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The
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Members of this group can be recognized through a combination of anteriorly-oriented, curved erect propodeal setae and a convex scutellum. The orientation of the setae is best visible near the lateral margins of the propodeal enclosure and separates this group from the
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<emphasis id="B91F642CFFE8FFDA44CD15C8393B0888" box="[1250,1398,1232,1258]" italics="true" pageId="121" pageNumber="122">meridionalis</emphasis>
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groups, where the erect propodeal setae are oriented perpendicularly but slightly curved towards anterior as well. Almost all of the species of the
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group can still be distinguished through their silvery or golden propodeal setae, whereas most members of the other two groups have them black.
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is a notable exception and can thus easily be mistaken as belonging to the
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<emphasis id="B91F642CFFE8FFDA44A01445396E0915" box="[1167,1315,1373,1399]" italics="true" pageId="121" pageNumber="122">meridionalis</emphasis>
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group, since, in accordance with the members of that group, it lacks the very dense and coarse setae on the scutellum that are present in the
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group.
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The presence of a convex scutellum can be used to delimit members of the
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group from those of the
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group, which share the presence of anteriorly-oriented erect propodeal setae. The difference between the two is very easily recognizable in females (
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), but less pronounced in males. Most of them can be distinguished through the color of the clypeus and the color and density of its vestiture, as all males of the
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group have the clypeus black (sometimes with the exception of having the free margin ferruginous) and the appressed and erect setae silvery-white without any conspicuous glabrous spots. In contrast,
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,
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<emphasis id="B91F642CFFE8FFDA41D017AD3E210AAC" box="[511,620,1716,1743]" italics="true" pageId="121" pageNumber="122">S. gaullei</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B91F642CFFE8FFDA428D17AD3F110AAC" box="[674,860,1716,1743]" italics="true" pageId="121" pageNumber="122">S. schmideggeri</emphasis>
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have approximately the lower clypeal half brightly ferruginous, and the first two of them also sport golden erect facial setae.
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has the clypeus uniformly black, but its erect facial setae are also black in contrast to the silvery-white setae of the males in the
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group. In addition, all males from the
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group have a notable glabrous area on the central and lower part of the clypeus, with one exception. The clypeus of male
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<emphasis id="B91F642CFFE8FFDA4092167D3D1D0B1C" box="[189,336,1893,1919]" italics="true" pageId="121" pageNumber="122">S. pruinosus</emphasis>
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resembles that of the
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<emphasis id="B91F642CFFE8FFDA4271167D3EF50B1C" box="[606,696,1893,1918]" italics="true" pageId="121" pageNumber="122">satanas</emphasis>
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group members, so the easiest character for distinguishing this species is its elongated petiole, the length of which is around 3.5× its medial width (see Introduction for measurement details). In comparison, this coefficient is between 1.6 and 2.8 for all other males from both groups.
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