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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD5FF97C9AE122A4DDFFBCF" bold="true" box="[151,419,1098,1124]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">Triskelionia compacta</emphasis>
(
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)
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, comb. nov.
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD5FF97C9AE12F24DB5FB0C" box="[151,457,1170,1191]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">Sarangesa tricerata compacta</emphasis>
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.
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(12)
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: 1269 (
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).
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locality:
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: “Mikindani, Tanganyika”.
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depository: 3 Natural History Museum (
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), London (inspected).
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<taxonomicName id="4C6A4D17FFD5FF97C9FE137C4E05FA9F" authority="Mabille, 1891" authorityName="Mabille" authorityYear="1891" box="[199,633,1308,1332]" class="Insecta" family="Hesperiidae" genus="Triskelionia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tricerata">
<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD5FF97C9FE137C4DC6FA9F" box="[199,442,1308,1332]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">Triskelionia tricerata</emphasis>
(
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)
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is a rather rare skipper with a western distribution in Africa, being known from
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and
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to the
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and western to northern parts of the
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. Only five males in the British Museum (Natural History) were listed by
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a few have been added since. The species has some similarity with the distinctly larger black-and-white members of the genus
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, as well as certain
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD5FF97CB9113CD4F62FA6F" box="[680,798,1453,1476]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">Sarangesa</emphasis>
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, but is immediately distinguished by having four subapical spots that are very irregularly placed and the triskelion-shaped, fused cell-spots. Confusion with any other Afrotropical Hesperiid, even in the field, is impossible. It is illustrated in figure 2. We have occasionally collected this species in West Africa and have seen about
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in museum and private collections from the following countries:
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
<collectingCountry id="F37D7604FFD5FF97CDAD105C4CCAF9D3" name="Central African Republic" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">Central African Republic</collectingCountry>
,
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, and the
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(
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) (the localities are indicated in the map in figure 3). There is only little variation in the material and no indication at all of geographical variation.
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<taxonomicName id="4C6A4D17FFD5FF97C9FC10C84EB7F96B" authority="Evans, 1951" authorityName="Evans" authorityYear="1951" box="[197,715,1704,1728]" class="Insecta" family="Hesperiidae" genus="Triskelionia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="tricerata" subSpecies="compacta">
<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD5FF97C9FC10C84E5BF96B" box="[197,551,1704,1728]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">Triskelionia tricerata compacta</emphasis>
(
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)
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was described in the genus
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD5FF97CD3D10C94806F96B" box="[1028,1146,1705,1728]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">Sarangesa</emphasis>
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and adequately described as follows, although the description does not fully show how different it actually is from
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD5FF97CD4210AD4885F94F" box="[1147,1273,1741,1764]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">T. tricerata</emphasis>
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:
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD5FF97C9E811744D43F880" bold="true" box="[209,319,1812,1835]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">compacta</emphasis>
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, [ssp] nov.: 3 Mikindani, Tanganyika, Jan. May, 1897: Reimer:
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B.M. Paler than
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD5FF97CC0911754D7EF8FB" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">tricerata</emphasis>
Mabille
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:
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spots in cell and space 2 very greatly enlarged (
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wide) and nearly conjoined: no spot in space 9.
<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD5FF97C843113C4DD6F8DF" box="[378,426,1884,1908]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">Unh</emphasis>
brown with dark spots, as in
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD5FF97CBCD113D4F2AF8DF" box="[756,854,1885,1908]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">tricerata</emphasis>
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. Ƥ as in 3. 1 pair from the
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locality.”
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Both species are shown in figure 2.
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD5FF97CB6811C54EA5F817" box="[593,729,1957,1980]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">T. compacta</emphasis>
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was first figured by
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by the male
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from London. It will be noted that the male illustrated here has only a single subapical spot, but there may be two or three. The wings are less irregular in outline than those of
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD3FF91CA7B16F84FBFFF1B" box="[834,963,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">S. tricerata</emphasis>
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and there is a sexual dimorphism that is wholly lacking in
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD3FF91C85916DD4DA2FF7F" box="[352,478,189,212]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">S. tricerata</emphasis>
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. The two sexes are united by the overlay of ochreous-brown on much of the hindwing underside darker in the male. Had a longer series been available to Evans, he would certainly have treated them as distinct species. All material available is from Mikindani and the Rondo Plateau area in
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, not far from the coast and the
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border, and close to each other. With the labelling practices of the time it is even possible that the
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was from Rondo.
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD4FF96C9AE11C14D70F81C" bold="true" box="[151,268,1953,1976]" pageId="3" pageNumber="56">FIGURE 2</emphasis>
. Top two rows:
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD4FF96C88811C14EEEF813" box="[433,658,1953,1976]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="56">Triskelionia compacta</emphasis>
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(uppersides &amp; undersides: Ƥ below the 3) all bred from the Rondo area in Tanzania and in the collection of the African Butterfly Research Institute, Nairobi. Bottom two rows:
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD4FF96CDAF11A14974F87D" box="[1174,1288,1985,2006]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="56">T. tricerata</emphasis>
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(uppersides &amp; undersides: Ƥ below the 3) from the Central African Republic (ABRI).
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In addition to the morphological differences, the genitalia differ sufficiently to validate the species rank of
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD3FF91CCBE17114D78FE07" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">T. compacta</emphasis>
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, as illustrated in figure 1, but they also show the close affinity of the two species.
