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Body length is
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, diameter in the middle region is
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. The anterior end is tapered, with a dark ring. Mouth is terminal. The posterior end (
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) is rounded. The cloacal opening is subterminal, oval, and without circumcloacal spines. Two rows of bristles are present anterolateral of the cloacal opening. The body colour is light brown. A ventral midline is not clearly pigmented.
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Figure 2.
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, male. (A) Stereomicroscope, posterior end with subterminal cloacal opening (arrow). (BF) SEM: (B) general view of the midbody cuticle; (C) simple and bulging areoles; (D) lateral view of the midbody cuticle; (E) lateral view of cluster with crowned and circumcluster areoles; (F) cluster as in (E) from top. Numbering: simple (1), tubercle (2), bulging (3), crowned (4), and circumcluster (5) areoles. Scale bars: 16.6 mm (A); 100 mm (B); 25 mm (C, F); 12.5 mm (D); 10 mm (E).
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The cuticle contains
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of areole distributed all over the cuticle (
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). Simple areoles (
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) are the most abundant, and are flat and rectangular in shape with a warty surface (blackberry-like). These areoles are transversal to the longitudinal axis of the body. Among these are scattered tubercle areoles of the same shape but with very long tubercles (
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). Bulging areoles are isolated or form clusters of two, three, or four areoles (
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). These areoles are taller (
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) than the simple areoles, with a pyramid form and small bristles on the top. Crowned areoles (
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) occur in pairs, have moderately short filaments on top, and are surrounded by about 1724 circumcluster areoles. These circumcluster areoles are the tallest (
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), being conical, with a ring of short filaments at the apex and curved towards the centre (
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).
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<emphasis id="B90AE638FFC4FFFACDDDFA0DFF4ABA92" box="[138,251,1451,1475]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">Comments</emphasis>
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Only
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specimen is known, described by
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. In the original description,
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described the cuticle of
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with three areole
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which would correspond to the simple, bulging and crowned areoles of our reinvestigation. Later,
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redescribed this species and enlarged the number of areolar
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to four when describing the high circumcluster areoles. Our observations by SEM are coincident with those of
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but we can add tubercle areole as an additional areolar
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.
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described and produced figures of areoles with long filaments (crowned areoles) but later (
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) modified this description by saying that these areoles have numerous but short projections. We could observe that along the whole body there are some crowned areoles in which the filaments are either broken or lost (see
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) probably due to manipulation or fixation of the specimen.
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probably observed some of these damaged areoles when redescribing them.
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(
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)
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, p 53
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Figure 3.
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,
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<emphasis id="B90AE638FFC6FFF8CDDDFF5CFEDCBE43" box="[138,365,250,274]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="25">Additional specimens</emphasis>
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<collectingRegion id="49BAF4C8FFC6FFF8CE0FFECDFC76BED2" box="[856,967,363,387]" country="Democratic Republic of the Congo" name="Equateur" pageId="10" pageNumber="25">Equateur</collectingRegion>
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<specimenCount id="9D78F1A3FFC6FFF8CDB9FE2AFEA9BEF5" box="[238,280,395,420]" pageId="10" pageNumber="25" type="female">4♀♀</specimenCount>
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,
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); 1
<emphasis id="B90AE638FFC6FFF8CC16FE0BFEE2BE95" box="[321,339,429,452]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="25"></emphasis>
,
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,
<location id="8EA16CF1FFC6FFF8CC8CFE0AFDDDBE95" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03D78B3CFFCBFFFFCCF5FC55FE3DBD37:8EA16CF1FFC6FFF8CC8CFE0AFDDDBE95" box="[475,620,428,452]" country="Democratic Republic of the Congo" municipality="Gwange" name="Busu-Bodua" pageId="10" pageNumber="25" stateProvince="Orientale">Busu-Bodua</location>
(
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(5
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<collectingCountry id="F3697ABAFFC6FFF8CF5BFE6BFDD3BEB4" box="[524,610,461,485]" name="Angola" pageId="10" pageNumber="25">Angola</collectingCountry>
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,
<location id="8EA16CF1FFC6FFF8CFF7FE6BFC9CBEB4" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03D78B3CFFCBFFFFCCF5FC55FE3DBD37:8EA16CF1FFC6FFF8CFF7FE6BFC9CBEB4" box="[672,813,461,485]" country="Angola" name="Tsharissoka" pageId="10" pageNumber="25">Tsharissoka</location>
, along the road from
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to
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(
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12560)
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<collectingCountry id="F3697ABAFFC6FFF8CCBFFE4BFDC4BD54" box="[488,629,493,517]" name="Ivory Coast" pageId="10" pageNumber="25">Ivory Coast</collectingCountry>
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,
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H19
<specimenCode id="DBD89251FFC6FFF8CEBEFE4BFB25BD54" box="[1001,1172,493,517]" collectionCode="MNHNP" country="0" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/bmqw-2x87" name="Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay" pageId="10" pageNumber="25">MNHNP 730</specimenCode>
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</materialsCitation>
.
