Tethina soikai Munari, 1981
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4092.4.2 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6081233 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038587C4-0B73-FFFA-F3E7-FDC1FF64FC25 |
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Plazi |
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Tethina soikai Munari, 1981 |
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Tethina soikai Munari, 1981 View in CoL
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Tethina soikai Munari, 1981: 141 [ Senegal. Rufisque; HT ♂, MSNVE].
Distribution. Afrotropical: Cape Verde Islands, Oman, Senegal.
Remarks. A very rare and enigmatic species closely related to Tethina strobliana (Mercier, 1923) and T. pallipes , from which it differs mainly by the distinctly narrower gena, about one-fifth to one-sixth as high as the vertical diameter of eye, in addition to some genitalic characters (figs. 16‒17). Its apparently disjunct distribution poses severe doubts about the conspecificity between the specimens recorded from West Africa and those collected in Oman.
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