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<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC3B163CFBF3593BC180FEB" bold="true" box="[151,360,1689,1715]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Crotonia valdivia</emphasis>
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(
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)
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<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC3B163CFBF3402BC450E7A" bold="true" box="[151,309,1800,1826]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Dimensions:</emphasis>
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female length 1510; breadth 717;
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female length 1434; breadth 691; mean ratio of length of prodorsum to total length: 0.3.
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Female.
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: rostrum prominent, 42 long, 87 broad; rostral setae 62, straight, smooth (
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a). Lamellar setae recurved, 330, very sparsely barbed, stout proximally. Lamellar apophyses extending anteriorly beyond rostrum but behind apices of rostral setae; length 133, slightly more than half their mutual distance. Interlamellar apophyses twice as long as broad; interlamellar setae stout proximally, flagelliform distally, smooth; ca. 423, extending anteriorly beyond apex of arch of lamellar setae. Shallow curved prodorsal ridges extending less than half the distance between interlamellar and lamellar apophyses. Posterior interbothridial ridge with medial alveolar field present, with plaques and flat tubercles posterior of it. Sensillus globular, enclosed in bothridium, with veined microsculptural covering. Prodorsal microsculpture tuberculate.
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<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CFED3253BC37082A" box="[197,327,345,370]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Notogaster</emphasis>
: ratio of length to breadth 1.5; broadest at seta
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2 (
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a). Dorsosejugal suture complex, with diffuse medial margin with smooth, rectangular pre-notogastral shield and waisted, concave lateral margins adjacent to setae
<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CE4A32A3BC1F089A" box="[354,367,425,450]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">c</emphasis>
3. Notogastral shield discrete, smooth, with two lateral strips of plaques and diffuse porose microsculpture. With 13 pairs of notogastral setae; all smooth. Setae of
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series short, setiform, tubercles of
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1 and
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3 squat, no longer than broad, positioned on hyaline lenses of cuticle just anterior to margin of dorsal shield, some distance posterior of dorsosejugal suture. Elongated less sclerotised region present anterior of setae
<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CFF43147BD990B3E" box="[220,233,589,614]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">c</emphasis>
1. Distance between tubercles
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3 and
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1 and both
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1 132 and 190 respectively. Lateral hyaline strips present bearing tubercles of setae
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,
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2 and
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2. Setae
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2 short, setiform, on alveloli. Tubercles of setae
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2 not prominent, subequal to other tubercles of other lateral notogastral setae. With
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positioned immediately anterior of
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2. Setae
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1 and the
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series on short, clustered apophyses; those of
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1 directed laterally and upward, those of
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1 laterally, subequal in length to
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1; apophyses of
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2 longer than others, parallel, directed posteriorly, their mutual distance about three times their length; caudal margin between them straight, transverse. Apophyses of setae
<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CEA7304BBCEE0A02" box="[399,414,833,858]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">h</emphasis>
3 positioned ventrally between those of
<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CCA0304BBEE70A02" box="[904,919,833,858]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">h</emphasis>
1 and
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2, subequal in length to those of
<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CA54304BB8FB0A02" box="[1404,1419,833,858]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">h</emphasis>
1. Caudal microsculpture with small, scattered foveolae, otherwise smooth.
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<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CFED309BBC600AF2" box="[197,272,913,938]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Ve n t e r</emphasis>
: Setae
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on mentum smooth, setiform, long. Epimera smooth, porose (
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b); epimeral setae smooth, spiniform, minute, formula 3-1-3-3; seta
<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CDCB30B2BF8E0A89" box="[739,766,952,977]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">3c</emphasis>
on large tubercle on anterior margin of epimere. Ventral margin of notogaster surrounding anal plates acutely U-shaped; genital plates sub-circular; posteriolateral margin of genital plates concave; posterior margin straight, transverse. Each genital plate 250 long, 150 broad, with nine thin spiniform setae with basal cerotegument. Aggenital setae subequal in length to genital setae. Anal plate 66 broad, 423 long; anal setae minute (15), positioned closely together on anterior half of anal plate. Adanal setae plus
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2 and
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3 subequal, spiniform;
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1 slightly longer, on short tubercles, ca. 50 apart.
