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Genus
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(complete list of species and references)
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:
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, by monotypy.
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Species of
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and the new genus
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can readily be distinguished from all other ischyropsalidoids by the presence of a single metapeltidial sensory cone. The abdomen is often unsclerotized except for small plaques, but ranges to
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(in which the first five abdominal terga are fused into a scutum that remains separate from the carapace) in the males of some species. Unlike sabaconids, surface-dwelling
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are heavily sclerotized, entirely black in color (the color of the two troglobiotic
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species range from pale brown to transparent white [
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]), lack sensory cones, and the metapeltidium, abdominal scutum and carapace are fused into a single dorsal shield. In
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,
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relatively softbodied like
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,
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the palpal tibia is inflated and bears a glabrous area distally, against which the tarsus reflexes; in
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the articles are not conspicuously inflated and the glabrous area on the tibia is absent.
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species all have two sensory cones and at most show
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but most European and Asian
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species have poorly sclerotized abdomens. For other genera of the superfamily,
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species have multiple sensory cones, while species of
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and
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<taxonomicName id="4C345E8EFFD2FFDFD4E7FDB7FC8DD90F" box="[666,813,580,605]" class="Arachnida" family="Ceratolasmatidae" genus="Ceratolasma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Ceratolasma</taxonomicName>
,
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like
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species, have two.
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like
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<taxonomicName id="4C345E8EFFD2FFDFD6EAFD9AFED7D9D2" box="[151,375,617,640]" class="Arachnida" family="Ceratolasmatidae" genus="Hesperonemastoma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="12" pageNumber="13" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Hesperonemastoma</taxonomicName>
,
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lacks sensory cones. These latter four genera show
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or
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, with heavy sclerotization.
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From the closely related
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,
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can be separated by the chelicerae longer than twice the body length, the lack of modified palpal patellae in males, and by the distinctive seta-tipped tubercles that cover the abdomen and ocularium of
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species. In
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,
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the endites of the second coxae are strongly reduced and separated from the coxae (a synapomorphy for
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<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD2FFDFD4D5FCEFFD5FD861" box="[680,767,796,819]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Taracus</emphasis>
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), but in
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<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD2FFDFD51CFCE8FC60D866" box="[865,960,795,820]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Oskoron</emphasis>
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they are inserted in unsclerotized recesses in the coxae.
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<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD2FFDFD6BAFC91FEF9D829" bold="true" box="[199,345,866,891]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Description.</emphasis>
Body length from
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. Carapace usually black or dark chestnut brown in adults, broadest behind, with long midline sulcus extending from between chelicerae to ocularium and in some cases marked as median line over ocularium; in lightly pigmented specimens, two prominent slit sense-organs just anterior and lateral to ocularium on each side; carapace often poorly sclerotized posteriolaterally, smooth to finely shagreened texture. Ozopores small, not concealed, dorsolateral, over first leg coxae. Ocularium low, at least as wide as long; smoothly rounded; smooth or with few small setae above eyes. Eyes large or reduced. Metapeltidium free, sclerotized or not, may appear to be partially coalesced with carapace, sometimes marked only by transverse row of small setae, or lacking setae entirely; sensory cone single, median, may be flanked by smaller acute tubercles, set into unsclerotized embayment in posterior margin of carapace, or, if metapeltidium sclerotized, in prominent, white socket. Abdomen soft, white, set with rows or irregular groups of small setae, or with scattered sclerotized (orange to brown) raised plaques bearing larger, robust, acute setae, these patches sometimes coalesced in midline to form small segmental sclerites (partial