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<paragraph id="8BD53694FFD3FF91C9FC17D748FDFCBF" blockId="4.[151,1437,151,789]" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">
The genitalia of
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD3FF91C84717D94D80FE7B" box="[382,508,441,464]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">T. tricerata</emphasis>
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(SCC 579 Batalimo,
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) have a less domed tegumen/uncus and a somewhat larger, denticulate gnathos than
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD3FF91CB8217BD4F3DFE5F" box="[699,833,477,500]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">T. compacta</emphasis>
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(SCC 587 Rondo,
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), as well as a longer free uncus. The valves have a different shape: the ventral edge of
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD3FF91CA0514614FC6FDB3" box="[828,954,513,536]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">T. tricerata</emphasis>
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is evenly curved instead of almost straight. The pointed lower lobe of the valve is more massive than in
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD3FF91CA4914454F8BFD97" box="[880,1015,549,572]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">T. compacta</emphasis>
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; the dorsal edge of valve is almost straight, until the distal thorn suddenly curves sharply downwards almost to touch the lower lobe; in
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD3FF91CC2D142949E6FDCB" box="[1300,1434,585,608]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">T. compacta</emphasis>
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the dorsal edge is gently curved, with a shorter, straighter, and more slender distal tooth. Both species have a small harpe on the valve. The saccus of both species consists of a narrow merging of the two vinculum branches, not solidifying into a large, strongly chitinized saccus as in other similar genera of the
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. The genitalia differ about as much as one might have expected from the morphological differences between the two species. The valves, gnathos, and tegumen/uncus are compatible with some groups of
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD3FF91CAF3149C4805FCBF" box="[970,1145,764,788]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">Celaenorrhinus</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD3FF91C9AE13C34D71FA12" bold="true" box="[151,269,1443,1466]" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">FIGURE 3</emphasis>
. The known distribution of
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD3FF91CB0813C54ED8FA11" box="[561,676,1445,1466]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">T. tricerata</emphasis>
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(red dots) in the main African forest zone and that of
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD3FF91CDEE13C5492FFA11" box="[1239,1363,1445,1466]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">T. compacta</emphasis>
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on the Rondo Plateau in the coastal forest of southeastern Tanzania near the border with Mozambique.
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD3FF91C9FC10654E18F9B5" bold="true" box="[197,612,1541,1566]" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">Habitat, habits, and biogeography</emphasis>
. The species was first collected from Mikindani in eastern
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in 1897 by a Herr Reimer, apparently a
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colonial civil servant who in addition to other duties collected insects and other organisms, as they were encouraged to do by the authorities in Berlin. Mikindani was at the time an administrative centre on the coast of
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, just north of the
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border. Somehow, the
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ended up in the NHM, London where Evans described it. This area would at the time all have been covered with coastal forest (
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Inhambane Coastal Forest Mosaic).
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<paragraph id="8BD53694FFD3FF91C9FC10BD4D7BF85A" blockId="4.[151,1436,1541,2033]" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">
The African Butterfly Research Institute (ABRI), Nairobi decided that an attempt should be made to find this species again after it had not been recorded for more than a hundred years. Ivan Bampton and Colin Congdon went to the general area, where the forest habitat is now degraded to the point where forest in good condition hardly exists. However, it turned out that the host-plant,
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD3FF91CBFD112A4FF2F8C9" box="[708,910,1866,1890]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">Dalbergia armata</emphasis>
(Fabaceae)
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, survives in timber plantations and elsewhere with full canopy cover and three specimens were collected on the wing. A female was found ovipositing on this plant, a forest liana, and further 20 were bred. The early stages are fully described by Cock &amp; Congdon (
<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD3FF91CCBF11F34CADF865" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">in press</emphasis>
). The plant extends from eastern
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to KwaZulu
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. The early stages of
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD3FF91CD8411D7493DF865" box="[1213,1345,1975,1998]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="57">T. tricerata</emphasis>
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remain unknown.
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<paragraph id="8BD53694FFD2FF90C9FC16F74E8CFE94" blockId="5.[151,1436,151,429]" pageId="5" pageNumber="58">
The range of
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD2FF90C85816F94D9CFF1B" box="[353,480,153,176]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="58">T. tricerata</emphasis>
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covers the main forest zone of western and central Africa, though not reaching the Albertine Rift in the Kivu area or
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as do many other species. There are few or no records from the western
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, the
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, or
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, areas that have been poorly investigated; we have no doubt that the species will be found there as well. This leaves
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD2FF90CB6D17654EA7FEB7" box="[596,731,261,284]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="58">T. compacta</emphasis>
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in the very special East African coastal forest isolated from its only congener by a gap of nearly
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(figure 3).
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The closest parallel to such a distribution in East Africa seems to be the presence of
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD2FF90CDBC172D493DFECF" box="[1157,1345,332,356]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="58">Catuna sikorana</emphasis>
Rogenhofer
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in the coastal forests eastern
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(
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,
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). There are four more or less widely distributed
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD2FF90C9F717F54D5DFE07" box="[206,289,405,428]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="58">Catuna</emphasis>
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throughout the main forest zone, with
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<emphasis id="B91EEA86FFD2FF90CBED17F54F38FE07" box="[724,836,404,428]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="58">C. crithea</emphasis>
Drury
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reaching as far as Kakamega in
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.
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