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<mods:title>A revision of Afrotropical Astochia Becker, 1913 with descriptions of three new species (Diptera, Asilidae, Asilini)</mods:title>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="159690898" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:241320E1-1B99-4791-A666-E192A3A220DF" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/511A9D99ABF95F19B1240C160DC2F27A" lastPageId="13" lastPageNumber="228" pageId="11" pageNumber="226">
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<taxonomicName LSID="511A9D99-ABF9-5F19-B124-0C160DC2F27A" class="Insecta" family="Asilidae" genus="Astochia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Astochia similis" order="Diptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="226" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="similis">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="11" pageNumber="226" start="start">Astochia</pageBreakToken>
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similis
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="11" pageNumber="226">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 20" captionStartId="F11" captionText="Figure 20. Astochia similis sp. nov. ♂ holotype wing." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figure20" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346345" pageId="11" pageNumber="226" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figure20">Figs 20</figureCitation>
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,
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 21–23" captionStartId="F12" captionText="Figures 21 - 23. Astochia similis sp. nov. ♂ holotype terminalia: 21 lateral 22 dorsal 23 ventral. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures21-23" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346346" pageId="11" pageNumber="226" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures21-23">21-23</figureCitation>
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,
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 26" captionStartId="F15" captionText="Figure 26. Distribution of Astochia species: A. lumarius sp. nov., A. silva sp. nov., similis sp. nov., A. sodalis, A. strachani." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figure26" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346350" pageId="11" pageNumber="226" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figure26">26</figureCitation>
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="12" pageNumber="227" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="227">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="12" pageNumber="227" start="start">Etymology</pageBreakToken>
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.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="227">
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L.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="227">similis</emphasis>
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, like, resembling. So named because of a close resemblance to
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<taxonomicName genus="A." lsidName="A. sodalis" pageId="12" pageNumber="227" rank="species" species="sodalis">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="227">A. sodalis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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.
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<subSubSection lastPageId="13" lastPageNumber="228" pageId="12" pageNumber="227" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="227">Description.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="227">Based on unique holotype specimen.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="12" pageNumber="227">
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="227">Head:</emphasis>
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Dark red-brown to black, silver pruinose, black and white setose. Antenna dark red-brown to black, scape and pedicel black and white setose, postpedicel slightly laterally compressed. Relative lengths of segments (scape as 1) scape 1, pedicel 0.6, postpedicel 1.5, style 2.2 (0.1: 2.0: 0.1 - composed of a tiny basal element followed by a long, thin, seta-like element and tipped with a tiny sensory element). Face black, ventral 2/3 slightly protuberant, entirely strongly silver pruinose. Mystax entirely white, confined to protuberance. Frons black, silver pruinose, black and white setose. Vertex black, silver pruinose, strongly concave. Ocellar tubercle weakly pruinose, with
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="227">c.</emphasis>
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6 black, weakly developed ocellar macrosetae. Occiput uniformly silver pruinose, few black (dorsally) and white setae. Palps dark red-brown, single segmented, white setose. Proboscis dark red-brown to black, straight, white setose.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph lastPageId="13" lastPageNumber="228" pageId="12" pageNumber="227">
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="227">Thorax:</emphasis>
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Dark red-brown to black, silver pruinose, black and white setose. Antepronotum dark red-brown, silver pruinose, white setose. Mesonotum dark red-brown to black, patterned with silver pruinescence (central longitudinal stripe and lateral
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<pageBreakToken pageId="13" pageNumber="228" start="start">patches</pageBreakToken>
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apruinose), entirely black setose except for postpronotal lobes and posterior margin which are fine white setose. Lateral macrosetae black (1 posthumeral, 2 notopleurals, 2 supra-alars, 2 postalars). Scutellum dark red-brown to black, entirely silver pruinose, with 2 black apical macrosetae, disc fine white setose. Pleura dark red-brown, entirely silver pruinose, fine white setose. Katatergal setae moderately well developed, white. Anatergites fine white setose. Postmetacoxal area membranous.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="228">
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">Legs:</emphasis>
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Orange-brown except for anterior surfaces of femora which are dark red-brown. Coxae silver pruinose, white setose. Trochanters weakly white setose. Femora black and white setose. Tibiae and tarsi mostly black setose. Claws, pulvilli and empodia well developed.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="228">
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">Wings</emphasis>
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(
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 20" captionStartId="F11" captionText="Figure 20. Astochia similis sp. nov. ♂ holotype wing." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figure20" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346345" pageId="13" pageNumber="228" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figure20">Fig. 20</figureCitation>
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) Length (humeral crossvein to tip) x breadth (maximum): 9.5
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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3.1 mm. Veins dark red-brown, membrane transparent, weakly microtrichose distally (confined to small areas of cells
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">c</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">sc</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">r</emphasis>
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1,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">r</emphasis>
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2+3,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">r</emphasis>
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4,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">r</emphasis>
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5,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">m</emphasis>
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1), cells
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">m</emphasis>
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3 and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">cua</emphasis>
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closed and stalked.
