunus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="3" pageNumber="239" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="longipes">
|
||
<emphasis id="B971EAC1C974FF96FE25FE8AFDF9FEB8" box="[469,607,332,356]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="239">M. longipes</emphasis>
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="EF944B22C974FF96FD9BFE8AFCA5FEB8" author="Hansen" box="[619,771,332,356]" pageId="3" pageNumber="239" refString="Hansen, H. J. (1921) The Pedipalpi, Ricinulei, and Opiliones (exc. Op. Laniatores) collected by Mr. Leonardo Fea in tropical west Africa and adjacent islands. In: Hansen, H. J. (Ed.), Studies on Arthropoda I. Gyldendalske Boghandel, Copenhagen, pp. 5 - 55, pls. 1 - 4." type="book chapter" year="1921">Hansen 1921</bibRefCitation>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C054D50C974FF96FCB4FE8AFB22FEB9" authority="Roewer 1959" authorityName="Roewer" authorityYear="1959" box="[836,1156,332,357]" class="Arachnida" family="Phalangiidae" genus="Megistobunus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="3" pageNumber="239" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lamottei">
|
||
<emphasis id="B971EAC1C974FF96FCB4FE8AFC6CFEB8" box="[836,970,332,356]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="239">M. lamottei</emphasis>
|
||
(
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="EF944B22C974FF96FC2DFE8BFBDAFEB9" author="Roewer" box="[989,1148,332,357]" pageId="3" pageNumber="239" refString="Roewer, C. F. (1959) Opiliones der II. Mont Nimba-Collection von Prof. M. Lamotte. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 2 e Serie, 31 (3), 355 - 358, figs. 1 - 4." type="journal article" year="1959">Roewer 1959</bibRefCitation>
|
||
)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
have much longer legs relative to body size, and pedipalps with a patellar apophysis that is longer than the main body of the patella. Nevertheless, a number of the features distinguishing the Caconda specimen from
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C054D50C974FF96FBC1FE53FB2BFE77" box="[1073,1165,404,427]" class="Arachnida" family="Phalangiidae" genus="Cristina" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="3" pageNumber="239" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B971EAC1C974FF96FBC1FE53FB2BFE77" box="[1073,1165,404,427]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="239">Cristina</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and the aforementioned
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C054D50C974FF96FF67FE7FFE92FE0C" box="[151,308,440,464]" class="Arachnida" family="Phalangiidae" genus="Megistobunus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="3" pageNumber="239" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B971EAC1C974FF96FF67FE7FFE92FE0C" box="[151,308,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="239">Megistobunus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
species (such as development of the first legs and pedipalpal apophyses) are related to secondary sexual dimorphism. Determining the significance of these features, and hence their importance for the generic placement of the Caconda specimen, would require a better understanding of relationships between the species concerned than exists at present.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<caption id="DF7A665BC974FF96FF67F877FB1EF838" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/583863/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="239" targetBox="[204,1404,624,1918]" targetPageId="3">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BBA36D3C974FF96FF67F877FB1EF838" blockId="3.[151,1436,1968,2020]" pageId="3" pageNumber="239">
|
||
<emphasis id="B971EAC1C974FF96FF67F877FEB5F819" bold="true" box="[151,275,1968,1990]" pageId="3" pageNumber="239">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C054D50C974FF96FEE9F877FE01F81A" box="[281,423,1968,1990]" class="Arachnida" family="Phalangiidae" genus="Megistobunus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="3" pageNumber="239" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B971EAC1C974FF96FEE9F877FE01F81A" box="[281,423,1968,1990]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="239">Megistobunus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
? sp. 1, male. A: body, dorsal view; B: anterior of body, lateral view; C: right chelicera, lateral view; D: left pedipalp, lateral view; E: penis, left lateral view; F: glans, left lateral view; G: penis, dorsal view.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BBA36D3C973FF91FF37FF50FDA5FE54" blockId="4.[151,1436,151,392]" pageId="4" pageNumber="240">
|
||
<materialsCitation id="3B6D3C8EC973FF91FF37FF50FDA5FE54" ID-GBIF-Occurrence="1562860370" country="Tanzania" county="The" location="The Caconda" municipality="Starega" pageId="4" pageNumber="240" specimenCount="1" typeStatus="holotype">
|
||
<location id="8EDA6008C973FF91FF37FF50FEC6FF6C" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03AC87C5C975FF91FF67FD15FDA5FE54:8EDA6008C973FF91FF37FF50FEC6FF6C" box="[199,352,151,176]" country="Tanzania" county="The" municipality="Starega" name="The Caconda" pageId="4" pageNumber="240">The Caconda</location>
|
||
specimen does bear an overall resemblance to
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C054D50C973FF91FC64FF5FFAFCFF6C" authority="Lawrence 1962" authorityName="Lawrence" authorityYear="1962" box="[916,1370,151,176]" class="Arachnida" family="Phalangiidae" genus="Megistobunus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="4" pageNumber="240" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="funereus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B971EAC1C973FF91FC64FF5FFB3AFF6C" box="[916,1180,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="240">Megistobunus funereus</emphasis>
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="EF944B22C973FF91FB58FF5FFAFCFF6C" author="Lawrence" box="[1192,1370,151,176]" pageId="4" pageNumber="240" refString="Lawrence, R. F. (1962) Opiliones. In: Basilewsky, P. & Leleup, N. (Eds.), Resultats scientifiques des missions zoologiques de l'I. R. S. A. C. en Afrique orientale. Musee Royal de l'Afrique Central, Tervuren (Belgique), Sciences Zoologiques, 110, 1 - 89." type="journal article" year="1962">Lawrence 1962</bibRefCitation>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
from eastern
|
||
<collectingCountry id="F3127643C973FF91FF1DFF7BFEF3FF09" box="[237,341,188,213]" name="Tanzania" pageId="4" pageNumber="240">Tanzania</collectingCountry>
|
||
, except that
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C054D50C973FF91FE12FF7AFDC1FF08" box="[482,615,188,212]" class="Arachnida" family="Phalangiidae" genus="Megistobunus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="4" pageNumber="240" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="funereus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B971EAC1C973FF91FE12FF7AFDC1FF08" box="[482,615,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="240">M. funereus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
lacks denticulation on the carapace anterior to the eyemound and has far fewer denticles on the pedipalp.
