Revision of the troglomorphic genus Troglostygnopsis Šilhavý, 1974 (Opiliones, Laniatores, Stygnopsidae)
Author
Cruz-López, Jesús A.
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Colección Nacional de Arácnidos, Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 3 er. Circuito exterior s / n. Apartado Postal 70 - 153, C. P. 04510, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico. & Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP), Campo Experimental Valles Centrales, Oaxaca, Melchor Ocampo No. 7, C. P. 68200, Santo Domingo Barrio Bajo, Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Author
Francke, Oscar F.
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Colección Nacional de Arácnidos, Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 3 er. Circuito exterior s / n. Apartado Postal 70 - 153, C. P. 04510, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico.
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2021
2021-02-18
735
74
88
journal article
3469
10.5852/ejt.2021.735.1241
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2118-9773
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Genus
Troglostygnopsis
Šilhavý, 1974
Troglostygnopsis
Šilhavý, 1974: 182
.
(
type
species:
Troglostygnopsis anophthalma
Šilhavý, 1974
, by original designation).
Troglostygnopsis
– Reddel 1981: 165. —
Kury & Cokendolpher 2000: 149
. —
Kury 2003: 240
. —
Cruz-López & Francke 2013b: 300
;
2015: 828
;
2016: 328
;
2017: 320
;
2018: 1047
;
2019b: 226
;
2020: 433
. —
Aguiñaga & Cruz-López 2019: 10
. — Cruz-López
et al.
2019: 286.
Emended diagnosis
Troglomorphic members of
Stygnopsinae
, eyeless, similar condition as
Mexotroglinus
Šilhavý, 1977
,
Toojah
Cruz-López, in press,
Chinquipellobunus madlae
(Goodnight & Goodnight, 1967)
and
Serrobunus paulbryanti
Aguiñaga & Cruz-López, 2019
.
Troglostygnopsis
has clear lateral areas on scutum, similar to
Panzosus
Roewer, 1949
,
Paramitraceras
,
Philora
,
Sbordonia
and
Toojah
; however,
Troglostygnopsis
can be distinguished from other eyeless genera with lateral projections on scutum by the presence of a dorsal row of large spiniform tubercles on pedipalpal femur; in fact, no other genus of the family whether troglobitic or epigean has this protruding row. Male genitalia have the
Paramitraceras
-pattern sensu
Cruz-López & Francke (2013b)
: pars distalis tubular, with an apical depression where the follis arises, with many pairs of acute MS C on lateral sides, many pairs of spatulate MS A+B at the base and laterally on the pars distalis, two pairs of MS E, E1 small and in the middle of ventral side, E2 long and external to E1, and one or two pairs of MS D, near the base of follis.
Troglostygnopsis
can be differentiated from those genera with male genitalia with this pattern (
Paramitraceras
,
Panzosus
,
Philora
and
Sbordonia
) as follows: ocularium not pointing forward, pedipalps strongly armed with long spiniform setiferous tubercles, and males without glandular ventral tubercles on stigmatic area (in this last character similar to
Sbordonia armigera
Šilhavý, 1977
).
Included species
Troglostygnopsis anophthalma
Šilhavý, 1974
(
type
species) and
Troglostygnopsis kalebi
sp. nov.