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<taxonomicName id="CC884D7CFEAEFEE7FF74673CFE1DFAF5" authority="Eichler, 1940" authorityName="Eichler" authorityYear="1940" box="[151,468,1340,1366]" class="Insecta" family="Philopteridae" genus="Meropoecus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Phthiraptera" pageId="292" pageNumber="293" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAEFEE7FF74673CFEE2FAF5" bold="true" box="[151,299,1340,1366]" italics="true" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">Meropoecus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="6F194B0EFEAEFEE7FED1673CFE1DFAF5" author="Eichler" box="[306,468,1340,1366]" pageId="292" pageNumber="293" refString="Eichler, W. (1940) Notulae Mallophagologicae. IV. Neue Gattungen und hohere Einheiten von Kletterfederlingen. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 130, 97 - 103." type="journal article" year="1940">Eichler, 1940</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAEFEE7FF746782FEDDFA3B" box="[151,276,1410,1432]" italics="true" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">Docophorus</emphasis>
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(
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).
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAEFEE7FF7467A2FEDAFA14" box="[151,275,1442,1463]" italics="true" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">Meropoecus</emphasis>
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: 102
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.
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAEFEE7FF7467DEFEEBFA57" bold="true" box="[151,290,1502,1524]" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">Type species.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAEFEE7FECA67DEFE37FA56" box="[297,510,1502,1525]" italics="true" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">Docophorus meropis</emphasis>
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: 46
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, by original designation.
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAEFEE7FF746421FED8F999" bold="true" box="[151,273,1569,1594]" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Although
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAEFEE7FE6B6422FDD8F99A" box="[392,529,1570,1593]" italics="true" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">Meropoecus</emphasis>
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is not very similar to other genera treated here, the female genitalia are similar to those of
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAEFEE7FF1B6445FEB6F9FD" box="[248,383,1605,1630]" italics="true" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">Meropsiella</emphasis>
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(see above). However, the male genitalia of
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAEFEE7FC946446FBC9F9FE" box="[887,1024,1606,1629]" italics="true" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">Meropoecus</emphasis>
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(
<figureCitation id="93B32A7AFEAEFEE7FBEC6445FBBCF9FD" box="[1039,1141,1605,1630]" captionStart="FIGURES 494 496" captionStartId="295.[151,264,1970,1992]" captionTargetBox="[184,1431,230,1925]" captionTargetId="figure@295.[151,1436,193,1949]" captionTargetPageId="295" captionText="FIGURES 494 496. Meropoecus balisong n. sp. ex Merops americanus: 494, male head, dorsal and ventral views. 495, male genitalia, ventral view. 496, female subgenital plate and vulval margin, ventral view." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/883420/files/figure.png" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">Figs 495</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation id="93B32A7AFEAEFEE7FB626445FB64F9FD" box="[1153,1197,1605,1630]" captionStart="FIGURES 499 501" captionStartId="298.[151,264,1935,1957]" captionTargetBox="[152,1433,210,1906]" captionTargetId="figure@298.[151,1436,193,1913]" captionTargetPageId="298" captionText="FIGURES 499 501. Meropoecus bartlowi n. sp. ex Merops ornatus: 499, male head, dorsal and ventral views. 500, male genitalia, ventral view. 501, female subgenital plate and vulval margin, ventral view." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/883424/files/figure.png" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">500</figureCitation>
) are unlike any other genus in the
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAEFEE7FECB6469FE41F921" box="[296,392,1641,1666]" italics="true" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">Brueelia</emphasis>
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-complex. The presence of more than 2
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is shared within the
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAEFEE7FBBD6469FB76F921" box="[1118,1215,1641,1666]" italics="true" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">Brueelia</emphasis>
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-complex only with
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAEFEE7FF74648EFEE7F906" box="[151,302,1678,1701]" italics="true" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">Aporisticeras</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAEFEE7FED5648DFE4FF905" bold="true" box="[310,390,1677,1702]" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">n. gen.</emphasis>
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(
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), and while some other groups treated here have papillation on the anterior end of the mesosome (e.g. the
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAEFEE7FE4B64B1FD2DF969" box="[424,740,1713,1738]" italics="true" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">Olivinirmus meinertzhageni</emphasis>
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group,
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), this is not as extensive and elaborate as in
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAEFEE7FF7464D6FEE9F94E" box="[151,288,1750,1773]" italics="true" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">Meropoecus</emphasis>
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.
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Description.
