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group (subgenera
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and
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)
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A new species is described here in the
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<emphasis id="B95A2A364C7BC65A1C472B34FD2A2745" box="[615,761,1560,1585]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Ht. antahala</emphasis>
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group, and so it is convenient to characterise its nominal species. The LT ♂ of
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<emphasis id="B95A2A364C7BC65A1FB52B11FDA02721" box="[405,627,1596,1621]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Mycalesis antahala</emphasis>
Ward, 1872
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is here designated as the specimen (
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F) bearing data “
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|
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[in pencil]|Plate 12 Upperside Underside|Ex Coll. CHRIS WARD| Ex Oberthür Coll. Brit. Mus. 1927-3.|P.E.L. Viette det. 1968
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|
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of
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|BMNH(E) # 672567”; a second ♂ becomes PLT (neither bear a locality label, but the
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locality is
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; the LT measures
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total span, not quite “two inches”). This group of mycalesines endemic to
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now should include the crenate-HW
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as well as the more strongly HWtailed mycalesines traditionally placed in the subgenus
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(see below). Here, the status of
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(
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)
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is reassessed, and this is germane to new descriptions. A few of the species in the
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group (
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(
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)
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,
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<taxonomicName id="4C2E8DA74C7BC65A1C822A70FCE12601" box="[674,818,1884,1909]" class="Insecta" family="Tettigoniidae" genus="Gallienia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Orthoptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="alaokola">Ht. alaokola</taxonomicName>
,
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<taxonomicName id="4C2E8DA74C7BC65A1D1F2A70FBBC2601" authority="Butler, 1879" authorityName="Butler" authorityYear="1879" box="[831,1135,1884,1909]" class="Insecta" family="Curculionidae" genus="Heteropsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mabillei">
<emphasis id="B95A2A364C7BC65A1D1F2A70FC152601" box="[831,966,1884,1909]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Ht. mabillei</emphasis>
(
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)
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, and the species described below) are hard to distinguish on the basis of wing pattern alone, while their genitalia are quite distinctive in most cases, but they are nevertheless extremely different in appearance to that of
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<emphasis id="B95A2A364C7BC65A1DC12A88FBA526C9" box="[993,1142,1956,1981]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Ht. paradoxa</emphasis>
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. The last species might be inferred to exhibit miniaturisation and possibly simplification of the ♂ genitalia. The saccus tip to valve tip distance is about
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as opposed to
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in
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group; see also
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group, in respect of possible breakdown in pre-mating isolating system. It may be necessary to inspect androconial features of ♂♂ closely to assist in identification. This group are canopy specialists attracted to ripe fruit as adults (sometimes feeding on fruit
<emphasis id="B95A2A364C78C6591F6E2C28FE472068" box="[334,404,261,284]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">in situ</emphasis>
, sometimes descending to the ground) and probably all are associated with forest bamboos and include at least one species with gregarious larvae (C. Kremen, pers. comm.) and another (
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<emphasis id="B95A2A364C78C6591B212C04FA412034" box="[1281,1426,295,320]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Ht. antahala</emphasis>
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) observed to roost gregariously as adults (
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). The ♂♂ indulge in vigorous hilltopping behaviour on ridgetops, sitting atop bushes just like
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, and making canopy chases. Unfortunately there are as yet no biological observations on the large and obvious monomorphic
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mimic,
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; its female is one of the largest mycalesines globally (around
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fwl). ♂♂ and ♀♀ are generally phenotypically similar except in size, but the species
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exhibits a great deal of polymorphism in both sexes and on both wing surfaces. The
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group occurs from sea level up to montane elevations of around
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, and
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is distributed also in the west and southwest as far as the sacred forest of Analavelona.
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Molecular data now provide good support for monophyly of
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and four sampled members of the
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<emphasis id="B95A2A364C78C6591EB72F40FEF423F1" box="[151,295,620,645]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Ht. antahala</emphasis>
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group: Aduse-Poku
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, 2015,
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; which was submarginally supported (pp=0.91) for the two exemplars in
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Kodandaramaiah
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2010
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). A few morphological characters also supported this, notably (1) the presence of a brush emanating from near the base of space CuA
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the ♂ HW (
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) and overlying at least, vein 1A, a character which is only sporadically seen elsewhere, e.g. in the African
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(Plötz, 1880) group and in
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and (2) the ocelli in hwv space M2, CuA1 and particularly CuA2, where the ventral pattern is pronounced (i.e. not in
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, but in
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), are usually shifted markedly inward relative to brown Sml, along with a weak to strong proximad inflection of the HWV Mb, particularly in space-CuA2 towards the base of the cell. HW strongly crenate to tailed. The FWD tends to be much darker costad, extremely so in
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, except in
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, which has the upper surface suffused with white. This FWD trend can also be seen in ♀♀ of some
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(e.g.
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), but not in the ♂♂; in some other species, darker suffusion is concentrated towards the apex in either sex, rather than the costa. The wing pattern of
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can be interpreted as an extreme ocellus reduction/loss in space CuA1, combined with loss of melanism in the tergad area of the FW (rather than expansion of the white pupil), and adaptation to resting on lichen covered tree trunks and a mid-high canopy lifestyle. It is stated that this clade is specialised to feed on bamboos (
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), but there are no published life histories.
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