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<taxonomicName id="40A75226683221650091F82A8B99B55B" authority="Mayr, 1862" authorityName="Mayr" authorityYear="1862" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Nesomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nesomyrmex angulatus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="25" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="angulatus">Nesomyrmex angulatus (Mayr, 1862)</taxonomicName>
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Figs 2C, D, 3A, 4
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<taxonomicName id="26AD23843B037B397FF51796ADA6A366" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Leptothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Leptothorax angulatus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="25" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="angulatus">Leptothorax angulatus</taxonomicName>
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Mayr, 1862: 739 (w.). EGYPT.
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<bibRefCitation id="21607C09E0F38ADE9C79BB57E253A0D4" pageId="4" pageNumber="25">Santschi 1914</bibRefCitation>
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: 107 (q.). [Combination in
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<taxonomicName id="D6301EBB456A9B047E29F4CD8E93F3C6" family="Formicidae" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="L. (Goniothorax)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="25" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Goniothorax">L. (Goniothorax)</taxonomicName>
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:
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<bibRefCitation id="14345E6E18D7DA8B0E596DEF809CEF70" author="Emery, C" journalOrPublisher="Bullettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana" pageId="10" pageNumber="31" pagination="33 - 107" title="Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. XVII-XXV." volume="28" year="1896">Emery 1896</bibRefCitation>
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: 58 (footnote); in
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<taxonomicName id="BC9DCD8FB1D3D05922562D1EBC05A0E6" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Nesomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nesomyrmex" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="25" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Nesomyrmex</taxonomicName>
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<bibRefCitation id="783599AA359253969612DCDCE7BEA9E0" author="Bolton, B" journalOrPublisher="Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute" pageId="9" pageNumber="30" pagination="1 - 370" title="Synopsis and classification of Formicidae." volume="71" year="2003">Bolton 2003: 272</bibRefCitation>
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. See also:
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<bibRefCitation id="3AD2BF7AC094427D906484355A21CB01" author="Mbanyana, N" journalOrPublisher="African Natural History" pageId="11" pageNumber="32" pagination="35 - 55" title="Review of the ant genus Nesomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) in southern Africa." volume="4" year="2008">Mbanyana and Robertson 2008</bibRefCitation>
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: 38. Current subspecies: nominal plus lybica].
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</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="045261A21B2BEF6B844B9DF74057C2A1" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Leptothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" infraspecific-rank="r." kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Leptothorax angulatus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="25" phylum="Arthropoda" race="ilgii" rank="race" species="angulatus">Leptothorax angulatus r. ilgii</taxonomicName>
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Forel, 1894: 82 (w.). ETHIOPIA. Santschi 1912: 148 (q.). [Combination in
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<taxonomicName id="4093F885A2FC49188854A4EAADB817B6" family="Formicidae" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="L. (Goniothorax)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="25" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Goniothorax">L. (Goniothorax)</taxonomicName>
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<bibRefCitation id="FFDD0EF6357C2A832167027CD0B71E31" author="Wheeler, WM" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History" pageId="12" pageNumber="33" pagination="1 - 1055" title="Ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa." volume="45" year="1922">Wheeler W.M. 1922</bibRefCitation>
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: 891. Junior synonym of
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<taxonomicName id="BD29AF2BEA0F73269D5C876285FEBC09" family="Formicidae" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="N. angulatus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="25" rank="species" species="angulatus">N. angulatus</taxonomicName>
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<bibRefCitation id="043CFACD9431637456913740475F41EA" author="Bolton, B" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology" pageId="9" pageNumber="30" pagination="245 - 307" title="A revision of six minor genera of Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region." volume="43" year="1982">Bolton 1982</bibRefCitation>
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: 324].
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<taxonomicName id="FC225E0476B7F9A647004AD501C2A977" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Leptothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Leptothorax latinodis" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="25" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="latinodis">Leptothorax latinodis</taxonomicName>
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Mayr, 1895: 130 (w.). MOZAMBIQUE. [Combination in
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<taxonomicName id="04A6EFC85A4E1E160A04291F77EBAA0A" family="Formicidae" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="L. (Goniothorax)" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="25" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Goniothorax">L. (Goniothorax)</taxonomicName>
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<bibRefCitation id="5546F10354A8E8A3ED279B1FC2099582" author="Emery, C" journalOrPublisher="Bullettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana" pageId="10" pageNumber="31" pagination="33 - 107" title="Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. XVII-XXV." volume="28" year="1896">Emery 1896</bibRefCitation>
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: 58 (footnote). Junior synonym of
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<taxonomicName id="A702D5784B28C04D4AB9CC6621A64623" family="Formicidae" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="N. angulatus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="25" rank="species" species="angulatus">N. angulatus</taxonomicName>
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<bibRefCitation id="ECF4470D50A228559B139769BA48BAE7" author="Bolton, B" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology" pageId="9" pageNumber="30" pagination="245 - 307" title="A revision of six minor genera of Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region." volume="43" year="1982">Bolton 1982</bibRefCitation>
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: 324].
