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<emphasis id="4A99EA93894F3D4598E531DAFE44FE08" box="[151,421,457,480]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="51">Pantopsalis continentalis</emphasis>
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, fig. 1032;
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<emphasis id="4A99EA93894F3D4598E531FAFE67FDE8" box="[151,390,489,512]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="51">Spinicrus continentale</emphasis>
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Winton, Queensland,
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(
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). No material examined.
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<emphasis id="4A99EA93894F3D4598B73245FEB6FD98" bold="true" box="[197,343,598,624]" pageId="10" pageNumber="51">Comments.</emphasis>
The original description of
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<emphasis id="4A99EA93894F3D459ADD3244FC91FD98" box="[687,880,599,624]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="51">N. continentalis</emphasis>
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by
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is unfortunately brief, and inadequate to identify the species involved. In establishing his new genus
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<emphasis id="4A99EA93894F3D459C22326EFB29FD7E" box="[1104,1224,637,662]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="51">Spinicrus</emphasis>
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and transferring
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<emphasis id="4A99EA93894F3D4598E532B7FE41FD55" box="[151,416,676,701]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="51">Pantopsalis tasmanica</emphasis>
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to it,
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mused that it was highly probable that on examination of the
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specimen… [
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<emphasis id="4A99EA93894F3D45994632D9FE09FD0B" box="[308,488,714,739]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="51">P. continentalis</emphasis>
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] will also be placed in
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<emphasis id="4A99EA93894F3D459A8E32D9FC8AFD0B" box="[764,875,714,739]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="51">Spinicrus</emphasis>
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, but did not personally do so.
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included this species under the name
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in his key to the genus, but did not discuss it further, and it is unclear whether he did so due to examination of specimens or by inference from
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.
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The
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specimen at the Senckenberg Museum,
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, was not available for direct study due to transport restrictions, but Peter Jäger kindly supplied photos of the
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and a sketch of its genitalia. The
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is a minor male of uncertain affinities. The absence of armature on the dorsal prosomal plate or ocularium in Roewers (1923) illustration (unfortunately not clearly visible in the photos supplied) originally suggested a relationship with
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<emphasis id="4A99EA93894F3D4599813413FD06FBF1" box="[499,743,1024,1049]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="51">Neopantopsalis psile</emphasis>
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, but the glans of the penis is proportionately longer than in that species and resembles that of
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<emphasis id="4A99EA93894F3D459A5B3434FD2DFBA8" box="[553,716,1063,1088]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="51">N. quasimodo</emphasis>
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. While probably a member of the
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<emphasis id="4A99EA93894F3D459C103434FAE7FBA8" box="[1122,1286,1063,1088]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="51">N. quasimodo</emphasis>
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complex,
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<emphasis id="4A99EA93894F3D459DF33434FED4FB8E" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="51">N. continentalis</emphasis>
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is distinguishable from that species in the strict sense by the lack of armature on the dorsal prosomal plate and by having proportionately longer bristle groups on both sides of the penis.
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Until the identity of
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<emphasis id="4A99EA93894F3D4599A13488FD40FB5C" box="[467,673,1179,1204]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="51">N. continentalis</emphasis>
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can be more clearly established, it is omitted from further consideration. Minor males of
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generally show a reduction in secondary sexual characteristics, and even with a complete investigation into the
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<emphasis id="4A99EA93894F3D459A9234FBFC69FAE9" box="[736,904,1256,1281]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="51">N. quasimodo</emphasis>
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complex it may be difficult to conclusively identify
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<emphasis id="4A99EA93894F3D45988B351CFE52FAC0" box="[249,435,1295,1320]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="51">N. continentalis</emphasis>
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.
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