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<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CFEE37A8BFE60DE4" bold="true" box="[198,662,1186,1212]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Material examined and locality data.</emphasis>
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material:
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female and
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female, ex. litter in Valdivian temperate rainforest,
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, Bosque de Fray Jorge National Park, Limar Province,
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, coll. N. Platnick and
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. Franke,
<date id="657897E5FFC0B160CEEE37F8BFE50C54" box="[454,661,1264,1292]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" value="1985-01-05">5th January 1985</date>
; ex. R. A. Norton collection (RAN 86-18).
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deposited in Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Ottawa, Ontario.
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<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CFEE364ABC230C02" bold="true" box="[198,339,1344,1370]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Etymology.</emphasis>
The specific name,
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<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CD69364ABFEF0C01" box="[577,671,1344,1369]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">valdivia</emphasis>
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, refers to Valdivian relict temperate rainforest where this species was found.
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<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CFEE3687BC4F0CFF" bold="true" box="[198,319,1421,1447]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Remarks.</emphasis>
This species can be distinguished from other members of the genus based on the following combination of characters: 1) caudal apophyses short, in two lateral clusters, but with
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2 longer than others, parallel; caudal margin between them inverted, flat U- shaped; 2)
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1 and
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3 short, subequal; 3) dorsosejugal suture diffuse, complex, with oblong, smooth pre-notogastral shield anterior of setae
<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CB5E3502B9F30F79" box="[1142,1155,1544,1569]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">c</emphasis>
1; 4) centrodorsal region of notogastral shield smooth.
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Superficially, this species seems to have the characteristics of the
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species-group in that the caudal apophyses are clustered medially, like those of
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with which it shares the elliptical shape of the hysterosoma and notogastral shield. However, in both the description of
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<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CB2A35A8B9E80FE3" box="[1026,1176,1698,1723]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">C. flagellata</emphasis>
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by
<bibRefCitation id="7557CCD4FFC0B160CBEE35A8BD950FB9" author="Balogh" pageId="10" pageNumber="29" refString="Balogh. J. and Csiszar, J. (1963) The zoological results of Gy. Topal's collectings in South Argentina. 5. Oribatei (Acarina). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, Pars Zoologica, 55, 463 - 485." type="journal article" year="1963">Balogh &amp; Csiszár (1963)</bibRefCitation>
and the supplementary description by
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<bibRefCitation id="7557CCD4FFC0B160CD8435CDBEF50FB9" author="Wallwork" box="[684,901,1735,1761]" pageId="10" pageNumber="30" refString="Wallwork, J. A. (1977 a) On the genus Crotonia Thorell 1876 (Acari: Cryptostigmata) Acarologia, 19, 513 - 539." type="journal article" year="1977" yearSuffix="a">Wallwork (1977a)</bibRefCitation>
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, it appears that the apophyses of setae
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1, and not
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2, are the ones pointing directly posteriorly and those of
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2 are positioned ventral to them, pointing posteriolaterally.
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<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CE413412BF4E0E69" box="[361,574,1816,1841]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Crotonia valdivia</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CD6E3412BFD70E6A" bold="true" box="[582,679,1816,1842]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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differs from
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<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CC613412BE900E69" box="[841,992,1816,1841]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">C. flagellata</emphasis>
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in having short setae of the
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series, whereas in
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<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CE373434BCC30E0F" box="[287,435,1854,1879]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">C. flagellata</emphasis>
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setae
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1 extend well beyond the apices of the interlamellar apophyses,
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3 are curved and prominent and
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extend as far as the tubercles of
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2. In fact, apart from the shorter apophyses of setae
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2 (only about twice the length of the others),
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<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CDB23484BE6B0EFF" box="[666,795,1934,1959]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">C. valdivia</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="23B26D37FFC0B160CC0C3487BEF20EFF" bold="true" box="[804,898,1933,1959]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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has more shared characters with members of the
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species-group than the
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group. These include curved, flattened, apically-converging lamellar apophyses rather than straight, tubular, apically-diverging ones; the presence of a transbothridial ridge; the notogastral shield with lateral bands of cuticle with different microsculpture from the centrodorsal region; porose (rather than tuberculate) epimeral and perigenital microsculpture and the bases of setae
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1 positioned very close together.
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