Revision of the genera Eutrecha and Xenotrecha (Solifugae: Ammotrechidae), taxonomic notes on Ammotrechinae, and description of a remarkable new Eutrecha from Colombia
Author
Botero-Trujillo, Ricardo
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6199-6572
Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 th Street, New York, NY 10024 - 5192, USA & Division Aracnologia, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales " Bernardino Rivadavia " - CONICET, Avenida Angel Gallardo 470, CP: 1405 DJR, C. A. B. A., Buenos Aires, Argentina
Author
Martinez, Leonel
Division Aracnologia, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales " Bernardino Rivadavia " - CONICET, Avenida Angel Gallardo 470, CP: 1405 DJR, C. A. B. A., Buenos Aires, Argentina
Author
Iuri, Hernan Augusto
Division Aracnologia, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales " Bernardino Rivadavia " - CONICET, Avenida Angel Gallardo 470, CP: 1405 DJR, C. A. B. A., Buenos Aires, Argentina
Author
Ojanguren-Affilastro, Andres Alejandro
Division Aracnologia, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales " Bernardino Rivadavia " - CONICET, Avenida Angel Gallardo 470, CP: 1405 DJR, C. A. B. A., Buenos Aires, Argentina
Author
Carvalho, Leonardo Sousa
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4700-5610
Universidade Federal do Piaui, Campus Amilcar Ferreira Sobral, BR 343, km 3.5, Bairro Meladao, s / no. CEP 64800 - 000, Floriano, PI, Brazil
carvalho@ufpi.edu.br
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Arthropod Systematics & amp; Phylogeny
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3.1.1. Subfamily
Ammotrechinae Roewer, 1934
Figs 1
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Ammotrechinae
Roewer, 1934: 590-591;
Mello-Leitao
1938
: 22;
Muma 1951
: 123;
Muma 1970
: 44;
Muma 1971
: 11-12;
Muma 1976
: 24-25;
Harvey 2003
: 200;
Brookhart and Brookhart 2006
: 323.
Revised diagnosis.
Ammotrechinae
s.str. genera feature the one characteristic that typically defines
Ammotrechidae
: having the flagellum of the chelicera of males shaped as an open bowl, with the opening placed prolaterally (i.e., facing the opposite chelicera) (e.g., Figs
6A
,
8D
,
16A
) (
Roewer 1934
;
Maury 1984
;
Bird et al. 2015
).
Ammotrechinae
s.str., as defined in these lines, is presumed to be a monophyletic group of solifuges (see generic composition below) that exhibit the following combination of features (applicable to males and females unless otherwise specified).
i)
Cheliceral movable finger with retroventral longitudinal carina (MRVC) (Figs
2
,
3
).
ii)
Movable finger prolateral (MPL) tooth present (Fig.
6B
).
iii)
Cheliceral fixed finger without subdistal (FSD) tooth/teeth (Figs
2
,
3
).
iv)
Fixed finger of female with pronounced angular dorsal crest at level of FP-RFA tooth (Figs
3A
,
9A, B
,
14A, B
).
v)
Pedipalp femur retroventral surface with a suture-like cleavage plane that allows autotomy (Figs
17
,
18
).
vi)
Legs II and III without retroventral spiniform setae on distal segment of telotarsus.
Revised generic composition.
Ammotrechinae
s.str.:
Ammotrecha
Banks, 1900,
Eutrecha
Maury, 1982,
Xenotrecha
Maury, 1982. Other genera in
Ammotrechinae
s.l.:
Ammotrechella
Roewer, 1934,
Ammotrechesta
Roewer, 1934,
Ammotrechinus
Roewer, 1934,
Ammotrechula
Roewer, 1934,
Antillotrecha
Armas, 1994,
Campostrecha
Mello-Leitao
, 1937,
Chileotrecha
Maury, 1987,
Mummuciona
Roewer, 1934,
Neocleobis
Roewer, 1934, and
Sedna
Muma, 1971.
Remarks.
Two monotypic genera,
Mummuciona
Roewer, 1934 and
Sedna
Muma, 1971, were listed, incorrectly, as members of
Mummuciidae
in
Harvey's
(2003)
catalogue.
Maury (1982)
transferred
Mummuciona
to
Ammotrechidae
- which that author already considered as a family separate from
Mummuciidae
despite not having yet formally elevated
Mummuciinae
to the family rank, which he did shortly thereafter (
Maury 1984
) - whereas the same author transferred
Sedna
to the same family a few years later (Maury 1987). Although both genera have since remained unassigned into
Ammotrechidae
,
Iuri et al. (2021)
recovered
Sedna
as belonging to an unresolved clade containing
Ammotrechinae
and
Saronominae
genera and proposed that
Mummuciona
could potentially belong to the same clade. In the absence of conclusive phylogenetic data on the systematic position of
Mummuciona
and
Sedna
, both genera are here included, conservatively, into
Ammotrechinae
s.l. The same decision is made for
Chileotrecha
, which
Iuri et al. (2021)
recovered in the same clade as
Sedna
.