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KL, 4AC, 7A, 10A)
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Type specimens:
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Type locality: Inman Valley, Fleurieu Peninsula, SA,
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. The specific name (Greek
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1862 leg removed for tissue storage
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database no. 31- 019191 / Dissection ID 31-019191-EPB; second male with
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database no. 31-019190.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="4E802381FFE9FFA1FF77FF1EFE3AC0C6" pageId="3" pageNumber="354" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="0625700AFFE9FFA1FF77FF1EFE3AC0C6" blockId="3.[151,1437,152,2015]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">
<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FF77FF1EFE82C0A2" bold="true" box="[199,345,152,179]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">Distribution</emphasis>
. Known from Inman Valley, Fleurieu Peninsula; and from American River, Kangaroo Island,
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(
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,
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).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="4E802381FFE9FFA1FF77FF66FAECC306" pageId="3" pageNumber="354" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph id="0625700AFFE9FFA1FF77FF66FAECC306" blockId="3.[151,1437,152,2015]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">
<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FF77FF66FE99C0EA" bold="true" box="[199,322,224,251]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
This species is similar to
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FDEEFF67FCEFC0EA" box="[606,820,225,251]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">Oxycanus subvaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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;
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IJ; 4DF, 7B, 8A &amp; D). However, it differs primarily in the shape and proportions of the male genitalia. In particular the vinculum is narrower and more square, and the saccus is much broader, rounded and shorter in
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FCB0FEAFFC73C152" box="[768,936,297,323]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">O. ephemerous</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FC1FFEAFFBD3C152" bold="true" box="[943,1032,297,323]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="2FDD1163FFE9FFA1FC1FFEAFFBD3C152" box="[943,1032,297,323]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
than in
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FBD2FEAFFB3EC152" box="[1122,1253,297,323]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">O. subvaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. In addition, the pseudotegumen is differently shaped in the new species. In
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FCF3FECBFC8CC176" box="[835,855,333,359]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">O</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FCD7FECBFC36C176" box="[871,1005,333,359]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">ephemerous</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FC47FECBFB89C176" bold="true" box="[1015,1106,333,359]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="2FDD1163FFE9FFA1FC47FECBFB89C176" box="[1015,1106,333,359]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
the ventral pseudoteguminal arms are distinctly shorter and the basal rim is less rounded and not as sclerotized as in
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FBC9FEF7FB25C19A" box="[1145,1278,369,395]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">O. subvaria</emphasis>
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. Both species have sternite 8 fused with the saccus (
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for
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FD48FE13FCA7C1BE" box="[760,892,405,431]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">O. subvaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<figureCitation id="9EA16C8FFFE9FFA1FC33FE13FC0CC1BE" box="[899,983,405,431]" captionStart="FIGURE 7" captionStartId="13.[151,250,1044,1069]" captionTargetBox="[155,1430,177,1021]" captionTargetId="figure@13.[151,1436,174,1025]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="FIGURE 7 (AF) Oxycanus spp. male genitalia, 3-quarter view. A, O. ephemerous sp. nov. dissection ID 31-019191-EPB; B, O. subvaria dissection ID 31-019120-EPB; C, O. determinata dissection ID 31-018441-EPB; D, O. flavoplumosus sp. nov. dissection ID 31-018762-EPB; E, O. byrsa dissection ID 31-018407-EPB; F, O. petalous sp. nov. dissection ID EPB-ANIC-1, ©SAMA." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3667140" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3667140/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">Fig. 7A</figureCitation>
for
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FBB5FE13FB76C1BE" box="[1029,1197,405,431]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">O. ephemerous</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FB04FE13FAD6C1BE" bold="true" box="[1204,1293,405,431]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="2FDD1163FFE9FFA1FB04FE13FAD6C1BE" box="[1204,1293,405,431]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
). The antennal rami of
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FEA6FE3FFE41C1C2" box="[278,410,441,467]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">O. subvaria</emphasis>
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are equal to the width of the flagellomere in the middle of the antennae, while the rami of
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FA31FE3FFEC6C1E6" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">O. ephemerous</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FE94FE5BFEA5C1E6" bold="true" box="[292,382,477,503]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="2FDD1163FFE9FFA1FE94FE5BFEA5C1E6" box="[292,382,477,503]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
are longer than the width of the flagellomere (
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). The only other
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FB66FE5BFA9FC1E6" box="[1238,1348,477,503]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">Oxycanus</emphasis>
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species to occur nearby to the known localities of
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FD31FD87FCF7C20A" box="[641,812,513,539]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">O. ephemerous</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FC85FD87FC4AC20A" bold="true" box="[821,913,513,539]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="2FDD1163FFE9FFA1FC85FD87FC4AC20A" box="[821,913,513,539]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
