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SUBMITTER: Edgecombe GD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7596027 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Edgecombe Gregory D GD Akkari Nesrine N Netherlands Edward C EC Preez Gerhard Du GD
ZooKeys 20201022
A new species of <i>Cryptops</i>, C. (Cryptops) legagus<b>sp. nov.</b>, occurs in caves in the Koanaka and Gcwihaba Hills in northwestern Botswana. Bayesian molecular phylogenetics using 18S rRNA, 28S rRNA, 16S rRNA and cytochrome <i>c</i> oxidase subunit I corroborates a morphological assignment to the subgenus Cryptops and closest affinities to southern temperate species in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The new species is not conspicuously modified as a troglomorph. ...[more]