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<emphasis id="B97A3248FFB4C053868CFF70BEE6FF4F" bold="true" box="[151,393,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="533">Nicolaus bihamatus</emphasis>
Xing &amp; Li
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(
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10, 2840, 6568)
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<emphasis id="B97A3248FFB4C053868CFEE4BE0EFEE6" box="[151,353,259,280]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="533">Nicolaus bihamatus</emphasis>
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149, figs 139: 15.
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<emphasis id="B97A3248FFB4C053868CF91BBE3AF8EC" bold="true" box="[151,341,1788,1811]" pageId="5" pageNumber="533">FIGURES 2840.</emphasis>
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Xing &amp; Li
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: 28. Head and thorax; 29. Face; 30. Male pygofer, lateral view (India); 31. Caudal region of pygofer, lateral view (India); 32 &amp; 33. Variation in caudal region of pygofer, lateral view (Pakistan); 34. Connective, style, valve and subgenital plate, dorsal view (India); 35. Connective and aedeagus, ventroposterior view (India); 36 &amp; 37. Lateral &amp; latero-ventral views of aedeagus (India); 38 &amp; 39. Variations in the distal apices of preatrial processes (Pakistan); 40. Female seventh sternite, mutilated along the hatched lines.
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Coloration similar to
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<emphasis id="B97A3248FFB4C053878FF852BD73F832" box="[404,540,1973,1996]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="533">N. cornutus</emphasis>
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but crown of head with submarginal brown stripe each side of median line anteriorly and tiny spot on gena adjacent lorum, black.
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<paragraph id="8BB1EE5AFFB7C05086DCFF70BEFCFF2B" blockId="6.[151,1436,151,1005]" pageId="6" pageNumber="534">Head slightly longer than median length of pronotum. Pronotum about as long as combined median length of scutum and scutellum.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B97A3248FFB7C05086DCFF07BE1AFF06" box="[199,373,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="534">Male genitalia.</emphasis>
Pygofer caudoventrally rounded with internal tooth-like short process. Subgenital plate with emargination on lateral margin near apex. Style with prominent subapaical lobe, apophysis slender, strongly laterally curved. Aedeagus with shaft membranous except for a narrow dorsal sclerotized rod; preatrial processes bladelike, with ventral margin convexly expanded subapically and apically abruptly broadened with two ventral denticles.
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<emphasis id="B97A3248FFB7C05086DCFE73BEE6FE52" box="[199,393,404,428]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="534">Female genitalia</emphasis>
. Seventh sternite three times as wide at base as long medially, posterior margin medially slightly produced with median short incision. First pair of valvulae tapered gradually near apex. Teeth on the second pair of valvulae in distal half close together, distance between them less than length of each tooth.
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<emphasis id="B97A3248FFB7C05086DCFDE6BE1EFDE6" box="[199,369,513,536]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="534">Measurements.</emphasis>
Male
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long,
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wide across eyes. Female
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long,
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wide across eyes.
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<emphasis id="B97A3248FFB7C05086DCFDC3BEC8FDC2" box="[199,423,548,572]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="534">Material examined.</emphasis>
<collectingCountry id="F319AECAFFB7C05087A9FDC3BD69FDC2" box="[434,518,548,572]" name="India" pageId="6" pageNumber="534">INDIA</collectingCountry>
: Karnataka:
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, Biligirirangana Hills,
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,
<date id="FFB0C89AFFB7C050825EFDC3BBAFFDC3" box="[1093,1216,548,573]" pageId="6" pageNumber="534" value="1977-08-09">9.viii.1977</date>
, C.A. Viraktamath (
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);
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, Gonibidu,
<date id="FFB0C89AFFB7C05087D1FDA0BD59FD9E" box="[458,566,583,608]" pageId="6" pageNumber="534" value="1983-01-28">28.i.1983</date>
, Shashidhar; 1♀, Mudigere, RRS,
<date id="FFB0C89AFFB7C05085C4FDA0BB25FD9E" box="[991,1098,583,608]" pageId="6" pageNumber="534" value="1975-04-07">7.iv.1975</date>
, C.A. Viraktamath (
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). Meghalaya:
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, Shillong: Umiam,
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, C.A. Viraktamath (
<collectionCode id="ED1F769FFFB7C050858DFD8BBC88FD7A" box="[918,999,620,644]" httpUri="http://grbio.org/cool/yr7i-jnjm" name="University of Agricultural Sciences" pageId="6" pageNumber="534">UASB</collectionCode>
).
