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material examined.
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2 ♁,
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. Specific name refers to the fact that the species occurs in a dry, low rainfall region.
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.
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Distal telocoxite folded towards apical proplica, producing a hook shape and a median cavity (
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); lateral margins of proplica and metaplica setose; postfemur of telopodite as long as proplica, with a proximal clockwise coil distal to the femoral lobes, and without looping at the extremity (
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).
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.
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Body length
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and
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54-56.
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Body light to dark brown; head light brown; antennae dark brown to black; posterior part of metazonite dark brown or black; prozonite cream; legs light brown.
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.
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With long setae along distal margin of the stipes and lingual lamella; one small papilla behind and between the larger two.
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oral view of prefemoral lobe of first pair of male legs. Abbreviations: p, proplica; hsl, heartshaped lobe; m, metaplica; mc, median cavity; tp, telopodite; tpc, telopodite coil; mf, metaplica fold; cf, collum fold; pfl, prefemoral lobe; pc, paracoxite.
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ozopore.
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On 6
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.
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Anterior corner rounded or square in shape, not produced into a lateral lobe, with 2-6 submarginal folds (
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).
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pair of legs.
</emphasis>
Tarsal claws straight, but gently curved apically; prefemoral processes proximally parallel, but not touching medially, with laterally directed nipple-shaped apical lobes that are widely separated distally (
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).
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<paragraph blockId="3.[140,1108,166,792]" box="[185,536,377,404]" pageId="3" pageNumber="78">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[185,264,377,403]" pageId="3" pageNumber="78">
<emphasis box="[185,259,377,403]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="78" reason="1">Sigilla</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
One row of large circles.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="3.[140,1108,166,792]" pageId="3" pageNumber="78">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[185,360,413,439]" pageId="3" pageNumber="78">
<emphasis box="[185,296,413,439]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="78" reason="1">Midbody</emphasis>
ring.
</emphasis>
Diameter of metazonite greater than prozonite, prozonte with up to 16 striae that are further apart posteriorly; limbus with straight edge.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="3.[140,1108,166,792]" pageId="3" pageNumber="78">
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<emphasis box="[185,302,483,509]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="78" reason="1">Gonopod</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
(
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, 2)
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long, with a triangular sternite; paracoxite rounded apically and basally fused to metaplica. Distally, metaplica of telocoxite hook shaped, laterally rounded and folded towards and overhanging apical region of proplica of telocoxite forming a median cavity (
<figureCitation box="[498,622,589,616]" captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="2.[140,212,1558,1580]" captionTargetBox="[177,1071,824,1510]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[140,1108,855,1510]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figure 1. Bicoxidens aridis sp. n. A, oral view of gonopods; B, aboral view of gonopods; C, lateral view of collum; D, oral view of prefemoral lobe of first pair of male legs. Abbreviations: p, proplica; hsl, heartshaped lobe; m, metaplica; mc, median cavity; tp, telopodite; tpc, telopodite coil; mf, metaplica fold; cf, collum fold; pfl, prefemoral lobe; pc, paracoxite." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3787810" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3787810/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="78">Figs 1a, 1b</figureCitation>
). Lateral margins of proplica and metaplica setose. Orally proplica with an apical heart-shaped lobe which conceals the telopodite at the knee (
<figureCitation box="[279,359,659,686]" captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="2.[140,212,1558,1580]" captionTargetBox="[177,1071,824,1510]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[140,1108,855,1510]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figure 1. Bicoxidens aridis sp. n. A, oral view of gonopods; B, aboral view of gonopods; C, lateral view of collum; D, oral view of prefemoral lobe of first pair of male legs. Abbreviations: p, proplica; hsl, heartshaped lobe; m, metaplica; mc, median cavity; tp, telopodite; tpc, telopodite coil; mf, metaplica fold; cf, collum fold; pfl, prefemoral lobe; pc, paracoxite." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3787810" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3787810/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="78">Fig. 1a</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="3.[140,1108,166,792]" pageId="3" pageNumber="78">Proximal half of telopodite broader than distal (postfemoral) half. Length of postfemoral region of telopodite equal to that of proplica. Telopodite bends laterally and produces a tight clockwise coil distal to the femoral lobes, above level of the paracoxite</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="3.[140,1108,1622,1676]" pageId="3" pageNumber="78">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[140,236,1622,1644]" pageId="3" pageNumber="78">Figure 2.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authority="Mwabvu &amp; Hamer &amp; Slotow, 2009" authorityName="Mwabvu &amp; Hamer &amp; Slotow" authorityYear="2009" box="[242,319,1622,1644]" class="Diplopoda" family="Spirostreptidae" genus="Bicoxidens" kingdom="Animalia" order="Spirostreptida" pageId="3" pageNumber="78" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="aridis" status="sp. n.">
<emphasis box="[242,319,1622,1644]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="78">B. aridis</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[381,403,1622,1643]" pageId="3" pageNumber="78">A,</emphasis>
telopodite apex;
<emphasis bold="true" box="[562,584,1622,1643]" pageId="3" pageNumber="78">B,</emphasis>
telopodite coil. Abbreviations: tp, telopodite; fl, femoral lobe, tpc, telopodite coil; tpal, telopodite apical lobe.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph blockId="4.[140,1108,167,369]" pageId="4" pageNumber="79">
(
<figureCitation box="[147,231,167,193]" captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="2.[140,212,1558,1580]" captionTargetBox="[177,1071,824,1510]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[140,1108,855,1510]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="Figure 1. Bicoxidens aridis sp. n. A, oral view of gonopods; B, aboral view of gonopods; C, lateral view of collum; D, oral view of prefemoral lobe of first pair of male legs. Abbreviations: p, proplica; hsl, heartshaped lobe; m, metaplica; mc, median cavity; tp, telopodite; tpc, telopodite coil; mf, metaplica fold; cf, collum fold; pfl, prefemoral lobe; pc, paracoxite." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3787810" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3787810/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="79">Figs 1a</figureCitation>
, 2b). Postfemur of telopodite extends distally towards the telocoxal apex and crosses the post knee part proximal to the coil and femoral lobes (
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). Telopodite without apical looping, but with two unequal lobes at the extremity (
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).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="4" pageNumber="79" type="distribution">
<paragraph blockId="4.[140,1108,167,369]" pageId="4" pageNumber="79">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[185,344,272,298]" pageId="4" pageNumber="79">
<emphasis box="[185,339,272,298]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="79" reason="1">Distribution</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
Appears to be widespread in the Zambezi Valley and northern
<collectingCountry name="Zimbabwe" pageId="4" pageNumber="79">Zimbabwe</collectingCountry>
, a dry savanna region characterised by high temperatures and low, unreliable rainfall (
<bibRefCitation author="Nyamapfene K" box="[234,457,343,369]" pageId="4" pageNumber="79" refId="ref2546" refString="Nyamapfene K (1991) Soils of Zimbabwe. Nehanda Publishers, Harare, Zimbabwe." type="book" year="1991">Nyamapfene, 1991</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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