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<collectingCountry id="F3697ABAFFC6FFF8CDDDFDABFF68BD74" box="[138,217,525,549]" name="Kenya" pageId="10" pageNumber="25">Kenya</collectingCountry>
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,
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,
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(
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1920.9.8.146)
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.
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(
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(
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1917.8.13.27),
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(
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1920.9.8.146) (
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)
</materialsCitation>
.
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Posterior end from:
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? (
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)
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,
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1
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(
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.
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<emphasis id="B90AE638FFC6FFF8CDDDFCE4FF0DBC08" box="[138,188,834,857]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="25">Host</emphasis>
</paragraph>
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Undetermined mantis from specimens AMT 1390 and 1394 (
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). The mantis from specimen AMT 1394 is determined as
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<emphasis id="B90AE638FFC6FFF8CE5CFC34FCC1BCFB" box="[779,880,914,938]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="25">Tenodera</emphasis>
sp. (
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)
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. Undetermined mantis from specimens AMT 1400 (
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) and NHM 1920.9.8.146 (new record).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B90AE638FFC6FFF8CDDDFB82FEB2BB6D" box="[138,259,1060,1084]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="25">Description</emphasis>
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The body colour of males is dark brown, females are light brown. The body cuticle shows light spots. The anterior end is tapered, the anterior tip is white and a dark collar is lacking. The posterior end of males is undivided with a medial ventral groove (
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). There are two row of bristles (bristlefields) anterolateral to the cloacal opening. The female posterior end is rounded (
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).
</paragraph>
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The cuticle of males has
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of areole. Simple areoles (
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) are distributed over the whole cuticle with varying shapes, rounded, oval, or crescent-shaped. They are low (
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), the apical surface is completely smooth or with minute bristles. Bulging areoles (
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) are conical and
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high. They are arranged among simple areoles, isolated or in groups of two or three areoles. Crowned areoles occur in pairs and are elevated
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above the surface (
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). They have an apical ring of very short filaments. Between 20 and 26 elevated (
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) circumcluster areoles surround each pair of crowned areoles (
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). There are two additional
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of areole which are unusual for
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conical, elevated areole is surrounded by three or four areoles with a half-moon shape (
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1390, 1396, 1420) (
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).