<collectingCountry id="F319AECAFFB7C05085E7FD8BBBE9FD7A" box="[1020,1158,620,644]" name="Pakistan" pageId="6" pageNumber="534">PAKISTAN</collectingCountry>
:
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, Punjab,
<date id="FFB0C89AFFB7C050832AFD8BBAF8FD7B" box="[1329,1431,620,645]" pageId="6" pageNumber="534" value="1985-08">viii.1985</date>
, C.W. &amp; L.B. OBrien (
<collectionCode id="ED1F769FFFB7C050878CFD77BE9EFD56" box="[407,497,656,680]" pageId="6" pageNumber="534">BMNH</collectionCode>
).
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<subSubSection id="C314BDD1FFB7C05086DCFD53BCEAFC13" pageId="6" pageNumber="534" type="discussion">
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<emphasis id="B97A3248FFB7C05086DCFD53BE54FD33" bold="true" box="[199,315,692,717]" pageId="6" pageNumber="534">Remarks.</emphasis>
This is a new record of the species from the Indian subcontinent. This species forms a group with
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<emphasis id="B97A3248FFB7C0508399FD52BAFAFD32" box="[1410,1429,693,716]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="534">N</emphasis>
.
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Stiller
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,
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<emphasis id="B97A3248FFB7C0508746FD3EBE1FFD0E" box="[349,368,729,752]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="534">N</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B97A3248FFB7C0508765FD3FBE99FD11" box="[382,502,728,751]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="534">trispinatus</emphasis>
Stiller
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, and
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.
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<emphasis id="B97A3248FFB7C050851EFD30BC30FD0E" bold="true" box="[773,863,727,752]" pageId="6" pageNumber="534">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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in having a partially sclerotized elongate aedeagal shaft.
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The species shows variation in the shape of the head among the specimens from Shillong and Karnataka. Both male and female from Karnataka have a longer and more pointed crown (
<figureCitation id="1335F2DFFFB7C05085CEFCA3BB7EFCA3" box="[981,1041,836,861]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 8" captionStartId="1.[151,264,1583,1606]" captionTargetBox="[247,1334,206,1552]" captionTargetId="figure@1.[235,1353,193,1563]" captionTargetPageId="1" captionText="FIGURES 1 8. Species of Nicolaus. 1 &amp; 2. N. abuensis sp. nov., female; 3 &amp; 4. N. bidentatus sp. nov., male; 5 &amp; 6. N. cornutus sp. nov., male; 7 10. Nicolaus bihamatus Xing &amp; Li: 7 &amp; 8. Female from Mudigere; 9 &amp; 10. Male from Shillong." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/228653/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="534">Fig.7</figureCitation>
) than the male from Shillong (Fig. 9). The specimens from
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and
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also show some variation in the structure of male genitalia (
<figureCitation id="1335F2DFFFB7C0508306FC80BE7DFC5A" captionStart="FIGURES 28 40" captionStartId="5.[151,264,1788,1811]" captionTargetBox="[236,1361,346,1752]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[225,1362,330,1767]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURES 28 40. Nicolaus bihamatus Xing &amp; Li: 28. Head and thorax; 29. Face; 30. Male pygofer, lateral view (India); 31. Caudal region of pygofer, lateral view (India); 32 &amp; 33. Variation in caudal region of pygofer, lateral view (Pakistan); 34. Connective, style, valve and subgenital plate, dorsal view (India); 35. Connective and aedeagus, ventroposterior view (India); 36 &amp; 37. Lateral &amp; latero-ventral views of aedeagus (India); 38 &amp; 39. Variations in the distal apices of preatrial processes (Pakistan); 40. Female seventh sternite, mutilated along the hatched lines." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/228656/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="534">Figs 3133 and 3839</figureCitation>
) and differ from typical specimens from
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in the pygofer processes being internal rather than external, the slightly broader aedeagal shaft in ventral view and in the shape of the distal part of the preatrial processes. Therefore, identification of these specimens is tentative.
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