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). Coloration piceous brown to black, lateral margins of pronotum and elytral apex narrowly reddish, border between reddish and dark parts vaguely defined; body venter dark brown; antenna yellowish, maxillary palpus reddish to dark reddish, with palpomere 4 darker, legs reddish.
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Figs. 2633.
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<paragraph id="8B823698FFABFFCF43BDFE51FD54828B" blockId="14.[151,1128,219,1588]" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">Prothorax. Pronotum transverse, with rounded antero- and posterolateral corners, lateral margin weakly convex, finely rimmed; surface with fine and sparse punctation, punctures in shape of two extremely fine pits with very short seta inbetween; trichobothria distinct, large, forming rows in along anterior margin and at midlength. Hypomeron with wide bare portion, mesal sparsely pubescent portion not divided from lateral part by ridge; prosternum very short anterior to procoxae, slightly expanded at midwidth anteriorly and posteriorly, bearing blunt median longitudinal carina, prosternal process not developed. Procoxal cavities contiguous, procoxal fissure open, notopleural suture extremely short.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B823698FFABFFCF43BDFD51FBFA834B" blockId="14.[151,1128,219,1588]" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">Mesothorax. Scutellar shield rather large, triangular. Elytra nearly parallel-sided at midlength, with deep sutural striae distinct in apical half; each elytron bearing 10 irregular series of fine punctures, scutellary stria present; each interval with few isolated punctures of size of serial punctation, alternate intervals with trichobothria; epipleuron narrow, reaching posterior margin of metaventrite only. Mesoventrite very short, bearing transverse elevation posteriorly. Mesocoxae transverse, very narrowly isolated by mesoventral and metaventral processes.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B823698FFABFFCF43BDFC91FD2C83AB" blockId="14.[151,1128,219,1588]" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">Metathorax. Metaventrite ca. twice as long as mesoventrite, sparsely pubescent laterally, bare mesally; postcoxal ridge bent posteriad sublaterally; posterior metaventral process deeply bifid. Posterior wings present, well developed.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B823698FFABFFCF43BDFC71FC0383EB" blockId="14.[151,1128,219,1588]" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">Abdomen with five sparsely pubescent ventrites, ventrite 1 ecarinate, bearing dense row of long setae on each side; ventrite 5 weakly concave at posterior margin.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B823698FFABFFCF43BDFC31FC0284AB" blockId="14.[151,1128,219,1588]" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">Male genitalia. Phallobase of aedeagus long, ca. 2× longer than parameres, widest subanteriorly, slightly narrowing basad. Parameres widely subtriangular, apically membranous. Median lobe with apical portion ca. as long as basal struts, apicomedian sclerite slightly narrowing from base to narrowly rounded apex, median lobe surrounded by membranous structure subapically. Sternite 9 wide, with moderately long lateral projections, very shallow emargination on posterior margin and wide and very low median process.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C3276513FFABFFCE439FFB71FC138469" lastPageId="15" lastPageNumber="122" pageId="14" pageNumber="121" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph id="8B823698FFABFFCE439FFB71FC138469" blockId="14.[151,1128,219,1588]" lastBlockId="15.[113,1089,1049,1585]" lastPageId="15" lastPageNumber="122" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFABFFCF439FFB71FE3F84CB" bold="true" box="[151,404,1211,1235]" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">Differential diagnosis.</emphasis>
The new species may be easily distinguished from all other west Palaearctic species as well as from the African
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D1BFFABFFCF418FFB17FC3C84EC" authority="Orchymont, 1941" authorityName="Orchymont" authorityYear="1941" box="[647,919,1243,1268]" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Hemisphaera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="121" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lima">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFABFFCF418FFB17FD7D84EC" box="[647,726,1245,1268]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">H. lima</emphasis>
Orchymont, 1941
</taxonomicName>
by the morphology of its aedeagus and the shape of sternite 9 (compare
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with
<figureCitation id="13062A1DFFABFFCF4099FB31FBBF850C" box="[913,1044,1275,1300]" captionStart="Figs" captionStartId="16.[151,190,1288,1307]" captionTargetBox="[164,1116,228,1265]" captionTargetId="figure-61@16.[151,1117,216,1274]" captionTargetPageId="16" captionText="Figs. 3743. Male genitalia of the Hemisphaera species (37, 3940, 42 aedeagus; 38, 41, 43 sternite 9). 3738 H. guignoti Schaefer, 1975 (Algeria, Philippeville [= Skikda], coll. NMPC); 3941 H. miltiadis Sahlberg, 1908 (39 paratype, Lesbos, coll. IRSNB; 4041 Turkey, Izmir, coll. IRSNB); 4143 H. lima Orchymont, 1941 (paratype, Tanzania, Ukerewe, Victoria Nyanza, coll. IRSNB)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5334602" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5334602/files/figure.png" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">Figs. 3743</figureCitation>
