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<mods:title>Platyparadonus, A New Circum-Caribbean Genus Of Sand-Associated Negastriinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae)</mods:title>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[129,444,1476,1501]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="22">Platyparadonus marleyi</emphasis>
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Etzler and
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Ivie,
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,
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, 24–27)
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Diagnosis.—A generally larger size, Ẑ
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, a dark brown body with con-
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trasting legs and antennae, and an aedeagus that is as long as the abdomen and curved basally, will readily separate this species from the only other known species,
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.
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Description.—Dark brown with legs and antennae amber, contrasting body. Length 3.0–
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. Antennomeres 3–10 about 2X longer than wide, apical end lighter than basal two-thirds. Aedeagus (
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) relatively long, around
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, nearly as long as abdomen, with basal curve, basal struts of median lobe not reach base of parameres, not passing basal curve.
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Etymology.— The specific name is named to honor Robert ‘Bob’ Nesta Marley, to recognize his importance in spreading Reggae music throughout the world, and to recognize his connection to
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, where he was born.
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Specimens examined.—
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11.
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:
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,
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150/
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., B. M. 1936–555, (
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).
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<collectingDate box="[763,938,1059,1084]" pageId="7" pageNumber="22" value="1936-07-17">July 17, 1936</collectingDate>
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150/
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; 2,
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).
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VIRGIN IS:
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,
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<collectingDate pageId="7" pageNumber="22" value="1979-05-22" valueMax="1979-06-27" valueMin="1979-05-22">22 MAY–27 JUN 1979</collectingDate>
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/ sifted from under wrack and under rocks on beach/
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(1,
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);
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</materialsCitation>
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<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="2592535368" collectingDate="1980-08-15" collectionCode="WIBF" collectorName="M. A. Ivie Colr" location="Lameshur Bay" municipality="St. John" pageId="7" pageNumber="22" specimenCode="WIBF 017008, WIBF 017009" specimenCount="1">
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<collectingMunicipality box="[911,1018,1325,1350]" pageId="7" pageNumber="22">St. John</collectingMunicipality>
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,
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<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:038A7E33FFBD9930FF4AFA1AFBA7FB33:8EFC99FEFFBD993FFBC0FAF3FD4FFAF4" municipality="St. John" name="Lameshur Bay" pageId="7" pageNumber="22">Lameshur Bay</location>
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, V.I.E.R.S.,
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<date box="[869,1060,1358,1383]" pageId="7" pageNumber="22" value="1980-08-15">
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<collectingDate box="[869,1060,1358,1383]" pageId="7" pageNumber="22" value="1980-08-15">15 AUG 1980</collectingDate>
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</date>
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, at UV light/
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<collectorName box="[725,920,1392,1417]" pageId="7" pageNumber="22">M. A. Ivie Colr</collectorName>
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. (2,
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<specimenCode box="[973,1156,1392,1417]" pageId="7" pageNumber="22">WIBF 017008</specimenCode>
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,
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<specimenCode box="[651,838,1425,1450]" pageId="7" pageNumber="22">WIBF 017009</specimenCode>
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).
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</paragraph>
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Discussion and field notes.— To date, this species has only been collected on
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<collectingCountry box="[651,720,1524,1549]" name="Cuba" pageId="7" pageNumber="22">Cuba</collectingCountry>
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,
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<collectingCountry box="[744,849,1524,1549]" name="Jamaica" pageId="7" pageNumber="22">Jamaica</collectingCountry>
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, and St. John, in the Greater Antilles. As a geographical note, the
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<collectingCountry box="[697,873,1591,1616]" name="Virgin Islands" pageId="7" pageNumber="22">Virgin Islands</collectingCountry>
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belong to the geologic and biogeographic Greater Antilles (
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<bibRefCitation author="Donnelly, T. W." box="[659,855,1657,1682]" pageId="7" pageNumber="22" pagination="15 - 37" refId="ref5161" refString="Donnelly, T. W. 1988. Geologic constraints on Caribbean biogeography, pp. 15 - 37. In Liebherr, J. K. (ed.). Zoogeography of Caribbean insects. Cornell Press, Ithaca, NY." type="book chapter" year="1988">Donnelly 1988</bibRefCitation>
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), the
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<collectingCountry box="[936,1047,1657,1682]" name="British Virgin Islands" pageId="7" pageNumber="22">Anegada</collectingCountry>
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Passage being the divider between the Greater and Lesser Antilles.
