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<emphasis id="B911EAE2FFD3B30BFDC3FD092583FD0A" box="[556,715,687,711]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="128">Kana thoracica</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B911EAE2FFD3B30BFF78FD7727B2FD2B" box="[151,250,718,742]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="128">Yaoundea</emphasis>
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(synonymy by
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Wang
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2017b: 440
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. Species of
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may be distinguished from other
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by the following combination of traits: dorsal coloration mostly pale yellow with black markings absent or limited to few narrow lines or small spots; crown flat or concave, glabrous, longer than wide, median carina not elevated; forewing venation well delimited, R with two branches; hind wing vein R2+3 present along costal margin (4 apical cells present); male pygofer with ventral process well developed; subgenital plate digitiform with ventral row of macrosetae; aedeagus without dorsal apodeme, distal part of shaft often strongly curved ventrad.
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. Eleven of the 12 previously described species of
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are apparently restricted to the Indomalayan region, occurring from
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and
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to the
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. The single recorded African species was originally described in a separate monotypic genus,
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Linnavuori
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, subsequently synonymized with
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by
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Wang
<emphasis id="B911EAE2FFD3B30BFA67FB8C27FCFBBF" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="128">et al.</emphasis>
(2017b)
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. Species of the genus are rarely encountered and most are known only from
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material (
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,
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,
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). Although
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<emphasis id="B911EAE2FFD3B30BFC93FBC424F1FB5B" box="[892,953,1149,1174]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="128">Kana</emphasis>
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(including junior synonym
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<emphasis id="B911EAE2FFD3B30BFB1CFBC52228FB5B" box="[1267,1376,1148,1174]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="128">Yaoundea</emphasis>
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) was recovered as monophyletic in the analysis of
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Wang
<emphasis id="B911EAE2FFD3B30BFD3AFB182445FB77" box="[725,781,1184,1210]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="128">et al.</emphasis>
(2017a)
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, their dataset included only two representatives of the genus.
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, as presently constituted, is somewhat heterogeneous morphologically in head structure, color pattern and male genitalia, although species can be reliably placed in the genus by the combination of diagnostic traits listed above. The new species from
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described below resembles
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<emphasis id="B911EAE2FFD3B30BFC5EFAB4230BFAEB" box="[945,1091,1292,1318]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="128">Kana decora</emphasis>
(Melichar)
</taxonomicName>
, previously known only from the female
<typeStatus id="54DE8852FFD3B30BFE6AFA8826FDFA86" box="[389,437,1329,1355]" pageId="1" pageNumber="128">type</typeStatus>
from
<collectingCountry id="F3727660FFD3B30BFE17FA89252FFA87" box="[504,615,1328,1354]" name="Sri Lanka" pageId="1" pageNumber="128">Sri Lanka</collectingCountry>
, in coloration and head morphology. Further analyses incorporating larger numbers of species are needed to confirm the status and relationships of the genus.
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</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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