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Deuterosminthurus sulphureus is a moderately common, uniformly yellow species that could have been confused with the yellow variety of Deuterosminthurus pallipes in the past. The fourth antennal segment (ant 4) is subdivided into seven subsegments (Fig. 1). Some of the setae on the outer side of the tibiotarsus of the third leg (leg3) are longer than others (Fig. 2). The mucro is spoon-shaped and, in males, long specialised backward-pointing setae are present at the posterior end of the sixth abdominal segment (Fig. 3). The female sub-anal appendages (SAA) are not expanded at the tip (Fig. 4). In females, the setae surrounding the anus are of different thickness (Fig. 5).
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