is
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FC06FD87FB93C20A" box="[950,1096,513,539]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">O. niphadias</emphasis>
(Meyrick)
</taxonomicName>
from the Southern Lofty Ranges. However, this species has longer antennal rami, at least 3x the width of the flagellomere, and distinctly different genitalia. The pseudotegumen in
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FD26FDCFFCA0C272" box="[662,891,585,611]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">Oxycanus niphadias</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has a single central tooth, lacking invagination, and the S8 is pocket-like and depressed well into the vinculum. These structural differences are obvious enough to be observed in specimens without dissection or a microscope. The distributions of the widespread
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FB42FD17FA47C2BA" box="[1266,1436,657,683]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">O. occidentalis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FED4FD33FDD0C2DE" box="[356,523,693,719]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">O. ephemerous</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FDA1FD33FDB1C2DE" bold="true" box="[529,618,693,719]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="2FDD1163FFE9FFA1FDA1FD33FDB1C2DE" box="[529,618,693,719]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
may overlap at the Kangaroo Island location, however, the larger (FW:
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)
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FF62FD5FFEA1C2E2" box="[210,378,729,755]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">O. occidentalis</emphasis>
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is closely allied to
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FDFFFD5FFD04C2E2" box="[591,735,729,755]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">O. niphadias</emphasis>
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(see discussion) except for the presence of 25 enlarged spines on the pseudotegumen and extensive white patterns in the medial and sub-marginal areas of the forewing.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="4E802381FFE9FFA6FF77FCA6FE7CC2DE" lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="355" pageId="3" pageNumber="354" type="description">
<paragraph id="0625700AFFE9FFA1FF77FCA6FB00C402" blockId="3.[151,1437,152,2015]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">
<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FF77FCA6FE8AC32A" bold="true" box="[199,337,800,827]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">Description</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FEEFFCA7FE47C32A" bold="true" box="[351,412,801,827]" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">Male</emphasis>
. (
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)
<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FDA7FCA7FD8FC32A" box="[535,596,801,827]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">Head</emphasis>
: labial palpus three segmented, short, less than half length of head, directed forwards, second palpomere longer than first, third palpomere shortest, sub-orbicular, covered in dark grey scales. Antennae (
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KL)
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, 43 flagellomeres, pale yellow, quadripectinate, each flagellomere with pair of broad, flattened rami oppositely-situated. Length of central primary rami almost twice width of flagellomere while proximal and distal primary rami are shorter and flattened. Primary rami ciliated, hairs longer distally. Ventral surface with short ridge adjoining thickened proximal bar, also heavily ciliated. Scape cylindrical, pedicel ovoid, flattened. Eyes larger than head capsule, widely separate. Scales on frons and vertex dense and dark brown.
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FF77FB9BFEC3C426" box="[199,280,1053,1079]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">Thorax</emphasis>
: pro- and mesothorax dorsally and ventrally covered in dark brown scales and interspersed with cinnamon brown scales on dorsal surface, with greater suffusion of cinnamon brown on ventral surface. Wings: FW length
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, expanse
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, broad, triangular.
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slightly concave centrally, convex towards apex. Wing venation oxycanine (
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), vein 2A absent. HW
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, triangular at apex, narrower, tornus rounded, vein CuP partly membranous. Dorsal FW ground colour mix of grey and buff scales, dark brown at costa, basal area; fringe grey; dark brown scales on all veins. Three yellow-cream spots present basally, within discal cells, in triangular configuration, indistinct in worn or faded specimens. Some specimens with four irregular cream marginal and sub-marginal bands from Rs2 to CuA
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, with brown scales between and adjacent to these bands. Ventral surface as for dorsal, veins highlighted with short, grey scales, cells between veins sparsely covered with long grey hair-like scales, pale cream markings absent. Darker scales at apex and margin. Lighter brown piliform scales present along costa and basal area, scales cinnamon brown basally. HW dorsal surface brown, darker brown at apex, sparsely scaled and semi-translucent within discal area.
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and veins with pale cinnamon brown scales, scales on veins less elongate. Wing margin light cinnamon brown, fringe dark brown. Basal area and fringe along dorsum with long light cinnamon piliform scales, tending towards orange or blush red in fresh specimens. HW ventral surface as dorsal, except with dark brown margin, dark brown scales over wing veins. Fringe buff-grey, sparsely covered in longer hair-like scales. Legs dark brown dorsally and ventrally, grey on tarsus ventral surface, femur and tibia with brown piliform scales ventrally, broadly triangular, short epiphysis on fore-tibia, aerolium present.
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FF77F907FEEAC68A" box="[199,305,1665,1691]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">Abdomen</emphasis>
: narrow, tapering, tergites at proximal end with blush-red piliform scales when fresh, gradually merging with shorter brown and cinnamon brown scales towards distal end. Rounded tuft of blush-red piliform scales on final tergite. Ventral surface dark brown. Sternum 8 broad and rectangular, posteriorly becoming membranous, junction with saccus indistinct.