<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD2FFDFD469FB1EFD44DE56" box="[532,740,1259,1284]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">scutum laminatum</emphasis>
;
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), or with true
<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD2FFDFD27AFB1EFB77DE56" box="[1031,1239,1259,1284]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">scutum laminatum</emphasis>
(
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<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD2FFDFD294FB1EFAC0DE56" box="[1257,1376,1259,1284]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">T. gertschi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<figureCitation id="130F3988FFD2FFDFD30DFB18FF16DE7A" captionStart="FIGURES 37 45" captionStartId="32.[151,264,1937,1960]" captionTargetBox="[185,1423,195,1913]" captionTargetId="figure@32.[164,1424,195,1913]" captionTargetPageId="32" captionText="FIGURES 37 45. Taracus gertschi. Fig. 37, female palpus. Fig. 38, male palpus. Fig. 39, penis. Fig. 40, glans penis. Fig. 41, female, dorsal view. Fig. 42, female, lateral view. Fig. 43, female chelicerae, lateral view. Fig. 44, female chelicera, second article, frontal view. Fig. 45, male chelicera, lateral view." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/164228/files/figure.png" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Fig. 41</figureCitation>
); males of most species with
<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD2FFDFD473FAE3FD63DE75" box="[526,707,1296,1319]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">scutum parvum,</emphasis>
but lateral boundaries of scutum poorly defined (
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), plaques may remain prominent within scutum.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B8B250DFFD2FFDFD6BAFAA5FD69DD73" blockId="12.[151,1437,151,2035]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Labral sclerite large, pentagonal, with three prominent projections. Labium small, setose. Thoracic sternum absent in males, present in females of some species as two small tubercles bearing few setae. Endites of legs 3 and 4 indistinguishably fused to coxae, free on second coxae, distant from second coxae as small, elongate, setose lobes directed ventrally. Genital operculum with sclerotized distal rim, may be sexually dimorphic (males: evenly rounded; females: apically triangular) or not. Abdominal sternites well-sclerotized to not at all sclerotized, with small setae scattered or sparsely arranged in rows.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B8B250DFFD2FFDFD6BAF9DEFA90DD87" blockId="12.[151,1437,151,2035]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">Chelicerae black, robust, elongate, ranging from 1.5 to as much as 3 times body length; basal articles with mediobasal opposed tubercles, set throughout length with seta-bearing tubercles of various sizes, usually largest near basoventral section of articles, smaller distally. Second articles generally more robust, longer; seta-tipped tubercles of these may be at least partially in regular rows, numerous. Fixed and movable fingers turned sharply mesad at approximate 125° angle to long axis of second article; fingers with diaphanous cleaning combs.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B8B250DFFD2FFDFD6BAF92CFF56DCD5" blockId="12.[151,1437,151,2035]" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">
Palpi long, thin; trochanter with few to several ventral seta-tipped tubercles, femora and patellae with moderately dense coat of fine setae; tibiae and tarsi densely set with plumose glandular hairs of
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Wolff
<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD2FFDFD36FF8F6FAEBDC4E" box="[1298,1355,1795,1820]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="13">et al.</emphasis>
(2016)
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type 6 (
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). Tibiae lack glabrous area opposite tarsi. Tarsi short, not strongly reflexed, without claw or with small, barely detectable vestigial claw. Palpi of males may be shorter than in females, but without modification of patellae.
</paragraph>
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Legs in order of length: 2,4,3,1 or 2,4,1,3 or 2, 4, 1 = 3. Femora with autospasy suture near base; may be obscure or absent. Tibiae without false articulations, metatarsi with or without false articulations, tarsi multiarticulate, bearing single untoothed claw, vestiture of fine setae, appressed trichomes (
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)
