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Figure 23. — Dexatninidae : a, mandible, palp absent [molar evanescent in Anatylinae]; b, 

 accessory flagellum absent; c, urosome, left lateral aspect, note amalgamation of uro- 

 somites 2-3 [see Prophliantidae, Talitroidea]; d, telson. 



Phliantidae have the palp of maxilla 1 degraded, and depressed rugose bodies with splayed 



coxae. 