). When compared to the Mediterranean species,
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<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFABFFCF4131FAD7FD69852C" box="[569,706,1309,1332]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">H. socotrana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A27A57F1FFABFFCF41CEFAD6FCBC852B" box="[710,791,1308,1331]" pageId="14" pageNumber="121" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
resembles
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D1BFFABFFCF4081FAD7FF67854B" authority="Schaefer, 1975" authorityName="Schaefer" authorityYear="1975" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Hemisphaera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="121" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="guignoti">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFABFFCF4081FAD7FBAB852C" box="[905,1024,1309,1332]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">H. guignoti</emphasis>
Schaefer, 1975
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D1BFFABFFCF43F7FAF7FD88854C" authority="Sahlberg, 1908" authorityName="Sahlberg" authorityYear="1908" box="[255,547,1339,1364]" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Hemisphaera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="121" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="miltiadis">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFABFFCF43F7FAF7FED6854C" box="[255,381,1341,1364]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">H. miltiadis</emphasis>
Sahlberg, 1908
</taxonomicName>
by moderately convex body and narrow, vaguely defi- ned pale coloration of sides of the pronotum and at elytral apex; its sutural stria reaches ca. midlength of elytra as in
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D1BFFABFFCF4295FAB7FD50858C" authority="(Perris, 1874)" baseAuthorityName="Perris" baseAuthorityYear="1874" box="[413,763,1403,1428]" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Hemisphaera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="121" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="seriatopunctata">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFABFFCF4295FAB7FDC8858C" box="[413,611,1405,1428]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">H. seriatopunctata</emphasis>
(Perris, 1874)
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D1BFFABFFCF4024FAB7FC02858C" authorityName="Sahlberg" authorityYear="1908" box="[812,937,1405,1428]" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Hemisphaera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="121" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="miltiadis">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFABFFCF4024FAB7FC02858C" box="[812,937,1405,1428]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">H. miltiadis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and its maxillary palpus is pale with darkened palpomere 4 as in
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFABFFCF419DFA57FCB185AC" box="[661,794,1437,1460]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D1BFFABFFCF419DFA57FCBC85AC" authorityName="Sahlberg" authorityYear="1908" box="[661,791,1437,1460]" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Hemisphaera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="121" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="miltiadis">H. miltiadis</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
In contrast to
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<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFABFFCF40BDFA57FBEA85AC" box="[949,1089,1437,1460]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">H. socotrana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A27A57F1FFABFFCF4740FA56FF6D85CB" pageId="14" pageNumber="121" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D1BFFABFFCF43C7FA77FE3B85CC" authorityName="Orchymont" authorityYear="1941" box="[207,400,1469,1492]" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Hemisphaera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="121" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lima">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFABFFCF43C7FA77FE3B85CC" box="[207,400,1469,1492]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">Hemisphaera lima</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is much more convex in lateral view, its coloration is completely black without paler areas on sides of pronotum and at elytral apices, and it bears dark brown maxillary palpi. We were not able to compare the Socotran species with the
<typeStatus id="5486883AFFABFFCF408BFA36FC10860C" box="[899,955,1532,1556]" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">types</typeStatus>
of
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D1BFFABFFCF40D6FA37FEF5862C" authority="(Regimbart, 1903)" baseAuthorityName="Regimbart" baseAuthorityYear="1903" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Hemisphaera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="121" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="liliputana">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFABFFCF40D6FA37FBCC860C" box="[990,1127,1533,1556]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="121">H. liliputana</emphasis>
(Régimbart, 1903)
</taxonomicName>
, but the single female from
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present in NMPC largely differs from