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B8B250DFFD3FFDED6BAFF64FEFBDA12" blockId="13.[151,1437,151,861]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Ovipositor typical of ischyropsalidoids, short, unsegmented, without special apical sensilla, distally divided into two setose lobes. Penis relatively long, straight, distally tapered, muscles extending two-thirds or more length of shaft; glans distinct, swollen, sclerotized, evidently not movable, tapering into short aculeus, without macrosetae, set with small, short setae around base of aculeus, sometimes with short rows of lateral setae subtending glans.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B8B250DFFD3FFDED6BAFEBFFB41DA82" blockId="13.[151,1437,151,861]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD3FFDED6BAFEBFFE37DA37" bold="true" box="[199,407,332,357]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Included species:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD3FFDED7DCFEBEFDC7DA37" box="[417,615,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Taracus packardi</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
(=
<taxonomicName id="4C345E8EFFD3FFDED555FEBEFAADDA36" authority="Goodnight &amp; Goodnight 1943" authorityName="Goodnight &amp; Goodnight" authorityYear="1943" box="[808,1293,332,357]" class="Arachnida" family="Taracidae" genus="Taracus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nigripes" superFamily="Ischyropsalidoidea">
<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD3FFDED555FEBEFC03DA36" box="[808,931,333,356]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">T. nigripes</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFA558FCFFD3FFDED5D0FEBFFAADDA36" author="Goodnight" box="[941,1293,332,357]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" refString="Goodnight, C. L. &amp; Goodnight, M. L. (1943) New and little known phalangids from the United States. American Midland Naturalist, 29, 643 - 656. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 2421154" type="journal article" year="1943">Goodnight &amp; Goodnight 1943</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
),
<taxonomicName id="4C345E8EFFD3FFDED359FEBEFEBFDADA" authority="Banks 1894" authorityName="Banks" authorityYear="1894" class="Arachnida" family="Taracidae" genus="Taracus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pallipes" superFamily="Ischyropsalidoidea">
<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD3FFDED359FEBEFA3CDA37" box="[1316,1436,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">T. pallipes</emphasis>
Banks 1894
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C345E8EFFD3FFDED751FE82FDEBDADA" authority="Roewer 1929" authorityName="Roewer" authorityYear="1929" box="[300,587,367,392]" class="Arachnida" family="Taracidae" genus="Taracus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="silvestrii" superFamily="Ischyropsalidoidea">
<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD3FFDED751FE82FE09DADA" box="[300,425,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">T. silvestrii</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFA558FCFFD3FFDED7CFFE83FDEBDADA" author="Roewer" box="[434,587,368,392]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" refString="Roewer, C. - F. (1929) Zwei nordamerikanische Hohlen-Opilioniden. Bolletino del Laboratorio de Zoologia generale ed agraria del Istituto superiore agrario di Portici, 23, 10 - 12." type="journal article" year="1929">Roewer 1929</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C345E8EFFD3FFDED425FE82FB90DADA" authority="Goodnight &amp; Goodnight 1942" authorityName="Goodnight &amp; Goodnight" authorityYear="1942" box="[600,1072,367,392]" class="Arachnida" family="Taracidae" genus="Taracus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gertschi" superFamily="Ischyropsalidoidea">
<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD3FFDED425FE82FD6FDADA" box="[600,719,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">T. gertschi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFA558FCFFD3FFDED4AAFE9CFB90DADA" author="Goodnight" box="[727,1072,367,392]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" refString="Goodnight, C. L. &amp; Goodnight, M. L. (1942) New American Phalangida. American Museum Novitates, 1161, 1 - 4." type="journal article" year="1942">Goodnight &amp; Goodnight 1942</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, and the following new species:
<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD3FFDED6EAFE67FB9CDAFF" bold="true" box="[151,1084,404,429]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
<taxonomicName id="4C345E8EFFD3FFDED6EAFE67FEAFDAFF" box="[151,271,404,429]" class="Arachnida" family="Taracidae" genus="Taracus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="carmanah" superFamily="Ischyropsalidoidea">carmanah</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C345E8EFFD3FFDED762FE67FE1DDAFF" box="[287,445,404,429]" class="Arachnida" family="Taracidae" genus="Taracus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="marchingtoni" superFamily="Ischyropsalidoidea">marchingtoni</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C345E8EFFD3FFDED7B2FE67FDEADAFF" box="[463,586,404,429]" class="Arachnida" family="Taracidae" genus="Taracus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="fluvipileus" superFamily="Ischyropsalidoidea">fluvipileus</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C345E8EFFD3FFDED427FE67FD06DAFF" box="[602,678,404,429]" class="Arachnida" family="Taracidae" genus="Taracus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="taylori" superFamily="Ischyropsalidoidea">taylori</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C345E8EFFD3FFDED4CAFE67FC85DAFF" box="[695,805,404,429]" class="Arachnida" family="Taracidae" genus="Taracus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="spesavius" superFamily="Ischyropsalidoidea">spesavius</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C345E8EFFD3FFDED54BFE67FC1DDAFF" box="[822,957,404,429]" class="Arachnida" family="Taracidae" genus="Taracus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="timpanogos" superFamily="Ischyropsalidoidea">timpanogos</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C345E8EFFD3FFDED5B3FE67FB9CDAFF" box="[974,1084,404,429]" class="Arachnida" family="Taracidae" genus="Taracus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="audisioae" superFamily="Ischyropsalidoidea">audisioae</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