</paragraph>
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The cuticle of females contains the same areoles as the males, but along the ventral groove there is another
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of crowned areole with very long filaments (
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) that also occurs in clusters of two and is surrounded by circumcluster areoles (
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).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B90AE638FFC7FFF9CD2AFF2FFF48BFF0" box="[125,249,137,161]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Dimensions</emphasis>
</paragraph>
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Males are generally shorter and narrower than females. Length of the males varies between 57 and
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, females between 110 and
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(see Comments). Diameter in males is
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and
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in females (
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,
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,
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).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B90AE638FFC7FFF9CD2AFEEDFF5FBE32" box="[125,238,331,355]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Comments</emphasis>
</paragraph>
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<bibRefCitation id="EFEF47DBFFC7FFF9CD2AFEDAFEDDBEC5" author="Sciacchitano I" box="[125,364,380,404]" pageId="11" pageNumber="26" pagination="50 - 59" refId="ref7340" refString="Sciacchitano I. 1933. Su alcuni Gordii del Congo Belga. Revue Zoologique et Botanique Africaine 24: 50 - 59." type="journal article" year="1933">Sciacchitano (1933)</bibRefCitation>
described this species from
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(
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1391, 1392, 1393, 1394, 1395, 1396). These specimens were mentioned again by
<bibRefCitation id="EFEF47DBFFC7FFF9CECBFE3AFB21BEE5" author="Sciacchitano I" box="[924,1168,412,436]" pageId="11" pageNumber="26" pagination="9 - 111" refId="ref7409" refString="Sciacchitano I. 1958. Gordioidea del Congo Belga. Annales du Musee Royal du Congo Belge Tervuren 67: 9 - 111." type="journal article" year="1958">Sciacchitano (1958)</bibRefCitation>
. Although the dimensions of the female from Kole (
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1394) (also noted by Schmidt- Rhaesa and Ehrmann 2001) and the sex of the specimen from Borobo (
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1392) differ in both publications, the collection date and collectors name correspond. It is assumed that these reports (
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) are a repetition of
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report. Also
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considered the specimen from
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, Kisangani (5Stanleyville) (
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1390) to be a male, when it is really a female (see
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)
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, in the original description of
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<emphasis id="B90AE638FFC7FFF9CED3FDD9FC4EBDC6" box="[900,1023,639,663]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">C. kolensis</emphasis>
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, considered the cuticle to contain three areolar
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. Taking into account that none of these areolar
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corresponds to the crowned areoles which are the characteristic areole of the genus
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(
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;
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;
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;
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), it is difficult to know on which characteristics
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based his studies in order to include this species within
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<emphasis id="B90AE638FFC7FFF9CC63FCE4FE12BC0B" box="[308,419,834,858]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Chordodes</emphasis>
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.
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widened the description of the cuticle, describing four areolar
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, among which he described areoles with short filaments (crowned areoles). These four areolar
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are coincident with simple, bulging, circumcluster, and crowned areoles from our investigation. We can add two further areolar
<typeStatus id="54C58488FFC7FFF9CC43FC65FEE2BC8A" box="[276,339,963,987]" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">types</typeStatus>
, occurring in a cluster. Such clusters of a central and three or four surrounding areoles have not been described from any other species and have to be considered diagnostic for
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<emphasis id="B90AE638FFC7FFF9CC96FBA2FD8CBB4D" box="[449,573,1028,1052]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">C. kolensis</emphasis>
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. The study of new specimens belonging to
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<emphasis id="B90AE638FFC7FFF9C92EFBA2FF7EBB6C" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">C. kolensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
adds more localities and shows that this species is probably widespread in Central Africa.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C36469A1FFC7FFF9CCF5FB00FD41BBAE" pageId="11" pageNumber="26" type="reference_group">
<paragraph id="8BC13A2AFFC7FFF9CCF5FB00FC3BBBEF" blockId="11.[125,906,1190,1279]" box="[418,906,1190,1214]" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">
<taxonomicName id="4C7E41A9FFC7FFF9CCF5FB00FC3BBBEF" ID-CoL="5YCJV" authority="Sciacchitano, 1937" authorityName="Sciacchitano" authorityYear="1937" box="[418,906,1190,1214]" class="Gordioida" family="Chordodidae" genus="Chordodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Gordioidea" pageId="11" pageNumber="26" phylum="Nematomorpha" rank="species" species="muelleri">
<emphasis id="B90AE638FFC7FFF9CCF5FB00FD13BBEF" bold="true" box="[418,674,1190,1214]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Chordodes muelleri</emphasis>
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(
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)
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BC13A2AFFC7FFF9CD2AFB41FD41BBAE" blockId="11.[125,906,1190,1279]" box="[125,752,1255,1279]" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">
<treatmentCitationGroup id="AB6E1D04FFC7FFF9CD2AFB41FD41BBAE" box="[125,752,1255,1279]" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">
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<emphasis id="B90AE638FFC7FFF9CD2AFB41FEFBBBAE" box="[125,330,1255,1279]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Chordodes muelleri</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFEF47DBFFC7FFF9CC04FB41FD9CBBAE" author="Sciacchitano I" box="[339,557,1255,1279]" pageId="11" pageNumber="26" pagination="141 - 151" refId="ref7363" refString="Sciacchitano I. 1937. Nuovi Gordii del Congo Belga. Revue Zoologique et Botanique Africaine 30: 141 - 151." type="journal article" year="1937">Sciacchitano 1937</bibRefCitation>
, p 143
</taxonomicName>
</treatmentCitation>
,
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.