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFE9FFA1FF77F897FEEAC73A" box="[199,305,1809,1835]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="354">Genitalia</emphasis>
(
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AC, 7A, diss. no. 31-019191,
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male). Disto-posterior arm of saccus broad, and concave, trapezoidal, at right angles to sternite 8. Disto-posterior arm of vinculum narrow. Intermediate plate narrow, rectangular, free. Pseudotegumen: basal rim narrow, globular; dorso-posterior and disto-posterior margins narrow in postero-ventral view highly sclerotized. Dorso-distal twin processes short, apex rounded. Ventro and disto-posterior margin of pseudotegumen in lateral or 3-quarter views are a large, curved axe-head shape, with a deep invagination present just before ventral pseudoteguminal arms, both of which are short and fused with proximal points very short and free. Juxta broad, subrectangular, bilobate at anterior margin. Trulleum trapezoidal, semi-transparent. Valvae: elongate and lobate, flattened laterally, rounded apically, wider distally, sacculus short and oval, internal surface densely covered with long curved setae. Apex of valvae in line with dorso-posterior margin of pseudotegumen. Apodemal vinculum broad and short, posterior margin rounded. Fusion of sternum 8 and saccus forming a continuous structure. Para-anal sclerite absent.
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFEEFFA6FF77FECBFEC5C176" bold="true" box="[199,286,333,359]" pageId="4" pageNumber="355">Female</emphasis>
. Unknown.
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFEEFFA6FF77FEF6FEF1C19A" bold="true" box="[199,298,368,395]" pageId="4" pageNumber="355">Habitat.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFEEFFA6FE81FEF7FDF6C19A" box="[305,557,369,395]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="355">Oxycanus ephemerous</emphasis>
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</emphasis>
is known only from
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, from the Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island bioregion (Inman Valley and American River respectively). The Inman Valley site is mainly farmland with some low
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woodland and a shrub/heath and sedge understory, near a seasonal creek (S. Eden pers. obs.). Both these locations fall within an area of annual rainfall of
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, among the wettest parts of the state. Similar conditions and habitats exist on the central-western part of Kangaroo Island and on the Eyre Peninsula and Yorke Peninsula, however, the species is not recorded from those locations.
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occurs in a distinctly drier habitat compared to that of the similar
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,
</emphasis>
a species which occurs primarily in tall
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wet forest, rainforest, montane wet forest, and sub-alpine woodland (
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;
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Kallies
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. 2015
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) in eastern
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, central-coastal and south-eastern NSW and
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in areas of rainfall above
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annually.
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFEEFFA6FF77FD5FFEE0C2E2" bold="true" box="[199,315,729,755]" pageId="4" pageNumber="355">Remarks.</emphasis>
The two species
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFEEFFA6FE4FFD5FFD20C2E2" box="[511,763,729,755]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="355">Oxycanus ephemerous</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFEEFFA6FC24FD5FFBC2C2E2" box="[916,1049,729,755]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="355">O. subvaria</emphasis>
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have allopatric distributions separated by approximatelty
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between Inman Valley and Melbourne.
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is the only other
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFEEFFA6FAD6FD7BFF03C32A" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="355">Oxycanus</emphasis>
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species currently identified as a South Australian endemic. Three specimens from the Grampians, VIC, in the Melbourne Museum listed as
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFEEFFA6FE5BFCC3FDA6C34E" box="[491,637,837,863]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="355">O. niphadias</emphasis>
(
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Kallies
<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFEEFFA6FD57FCC0FCC1C34E" box="[743,794,837,863]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="355">et al</emphasis>
. 2015
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were examined by the authors from photographs (provided by J. Schubert) along with a specimen from Halls Gap, VIC in SAMA and all are considered to be
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFEEFFA6FAE7FCEFFEDFC3B6" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="355">O. occidentalis</emphasis>
Tindale
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, the first records for this species from
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.
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also occurs in south-west WA (
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) and in
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on the Eyre Peninsula, Riverland and Kangaroo Island (M. Hura, A. Kallies pers. comm. and MDM pers. obs.). All three
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFEEFFA6FD77FC53FCAAC3FE" box="[711,881,981,1007]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="355">O. ephemerous</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
specimens were collected on the 20
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of May in both
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, following rainfall the day before (
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). The larval biology of
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFEEFFA6FEA6FB9BFE1AC426" box="[278,449,1053,1079]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="355">O. ephemerous</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFEEFFA6FE7AFB9BFDFBC426" bold="true" box="[458,544,1053,1079]" pageId="4" pageNumber="355">sp. nov</emphasis>
.
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is unknown. A concerted effort was made by the authors to locate additional specimens of
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFEEFFA6FE9FFBC7FE0DC44A" box="[303,470,1089,1115]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="355">O. ephemerous</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFEEFFA6FE6CFBC7FDEBC44A" bold="true" box="[476,560,1089,1115]" pageId="4" pageNumber="355">sp. nov</emphasis>
.
</taxonomicNameLabel>
and
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<emphasis id="34EEAC18FFEEFFA6FDDBFBC7FD21C44A" box="[619,762,1089,1115]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="355">O. niphadias</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in April and May of
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without success. The apparently restricted distribution and localised nature of the records raises concerns in a conservation setting, as both species, but particularly
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,
</emphasis>
may be threatened with extinction due to urbanisation and loss of habitat. Further work is required to determine the conservation status of these species.
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