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Figure 2.111
Distribution of
H. montgomeryi in India. (
)
Place of first record.
Map not to scale.
widest area of scutum. Cervical grooves are short, deep, sub-parallel. Punctations
are rare, widely scattered, shallow, obscure, mostly small, and some medium sized.
Festoons number 11.
Legs: Legs are robust. Coxa each is with a prominent, elongately triangular,
sharply pointed spur; spurs of II and III are sub-equal, slightly wider than others;
spur of I is slightly longer than those of II and III; spur of IV is almost twice as
long as those of II and III; each coxa is with numerous (12
20) long setae.
Female (
Figures 2.112 and 2.113
)
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Mean body length is approximately 3.2 mm, and width is 1.8 mm; length when
engorged may attain 9.0 mm.
Capitulum: Capitulum resembles that of male. Basis capitulum is twice as wide
as long; lateral margins are slightly diverging from cornua to apex; cornua are
slightly shorter and often more blunt apically than those of male; porose areas are
small, widely spaced, elongately oval. Palpi essentially are as in male though the
dorsobasal margin of segment II is not bladelike; the basolateral juncture of seg-
ment II may form a minute salience, and the dorsobasal margin of segment III is
less elevated than in male. Hypostome is slightly broader but otherwise similar to
that of male; dental formula is 6/6, 6.5/6.5, or 7/7.