and
<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD3FFDED206FE67FB6CDAFE" box="[1147,1228,404,429]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
<taxonomicName id="4C345E8EFFD3FFDED206FE67FB63DAFF" box="[1147,1219,404,429]" class="Arachnida" family="Taracidae" genus="Taracus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ubicki" superFamily="Ischyropsalidoidea">
<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD3FFDED206FE67FB63DAFF" bold="true" box="[1147,1219,404,429]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">ubicki</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
;
</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C345E8EFFD3FFDED2AAFE66FEBCDA82" authority="Banks 1894" authorityName="Banks" authorityYear="1894" class="Arachnida" family="Taracidae" genus="Taracus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="spinosus" superFamily="Ischyropsalidoidea">
<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD3FFDED2AAFE66FA3CDAFE" box="[1239,1436,405,428]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Taracus spinosus</emphasis>
Banks 1894
</taxonomicName>
(=
<taxonomicName id="4C345E8EFFD3FFDED73EFE4AFCAEDA82" authority="Goodnight &amp; Goodnight 1945" authorityName="Goodnight &amp; Goodnight" authorityYear="1945" box="[323,782,439,464]" class="Arachnida" family="Taracidae" genus="Taracus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="malkini" superFamily="Ischyropsalidoidea">
<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD3FFDED73EFE4AFE12DA82" box="[323,434,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">T. malkini</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
) is transferred to the new genus
<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD3FFDED207FE44FB41DA82" box="[1146,1249,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
<taxonomicName id="4C345E8EFFD3FFDED207FE44FB7DDA82" box="[1146,1245,439,464]" class="Arachnida" family="Sabaconidae" genus="Oskoron" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="13" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus" status="gen. nov.">Oskoron</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph id="8B8B250DFFD3FFDED6BAFE2FFE04D99F" blockId="13.[151,1437,151,861]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD3FFDED6BAFE2FFEC0DAA1" bold="true" box="[199,352,476,501]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Distribution.</emphasis>
Rocky Mountains of
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, southernmost
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and northern
<collectingRegion id="49F0EBEFFFD3FFDED2E1FE2EFA95DAA7" box="[1180,1333,476,501]" country="United States of America" name="New Mexico" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
New
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<collectingRegion id="49F0EBEFFFD3FFDED2A1FE2FFA95DAA7" box="[1244,1333,476,501]" country="Mexico" name="Mexico" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Mexico</collectingRegion>
</collectingCountry>
</collectingRegion>
; isolated populations in caves in
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and eastern
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; southeastern
<collectingRegion id="49F0EBEFFFD3FFDED512FE0CFB93D94A" box="[879,1075,511,536]" country="Canada" name="British Columbia" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">British Columbia</collectingRegion>
and adjacent
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,
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and
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; Vancouver
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and southwestern
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south to northern
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in the
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Ranges and Cascade Mountains; San Francisco Bay area, Sierra
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of
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; lava tubes in central
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; Vladivostok region of Siberia. In a preliminary work
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also mentioned and mapped a record from northeastern
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; while such an occurrence is still plausible, we were not able to verify this from specimens examined for this study.
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<emphasis id="B940F91FFFD3FFDED6BAFD24FEEED9A2" bold="true" box="[199,334,727,752]" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Etymology.</emphasis>
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(or Taharqa, reigned 690-664 bce) was an Egyptian king, a successor to
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(or Shabako, reigned 713-698 bce). Christian mythology also recognizes a St. Tharacus, but
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based the name on the Egyptian king, presumably to emphasize a perceived relationship to
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.
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Gender of the name is masculine.
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