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<mods:namePart>Liston, Andrew</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Prous, Marko</mods:namePart>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1520" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figures 15 - 20. Pristiphora females. 15 - 16. Pristiphora krausi DEI-GISHym 83928; 17. melagonia sp. nov. DEI-GISHym 17900; 18 - 19. melagonia holotype DEI-GISHym 80284); 20. melagonia DEI-GISHym 20784. Scale bars 2 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.67.54002.figures15-20" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/434224" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Figures 17-20</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 2127" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figures 21 - 27. Pristiphora females. 21. melagonia sp. nov. DEI-GISHym 80270; 22 - 23. melagonia DEI-GISHym 20784; 24 - 25. melagonia DEI-GISHym 80270; 26. melagonia DEI-GISHym 17900 lancet; 27. Pristiphora depressa DEI-GISHym 17704 lancet." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.67.54002.figures21-27" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/434225" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">, 21-26</figureCitation>
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Material examined.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Holotype</emphasis>
female, pinned. Labels: &quot;Greece: N Peloponnes: Achaia: Achaiko Chorio S
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,
<geoCoordinate degrees="22.0610" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="5" value="22.061">22.0610E</geoCoordinate>
1150 m alt. 25.IV.2017 leg. SDEI Hym-group GR06 [code for collection event, used for databasing]&quot; [white, printed] &quot; DEI-GISHym80284 (see ethanol coll.)&quot; [white, printed: parts of two extracted legs gummed to label] &quot;tissue sample 2017 genetic data Y[yes] [or] N[no]&quot; [blue, printed: check mark at
<normalizedToken originalValue="“yes”">&quot;yes&quot;</normalizedToken>
] &quot;HOLOTYPE ♀
<taxonomicName authorityName="Liston &amp; Prous" authorityYear="2020" class="Insecta" family="Tenthredinidae" genus="Pristiphora" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pristiphora melagonia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="melagonia">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Pristiphora melagonia</emphasis>
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det. Liston &amp; Prous, 2020&quot; [red, printed]. Deposited in the DEI.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="127">
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Paratypes</emphasis>
: Germany, Saxony-Anhalt: 1♀ (DEI-GISHym17900), Rammelburg, GS9 Ra [trap code],
<normalizedToken originalValue="Straße">Strasse</normalizedToken>
zum Strubenberg, Wipperufer vor
<normalizedToken originalValue="Brücke">Bruecke</normalizedToken>
/ Waldhang,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Bärlauchgebiet">Baerlauchgebiet</normalizedToken>
, Gelbschale [yellow pan], R: 4453597 H: 5718076 [+51.594 +11.331], 14.-21.5.2001, leg. E. Stolle (DEI). Greece, N Peloponnes, Achaia: 1♀ (DEI-GISHym80270), Kertezi, +37.980 +21.990, 800-1100 m alt., 28.IV.2017, leg. SDEI Hym-group, GR18 (DEI). Spain,
<normalizedToken originalValue="Aragón">Aragon</normalizedToken>
: 1♀ (DEI-GISHym20784), Camarena de la Sierra 2 km S, 1360m alt., 05.05.2014, +40.126 -1.044, leg. Liston Prous Taeger, E021 (DEI).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Type locality.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Greece: northern Peloponnese, Achaia, south of Achaiko Chorio, +38.137 +22.061, 1150 m alt.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Description</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="127">
[characters of holotype in brackets].
