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Figure 2.73
Distribution of
H. ramachandrai in India. (
)
Place of first record.
Map not to scale.
Center, Pune (India) (now National Institute of Virology), to acknowledge his
many years of contribution to the study of vectors and vector-borne diseases in
India (
Figure 2.73
).
Male (
Figures 2.74 and 2.75
)
31
Length is about 2.03
1.46 mm.
Capitulum: Basis capitulum is dorsally approximately 1.5 times as broad as
long; cornua are broadly triangular, one-half to three-fifths as long as the base of
basis capitulum. Palpi are moderately salient posteriorly, combined breadth is
approximately 1.25 times the breadth of basis capitulum. Hypostome is as long as
palpi; dental formula is 4/4 or 5/5, with seven (internal) to ten (external) denticles
in a file.
Scutum: Scutum is broadly oval, 1.5
2.29 mm, breadth 1.33
1.7 times as long as broad; margins are
broadly rounded, greatest breadth is immediately anterior of spiracular plates.
Lateral grooves are shallow, obscure, short, do not reach scutal mid-length or
enclose festoons. Cervical pits are small and rounded. Cervical grooves are short
and obscure. Punctations are shallow, inconspicuous, small, moderately numerous,
irregularly scattered, and absent in a smooth, narrow posteromedian line. Festoons
are narrowly elongate, and number 11.