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The Jamaican series of specimens was collected by Malcolm Cameron (
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<date pageId="8" pageNumber="23" value="1873" valueMax="1954">1873– 1954</date>
|
||
) a specialist on
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[441,618,262,287]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Staphylinidae</taxonomicName>
|
||
. He collected in the West Indies while a naval surgeon with the British Royal Navy. During this period, he was particularly interested in coastal
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Fleming" authorityYear="1821" box="[435,606,395,420]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Aleocharinae">Aleocharinae</taxonomicName>
|
||
, and produced three major descriptive works on West Indian staphylinids (
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Cameron, M." pageId="8" pageNumber="23" pagination="321 - 351" refId="ref5054" refString="Cameron, M., 1913. Descriptions of new species of Staphylinidae from the West Indies. Part I. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History series 8, 12: 321 - 351." type="journal article" year="1913">Cameron 1913</bibRefCitation>
|
||
,
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Cameron, M." box="[247,313,495,520]" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" pagination="633 - 652" refId="ref5091" refString="Cameron, M. 1922. Descriptions of new species of Staphylinidae from the West Indies. Part II. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9: 633 - 652." type="journal article" year="1922">1922</bibRefCitation>
|
||
,
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Cameron, M." box="[335,403,495,520]" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" pagination="363 - 400" refId="ref5124" refString="Cameron, M. 1923. Descriptions of new species of Staphylinidae from the West Indies. Part II (cont.). The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11: 363 - 400." type="journal article" year="1923">1923</bibRefCitation>
|
||
). Some hint of the habitat of Cameron’s specimens of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Etzler and Ivie" authorityYear="2019" box="[159,296,562,586]" class="Insecta" family="Elateridae" genus="Platyparadonus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="marleyi">
|
||
<emphasis box="[159,175,563,586]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">P</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
<emphasis box="[201,296,562,586]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">marleyi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
can be gained from other species Cameron collected at Port Royal.
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Blackwelder, R. E." box="[159,443,628,653]" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" pagination="1 - 658" refId="ref4993" refString="Blackwelder, R. E. 1943. Monograph of the West Indian beetles of the family Staphylinidae. Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum 182: iviii, 1 - 658." type="journal article" year="1943">Blackwelder’s (1943)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
revision of the West Indian
|
||
<taxonomicName box="[326,499,661,686]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Staphylinidae</taxonomicName>
|
||
has two references to Port Royal,
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[450,555,694,719]" name="Jamaica" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">Jamaica</collectingCountry>
|
||
, both associated with Cameron. First, Cameron described
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="Cameron, 1922" authorityName="Cameron" authorityYear="1922" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Cafius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subtilis">
|
||
<emphasis box="[312,515,761,785]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">Cafius subtilis</emphasis>
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Cameron, M." pageId="8" pageNumber="23" pagination="633 - 652" refId="ref5091" refString="Cameron, M. 1922. Descriptions of new species of Staphylinidae from the West Indies. Part II. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9: 633 - 652." type="journal article" year="1922">Cameron, 1922</bibRefCitation>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, from
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[330,435,794,819]" name="Jamaica" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">Jamaica</collectingCountry>
|
||
, with no further mention of locality or date.
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Blackwelder, R. E." pageId="8" pageNumber="23" pagination="1 - 658" refId="ref4993" refString="Blackwelder, R. E. 1943. Monograph of the West Indian beetles of the family Staphylinidae. Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum 182: iviii, 1 - 658." type="journal article" year="1943">Blackwelder (1943)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
examined Cameron’s
|
||
<typeStatus box="[538,607,861,885]" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">types</typeStatus>
|
||
, and narrowed the
|
||
<typeStatus box="[331,385,894,918]" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">type</typeStatus>
|
||
locality to Port Royal, apparently from label data on the
|
||
<typeStatus box="[159,228,961,985]" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">types</typeStatus>
|
||
, but without date information. The habitat of
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Cameron" authorityYear="1922" box="[303,438,993,1017]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Cafius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subtilis">
|
||
<emphasis box="[303,324,994,1017]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">C</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
<emphasis box="[347,438,993,1017]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">subtilis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is mentioned by
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Blackwelder, R. E." box="[159,466,1026,1051]" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" pagination="1 - 658" refId="ref4993" refString="Blackwelder, R. E. 1943. Monograph of the West Indian beetles of the family Staphylinidae. Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum 182: iviii, 1 - 658." type="journal article" year="1943">Blackwelder (1943: 437)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
as “I have found it under seaweed and drift on sandy beaches.” A second Port Royal record from Cameron is
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="(Erichson, 1840) (Blackwelder 1943)" authorityName="Blackwelder" authorityYear="1943" baseAuthorityName="Erichson" baseAuthorityYear="1840" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Cafius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bistriatus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[320,529,1126,1150]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">Cafius bistriatus</emphasis>
|
||
(Erichson, 1840) (
