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,
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, C.
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, Oromia, Southern Bale Mts, Harenna Forest, Katcha clearing,
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21.II.
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, leg. Levene &amp; D. Wiersbowsky (
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G 19652).
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<emphasis id="EBE9EA9F1D6B3926FF1EF96AFE88F948" bold="true" box="[199,345,1737,1762]" pageId="22" pageNumber="23">Description.</emphasis>
Adult (
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). Wingspan. Male
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. Ground colour pale bluish green, irrorated with white strigulae. Forewing without spot at the inner termen. On fore- and hindwings, black discal dots barely visible, terminal dots absent. Hindwing termen slightly angled at M3. Length of male palpi 1.0 times diameter of eye, tip and upperside brown, underside whitish. Frons green. Antennae bipectinate in male, antennal branches pale ochre, at base slightly darker. Male frenulum present.
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Male genitalia (
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). Uncus long and narrow. Socii barely visible. Valva elongate, costa with dorsobasal rounded process (cf. preceding species). Subapical ventral lobe of valva narrowly elongated, ventral part of valva corrugate, towards centre of valva with a short, spinulose crest, reminiscent of the equivalent in the preceding species. Sacculus ending in a long, straight, stoutly sclerotized, laterally spinulose process. Aedeagus with very short basal stalk, length of aedeagus
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. Sternum A8 widely bilobous.
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<emphasis id="EBE9EA9F1D6A3927FF1EFF7CFE1CFF52" bold="true" box="[199,461,223,248]" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Differential diagnosis.</emphasis>
In size and habitus very similar to
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<emphasis id="EBE9EA9F1D6A3927FC8CFF42FC20FF52" box="[853,1009,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">P. amharensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="EBE9EA9F1D6A3927FC2EFF7CFBE6FF52" bold="true" box="[1015,1079,223,248]" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">sp. n.</emphasis>
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, but in male genitalia and DNA barcode (distance 7.2%) clearly different.
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<emphasis id="EBE9EA9F1D6A3927FDB5FEA6FCDBFEB7" box="[620,778,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">P. leveneorum</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="EBE9EA9F1D6A3927FCC9FEA7FC9EFEB7" bold="true" box="[784,847,260,285]" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">sp. n.</emphasis>
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is the only known
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species with a huge, long, straight, sclerotized sacculus and the only showing a dorsobasal rounded process at the costa of valva. In habitus also reminiscent of
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<emphasis id="EBE9EA9F1D6A3927FE12FEEEFDBEFECE" box="[459,623,333,356]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">P. aquamarina</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="EBE9EA9F1D6A3927FDAFFEEFFD67FECF" bold="true" box="[630,694,332,357]" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">sp. n.</emphasis>
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, for genetic divergence see below.
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<emphasis id="EBE9EA9F1D6A3927FF1EFECCFEB6FE22" bold="true" box="[199,359,367,392]" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Genetic data.</emphasis>
So far, only short COI fragments (164bp) were obtained, without assignation of BIN. Nearest neighbours in
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:
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(1.9%),
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<emphasis id="EBE9EA9F1D6A3927FCA3FE37FC6BFE07" bold="true" box="[890,954,404,429]" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">sp. n.</emphasis>
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(2.5%), the short distances perhaps biased by the short-fragement condition of the sequence of
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<emphasis id="EBE9EA9F1D6A3927FD2FFE1AFC47FE7A" box="[758,918,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">P. leveneorum</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="EBE9EA9F1D6A3927FC79FE14FC33FE7A" bold="true" box="[928,994,439,464]" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">sp. n.</emphasis>
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The close genetic relationship with
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<emphasis id="EBE9EA9F1D6A3927FA5EFE1AFEF1FE5E" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">P. aquamarina</emphasis>
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suggests them to be a pair of sibling species.
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<emphasis id="EBE9EA9F1D6A3927FF1EFE5CFE9FFDB2" bold="true" box="[199,334,511,536]" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Etymology.</emphasis>
The name refers to Mr. and Mrs. Guy and Yvonne Levene and their sons William and Max, for strongly supporting the EIP (Ethiopian Insects Project) and for collecting the
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.
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