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<taxonomicName id="07E3D9E008B19B509C0027DF3055208C" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Leptothorax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" infraspecific-rank="var." kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Leptothorax angulatus var. concolor" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="25" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="variety" species="angulatus" variety="concolor">Leptothorax angulatus var. concolor</taxonomicName>
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Santschi, 1914: 107, fig. 15 (w.) KENYA.
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<bibRefCitation id="1450C5BA73A593291C43A3F2161C5F2C" author="Emery, C" journalOrPublisher="Portici" pageId="10" pageNumber="31" pagination="3 - 26" title="Formiche raccolte nell'Eritrea dal Prof. F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura." volume="10" year="1915">Emery 1915</bibRefCitation>
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: 16 (q.m.). [Junior synonym of
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<taxonomicName id="DD92AE1D3A46F5AB629F904EAC59F73E" family="Formicidae" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="N. angulatus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="25" rank="species" species="angulatus">N. angulatus</taxonomicName>
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<bibRefCitation id="BE6118EAAA33660200CB19374420EEA5" author="Bolton, B" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology" pageId="9" pageNumber="30" pagination="245 - 307" title="A revision of six minor genera of Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region." volume="43" year="1982">Bolton 1982</bibRefCitation>
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: 324].
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<paragraph id="964D720027C9C751248604D7D309165A" pageId="4" pageNumber="25">Material examined.</paragraph>
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KENYA: Coast Province, Malindi, Arabuko Sokoke Forest, -3.29, 39.98, 10-15 m, coastal hard wood forest, 24.V.2001 (R.R. Snelling) (FHGC: 3w); Coast Province, Malindi, Arabuko Sokoke Forest, -3.321, 39.929, 50 m, coastal dry forest, VI.2009 (F. Hita Garcia & G. Fischer) (FHGC: 3w); Rift Valley Province, Laikipia, Ewaso Ngiro, near Mpala Research Centre, 0.30, 36.91, 1600 m,
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woodland, 10.IV.2001 (R.R. Snelling) (FHGC: 10w); Rift Valley Province, Laikipia, Mpala Research Centre, 0.29, 36.9, 1650 m,
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woodland, 27.-28.IX.1999 and 24.III.2001 (R.R. Snelling) (FHGC: 3w); Western Province, Kakamega Forest, Buyangu Village, 0.3590, 34.8708, 1590 m, farmland, VII.2007 (F. Hita Garcia) (FHGC: 3w); MOZAMBIQUE: Sofala Province, Gorongosa National Park, Explore Gorongosa Park, -18.927, 34.378, 24 m, Fever tree forest, 20.V.2012 (G.D. Alpert) (MCZC: 3w); Sofala Province, Gorongosa National Park, 3 km W Chitengo, -18.992, 34.325, 37 m, riverine forest, 19.IV.2013 (G.D. Alpert) (MCZC: 3w); KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA: Al Baha Province, Al Mukhwah, Dhi Ayn Archeological village,
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, 741 m, 18.V.2010, (M. R. Sharaf) (KSMA: 3w); Elqamh park, Baljurshi,
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, alt. 1931 m, 17.V.2010, (M. R. Sharaf) (KSMA: 1w). Asir Province, Khamis Mushayt, W. Ben Hashbal,
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, 1892 m, 26.IV.2011, (M. R. Sharaf) (KSMA: 6w); ZIMBABWE: Zebra Island, south side, -16.573, 28. 901, 12.V.2012 (J.K. Wetterer) (FHGC: 1w).
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The following character combination distinguishes
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from the other members of the group in the Arabian Peninsula: third mandibular tooth relatively larger and better developed; anterior clypeal lobe always conspicuously developed, convex and rounded, never with a small median triangular projection; clypeus with median longitudinal carina; pronotum anterodorsally without sharp, dentate corners; in profile mesosomal dorsum forming a single, uninterrupted flat surface without any trace of metanotal groove; petiole with very well developed node.
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(n=19). HL 0.70-0.91; HW 0.55-0.71; SL 0.50-0.67; EL 0.17-0.22; PH 0.26-0.41; PW 0.37-0.57; WL 0.75-1.21; PSL 0.05-0.14; PTL 0.17-0.27; PTH 0.20-0.34; PTW 0.20-0.34; PPL 0.15-0.26; PPH 0.17-0.30; PPW
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-0.40; OI 27-35; SI 88-97; CI 76-86; DMI 44-56; LMI 30-37; PSLI 6-16; LPeI 57-88; DPeI 114-137; LPpI 68-91; DPpI 154-188; PPI 111-160.