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D1BFFAAFFCE43A2FBD0FE988429" authorityName="Fikáček &amp; Delgado &amp; Gentili" authorityYear="2012" box="[170,307,1050,1073]" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Hemisphaera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="122" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="socotrana">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFAAFFCE43A2FBD0FE988429" box="[170,307,1050,1073]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">H. socotrana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by much more depressed body, large and clearly defined yellow apical spot in apical fifth of elytra, and even elytral series consisting of much denser punctation than odd ones (in
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D1BFFAAFFCE43C5FB90FEF28469" authority="Fikáček &amp; Delgado &amp; Gentili, 2012" authorityName="Fikáček &amp; Delgado &amp; Gentili" authorityYear="2012" box="[205,345,1114,1137]" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Hemisphaera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="122" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="socotrana" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFAAFFCE43C5FB90FEF28469" box="[205,345,1114,1137]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">H. socotrana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A27A57F1FFAAFFCE4257FB90FE1F8469" box="[351,436,1114,1137]" pageId="15" pageNumber="122" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
, the density of punctures in all series is similar).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph id="8B823698FFAAFFCE4378FC74FDCA83F4" blockId="15.[111,1089,958,1004]" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">
Figs. 3436. Male genitalia of the holotype of
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D1BFFAAFFCE42F9FC75FD1683C9" authority="Fikáček &amp; Delgado &amp; Gentili, 2012" authorityName="Fikáček &amp; Delgado &amp; Gentili" authorityYear="2012" box="[497,701,959,977]" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Hemisphaera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="122" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="socotrana" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFAAFFCE42F9FC75FD1683C9" box="[497,701,959,977]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">Hemisphaera socotrana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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3435 aedeagus (34 general view; 35 detail of parameres and median lobe); 36 sternite 9.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C3276513FFAAFFD04379FBB3FD3980EB" lastPageId="17" lastPageNumber="124" pageId="15" pageNumber="122" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8B823698FFAAFFCE4379FBB3FCD984E9" blockId="15.[113,1089,1049,1585]" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFAAFFCE4379FBB3FF598489" bold="true" box="[113,242,1145,1169]" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">Etymology.</emphasis>
The species name refers to the presence of the species in the island of
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.
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFAAFFCE4379FB53FE3F84A9" bold="true" box="[113,404,1177,1201]" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">Collection circumstances.</emphasis>
The specimens were found in wet gravel on the side of a stony stream together with
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D1BFFAAFFCE4240FB70FCB584C9" authority="Jach &amp; Delgado, 2012" authorityName="Jach &amp; Delgado" authorityYear="2012" box="[328,798,1209,1233]" class="Insecta" family="Hydraenidae" genus="Limnebius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="122" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dioscoridus">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFAAFFCE4240FB70FD9984C9" box="[328,562,1210,1233]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">Limnebius dioscoridus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFAC4B69FFAAFFCE413FFB73FCB584C9" author="JACH M. A. &amp; DELGADO J. A." box="[567,798,1209,1233]" pageId="15" pageNumber="122" pagination="1 - 557" refId="ref13398" refString="JACH M. A. &amp; DELGADO J. A. 2012: Limnebius dioscoridus sp. nov. from Socotra Island (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae). Pp. 131 - 134. In: HAJEK J. &amp; BEZDEK J. (eds.): Insect biodiversity of the Socotra Archipelago. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (supplementum 2): i - vi + 1 - 557." type="journal article" year="2012">Jäch &amp; Delgado, 2012</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
. The stones were submerged in water and overgrown by a thin layer of algae (J. Hájek, pers. comm.).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B823698FFAAFFD14379FB33FEEC862B" blockId="15.[113,1089,1049,1585]" lastBlockId="16.[151,1127,1467,1587]" lastPageId="16" lastPageNumber="123" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFAAFFCE4379FB33FD328509" bold="true" box="[113,665,1272,1297]" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">
Notes on the taxonomy of the genus
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<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFAAFFCE42F7FB32FD388509" bold="true" box="[511,659,1272,1297]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">Hemisphaera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
The genus
