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See the remainder of the extensive synonymy in Sharma
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<emphasis id="90A87769FFC81B71D8D4FC85FE66B6CE" bold="true" box="[151,466,885,910]" pageId="1" pageNumber="254">Justification of synonymy.</emphasis>
Our decision follows the same rationale proposed by Sharma
<emphasis id="90A87769FFC81B71DCDFFC86FB62B6CD" box="[1180,1238,885,909]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="254">et al.</emphasis>
(2011), based on evidence from a molecular phylogeny which indicates that the Indo-Pacific
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constitute a monophyletic group (Sharma &amp; Giribet 2012), thus disfavoring monotypic genera that would render
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para- or polyphyletic. The habitus of
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is zalmoxid-like, with a pyriform dorsal scutum, and remarkably similar to that of the New Caledonian species
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and
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Sharma, 2012
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. Additionally, the well-marked bulla, male genital morphology, and enlarged metatarsus III are very similar to other
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species (see below). The only two morphological features discordant with the most recent diagnosis of
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(see Sharma
<emphasis id="90A87769FFC81B71D980FB82FE4BB1C9" box="[451,511,1137,1161]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="254">et al.</emphasis>
2011) are the presence of five tarsomeres on leg IV (rather than six in typical
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species) and the presence of tarsal scopulae on legs III and IV. Sharma
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(2011) stated that the tarsal formula for
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is 3: 59: 5: 6, however a re-examination of all tarsal formulae described for the species currently placed in
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shows greater variation in all legs: 34: 49: 45: 56 (
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, is currently shared by 11 other
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<emphasis id="90A87769FFC81B71DCCCFAF1FB42B059" box="[1167,1270,1281,1305]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="254">Zalmoxis</emphasis>
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species (
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). Therefore the presence of a scopula remains as the only diagnostic feature of
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<emphasis id="90A87769FFC81B71DC6FFAD5FB15B07D" box="[1068,1185,1317,1341]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="254">Fijicolana</emphasis>
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that would separate it from other species of
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<emphasis id="90A87769FFC81B71D9CEFAB9FE40B021" box="[397,500,1353,1377]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="254">Zalmoxis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Given that molecular evidence supports the monophyly of
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<emphasis id="90A87769FFC81B71DCDAFAB9FAB4B021" box="[1177,1280,1353,1377]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="254">Zalmoxis</emphasis>
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in the Pacific Islands, and that scopulae on tarsi III and IV are recurrently observed in unrelated lineages (
<emphasis id="90A87769FFC81B71DCE6FA9EFB7AB0C5" box="[1189,1230,1390,1413]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="254">e.g.</emphasis>
Ibaloniinae; Kury 2007, Sharma &amp; Giribet 2011), the scopula alone is insufficient to support
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<emphasis id="90A87769FFC81B71DB94FA62FBC6B0E9" box="[983,1138,1425,1449]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="254">F. tuberculata</emphasis>
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as belonging to a genus of its own and instead is regarded as a putative autapomorphy of this species.
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