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(male).
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. Male. Body length
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[
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in the original description], wing length
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. Occiput wholly yellow, subshining, finely pollinose. Eye slightly concave on posterior margin. Ocellar tubercle brownish, frons subshining brownish yellow, short. Anterior ocellars moderately long, posterior ones short. Inner verticals long, outer ones short. Pedicel with circlet of subequally short setulae. Antenna with scape and pedicel yellow, postpedicel dark blackish brown (except extreme base). Palpus small, yellowish.
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Abdomen with tergites 1 and 57 pale yellow, tergites 23 brownish yellow; tergite 4 broadest, black, with numerous squamiform setae; tergite 7 with long posteromarginal bristles. Terminalia small, with brownish sclerites. (Missing structures taken from
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.
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:
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male labelled:
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/ Maskeliya, 4000' / Suduganga /
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/ G.D. Austin.;
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/
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<emphasis id="B92D047EFF57FF679E54C3EC8BC3F94C" box="[515,680,1691,1716]" italics="true" pageId="132" pageNumber="133">nigropunctata</emphasis>
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/ Senior White male /
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;
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;
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(E) # 244887 (
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).
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described this species from a single male that is now deposited in the
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. Currently, the postpedicel with style on both antennae, one mid leg, hind legs and one wing are lost from the
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; otherwise it is in fairly good condition
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.
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<emphasis id="B92D047EFF57FF679C91C2178834F882" bold="true" box="[198,351,1888,1914]" pageId="132" pageNumber="133">Distribution</emphasis>
.
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.
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<emphasis id="B92D047EFF57FF679C91C2F08853F859" bold="true" box="[198,312,1927,1953]" pageId="132" pageNumber="133">Remarks</emphasis>
. The relationships of
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<emphasis id="B92D047EFF57FF679E14C2FF8A60F859" box="[579,779,1928,1953]" italics="true" pageId="132" pageNumber="133">E. nigropunctata</emphasis>
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are unclear beyond inclusion within the
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<emphasis id="B92D047EFF57FF6798ACC2FF8CF0F859" box="[1275,1435,1928,1953]" italics="true" pageId="132" pageNumber="133">E. ephippiata</emphasis>
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species group. However, this species appears to show some affinities to
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<emphasis id="B92D047EFF57FF679FA3C2C78D04F831" box="[1012,1135,1968,1993]" italics="true" pageId="132" pageNumber="133">E. palpata</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B92D047EFF57FF679828C2C78C2CF831" box="[1151,1351,1968,1993]" italics="true" pageId="132" pageNumber="133">E. nigropunctata</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B92D047EFF57FF6799D4C2C78872F809" italics="true" pageId="132" pageNumber="133">E. lanuginosa</emphasis>
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, as we have discussed above.
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<emphasis id="B92D047EFF56FF669C91C5EF8B63FF49" box="[198,520,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="133" pageNumber="134">Elaphropeza nigropunctata</emphasis>
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is very similar to
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<emphasis id="B92D047EFF56FF669E8AC5EF8A26FF49" box="[733,845,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="133" pageNumber="134">E. ukhalo</emphasis>
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described from
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(Smith 1965). Both species are almost impossible to distinguish following their original descriptions. We have examined the
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of
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<emphasis id="B92D047EFF56FF669CC0C59F886CFEF9" box="[151,263,232,257]" italics="true" pageId="133" pageNumber="134">E. ukhalo</emphasis>
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and found that
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<emphasis id="B92D047EFF56FF669D96C59F8BECFEF9" box="[449,647,232,257]" italics="true" pageId="133" pageNumber="134">E. nigropunctata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
differs from
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<emphasis id="B92D047EFF56FF669F74C59F8AF8FEF9" box="[803,915,232,257]" italics="true" pageId="133" pageNumber="134">E. ukhalo</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by a yellow metapleuron and brownish fore tibiae and tarsi. Also, the terminalia of this species appear to be somewhat different but we were not able to study them in a single
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specimen.
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