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Female.</emphasis>
Body length 5.0-6.0 mm [5.7 mm]. Head mostly black (Figs
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). Pale are: palpi; clypeus entirely (whitish), to medially more or less dark [holotype]; antennal flagellum ventrally; lower inner orbit partly (brownish) [holotype], to entirely black; outer orbit next to eye narrowly (brownish) (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 2127" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figures 21 - 27. Pristiphora females. 21. melagonia sp. nov. DEI-GISHym 80270; 22 - 23. melagonia DEI-GISHym 20784; 24 - 25. melagonia DEI-GISHym 80270; 26. melagonia DEI-GISHym 17900 lancet; 27. Pristiphora depressa DEI-GISHym 17704 lancet." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.67.54002.figures21-27" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/434225" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">23</figureCitation>
), to entirely black [holotype with small, obscurely paler areas]. Thorax mostly black (Figs
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1520" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figures 15 - 20. Pristiphora females. 15 - 16. Pristiphora krausi DEI-GISHym 83928; 17. melagonia sp. nov. DEI-GISHym 17900; 18 - 19. melagonia holotype DEI-GISHym 80284); 20. melagonia DEI-GISHym 20784. Scale bars 2 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.67.54002.figures15-20" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/434224" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">17-19</figureCitation>
). Pale (yellowish) are: pronotum except for extreme ventral and posterior margins; tegula; small anterolateral flecks on median metascutal lobe, to completely black [holotype]; anterodorsal fleck on mesepisternum, to whole dorsal half [holotype]; metapleuron; mesepimeron [holotype], to completely dark. Legs pale (yellow) (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1520" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figures 15 - 20. Pristiphora females. 15 - 16. Pristiphora krausi DEI-GISHym 83928; 17. melagonia sp. nov. DEI-GISHym 17900; 18 - 19. melagonia holotype DEI-GISHym 80284); 20. melagonia DEI-GISHym 20784. Scale bars 2 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.67.54002.figures15-20" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/434224" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">18</figureCitation>
). Dark are: metatarsus, at least on upper-side; apex of metatibia; extreme base of procoxa. Wing membranes hyaline. Venation dark brown; forewing pterostigma uniformly medium brown, to edged dark brown with paler centre; basal 0.25-0.33 of costa whitish. Abdomen yellow (Figs
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1520" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figures 15 - 20. Pristiphora females. 15 - 16. Pristiphora krausi DEI-GISHym 83928; 17. melagonia sp. nov. DEI-GISHym 17900; 18 - 19. melagonia holotype DEI-GISHym 80284); 20. melagonia DEI-GISHym 20784. Scale bars 2 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.67.54002.figures15-20" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/434224" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">19</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1520" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figures 15 - 20. Pristiphora females. 15 - 16. Pristiphora krausi DEI-GISHym 83928; 17. melagonia sp. nov. DEI-GISHym 17900; 18 - 19. melagonia holotype DEI-GISHym 80284); 20. melagonia DEI-GISHym 20784. Scale bars 2 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.67.54002.figures15-20" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/434224" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">20</figureCitation>
). Black are: tergum 1 medially and basally; tergum 2 medially, to completely pale; tergum 3 medially, to completely pale; tergum 8 medio-apically, to completely pale; more or less valvula 3 apically [only tergum 1 of holotype medially black].
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Figures 21-27.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Pristiphora</emphasis>
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females.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">21.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">melagonia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov. DEI-GISHym80270;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">22-23.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">melagonia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
DEI-GISHym20784;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">24-25.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">melagonia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
DEI-GISHym80270;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">26.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">melagonia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
DEI-GISHym17900 lancet;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">27.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Pristiphora depressa</emphasis>
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DEI-GISHym17704 lancet.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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Head densely setose; vertex, postocellar area and posterior frontal field shiny between the setae; inner orbits and anterior postocellar area duller, with slight sculpture. Postocellar area about as long as diameter of lateral ocellus. Antenna: Fig.
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. Flagellomere 1 slightly curved in lateral view; 3.5-4.1 times as long as apical width [holotype 4.1]. Tarsal claws subbifid: inner tooth slightly shorter than outer. Abdominal terga dull, with fine reticulate sculpture (Fig.
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). Valvulae 3 in dorsal view (Fig.
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): apically subtruncate; about twice as broad as basal width of cercus; setae directed strongly backwards; outermost setae about as long as width of valvulae 3; cercus projecting clearly beyond valvula 3. Valvula 3 in lateral view apically rather acute. Lancet (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 2127" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figures 21 - 27. Pristiphora females. 21. melagonia sp. nov. DEI-GISHym 80270; 22 - 23. melagonia DEI-GISHym 20784; 24 - 25. melagonia DEI-GISHym 80270; 26. melagonia DEI-GISHym 17900 lancet; 27. Pristiphora depressa DEI-GISHym 17704 lancet." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.67.54002.figures21-27" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/434225" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">26</figureCitation>
): approximately 23 annulets; slightly upwardly curved distally; annular setae (
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) present on sutures 1 to ca. 17 (counted from base); annular setae about 0.33x as long as width of annulus; cypsellae on basal annulets (ca. 1-8) about 0.33x as long as serrula.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="127">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Male</emphasis>
: unknown.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Variability.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="127">The Spanish specimen is the palest and the German specimen the darkest, with the two very similarly coloured Greek specimens intermediate.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="127" type="genetics">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Genetics.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="127">
Mitochondrial CO1 has been sequenced from three specimens, two of which were published by
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.59.12656" author="Prous, M" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Hymenoptera Research" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" pagination="1 - 190" refId="B40" refString="Prous, M, Kramp, K, Vikberg, V, Liston, A, 2017. North-Western Palaearctic species of Pristiphora (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 59: 1 - 190, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.59.12656" title="North-Western Palaearctic species of Pristiphora (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.59.12656" volume="59" year="2017">Prous et al. (2017)</bibRefCitation>