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</paragraph>
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<caption doi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figure20" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346345" pageId="13" pageNumber="228" start="Figure 20" startId="F11">
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="228">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">Figure 20.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Asilidae" genus="Astochia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Astochia similis" order="Diptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="228" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="similis">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">Astochia similis</emphasis>
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sp. nov. ♂ holotype wing.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="228">
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">Abdomen:</emphasis>
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Dark red-brown to black, silver pruinose, black and white setose.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="228">
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">Male terminalia</emphasis>
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(
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 21–23" captionStartId="F12" captionText="Figures 21 - 23. Astochia similis sp. nov. ♂ holotype terminalia: 21 lateral 22 dorsal 23 ventral. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures21-23" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346346" pageId="13" pageNumber="228" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures21-23">Figs 21-23</figureCitation>
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): Unrotated. Epandrium simple,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">c.</emphasis>
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twice as long as high in lateral view (
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 21–23" captionStartId="F12" captionText="Figures 21 - 23. Astochia similis sp. nov. ♂ holotype terminalia: 21 lateral 22 dorsal 23 ventral. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures21-23" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346346" pageId="13" pageNumber="228" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures21-23">Fig. 21</figureCitation>
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), distally rounded. Dorsally epandrial lobes almost circular in appearance, each lobe lacking obvious projections. Proctiger simple, dorsal lobes appear fused medially, and distal ends diverge. Hypandrium relatively moderately developed, hind margin straight (
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 21–23" captionStartId="F12" captionText="Figures 21 - 23. Astochia similis sp. nov. ♂ holotype terminalia: 21 lateral 22 dorsal 23 ventral. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures21-23" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346346" pageId="13" pageNumber="228" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures21-23">Fig. 23</figureCitation>
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). Gonocoxite subtriangular in lateral view, somewhat pointed distally (
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 21–23" captionStartId="F12" captionText="Figures 21 - 23. Astochia similis sp. nov. ♂ holotype terminalia: 21 lateral 22 dorsal 23 ventral. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures21-23" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346346" pageId="13" pageNumber="228" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures21-23">Fig. 21</figureCitation>
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), distal lobes converging in ventral view (
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 21–23" captionStartId="F12" captionText="Figures 21 - 23. Astochia similis sp. nov. ♂ holotype terminalia: 21 lateral 22 dorsal 23 ventral. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures21-23" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346346" pageId="13" pageNumber="228" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures21-23">Fig. 23</figureCitation>
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). Gonostylus moderately well developed, lobelike, gently dorsally directed and slightly divergent. Aedeagus well developed, relatively stout and appearing forked distally (
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 21–23" captionStartId="F12" captionText="Figures 21 - 23. Astochia similis sp. nov. ♂ holotype terminalia: 21 lateral 22 dorsal 23 ventral. Scale bar: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures21-23" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346346" pageId="13" pageNumber="228" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures21-23">Fig. 23</figureCitation>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<caption doi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figures21-23" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346346" pageId="13" pageNumber="228" start="Figures 21–23" startId="F12">
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="228">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">Figures 21-23.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Asilidae" genus="Astochia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Astochia similis" order="Diptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="228" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="similis">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">Astochia similis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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sp. nov. ♂ holotype terminalia:
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">21</emphasis>
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lateral
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">22</emphasis>
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dorsal
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">23</emphasis>
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ventral. Scale bar: 1 mm.
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="228">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">Female</emphasis>
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: Unknown.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="13" pageNumber="228" type="type material">
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="228">Type material.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="228">
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">Holotype.</emphasis>
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Nigeria: 1♂ holotype 'Nigeria / Soedan Savanne [?] - /
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Zône">Zone</normalizedToken>
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- febr, '74 / leg: Feith en den
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Boer’">Boer'</normalizedToken>
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,
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘NMSA-DIP-03385’">'NMSA-DIP-03385'</normalizedToken>
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(NMSA).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="13" pageNumber="228" type="distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="228">Distribution, phenology and biology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="228">
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Known only from Nigeria. While no precise location is recorded the words 'Soedan
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Savanne’">Savanne'</normalizedToken>
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suggest a north-easterly location, perhaps near Lake Chad (
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="228">c.</emphasis>
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<geoCoordinate degrees="11" direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="55555" value="11.0">11°N</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate degrees="12" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="55555" value="12.0">12°E</geoCoordinate>
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-
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 26" captionStartId="F15" captionText="Figure 26. Distribution of Astochia species: A. lumarius sp. nov., A. silva sp. nov., similis sp. nov., A. sodalis, A. strachani." figureDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figure26" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/346350" pageId="13" pageNumber="228" tableDoi="10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.38432.figure26">Fig. 26</figureCitation>
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), where the environment could be described as savanna. Collected in February (Table
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).
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