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Blackwelder, R. E." box="[252,488,1159,1184]" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" pagination="1 - 658" refId="ref4993" refString="Blackwelder, R. E. 1943. Monograph of the West Indian beetles of the family Staphylinidae. Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum 182: iviii, 1 - 658." type="journal article" year="1943">Blackwelder 1943</bibRefCitation>
|
||
)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Blackwelder, R. E." pageId="8" pageNumber="23" pagination="1 - 658" refId="ref4993" refString="Blackwelder, R. E. 1943. Monograph of the West Indian beetles of the family Staphylinidae. Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum 182: iviii, 1 - 658." type="journal article" year="1943">Blackwelder (1943: 438)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
states about
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Blackwelder" authorityYear="1943" baseAuthorityName="Erichson" baseAuthorityYear="1840" box="[473,628,1193,1217]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Cafius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bistriatus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[473,494,1193,1216]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">C</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
<emphasis box="[512,628,1193,1217]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">bistriatus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
, “I have found it under seaweed and drift on sandy beaches.” As a last bit of evidence that Cameron’s
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Etzler and Ivie" authorityYear="2019" box="[360,488,1292,1316]" class="Insecta" family="Elateridae" genus="Platyparadonus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="marleyi">
|
||
<emphasis box="[360,376,1293,1316]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">P</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
<emphasis box="[394,488,1292,1316]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">marleyi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
was found on sand, Port Royal itself is located on a sand spit, so sandy that it is subject to liquification during the periodic earthquakes that have devastated Port Royal as early as 1692 and as recently as 1907.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="8.[159,670,196,1749]" lastBlockId="8.[701,1212,196,1184]" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">
|
||
The Lameshur and Europa Bay collecting localities are on the south–east coast of
|
||
<collectingRegion box="[274,379,1558,1583]" country="United States Virgin Islands" name="Saint John" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">St. John</collectingRegion>
|
||
in the
|
||
<collectingCountry name="United States Virgin Islands" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">U.S. Virgin Islands</collectingCountry>
|
||
. "Lameshur Bay" by itself is used to refer to the Estate of Lameshur Bay, while the bays themselves are Europa, Great Lameshur and Little Lameshur Bays, and all occur next to one another across narrow peninsulas. The acronym "V.I.E.R.S.," refers to a research station (
|
||
<geoCoordinate box="[710,885,262,287]" degrees="18.322235" direction="north" orientation="latitude" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" precision="1" value="18.322235">18.322235 N</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate box="[905,1084,262,287]" degrees="64.722873" direction="west" orientation="longitude" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" precision="1" value="-64.72287">64.722873 W</geoCoordinate>
|
||
) built by the
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[748,804,296,321]" name="United States of America" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">U.S.</collectingCountry>
|
||
Navy, in cooperation with other agencies, in 1968 to support Project Tektite, an undersea habitat experiment platform from
|
||
<date box="[912,1057,395,420]" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" value="1969" valueMax="1970">1969–1970</date>
|
||
. Originally called the
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[861,1054,428,453]" name="Virgin Islands" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">Virgin Islands</collectingCountry>
|
||
Ecological Research Station (including at the time these specimens were collected), in 1992 it was renamed
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[910,1090,528,553]" name="Virgin Islands" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">Virgin Islands</collectingCountry>
|
||
Environmental Resource Station. Both William Breuleux Muchmore (
|
||
<date box="[979,1124,595,620]" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" value="1920" valueMax="2017">1920–2017</date>
|
||
) (pers. comm.) and MAI used VIERS as their base of operations when these
|
||
<typeStatus box="[1091,1212,662,686]" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">paratypes</typeStatus>
|
||
were collected. The station is built on an alluvial sand area about 1/
|
||
<quantity box="[1030,1096,727,752]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="4.0" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" unit="km" value="4.0">4 km</quantity>
|
||
from the actual beach. MAI’s blacklight was placed to the back of one of the cabins, facing into the forest over sand. Muchmore’s Europa Bay site (
|
||
<geoCoordinate box="[1033,1206,860,885]" degrees="18.318483" direction="north" orientation="latitude" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" precision="1" value="18.318483">18.318483 N</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate box="[701,874,893,918]" degrees="64.731362" direction="west" orientation="longitude" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" precision="1" value="-64.73136">64.731362 W</geoCoordinate>
|
||
) is a km south-west of the Station, the wrack taken from the rockstrewn sand beach.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph blockId="8.[701,1212,196,1184]" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">
|
||
Notebooks for the Darlington specimen collected from
|
||
<collectingCountry box="[900,965,1026,1051]" name="Cuba" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">Cuba</collectingCountry>
|
||
have not been located, but the maps of the area suggest a similar habitat to the above. All of these factors point towards
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Etzler and Ivie" authorityYear="2019" box="[986,1117,1126,1150]" class="Insecta" family="Elateridae" genus="Platyparadonus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="23" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="marleyi">
|
||
<emphasis box="[986,1002,1127,1150]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">P</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
<emphasis box="[1025,1117,1126,1150]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="23">marleyi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
as occurring on or in sandy substrates.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
</document> |