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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFB0FFE3011CFACFFDCADA1B" bold="true" box="[357,634,1325,1349]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="1092">Meridiobolbus natalensis</emphasis>
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(®gures 9a±e, 15e, f,
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±i, 18b, 20)
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFB0FFE30036FA6CFF7DDAFB" box="[79,205,1422,1445]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="1092">Description</emphasis>
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.
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.
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFB0FFE30001FA2FFF73DABB" box="[120,195,1485,1509]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="1092">Colour</emphasis>
. Dark brown.
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFB0FFE30001FA0FFF03D95B" box="[120,179,1517,1541]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="1092">Head</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFB0FFE300ACFA0FFDBED95B" box="[213,526,1517,1541]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="1092">Outer margin of mandible</emphasis>
rounded (®gure 15e).
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(®gure 15e) declivous anteriad and posteriad from obsolete transverse carina; anterior margin distinctly sinuate.
<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFB0FFE30163F9CFFEC2D91B" box="[282,370,1581,1605]" italics="true" pageId="49" pageNumber="1092">Clypeus</emphasis>
(®gures 15e, 18b) with strongly elevated anterior transverse carina, straight in dorsal view; with well-de®ned, short diagonal, posteriorly steeply inclined carina, the latter connecting the antero-lateral marginal angle and the respective endpoint of the transverse anterior carina; with distinct lateral carina from endpoint of anterior carina extending to above antennal insertion, there forming a distinct angular elevation, from which extending posteriorly in a slightly curved line past eye-canthus on frons to about middle of the eye.
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(®gures 15e, 18b) with strongly elevated, feebly trituberculate transverse carina, positioned in line with postero-lateral angle of eye-canthi.
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFB3FFE00001FED0FF55DE17" box="[120,229,306,329]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="1093">Pronotum</emphasis>
(®gure 18b). With four very feebly tuberculate swellings in anterior third; area anterior to protuberances strongly declivous and feebly concave; with feebly indented midline, not reaching anterior declivous part or posterior pronotal margin; with ®ne punctures in posterior half, interspersed by some large punctures, especially along midline; ®ne punctation increasingly replaced by large, partly con- ¯uent punctures anteriorly and towards sides; protuberances with ®ne punctures only.
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFB3FFE00001FDF2FF54DD76" box="[120,228,528,552]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="1093">Scutellum</emphasis>
(®gure 15f). Basal width about 1.25Ölength; with some large, shallow punctures in the middle, and scattered small punctures.
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFB3FFE00001FDB2FF7BDD36" box="[120,203,592,616]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="1093">Elytron</emphasis>
(®gure 15f). Striae moderately impressed, their punctures small and separated by two to four puncture diameters; intervals with double punctation (approximately three ®ne and 10 minute punctures between two striae).
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.
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six-dentate.
<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFB3FFE001C7FD52FD89DD96" box="[446,569,688,712]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="1093">Metafemur</emphasis>
with punctation and setation of ventral side as in
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, ®gure 24e.
<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFB3FFE0019BFD32FDFFDDB6" box="[482,591,720,744]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="1093">Metatibia</emphasis>
in lateral view only feebly broadening towards apex; with subapical carina distinctly bilobed; with toothlike projections arranged in two rows above subapical carina.
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFB3FFE00001FCCDFEAADC19" box="[120,282,815,839]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="1093">Male genitalia</emphasis>
. Aedeagus as in ®gure
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±i.
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFB3FFE00001FCADFF4CDC39" box="[120,252,847,871]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="1093">Distribution</emphasis>
(®gure 19). The species is known only from the
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locality in north-eastern
<collectingRegion id="310D8FC4FFB3FFE00088FC8DFE2FDCD9" box="[241,415,879,903]" country="South Africa" name="KwaZulu-Natal" pageId="50" pageNumber="1093">Kwazulu-Natal</collectingRegion>
,
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.
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFB3FFE00001FC72FE32DCF9" box="[120,386,911,935]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="1093">Type material examined</emphasis>
.
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: l`Mkuzi [
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], Zululand, Dec., 1945, Light-Trap, DDT No. 492`near indubium [handwriting Andreae, curator ex
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]/`m [incorrect]/`SAM [black print on white label] (
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).
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. Although no other specimens are known besides the
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, there is no doubt that
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is a new species. The aedeagus is distinct but the apical projections of the parameres in dorsal view link it to
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFB3FFE00356FBCCFC7DDB18" box="[815,973,1070,1094]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="1093">Meridiobolbus</emphasis>
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. The four pronotal protrusions also place the species with the latter genus rather than with
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<emphasis id="C1BD9D34FFB3FFE000F1FB8CFE9CDBD8" box="[136,300,1134,1158]" italics="true" pageId="50" pageNumber="1093">Namibiobolbus</emphasis>
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. In the absence of any additional material it can only be assumed that external sexual dimorphism exists with
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to the same degree as with the congeneric species.
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