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(
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)
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Etymology: Named for Dr A. J. Armstrong of the
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Nature Conservation Service, who collected and donated this species to the Natal Museum.
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examined:
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:
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<collectingRegion id="49AAF858BD055742961CFD19FC95BDA0" box="[625,799,654,678]" country="South Africa" name="KwaZulu-Natal" pageId="17" pageNumber="200">KwaZulu-Natal</collectingRegion>
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:
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/Olig.03494 clitellate, well preserved, abscised postclitellarly, collected at
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[Kokstad district; an extension of the Drakensberg foothills] (
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:29º25'25.605'E), under burnt grass, beside a stream, in damp, clayey soil,
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, by
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<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD05574294D8FCC9FE9FBC70" box="[181,277,862,886]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="200">General</emphasis>
: Body cylindrical, flattened in clitellar region.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD0557429756FCC9FC04BC70" box="[827,910,862,886]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="200">Colour</emphasis>
: Alcohol-preserved dorsally dark-grey, ventrally light-grey.
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: Preserved
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84+ mm long,
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wide at segment
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at tubercula pubertatis.
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: 177+.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD055742956EFC29FE1BBCD0" box="[259,401,958,982]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="200">Prostomium</emphasis>
: Prolobous, small, inverted into buccal cavity.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD05574297A0FC29FBE7BCD0" box="[973,1133,958,982]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="200">Segmentation</emphasis>
: Secondary annulation present on preclitellar segments; segment 1 and 2 short, with longitudinal, irregular grooves; 3 simple, as long as first ringlet of segment 4; 46 with two simple ringlets, similar in size and appearance; 79 with two annulated ringlets, second shorter than anterior; 1012 short, simple, with irregular annulation; clitellar simple, longer than preclitellar; postclitellar very short, simple.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD0557429043FBC9FBE7BB70" box="[1070,1133,1118,1142]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="200">Setae</emphasis>
: Closely paired, minute; postclitellarly
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=
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,
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=
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.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD05574297F5FBE9FBE6BB90" box="[920,1132,1150,1174]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="200">Nephridial pores</emphasis>
: Conspicuous in
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setal lines; first pair in intersegmental furrow 3/4.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD05574297BCFB09FBE7BBB0" box="[977,1133,1182,1206]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="200">Female pores</emphasis>
: In 14, slightly above
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setae.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD0557429669FB29FD0EBBD0" box="[516,644,1214,1238]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="200">Male pores</emphasis>
: Probably at tubercula pubertatis in furrow 17/18.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD0557429567FB49FE7FBBF0" box="[266,501,1246,1270]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="200">Spermathecal pores</emphasis>
: Minute, in intersegmental furrows 11/12 and 12/13, dorsolaterally.
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Clitellar region (
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):
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: Saddle-shaped, flattened, segmented, yellowishwhite; on 1322, extending onto small section of segment 23; clearly bordered anteriorly; ventral borders extend to
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setal lines.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD0557429603FAC9FCD2BA70" box="[622,856,1374,1398]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="200">Tubercula pubertatis</emphasis>
: On 1719, large, nearly square pads, segmented, between
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and
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setal lines.
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: Small paired swellings around
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setae on segment 9 and 23; on segment 9 the swellings extend laterally to
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setae.
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<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD05574294D8F999FF79B920" box="[181,243,1550,1574]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="200">Septa</emphasis>
: 4/5 moderately thickened, elastic, not muscular; 5/6 very much thickened and muscular, nearly one mm thick; 6/7 very thin, probably even partly lost; 7/8 thickened, muscular, but much thinner than 5/6; 8/9 not thickened, firm; subsequent septa in preclitellar segments elastic, firm, similar in thickness to septum 8/9; postclitellarly thinner.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD0657419481FF59FECEBFE0" box="[236,324,206,230]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="201">Gizzard</emphasis>
: Large, muscular, anteriorly wider than in posterior part.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD06574197A3FF59FF50BE00" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="201">Calciferous glands</emphasis>
: Ventro-laterally, in segment 9; dorsally widely separated.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD0657419737FF79FC30BE00" box="[858,954,238,262]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="201">Intestine</emphasis>
: Commences in 13.
