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[Genus
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Koch (1841) described a number of species of
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from Regensburg, Germany, of which nine are currently classified in
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:
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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and
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(Parry, 1979). Apart from the last mentioned species, which appears from Koch's original figure to have a greater affinity with the
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(but see Jacot, 1936), all are undoubtedly members of the genus
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. These species are, however, extremely difficult to reidentify since Koch's very brief descriptions are based almost entirely on body shape and colour, two characters now known to be uniform in many species of this genus. Only
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and
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can be characterized by body shape alone: in comparison with the other
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species collected at Regensburg,
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was said to be very 'globular' while the illustration of
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shows the notogaster to be 'angled' anteriorly.
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Several redescriptions of Koch's species have been published, including those of Jacot (1936), Feider and Suciu (1957) and van der Hammen (1963). Jacot collected at more than 20 localities in the Regensburg area, recognizing six of Koch's species (
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,
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,
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,
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,
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and
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) and one new
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species,
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. Localities were chosen based not only on Koch's habitat descriptions but on
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detailed lists of the Regensburg flora published in 1839. Jacot treated the redescriptions in eonsiderable detail, identifying each species on the basis of body shape and size, and setal form and length. However, he neglected to includc details of the leg chaetotaxy which are now regarded as being essential for the Separation of
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species. Although Jacot's interpretations of
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and
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correspond with those of the present study, his specimens have not been considered for neotype designation, since all are entire, uncleared and mounted together with one or more other species in Canada Balsam. In this condition, Jacot's material would not easily withstand dismounting, dissection and remounting. Further collecting at Regensburg by van der Hammen in 1959 and 1961 resulted in his description of
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and the designation of a neotype. A number of other species were tentatively identified by van der Hammen (pers. comm.) as representing Koch's seven other species - this material has been examined as part of the present study. Material collected by the late Dr Max Sellnick at Regensburg, and made available to the author through the courtesy of Dr Gisela Rack, Hamburg, has also been examined in an attempt to determine the identities of Koch's
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species. Unfortunately, it has not been possible to borrow any of the specimens studied by Feider and Suciu.
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<paragraph id="A0B17E31A037E05C063B5097549E6BA5" pageId="0" pageNumber="263">Survey</paragraph>
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Of the eight
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species described by C. L. Koch, six are capable of being reidentified with reasonable certainty. The two remaining species (
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and
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) cannot in the author's opinion be separated by any morphological characters mentioned in the original descriptions, although
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was collected from a 'swampy' meadow, while
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was recorded from moss in woods. However,
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species are not generally considered to be habitat specific and it seems likely therefore, that Koch was in fact concerned with only one species, different specimens of which exhibited minor differences in colour.
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