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. Head broad, bulb-shaped (
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,
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). Marginal carina widely interrupted medianly, postmarginal carina reaching barely one third of preantennal head. Hyaline margin wide, anteriorly concave, continues laterally for most of preantennal head. Ventral carinae continue farther anterior than marginal carina, divergent anteriorly. Ventral anterior plate present, rounded crescent-shaped. Dorsal preantennal suture continuous with hyaline margin, reaching
<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAEFEE7FD8E6589FD5AF801" box="[621,659,1929,1954]" italics="true" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">ads</emphasis>
, but diffuse posterior to this. Dorsal anterior plate may be continuous with main head plate. Head setae as in
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,
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;
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and
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on hyaline margin;
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situated dorsally, on hyaline margin;
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very thick, thorn-like;
<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAEFEE7FD7365D2FD7EF84A" box="[656,695,2002,2025]" italics="true" pageId="292" pageNumber="293">pos</emphasis>
ventral or lateral. Coni long, pointed. Antennae monomorphic.
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Temples bulging. Temporal carinae visible, flanked medianly by a narrow dorsal postantennal suture;
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3
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only long setae (except in
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FE6062BDFDB0FF77" box="[387,633,189,212]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Meropoecus emersoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, see
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), but
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2
</emphasis>
often longer than
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<taxonomicName id="CC884D7CFEAFFEE6FB7762BCFB74FF77" box="[1172,1213,188,212]" class="Insecta" family="Philopteridae" genus="Titanomessor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Phthiraptera" pageId="293" pageNumber="294" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mts">mts</taxonomicName>
1
</emphasis>
and
<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FB1D62BCFA86FF77" box="[1278,1359,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">
<taxonomicName id="CC884D7CFEAFFEE6FB1D62BCFAEDFF77" box="[1278,1316,188,212]" class="Insecta" family="Philopteridae" genus="Titanomessor" kingdom="Animalia" order="Phthiraptera" pageId="293" pageNumber="294" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mts">mts</taxonomicName>
45
</emphasis>
. Gular plate short and squat.
</paragraph>
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Prothorax rectangular (
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,
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);
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on postero-lateral corners. Proepimera long, hooked, reaching halfway around coxae II. Pterothorax rounded trapezoidal; lateral margins rounded; posterior margin flat or slightly rounded;
<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FE61634DFE7FFEC7" box="[386,438,333,356]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">mms</emphasis>
form continuous row. Meso- and metasterna absent or present as pair of minute plates near median end of metepisterna; 1 seta on each side on ventral pterothorax median to coxae II. Metepisterna slender; median ends blunt. Leg chaetotaxy as in
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, except
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absent. Many leg setae long and spike-like.
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Abdomen broadly oval in females and almost rounded in males (
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,
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). Abdominal chaetotaxy as in
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. Tergopleurites triangular, more rectangular in posterior segments; tergopleurites IIIX+X in males and IIVIII in females moderately divided medianly. Sternal plates broad, may approach pleurites. Accessory sublateral plates may be present in females on segments IIIVII. Pleural incrassations slender to moderate. Ventral section of tergopleurites typically slender. Re-entrant heads moderate.
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subgenital plate broad, rounded triangular, not reaching posterior margin of abdomen. Female subgenital plate broad, roughly rectangular or triangular, but does not reach vulval margin (
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,
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); median section of plate with narrow, elongated bulge that may approach vulval margin. Lateral submarginal extensions present, wide. Vulval margin convergent to median point (
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,
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) with numerous long, slender
<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FC3B60FDFBCDFCB7" box="[984,1028,765,788]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">vms</emphasis>
, numerous short, thorn-like
<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FAA460FDFAA0FCB7" box="[1351,1385,765,788]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">vss</emphasis>
;
<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FA9960FDFA55FCB7" box="[1402,1436,765,788]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">vss</emphasis>
and
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not separated into distinct sets;
<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FDBB6121FDB4FC9B" box="[600,637,801,824]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">vos</emphasis>
in narrowly convergent rows, with distal
<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FBB26121FBBFFC9B" box="[1105,1142,801,824]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">vos</emphasis>
approaching or median to
<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FF746145FF70FCFF" box="[151,185,837,860]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">vss</emphasis>
.
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genitalia (
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,
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) dissimilar to those of other genera treated here. Basal apodeme roughly eggshaped, wider distally. Mesosome variable in shape, but in all species consists of rounded proximal part overlapping basal apodeme, and lesser distal part located median to parameres; 1 (e.g.
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FB6D61B1FAAFFC6B" box="[1166,1382,943,968]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Meropoecus smithi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, not illustrated) or 2 (e.g.
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FE7D61D5FE0AFC4F" box="[414,451,981,1004]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Mo</emphasis>
.
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</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FDA761D4FD43FC4E" bold="true" box="[580,650,980,1005]" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">n. sp.</emphasis>
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,
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) narrow and densely papillate lobes in anterior end of mesosome; 2
<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FED361F9FEA3FBB3" box="[304,362,1017,1040]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">ames</emphasis>
microsetae (in some species sensilla) near antero-lateral corners of mesosome on each side, just lateral to papillate lobes; 3
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microsetae or sensilla submedianly near distal margin of mesosome. Parameres stout, strongly curved, consisting of two parts: a more heavily sclerotized proximal-lateral end, and a translucent distal-median end. Up to 4
<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FE2B6665FE20FBDF" box="[456,489,1125,1148]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">pst</emphasis>
on median margin near distal end.
