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Genus
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species:
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Fabricius. Original
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. This genus belongs in the tribe
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(
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;Alonzo-Zarazaga &amp; Lyal 2009).It is distinguished from all other American genera by the presence in males of a transverse pair of prominent spines on ventrite 3. It is also distinguished from most species in other
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genera by its slender body shape, where both sexes are more than 3 × as long as wide (four species are&gt; 4 × as long as wide). The genera most similar in size and general appearance to
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are
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Wood
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,
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Wood.
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and
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Wood.
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These three genera do not have greatly produced ventrolateral projections from the corners of the declivity as do many species in other Neotropical genera, and their males have a very short, vertical declivity that, too, is rarely seen in species of other genera. Males of
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,
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and
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do not have spines on ventrite 3, and males of the latter two are not as elongate (are &lt;3 × as long as wide). Females of
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(and males of some species) have a pair of mycangial pores on the pronotum, a feature that has only been found so far in one
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,
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(tranferred to
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in this paper).
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females are &lt;3 × as long as wide.
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females have the lower frons impressed (flat in
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) and have a distinctively triangular scape that is about as wide as long (the scape in
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females being longer than wide).
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In creating this genus, Wood combined the five Neotropical
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species
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in Schedls “Sektion
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bilobati
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” (
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) with the Nearctic species
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(F.), apparently based on the ventrite 3 character and some superficial resemblances between
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and the
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species. We are not sure that the ventral spines in
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(the
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species of the genus) are homologous with those of the other
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species
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, and we have found other differences as well that put this relationship in doubt. Until a more detailed analysis can be carried out, we prefer to continue using Woods genus composition.
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