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D1BFFAAFFCE4018FB30FBEB8509" authority="Pandelle, 1876" authorityName="Pandelle" authorityYear="1876" box="[784,1088,1273,1297]" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Hemisphaera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="122" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFAAFFCE4018FB30FC348509" box="[784,927,1274,1297]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">Hemisphaera</emphasis>
Pandellé, 1876
</taxonomicName>
currently contains five species, of which three (
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D1BFFAAFFCE4164FAD0FC9F8529" baseAuthorityName="Perris" baseAuthorityYear="1874" box="[620,820,1306,1329]" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Hemisphaera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="122" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="seriatopunctata">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFAAFFCE4164FAD0FC9F8529" box="[620,820,1306,1329]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">H. seriatopunctata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D1BFFAAFFCE404AFAD0FC6B8529" authorityName="Sahlberg" authorityYear="1908" box="[834,960,1306,1329]" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Hemisphaera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="122" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="miltiadis">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFAAFFCE404AFAD0FC6B8529" box="[834,960,1306,1329]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">H. miltiadis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D1BFFAAFFCE40FDFAD0FF038549" authorityName="Schaefer" authorityYear="1975" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Hemisphaera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="122" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="guignoti">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFAAFFCE40FDFAD0FF038549" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">H. guignoti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) occur in the Mediterranean and two are African (
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D1BFFAAFFCE41B5FAF0FCA68549" authorityName="Orchymont" authorityYear="1941" box="[701,781,1338,1361]" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Hemisphaera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="122" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lima">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFAAFFCE41B5FAF0FCA68549" box="[701,781,1338,1361]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">H. lima</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is known from
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and
<taxonomicName id="4C3D4D1BFFAAFFCE4379FA90FF568569" baseAuthorityName="Regimbart" baseAuthorityYear="1903" box="[113,253,1370,1393]" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Hemisphaera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="15" pageNumber="122" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="liliputana">
<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFAAFFCE4379FA90FF568569" box="[113,253,1370,1393]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">H. liliputana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
<collectingCountry id="F32A7608FFAAFFCE424BFA93FE628569" box="[323,457,1369,1393]" name="Madagascar" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">Madagascar</collectingCountry>
). Additional potentially undescribed taxa are known from Africa, Europe and southern
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(M. Fikáček &amp; J. Delgado, unpubl. data). For this study we have examined the
<typeStatus id="5486883AFFAAFFCE4265FA50FE3085AA" box="[365,411,1434,1458]" pageId="15" pageNumber="122">type</typeStatus>
and additional material of four described species, which were found to slightly differ in the convexity of elytra, extent of pale coloration of pronotum and elytral apices and the coloration of maxillary palpi and in the character of elytral series. They also exhibit large differences in the morphology of the aedeagus and the shape of sternite 9 (
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,
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). The genitalia and sternite 9 of
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are not illustrated here (see
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for aedeagus illustration), but are extremely similar to those of
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<emphasis id="B949EA8AFFB5FFD143FAFA16FEDB85EB" box="[242,368,1500,1523]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="123">H. miltiadis</emphasis>
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(including the presence of the X-shaped thickening on the median lobe and long median projection of sternite 9) and the status of both latter species hence requires revisional study.
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Figs. 3743. Male genitalia of the
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species
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(37, 3940, 42 aedeagus; 38, 41, 43 sternite 9). 3738
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Schaefer, 1975
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(Algeria, Philippeville [= Skikda], coll. NMPC); 3941
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Sahlberg, 1908
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(39 paratype, Lesbos, coll. IRSNB; 4041 Turkey, Izmir, coll. IRSNB); 4143
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Orchymont, 1941
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(paratype, Tanzania, Ukerewe, Victoria Nyanza, coll. IRSNB).
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