Description of two new species of Magnispina and a new hypothesis of phylogenetic relationships for Heteropachylinae (Opiliones: Laniatores: Gonyleptidae)
Author
Gueratto, Caio
Author
Mendes, Amanda Cruz
Author
Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo
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Zootaxa
2017
4300
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journal article
32573
10.11646/zootaxa.4300.2.2
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Magnispina
Mendes, 2011
Magnispina
Mendes 2011
: 448
[type species:
Magnispina neptunus
Mendes, 2011
, by original designation]
Distribution.
It occurs from Northern
Espírito Santo
State (São Mateus) to Southern
Bahia
State (Camacan, Ilhéus, Jussari and Una).
Type species:
Magnispina neptunus
Mendes, 2011
(
Fig. 6
A–B), by original designation.
Diagnosis.
Three dorsal scutum areas; dorsal scutum area III with a pair of well-developed paramedian tubercles. Free tergite II with robust, spiniform median apophysis; Free tergite III without a longitudinal keel. Dorsal anal operculum tuberculate. Ventral anal operculum with well-developed tubercles, some of them irregularly shaped. Calcaneus I same colored as the rest of the podomere and less than half of metatarsus I length. Femur IV curved (convex side outwards) in dorsal view. Penis with dorsal digitiform process of glans; ventral plate with 1 pair of MS A, MS B absent, 3–4 pairs of MS C, 1 pair of MS D, and 2 ventral pairs of reduced MS E.