|
||
<location id="8EDA6008C973FF91FDD4FF27FD2AFF2B" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03AC87C5C975FF91FF67FD15FDA5FE54:8EDA6008C973FF91FDD4FF27FD2AFF2B" box="[548,652,224,247]" country="Tanzania" county="The" municipality="Starega" name="However" pageId="4" pageNumber="240">However</location>
|
||
,
|
||
<location id="8EDA6008C973FF91FD6EFF27FCB9FF24" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03AC87C5C975FF91FF67FD15FDA5FE54:8EDA6008C973FF91FD6EFF27FCB9FF24" box="[670,799,224,248]" country="Tanzania" county="The" municipality="Starega" name="Lawrence's" pageId="4" pageNumber="240">Lawrence’s</location>
|
||
(1962) original reasons for assigning this species to
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C054D50C973FF91FF67FEC3FE92FEC0" box="[151,308,260,284]" class="Arachnida" family="Phalangiidae" genus="Megistobunus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="4" pageNumber="240" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B971EAC1C973FF91FF67FEC3FE92FEC0" box="[151,308,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="240">Megistobunus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are not clear.
|
||
<location id="8EDA6008C973FF91FE3FFEC2FE46FEC0" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03AC87C5C975FF91FF67FD15FDA5FE54:8EDA6008C973FF91FE3FFEC2FE46FEC0" box="[463,480,261,284]" country="Tanzania" county="The" municipality="Starega" name="It" pageId="4" pageNumber="240">It</location>
|
||
is not identifiable as such using the key to
|
||
<location id="8EDA6008C973FF91FC4EFEC3FBEFFEC1" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03AC87C5C975FF91FF67FD15FDA5FE54:8EDA6008C973FF91FC4EFEC3FBEFFEC1" box="[958,1097,260,285]" country="Tanzania" county="The" municipality="Starega" name="Afrotropical" pageId="4" pageNumber="240">Afrotropical</location>
|
||
phalangiid genera provided in the same publication, and its inclusion in the genus was regarded as doubtful by
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="EF944B22C973FF91FBACFEEFFAAFFE9C" author="Starega" box="[1116,1289,296,320]" pageId="4" pageNumber="240" refString="Starega, W. (1984) Revision der Phalangiidae (Opiliones), III. Die afrikanischen Gattungen der Phalangiinae, nebst Katalog aller afrikanischen Arten der Familie. Annales Zoologici, 38 (1), 1 - 79." type="journal article" year="1984">
|
||
<collectingMunicipality id="6BDEACA9C973FF91FBACFEEFFB16FE9C" box="[1116,1200,296,320]" pageId="4" pageNumber="240">Staręga</collectingMunicipality>
|
||
(1984)
|
||
</bibRefCitation>
|
||
.
|
||
<collectingCounty id="62DB4E5FC973FF91FAE9FEE0FAE3FE9C" box="[1305,1349,295,320]" pageId="4" pageNumber="240">The</collectingCounty>
|
||
genital morphology of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C054D50C973FF91FEA5FE8AFE44FEB8" box="[341,482,332,356]" class="Arachnida" family="Phalangiidae" genus="Megistobunus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="4" pageNumber="240" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="funereus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B971EAC1C973FF91FEA5FE8AFE44FEB8" box="[341,482,332,356]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="240">M. funereus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
has not yet been described, and confirmation of its placement awaits further examination of its
|
||
<typeStatus id="54BE8871C973FF91FE98FEB7FE3EFE54" box="[360,408,368,392]" pageId="4" pageNumber="240">type</typeStatus>
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||
material.
|
||
</materialsCitation>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
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||
</treatment>
|
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