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<paragraph id="0B3736FFFEAFFEE6FF246687FBAEFB67" blockId="293.[151,1437,151,1616]" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">
<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FF246687FE52FB03" bold="true" box="[199,411,1159,1184]" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Host distribution.</emphasis>
Limited to species of bee-eaters, family
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. Preliminary studies indicate that most species are monoxenous, and that there are several undescribed species in
<taxonomicName id="CC884D7CFEAFFEE6FC3466ADFBA9FB67" authorityName="Eichler" authorityYear="1940" box="[983,1120,1197,1220]" class="Insecta" family="Philopteridae" genus="Meropoecus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Phthiraptera" pageId="293" pageNumber="294" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FC3466ADFBA9FB67" box="[983,1120,1197,1220]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Meropoecus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FF2466CFFE72FB4B" bold="true" box="[199,443,1231,1256]" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Geographical range.</emphasis>
Widely distributed across the Old World.
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<subSubSection id="43926574FEAFFEE6FF2466F4FDEEF91E" pageId="293" pageNumber="294" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="0B3736FFFEAFFEE6FF2466F4FA82FA63" blockId="293.[151,1437,151,1616]" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">
<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FF2466F4FEF2FAAE" bold="true" box="[199,315,1268,1293]" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Remarks.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FEA166F5FE02FAAF" box="[322,459,1269,1292]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Meropoecus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was erected by
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for a single species that was characterized by its unique head structure (
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FEA66717FDE6FA93" box="[325,559,1303,1328]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Docophorus meropis</emphasis>
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). Eichler compared this species to
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FBAE6717FB19FA93" box="[1101,1232,1303,1328]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Cuculoecus</emphasis>
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, and noted that
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FEF2673DFE53FAF7" box="[273,410,1341,1364]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Meropoecus</emphasis>
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has a widely bulging frontal head margin, more strongly arched portions of the marginal carina, a shorter clypeus, and a stouter and wider postantennal head. Later treatments of this genus include Emerson &amp; Elbels (1956) key to the four species known at the time, and the checklist of
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Price
<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FB236785FB38FA3E" box="[1216,1265,1412,1437]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">et al</emphasis>
. (2003)
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, which listed seven valid species of
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FE3567A9FD96FA63" box="[470,607,1449,1472]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Meropoecus</emphasis>
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, as well as one synonymized species (
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FBED67A9FBFAFA63" box="[1038,1075,1449,1472]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Mo</emphasis>
.
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=
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FB4D67A9FAF3FA63" box="[1198,1338,1449,1472]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Mo. meropis</emphasis>
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).
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Two specimens of
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FE4267CDFDE2FA47" box="[417,555,1485,1508]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Meropoecus</emphasis>
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were included in the phylogeny of Bush
<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FBEF67CDFB89FA46" box="[1036,1088,1484,1509]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">et al</emphasis>
. (2016). Their placement as a sister to
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FEE267F1FE6FF9AB" box="[257,422,1521,1544]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Motmotnirmus</emphasis>
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, and as a sister clade to the larger part of the
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FC0467EFFB8EF9AB" box="[999,1095,1519,1544]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Brueelia</emphasis>
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-complex were both strongly supported.
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has recently redescribed and reillustrated the type species, and we do not describe it here again.
</paragraph>
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*
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FE7F64A4FDEEF91E" bold="true" box="[412,551,1700,1725]" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">new species</emphasis>
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*
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FE7864C7FDECF943" bold="true" box="[411,549,1735,1760]" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">new species</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FF4164EDFEB7F8A7" box="[162,382,1773,1796]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Meropoecus caprai</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FF746510FF6BF884" box="[151,162,1808,1831]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">*</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FF416510FE53F88B" box="[162,410,1807,1832]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Meropoecus debeauxi</emphasis>
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: 102
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FF7D6535FE4AF8EE" box="[158,387,1844,1869]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Meropoecus eichleri</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FF746558FF6BF8CC" box="[151,162,1880,1903]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">*</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FF416558FE52F8D3" box="[162,411,1880,1904]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Meropoecus emersoni</emphasis>
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: 298
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FF74657CFF6AF836" bold="true" box="[151,163,1916,1941]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">*</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FF41657CFE5CF836" bold="true" box="[162,405,1916,1941]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Meropoecus meropis</emphasis>
(
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)
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[in
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FD7F657CFCE0F836" bold="true" box="[668,809,1916,1941]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Docophorus</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEAFFEE6FF2465A0FE6FF81A" box="[199,422,1952,1977]" italics="true" pageId="293" pageNumber="294">Docophorus bifrons</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="39FCEAEDFEACFEE5FF7D6299FE2AFF13" box="[158,483,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="294" pageNumber="295">Meropoecus mossambicensis</emphasis>
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: 100
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Note that, in the original illustrations of this species, all head setae have mistakenly been placed on the dorsal side.
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