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(®gures 24a±e, 26a-d,
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, plate xxxvi ®gure 18, plate xxxix ®gure 5;
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC4FF970036F9DFFE91D90D" box="[79,289,1597,1619]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="1112">Bolboceratex spurius</emphasis>
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, plate xxxvi ®gure 20;
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(Redescr).
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC4FF970036F96CFE9DD9FA" box="[79,301,1678,1700]" italics="true" pageId="69" pageNumber="1112">Bolboceratex indubius</emphasis>
(PeÂringuey)
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:
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.
<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC4FF970204F96CFD6AD9FA" bold="true" box="[637,730,1678,1700]" pageId="69" pageNumber="1112">Syn. nov.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF940036FF71FF7DDFF4" box="[79,205,147,170]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Description</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF940001FF50FF73DF94" box="[120,195,178,202]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Colour</emphasis>
. Light brown to mid-brown.
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF940001FF30FF4DDFB4" box="[120,253,210,234]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Body length</emphasis>
.
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.
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF940001FF13FF03DE57" box="[120,179,241,265]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Head</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF9400ACFF13FEC5DE57" box="[213,373,241,265]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Dorsal surface</emphasis>
asetose except labrum.
<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF9402FBFF13FC2EDE57" box="[642,926,241,265]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Outer margin of mandible</emphasis>
rounded.
<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF940036FEF3FF16DE77" box="[79,166,273,297]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Labrum</emphasis>
(®gure 26a, c) declivous in anterior third and posterior two-thirds; transverse carina obsolete; with scattered setae; anterior margin straight to feebly sinuate.
<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF940036FEB3FF17DE37" box="[79,167,337,361]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Clypeus</emphasis>
(®gure 26a, c) steeply sloping upward posteriorly to apex of moderately developed transverse anterior carina; lateral carina feebly developed but distinctly raised above antennal insertion, continuing from there to posterior end of frons but feebly developed to obsolete adjacent to eye-canthus; antero-lateral angle of genae slightly raised; with posterior transverse bituberculate carina, positioned anteriad to clypeo-fronta l transition in males (®gure 26a), positioned on clypeo-fronta l transition in females (®gure 26c); distance between tubercles distinctly less than distance between tubercle and lateral carina.
<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF940185FDD3FD8ADD16" box="[508,570,561,584]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Frons</emphasis>
feebly convex in middle.
<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF940316FDD2FBBADD16" box="[879,1034,560,584]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Antennal club</emphasis>
with glabrous area of basal segment two-thirds of exposed surface.
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF940001FD93FF55DDD6" box="[120,229,625,648]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Pronotum</emphasis>
(®gure 31b, c). With three elongate, steeply declivous concavities occupying slightly more than anterior pronotal half; in males median concavity topped by two antero-laterally diverging, distinctly overhanging ridges; in females these ridges reduced to feebly tuberculate swellings; posteriorly with feebly impressed midline, anteriorly opening up into median concavity, but posteriorly not reaching posterior pronotal margin; concavities and elevated areas between concavities with very ®ne and moderately sized punctures, these punctures increasingly interspersed anteriorly with large, shallow punctures; disc with very ®ne and moderately sized punctures, these increasingly interspersed laterally with large, fairly deep, often conūent punctures; lateral margin entire.
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF940001FC4DFF54DC99" box="[120,228,943,967]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Scutellum</emphasis>
(®gure 26b, d). Basal width about 1.45Ölength; with small punctures.
<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF940001FC2CFF7BDCB8" box="[120,203,974,998]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Elytron</emphasis>
. Striae moderately impressed, their punctures separated by four to ®ve puncture diameters (®gure 26b, d); intervals with double punctation (about three to four ®ne and 10 minute punctures between two striae).
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF940001FBCDFEBADB18" box="[120,266,1071,1094]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Metasternum</emphasis>
. As in generic description but length of longitudinal suture variable, either reaching meso-metasternal suture (®gure 24a) or not reaching it (®gure 24d).
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF940001FB6DFF1DDBF8" box="[120,173,1167,1190]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Legs</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF9400B7FB6CFE99DBF8" box="[206,297,1166,1190]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Protibia</emphasis>
six-dentate.
<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF9401B4FB6CFD8ADBF8" box="[461,570,1166,1190]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Metatibia</emphasis>
in lateral view elongate, only feebly broadening apically; with subapical carina feebly to distinctly bilobed; with toothlike projections arranged in two rows above subapical carina.
<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF940299FB2DFCECDBB8" box="[736,860,1231,1254]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Metatarsus</emphasis>
lacking subapical setae on tarsomeres 2±4, rarely with one subapical seta on tarsomere 2.
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF940001FAECFEA8DA78" box="[120,280,1294,1318]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Male genitalia</emphasis>
. Aedeagus as in ®gure
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±i; the aedeagi of
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF94035AFAECFBBBDA78" box="[803,1035,1294,1318]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Bolboceratex spurius</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF9400FAFACFFE1DDA1B" box="[131,429,1325,1349]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Bolboceratex transvaalicus</emphasis>
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are identical.
