A new species of Charinus Simon, 1892 (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Israel and new records of C ioanniticus (Kritscher, 1959) Author Miranda, Gustavo S. Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark (Zoological Museum), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. & Corresponding author: smiranda. gustavo @ gmail. com smiranda.gustavo@gmail.com Author Aharon, Shlomi Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, 849900, Israel. & Email: shlomi. aharon @ gmail. com shlomi.aharon@gmail.com Author Gavish-Regev, Efrat The National Natural History Collections, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem, 9190401, Israel. & Email: efrat. gavish-regev @ mail. huji. ac. il gavish-regev@mail.huji.ac.il Author Giupponi, Alessandro P. L. Laboratório de Referência Nacional em Vetores das Riquetsioses, LIRN-FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. & Email: agiupponi @ gmail. com agiupponi@gmail.com Author Wizen, Gil Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M 5 S 3 B 3, Canada. & Email: wizentrop @ gmail. com & Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel. wizentrop@gmail.com text European Journal of Taxonomy 2016 2016-09-28 234 1 17 journal article 21871 10.5852/ejt.2016.234 c5f8c0ed-cfa8-4de4-a92c-7c65af0e3899 2118-9773 3846255 Key to the Charinus species of the bengalensis group: 1. Basitiba IV divided into two pseudo-articles ( Weygoldt et al. 2002 : fig 12) ……………………2 – Basitiba IV divided into three pseudo-articles ( Delle Cave et al. 2009 : fig. 3) …………………3 – Basitiba IV divided into four pseudo-articles ( Weygoldt 2006 : fig. 30) …………………………4 2. Reduced lateral and median eyes, standard size legs, pedipalps held horizontally ………………………………………………………… C. socotranus Weygoldt, Pohl & Polak, 2002 – No median and lateral eyes, elongate legs, pedipalps turned upwards ………………………… ………………………………………………… C. stygochthobius Weygoldt & Van Damme, 2004 3. Female genitalia with curved, rigid finger-like appendage vestiges; genital operculum with pointed apex; eyes well developed ………………………………………… C. bengalensis (Gravely, 1911) – Female genitalia with straight, soft finger-like appendage vestiges; genital operculum with curved apex; eyes well developed ……………………………… C. pakistanus Weygoldt, 2005 – Female genitalia with straight, soft finger-like appendage vestiges; genital operculum with straight apex; median eyes absent, vestiges of the lateral eyes ……………………… ……………………………………………… C. omanensis Delle Cave, Gardner & Weygoldt, 2009 4. Eyes well developed; female genital operculum with a steep ventral flexure at about two thirds of its length; tibia I with 23 and tarsus I with 41 articles ………… C. africanus Hansen, 1921 – Median eyes, tubercle and lateral eyes present and prominent ( Fig. 4B ), frontal border of carapace projected anteriorly ( Fig. 4B ), frontal process rhomboid ( Fig. 4E ), femur with five dorsal and ventral spines; tibia I with 21 and tarsus I with 37 articles …… C. ioanniticus ( Kritscher, 1959 ) – Median eyes extremely reduced and tubercle absent and lateral eyes extremely reduced ( Fig. 4A ), frontal border of carapace rounded ( Fig. 4A ), frontal process acute ( Fig. 4C ), femur with four dorsal and ventral spines; tibia I with 21 and tarsus I with 37 articles ……………… C israelensis sp. nov.