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, Figure 18.
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Figure 4.
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, holotype, SEM male posterior end. (A) View of the cloacal opening (c) lying on the central cuticular protuberance and surrounded by circumcloacal spines. Lateral to the cloacal opening are two rows of bristles (the bristlefield, arrow); (B) detail of the posterior end. Scale bars: 50 mm (A); 20 mm (B).
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, SEM midbody.
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, SEM posterior end.
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The body colour of the male is dark brown. The body length is
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in diameter. The anterior end is tapered and a dark collar is lacking. The posterior end is undivided and has a median ventral groove (
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). The cloacal opening lies on a central cuticular protuberance and is situated ventrally at about
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from the posterior margin of the animal. The cloacal opening is oval (
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long and unbranched. Lateral to the cloacal opening are two straight rows of bristles (
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). They reach up to
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in length. Around the cloacal opening, the cuticle is smooth and contains scattered small bristles spreading over the ventral side (
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).
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The cuticle of the male contains five areolar
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. Simple areoles are the most abundant, they are rounded or oval in shape, low (
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), and have a smooth surface. Irregular minute projections are distributed on the apical surface (
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). Among these are scattered areoles with the same shape but with a tubercle on top (tubercle areoles). The tubercle is about
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long. Another
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of areole has a solid spine (thorn) on top (thorn areoles). The thorn is longer than the tubercles (
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) and originates in an eccentric depression in the areole, which is round or horseshoe-like in shape (
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). Clusters of 1113 of circumcluster areoles (
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high) with short filaments on the apex surround three crowned areoles (
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). Crowned areoles (
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high) have extremely short apical filaments. The interareolar furrow is wide (
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) and structured into cord-like ridges.
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Figure 5.
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. (A, B) SEM male midbody cuticle: (A) cuticle with simple (1), tubercle (2) and thorn areoles; (B) midbody cuticle showing thorn areole (3) and clusters of crowned areoles (4) surrounded by circumcluster areoles (5). (C) SEM of female longitudinal ventral groove: thorn areole (3) and crowned areoles with long filaments (6). Scale bars: 10 mm.
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The female body length varies between 120 and
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, the diameter varies between 0.4 and
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. The anterior end is tapered, a white tip or dark collar are not present. The body colour is brown.
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The cuticle contains the same
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of areoles as in the male, but on both sides along the ventral midline there is another
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of crowned areole (
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). These crowned areoles have a crown of long filaments (
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) on top and occur in clusters of three and are surrounded by 910 circumcluster areoles.
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In the original description of
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,
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provided measurements of the specimens without specifying to which sex each corresponded.
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mentioned this fact, noting the importance of this information. The present information by SEM reveal that the
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specimens of
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correspond to
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and
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.
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described the cuticle of
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with three areolar
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1 and 2 correspond to the simple and tubercle areoles, respectively, in the present reinvestigation. The areoles described by
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as
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3 are considered to correspond to circumcluster and crowned areoles.
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