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(
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) (see Comments).
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</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B90AE638FFC7FFF9CD2AFA6DFEB9BAB3" box="[125,264,1482,1506]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Type locality</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BC13A2AFFC7FFF9CD2AFA5DFC7BB942" blockId="11.[125,970,1531,1555]" box="[125,970,1531,1555]" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">
<collectingCountry id="F3697ABAFFC7FFF9CD2AFA5DFEC1B942" box="[125,368,1531,1555]" name="Rwanda" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Republic of Rwanda</collectingCountry>
, Gabiro. Coll. Verhulst, 1934 (
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).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B90AE638FFC7FFF9CD2AF9EDFEFDB932" box="[125,332,1611,1635]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Material examined</emphasis>
</paragraph>
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<typeStatus id="54C58488FFC7FFF9CD2AF9DAFF5DB9C5" box="[125,236,1660,1684]" pageId="11" pageNumber="26" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
, SEM from midbody; LM from posterior end.
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Figure 4.
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, female. (A) Stereomicroscope, posterior end with terminal cloacal opening (arrow); (B) body cuticle with simple (1) and tubercle areoles (2); (C) clusters containing crowned (3) and circumcluster (4) areoles; (D) cluster of crowned areoles with long filaments (5) along the ventral midline. Scale bars: 16.6 mm (A); 10 mm (B, C).
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<emphasis id="B90AE638FFC0FFFECDDDFBA1FF0DBB4F" box="[138,188,1031,1054]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="27">Host</emphasis>
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Body length is
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, diameter in the middle region is
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. Anterior end with white cap but a following dark collar is absent. The posterior end is rounded; the cloacal opening is terminal (
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). The body colour is light brown. The dorsal and ventral midline is darkly pigmented.
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The cuticle contains five different
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of areole. The most abundant are simple areoles, these occur in a variety of shapes: oval, rounded, or horseshoe-shaped. They are
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high. The surface of these areoles is rough or with fine lines and small bristles on top (
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). Simple areoles have lateral cuticular projections which continue in the interareolar groove and connect the areoles to one another. Among these areoles there are scattered tubercle areoles (
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). The tubercle originates in a central depression on top. The crowned areoles with short filaments occur along the whole body (
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), and on the ventral groove as a second
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of crowned areole, with long filaments (about
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) (
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). The number of filaments per areole varies and the filaments can break leaving only short rudiments. Both
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of crowned areoles are densely surrounded by a circle of circumcluster areoles. They are tall (
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), conical with bristles or small filaments apically. These areoles form clusters of 912 areoles that are curved towards the centre (
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).
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described
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from a specimen which he interpreted as a male.
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, when describing the terminal end of the same specimen, placed the cloacal opening ventrally and near the apex of the posterior end of the specimen. According to our studies the
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corresponds to a female (see
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). As regards the cuticle,
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described it with two areolar types, while later (
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) enlarging this description to three areolar types. Type 1 areoles (
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) correspond to our simple areoles, while types 2 and 3 (
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) correspond to our crowned and circumcluster areoles. By SEM we could describe in detail each one of the areolar types mentioned and we could add tubercle areoles and crowned areoles with long filaments as new types.
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