. Sequences of the specimens from Spain and Germany are identical, while the specimen from Greece (holotype) differs by 0.1-0.2%. Three nuclear genes have been sequenced from two specimens, TPI from DEI-GISHym20784 (KY698317, see
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) and NaK and POL2 from the holotype DEI-GISHym80284. Closest species are
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">P. krausi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName genus="P." lsidName="P. tetrica" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" rank="species" species="tetrica">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">P. tetrica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and the specimen DEI-GISHym20783 from Spain (possibly an undescribed species, see
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), with a minimum CO1 distance of 6.7% (
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">P. tetrica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) and a minimum nuclear DNA distance of 1.5% (
<taxonomicName genus="P." lsidName="P. krausi" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" rank="species" species="krausi">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">P. krausi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Host plant.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="127">
The Spanish specimen was swept from
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Acer monspessulanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. As the known hosts of other species in the
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Pristiphora depressa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group are all
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Sapindaceae" genus="Acer" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Acer" order="Sapindales" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Acer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species (
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,
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), it is likely that the larva of
<taxonomicName genus="P." lsidName="P. melagonia" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" rank="species" species="melagonia">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">P. melagonia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
also feeds on
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Sapindaceae" genus="Acer" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Acer" order="Sapindales" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Acer</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Hosts other than
<taxonomicName genus="A." lsidName="A. monspessulanum" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" rank="species" species="monspessulanum">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">A. monspessulanum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
must be used, because this maple species does not occur in the region of Germany where one of the paratypes was collected.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="127" type="etymology">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="127">
<taxonomicName genus="Melagonia" lsidName="Melagonia" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Melagonia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, a Latinised noun in the nominative singular, is derived from parts of the Greek words
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">melas</emphasis>
(black) and
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">gonia</emphasis>
(angle, corner) and refers to the angled black marking on the pronotum.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="127" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="127">
In the key to north-western Palaearctic species of
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Tenthredinidae" genus="Pristiphora" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pristiphora" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">Pristiphora</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by
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,
<taxonomicName genus="P." lsidName="P. melagonia" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" rank="species" species="melagonia">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">P. melagonia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
runs to the couplet containing
<taxonomicName genus="P." lsidName="P. tetrica" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" rank="species" species="tetrica">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">P. tetrica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName genus="P." lsidName="P. depressa" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" rank="species" species="depressa">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">P. depressa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but not clearly to either of these, because the supraclypeal area of
<taxonomicName genus="P." lsidName="P. melagonia" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" rank="species" species="melagonia">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">P. melagonia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
can be partly pale or entirely black and the upper head may be marked with pale or entirely black. Externally,
<taxonomicName genus="P." lsidName="P. melagonia" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" rank="species" species="melagonia">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">P. melagonia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is most similar to
<taxonomicName genus="P." lsidName="P. depressa" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" rank="species" species="depressa">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">P. depressa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. External differences between these and other described West Palaearctic species are summarised in a key, below. The lancets of
<taxonomicName genus="P." lsidName="P. melagonia" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" rank="species" species="melagonia">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">P. melagonia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 2127" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figures 21 - 27. Pristiphora females. 21. melagonia sp. nov. DEI-GISHym 80270; 22 - 23. melagonia DEI-GISHym 20784; 24 - 25. melagonia DEI-GISHym 80270; 26. melagonia DEI-GISHym 17900 lancet; 27. Pristiphora depressa DEI-GISHym 17704 lancet." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.67.54002.figures21-27" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/434225" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">26</figureCitation>
) and
<taxonomicName genus="P." lsidName="P. depressa" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" rank="species" species="depressa">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">P. depressa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 2127" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figures 21 - 27. Pristiphora females. 21. melagonia sp. nov. DEI-GISHym 80270; 22 - 23. melagonia DEI-GISHym 20784; 24 - 25. melagonia DEI-GISHym 80270; 26. melagonia DEI-GISHym 17900 lancet; 27. Pristiphora depressa DEI-GISHym 17704 lancet." figureDoi="10.3897/dez.67.54002.figures21-27" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/434225" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">27</figureCitation>
) exhibit several small differences [character state in
<taxonomicName genus="P." lsidName="P. depressa" pageId="0" pageNumber="127" rank="species" species="depressa">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="127">P. depressa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in brackets]: slightly upwardly curved distally [not upwardly curved distally]; annular setae (
<normalizedToken originalValue="“ctenidia”">&quot;ctenidia&quot;</normalizedToken>
) absent on apical ca. six sutures [annular setae absent on ca. apical 2-3 sutures]; setae on basal annular sutures about 0.33x as long as width of annulus [about 0.2x as long]; cypsellae on basal annulets (ca. 1-8) about 0.33x as long as serrula [about 0.12-0.15x as long].
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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