R. HOU ART & S. GORI 
NOVAPEX 12(1-2): 39-45, 10 mars 2011 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. We are very thankful to 
Jacques Colomb, Marseille, France, for the loan of his 
material and the gift of two specimens, to Greg 
Herbert, University of South Florida, Tampa, U.S.A. 
for his useful comments on the ms and to John Wolff, 
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., for checking the 
English text. 
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