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<mods:namePart>Stark, Bill P.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Sivec, Ignac</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Shimizu, Takao</mods:namePart>
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Stark &amp; Sivec
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(
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[189,430,1584,1608]" pageId="3" pageNumber="137">Material examined.</emphasis>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[189,258,1728,1752]" pageId="3" pageNumber="137">Male.</emphasis>
General color in alcohol brown. Head and legs without distinctive pattern, wings pale brown with darker veins. Forewing length 6.0 mm. Vesicle typical of genus, rounded apically and attached to anterior margin of sternum 9 by a narrow pedicel (
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). Posterior margin of sternum 9 thickened, darkly sclerotized and slightly produced as a pair of narrowly separated lobes (
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). Tergum 10 with mesal sclerite half rounded and offset from adjacent sclerites by narrow membranous strips. Posterolateral margins of tergum 10 bearing on each side a prominent blade-like process with truncate apex (
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). Epiproct curved forward over tergum 10, apex rounded. Cerci curved upwards in lateral aspect, subcylindrical, slightly swollen apically and without apical spine (
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). Paraprocts fused into a complexly folded, apically swollen structure with fine striations on surface (
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); apex broadly triangular without notch.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[835,1041,658,682]" pageId="3" pageNumber="137">Putative Female.</emphasis>
General habitus similar to male. Forewing length 7.0 mm. Sternum 7 prolonged as a narrow, triangular point extending over base of sternum 8. Sclerite on sternum 8 constricted mesally and shaped somewhat like an hour-glass (
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[835,910,836,860]" pageId="3" pageNumber="137">Larva.</emphasis>
Unknown.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[835,973,872,896]" pageId="3" pageNumber="137">Etymology.</emphasis>
The species name, used as a noun in apposition, is based on the 
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locality.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[835,964,943,967]" pageId="3" pageNumber="137">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Males share the modified posterior margin of tergum 9 with several other species, including 
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<emphasis box="[962,1092,1015,1039]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="137">R. gladifera</emphasis>
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and 
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in 
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, although in 
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these structures appear thicker. In addition, 
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is the only known species in which the posterolateral processes of tergum 10 have truncate tips and are thin and blade-like.
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The female association is based on co-occurrence of male and female at the same site. The subgenital plate outline is generally similar to that of two Japanese species (
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in 
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, and 
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<emphasis box="[1089,1239,1370,1394]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="137">R. ebinokogen</emphasis>
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in 
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), but the relatively wide, mesally constricted sclerite on sternum 8 is typical of 
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.
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The species is an apparent member of the “ 
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group” recognized by 
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.
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