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: Commences in 13, parallel with intestine, as U-shaped tube.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD065741906FFE99FE9CBE40" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="201">Dorsal blood vessel</emphasis>
: In 5 not observed, covered by thick, muscular septum; in 67 partly double, close; 8 double, separated; 9 double, cordiform.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD06574196C3FED9FC6EBE60" box="[686,996,334,358]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="201">Paired dorsoventral vessels</emphasis>
: 68 thin vessels, 911 enlarged, moniliform.
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: Meganephridia
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; in preclitellar segments large and very much coiled spiral loops, and large V-shaped caeca; postclitellarly smaller loops and shorter caeca.
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Reproductive organs:
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: Proandric arrangement (in segment 10); one pair of funnels enclosed in common sac.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD065741976EFE79FC40BD00" box="[771,970,494,518]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="201">Seminal vesicles</emphasis>
: One pair, moderately sized; vesicles commence at septum 10/11 and extend into segment 11.
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<taxonomicName id="4C6E4D39BD06574194A9FDB9FF75BD40" authorityName="Agassiz" authorityYear="1842" box="[196,255,558,582]" class="Aves" genus="Vasa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="18" pageNumber="201" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Vasa</taxonomicName>
deferentia
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: Not observed; covered by thick body wall tissues.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD06574194FDFDD9FEBCBD60" box="[144,310,590,614]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="201">Spermathecae</emphasis>
: Two pairs per segment; coiled or bent tubes, each based on rounded thickenings, close to septa 11/12 and 12/13 respectively.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD0657419757FDF9FC1DBD80" box="[826,919,622,646]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="201">Ovaries</emphasis>
: Not observed; covered by thick septum and large coiled loops of nephridia.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD0657419718FD19FBAFBDA0" box="[885,1061,654,678]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="201">Genital glands</emphasis>
: In segment 9 and 22; anterior pair four-folded, white, short sausage-shaped glands; posterior pair composed of four-folded, yellowish, elongated tubular glands; both pairs corresponding with papillae of segments 9 and 23 respectively.
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Biological notes: The
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locality is a part of a large extension of the Drakensberg foothills, in the Mount Currie Nature Reserve. The vegetation there comprises montane grasslands, with scrub and
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veld on the slopes; there are streams with wetland vegetation, small forest patches and clumps of indigenous
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<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD0657419772FCE1FC15BC88" box="[799,927,886,910]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="201">Leucosidea</emphasis>
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bushes (
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). The
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was dug out from damp, clayey soil under recently burnt grass on the bank of a stream. This clitellate, mature specimen was found in October, after a short period of rainy days, indicating sexual reproduction in spring and early summer.
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Discussion:
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<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD0657419574FB89FEA0BB30" box="[281,298,1054,1078]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="201">P</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD0657419555FB89FE39BB30" box="[312,435,1054,1078]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="201">armstrongi</emphasis>
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, having a thickened septum 5/6, and with the position of its spermathecal pores in two intersegmental furrows 11/12 and 12/13, can be assigned to the
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<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD06574194D7FBC9FEA7BB70" box="[186,301,1118,1142]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="201">P. marleyi</emphasis>
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species-group, comprising only two other species:
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<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD0657419718FBC9FC33BB70" box="[885,953,1118,1142]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="201">alatus</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD065741979EFBC9FBC2BB70" box="[1011,1096,1118,1142]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="201">marleyi</emphasis>
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. The new species differs from
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<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD06574195BAFBE9FD91BB90" box="[471,539,1150,1174]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="201">alatus</emphasis>
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by having a thickened septum 4/5, the clitellum on 1223, and the tubercula pubertatis differently shaped. From
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<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD065741975DFB09FC0CBBB0" box="[816,902,1182,1206]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="201">marleyi</emphasis>
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it differs by a lack of a thickened septum 8/9, and having other septa much stronger than those observed by Michaelsen (1928) in the
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material of
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<emphasis id="B91AEAA8BD07574096DCFF59FC8CBFE0" box="[689,774,206,230]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="202">marleyi</emphasis>
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.
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