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Posted by Martin Spies
 - January 02, 2012, 05:20:39 PM
On page 141, in the first paragraph under "Diagnosis":
the statement "dorsal eye-spot posterior to ventral eye-spot", which was also used in the diagnosis for Orthocladiinae, certainly does not apply to all Prodiamesinae, e.g. not in Monodiamesa bathyphila, Odontomesa fulva or Prodiamesa olivacea.