Catalog of the Opilioacarida (Acari: Parasitiformes)
Author
Araújo, Marcel Santos De
Laboratório de Estudos Subterrâneos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Via Washington Luís, km 235, Caixa Postal 676, CEP 13565 - 905, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Author
Palma, Antonella Di
Department of Agriculture Food Natural Science Engineering (DAFNE), University of Foggia, Via Napoli 25, 71122, Foggia, Italy.
Author
Feres, Reinaldo José Fazzio
Departamento de Zoologia e Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rua Cristóvão Colombo 2265, São José do Rio Preto CEP 15054 - 000, Brazil
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-12-16
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6.6.
Neocarus chactemalensis
Vázquez & Klompen, 2015
Neocarus chactemalensis
Vázquez & Klompen 2015: 537–538
, figs. 1A, 3A, 4A, 5A, 6A, 7A, 8A (original description)
Holotype
:
F (
CNAC 007215
; 3 slides).
MEXICO
,
Quintana Roo
,
Chetumal
,
Campus Universidad
de
Quintana Roo
,
elevation
8 m
,
18.5230N
88.2703W
, ex. on campus, under stones and in litter, medium-high tropical forest, coll.
M. M. Vázquez
,
7.FEB.2007
.
Paratypes
:
Same locality, collector and date: M,
CNAC 007216
;
PN
,
OSAL 0104250
;
PN
,
OSAL 0104251
;
PN
,
OSAL 0104252
; N,
OSAL 0104249
;
same locality and collector:
15.NOV.2006
:
PN
,
OSAL 0104253
;
PN
,
OSAL 0104254
;
PN
,
OSAL 0104255
;
20.APR.2007
: F,
OSAL 0104233
(3 slides)
; M,
OSAL 0104228
(2 slides)
; M,
OSAL 0104230
(3 slides)
; M,
OSAL 0104236
(2 slides)
;
TN
,
OSAL 0104222
(2 slides)
;
TN
,
OSAL 0104224
(2 slides)
;
TN
,
OSAL 0104221
(3 slides)
;
DN
,
OSAL 0104218
;
DN
,
OSAL 0104219
(2 slides)
;
PN
,
OSAL 0104210
;
PN
,
OSAL 0104211
;
PN
,
OSAL 0104212
;
PN
,
OSAL 0104213
;
PN
,
OSAL 0104214
;
PN
,
OSAL 0104215
;
same locality and collector:
23.JUN.2007
;
DN
,
OSAL 0104217
; U,
OSAL 0104240
;
same locality: coll.
J. Berenice
,
24.OCT.2006
, M
,
OSAL 0104238
(3 slides)
;
PN
,
OSAL 0104216
.
Distribution:
Quintana Roo
(
Mexico
).
Notes:
Continued presence of this species at the type locality is unlikely as the collecting site was recently developed as part of an expansion of university facilities.
Holotype
F (
CNAC 007215
) and one
paratype
male (
CNAC 007216
) at
CNAC
; other
paratypes
at
OSAL
,
UQROO
.
Etymology:
Derived from the Mayan word
Chac-teh’-mal
, “place where the rain god lives”, which is the origin of the place name Chetumal city, where it was collected.