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<subSubSection id="AAF548B7FDCF1CFF20DE931036058A7B" pageId="5" pageNumber="26" type="distribution">
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<paragraph id="96B637854B4CBD6A20C6C53FDCBB98E7" pageId="5" pageNumber="26">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="10C4FA3A356C369881EB59F6BF30593C" pageId="5" pageNumber="26">
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As already pointed out by
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<bibRefCitation id="82E83DD48FC1EA8EDC48D0611EBB9E66" author="Hita, Garcia F" journalOrPublisher="European Journal of Taxonomy" pageId="10" pageNumber="31" pagination="1 - 31" title="Taxonomy of the ant genus Nesomyrmex Wheeler (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) in the Afrotropical region, with a review of current species groups and description of a new species of the N. angulatus group from Mozambique." url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.258" volume="258" year="2017">Hita Garcia et al. (2017)</bibRefCitation>
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, this species has the widest distribution of any species of the
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<taxonomicName id="EB319FE7FFC784076993D7EFB1BCA5F7" lsidName="N. angulatus" pageId="5" pageNumber="26" rank="species" species="angulatus">N. angulatus</taxonomicName>
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group, and is certainly the most widespread
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<taxonomicName id="5AE71BD32DCC1B904214D509F4843A7C" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Nesomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nesomyrmex" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Nesomyrmex</taxonomicName>
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species worldwide.
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<taxonomicName id="61EADFFD9ABF43880756F21AAD9C8871" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Nesomyrmex" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nesomyrmex angulatus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="angulatus">Nesomyrmex angulatus</taxonomicName>
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has been reported from most African countries, as well as on the Arabian Peninsula and most of the Malagasy Region. The species seems to prefer comparatively arid environments and is predominantly found in cavities of dead wood, trunk of trees, lower vegetation and rarely on the ground (
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<bibRefCitation id="141684F20D559CD3712D28F96C3983B0" author="Bolton, B" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology" pageId="9" pageNumber="30" pagination="245 - 307" title="A revision of six minor genera of Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region." volume="43" year="1982">Bolton 1982</bibRefCitation>
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;
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<bibRefCitation id="F4E2B114B204A8BF8521023EF9E0A70C" author="Mbanyana, N" journalOrPublisher="African Natural History" pageId="11" pageNumber="32" pagination="35 - 55" title="Review of the ant genus Nesomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) in southern Africa." volume="4" year="2008">Mbanyana and Robertson 2008</bibRefCitation>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="9FC4D51F9764B90AA3A47939EE3DEC5A" pageId="5" pageNumber="26" type="comments">
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<paragraph id="8EE8CEC642BFFCE0AF519657EFAC7EF6" pageId="5" pageNumber="26">Comments.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="FA3830C4FAA16FCEE3740CECF5E35A42" pageId="5" pageNumber="26">
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This species exhibits remarkable variability throughout its distributional range, most notably in the shape of the petiolar node (
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<bibRefCitation id="93744C577B8DFDA34E279AC7534FCB4A" author="Bolton, B" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology" pageId="9" pageNumber="30" pagination="245 - 307" title="A revision of six minor genera of Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region." volume="43" year="1982">Bolton 1982</bibRefCitation>
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,
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<bibRefCitation id="B598D02F81429F045446B7BD1184CD8C" author="Hita, Garcia F" journalOrPublisher="European Journal of Taxonomy" pageId="10" pageNumber="31" pagination="1 - 31" title="Taxonomy of the ant genus Nesomyrmex Wheeler (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) in the Afrotropical region, with a review of current species groups and description of a new species of the N. angulatus group from Mozambique." url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.258" volume="258" year="2017">Hita Garcia et al. 2017</bibRefCitation>
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), but it is also relatively variable in body size and eye size. It is likely that the material currently understood to be
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<taxonomicName id="84A141D1719903B45C3E7A248DC777FA" lsidName="N. angulatus" pageId="5" pageNumber="26" rank="species" species="angulatus">N. angulatus</taxonomicName>
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is actually a complex of cryptic species. However, in order to examine this question in detail it would be necessary to gather substantial material from throughout its whole distribution range from numerous museum collections. Despite that this is a highly desirable undertaking; it is outside the scope of the current study that focuses on the Arabian fauna only.
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<paragraph id="7186F3885043D2D1B6C0584A4156812E" pageId="5" pageNumber="26">
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Figure 4.
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(CASENT0922010 - Antweb, Zachary Lieberman 2015). A Body in profile B Body in dorsal view C Head in full-face view.
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