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manni is distributed throughout the Amazonian Basin and adjacent 
areas. The original description seems detailed enough to permit 
identification of the species. I have not therefore prepared a new 
description of the available specimen, which is illustrated. The 
antenna (fig. 7), which is strikingly different from that of T. flexibilis 
(see Reichardt, 1964a, fig. 5), shows an interesting small hairless 
patch on the club, around the funicle insertion point. This character 
has not yet been observed in any other genus of Platypodidae. It is 
also absent in T. flexibilis. 
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