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF940001FAAFFF4CDA3B" box="[120,252,1357,1381]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Distribution</emphasis>
(®gure 34). The species is found in the eastern parts of southern Africa.
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF940001FA6CFE3CDAFB" box="[120,396,1421,1445]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Type material examined</emphasis>
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l[here designated],
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF940357FA6FFBBBDAFB" box="[814,1035,1421,1445]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Bolboceras spurium</emphasis>
PeÂringuey
</taxonomicName>
:`
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, l typ. Pg [handwriting PeÂringuey]/`Bolbocera s no 2 disseÂque [handwriting PeÂringuey]/`l /`Type SAM/Ent 5079 [black print on red
</paragraph>
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label, number hand-written] (SAMC);
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m,
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC7FF9402DDFA0FFC3BD95B" box="[676,907,1517,1541]" italics="true" pageId="70" pageNumber="1113">Bolboceras indubium</emphasis>
PeÂringuey
</taxonomicName>
:`Mashunald., Salisbury [
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], 1894, A. Marshall /`
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approximans typ, Void, 90 [handwriting PeÂringuey]/`
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l [incorrect], type, PY [handwriting PeÂringuey]/`1865 [handwriting PeÂringuey?]/`5 /`SAM /`Type SAM/Ent 5090 [black print on red label, number handwritten] (SAMC).
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC6FF950001FF70FE0DDFF4" box="[120,445,146,170]" italics="true" pageId="71" pageNumber="1114">Additional material examined</emphasis>
(
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).
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:
</emphasis>
1, l N.
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,
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[
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</date>
,
<collectorName id="5E3C24F0FFC6FF950243FF50FD66DF94" box="[570,726,178,202]" pageId="71" pageNumber="1114">F. Neubecker</collectorName>
, UV-Lichtfalle (
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)
</materialsCitation>
;
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1, l
<collectingCounty id="1A1739AAFFC6FF9500F9FF30FEF4DFB7" box="[128,324,210,234]" pageId="71" pageNumber="1114">Orange Freestate</collectingCounty>
,
<collectingMunicipality id="1312DB5CFFC6FF95012EFF30FE5FDFB4" box="[343,495,210,234]" pageId="71" pageNumber="1114">Norval Point</collectingMunicipality>
,
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[
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</date>
, J.
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(
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);
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</quantity>
,
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[suburb of Johannesburg,
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, CKB (
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, CP,
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(
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,
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near thornless cactus (
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)
</materialsCitation>
;
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1, l
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[
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</materialsCitation>
.
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:
</emphasis>
1, l
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,
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[
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(
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, retained
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(
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retained at
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);
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</quantity>
, no locality data (
<collectionCode id="95D8D9E3FFC6FF950281FE73FCE0DEF6" box="[760,848,401,424]" pageId="71" pageNumber="1114">BMNH</collectionCode>
)
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC6FF950001FE52FF5CDE96" box="[120,236,432,456]" italics="true" pageId="71" pageNumber="1114">Comments</emphasis>
. The
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of
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC6FF9501B1FE52FD1CDE96" box="[456,684,432,456]" italics="true" pageId="71" pageNumber="1114">Bolboceras indubium</emphasis>
PeÂringuey
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has mistakenly been labelled as a male. The original description (
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) clearly refers to a female and states that males are unknown. We relaxed the specimen, opened the abdomen between the last sternite and last tergite and we are able to con®rm that the specimen is indeed a female. We subsequently dissected all additional material and discovered that the
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of
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC6FF95018CFDB2FD6DDD36" box="[501,733,592,616]" italics="true" pageId="71" pageNumber="1114">Bolboceras indubium</emphasis>
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is the matching female to the male
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of
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC6FF950133FD92FD94DDD6" box="[330,548,624,648]" italics="true" pageId="71" pageNumber="1114">Bolboceras spurium</emphasis>
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. The males simply diOEer from the females in the position of the posterior clypeal carina and in the usually more pronounced pronotal armature.
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC6FF95013DFD52FDF4DD96" box="[324,580,688,712]" italics="true" pageId="71" pageNumber="1114">Bolboceratex indubius</emphasis>
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is therefore here synonymized with
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC6FF950036FD32FE88DDB6" box="[79,312,720,744]" italics="true" pageId="71" pageNumber="1114">Bolboceratex spurius</emphasis>
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, with the description of the latter taking page precedence over the former.
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC6FF950001FCEDFED2DC79" box="[120,354,783,807]" italics="true" pageId="71" pageNumber="1114">Bolboceratex spurius</emphasis>
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is easily distinguished from its close relative
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFC6FF950300FCEDFF6DDC19" italics="true" pageId="71" pageNumber="1114">Bolboceratex transvaalicus</emphasis>
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by the clypeal armature, i.e. bituberculate carina in the former versus distinctly separate tubercles in the latter species, and the pronotal ornamentation, i.e. three elongate, steeply declivous concavities in the former and one, shallow concavity in the latter species (compare ®gures 31c and 31a).
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