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Acknowledgments. I am indebted to the following curators and 
their respective institutions for the loan of specimens: D. J. Bickel 
(AMS), P. S. Cranston (ANIC), K. Walker (NVM). The SEMs 
were taken by G. Avern (AMS). Hans Ulrich (Bonn, Germany) 
provided advice concerning Greek and Latin grammar as related to 
nomenclature. Michael Driessen (Department of Primary Industries, 
Parks, Water and Environment, Hobart, Australia) provided habitat 
details and digital image of the type locality of H. aptera. Dan 
Bickel kindly provided the habitus drawing of H. aptera by Hannah 
Finlay. Jeffrey Cumming (CNC) kindly commented on an earlier 
draft and the southern continents base map was provided by Scott 
Brooks (CNC). Dan Bickel and Adrian Plant (Cardiff, Wales) 
kindly reviewed an earlier version of the manuscript. 
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