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Figs. 7-12. Gonopodal variation in B. shelf ordi, medial views of acropodites of 
specimens from selected localities for variants A and B, as discussed in text. 
7, Oconee Co., Clemson vicinity. 8, Abbeville Co., 4.8 km sw of Calhoun Falls 
near Savannah River. 9, McCormick Co., Hickory Knob State Park. 10, 
topotype, McCormick Co., 11.6 km wnw of McCormick, De La Howe Forest. 
1 1, Abbeville Co., 10 km s of Abbeville, along road to Parsons Mountain camp- 
ground, Sumter National Forest. 12, McCormick Co., Baker Creek State Park. 
Scale line = 1.00 mm for all figures. 
elevated behind stricture, interrupted by transverse groove behind first 
pair of legs on each segment, expanded into broad platelike structure 
beyond caudal legs with shallow medial depression, small blunt lobes 
subtending anterior legs of each segment, larger rounded lobes beside 
caudal legs. Hypoproct broadly rounded, subacute distally, two 
paramedial setae arising from distinct rounded tubercles. Paraprocts with 
margins strongly thickened. Coxae generally without spines, low blunt 
“teeth” present on postgonopodal legs; prefemoral spines distinct on 
postgonopodal legs; tarsal claws darkened distally, bisinuately curved. 
Segment 8 without any trace of legs or sterna, teratological, caudal edge 
of metazonite broadly indented along midline (see Shelley 1977). 
Gonopodal aperture subelliptical, about 3.9 mm long and 2.5 mm 
