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<emphasis box="[144,353,333,354]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="275">Doratogonus rugifrons</emphasis>
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Diagnosis: Distal half of median lamella of telocoxite cup-shaped, median edge of cup serrated, and setae confined to rim area of cup. Median lamella with a distinct, triangular, spine-like projection medially on distal margin (
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). Telopodite long, with lamellate femoral process curved through about 300° (
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,
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); postfemoral process lamellate, narrowing abruptly at second bend (
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).
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<paragraph blockId="24.[144,283,542,568]" box="[144,283,542,568]" pageId="24" pageNumber="275">Description:</paragraph>
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<emphasis box="[144,189,585,611]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="275">Size</emphasis>
: Male about
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long, 63 segments in male and female.
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<emphasis box="[144,223,617,643]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="275">Colour</emphasis>
: Dark brown, legs chestnut brown, anal segment dark brown.
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: Antenna reaching to just behind collum.
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Figs 4749.
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<emphasis box="[254,460,1606,1628]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="275">Doratogonus rugifrons</emphasis>
Attems
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, ♂: (47) oral view of gonopod; (48) lateral view of gonopod; (49) head and first segments, lateral view. Abbreviations: (col) collum, (fp) femoral process, (ll) lateral lamella, (ml) median lamella, (s) solenomere, (tp) tibial process. Scale bar = 1 mm.
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<emphasis box="[181,263,236,262]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="276">Collum</emphasis>
: Subquadratic, projected anteriorly and with folds (
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).
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<paragraph blockId="25.[181,1142,204,969]" pageId="25" pageNumber="276">
<emphasis box="[181,421,268,294]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="276">Tergites and sternites</emphasis>
: First ozopore on 5
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segment. Prozonites finely striated longitudinally, horizontal ridge of metazonites ending below ozopores, metazonites medially with fine suture.
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<emphasis box="[181,234,364,389]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="276">Legs</emphasis>
: Pads on legs up until last body segment.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis box="[181,285,396,422]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="276">Gonopod</emphasis>
: Median lamella of telocoxite with strong, tapered distal spine; telopodite with tibial and femoral processes (
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).
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Material examined:
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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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N of Windhoek
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(Erichsfelde),
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/
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same locality and date,
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(BIOTA­614/5) (
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)
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.
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Distribution:This is one of the most widely distributed species of the genus
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<emphasis box="[996,1142,575,600]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="276">Doratogonus</emphasis>
(
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)
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. It is to be found from the
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in northern
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to the northern parts of
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and has also been recorded from
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.
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Habitat:
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<emphasis box="[277,532,678,704]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="276">Doratogonus rugifrons</emphasis>
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occurs predominantly in the savanna biome and its presence seems to be related to the distribution of
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woodland in the northern parts of its range (
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).
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Remarks: According to a cladistic analysis by
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,
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<emphasis box="[1004,1141,782,808]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="276">D. rugifrons</emphasis>
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is most closely related to
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<emphasis box="[464,633,814,840]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="276">D. rhodesianus</emphasis>
(Chamberlin, 1927)
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, the distribution range of which is adjacent to that of
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<emphasis box="[494,514,847,872]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="276">D</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[529,632,846,872]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="276">rugifrons</emphasis>
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. The gonopods of the two species are almost identical, but in
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<emphasis box="[364,534,878,904]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="276">D. rhodesianus</emphasis>
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the projection on the median lamella of the telocoxite is smaller, the lower rim of the cup on the surface of the median lamella is shallower and the femoral process is less curved (
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).
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