Systematic revision of the pantropical whip spider family Charinidae Quintero, 1986 (Arachnida, Amblypygi) Author Miranda, Gustavo Silva de 81150D94-592A-4CE5-8E88-E60F557A4341 Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. & Entomology Department, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA. smiranda.gustavo@gmail.com Author Giupponi, Alessandro P. L. 434112AC-B212-43E8-A5D9-2F5D5619AFC4 Laboratório de Referência Nacional em Vetores das Riquetsioses, LIRN-IOC-FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. agiupponi@gmail.com Author Prendini, Lorenzo C2D080D0-75DB-4DA1-A101-AB4DCF50FF0A Arachnology Lab, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA. lorenzo@amnh.org Author Scharff, Nikolaj F84D2235-66D2-460C-820D-80024068759D Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. & Entomology Department, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA. & Zoology Section, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. nscharff@snm.ku.dk text European Journal of Taxonomy 2021 2021-09-24 772 1 409 http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.772.1505 journal article 4042 10.5852/ejt.2021.772.1505 b65bb5a9-bbe7-49a4-af44-4b4c03121288 2118-9773 5536410 9B82A32F-0A07-47E3-8684-FED7C8EBF1E9 Charinus camachoi ( González-Sponga, 1998 ) Fig. 27 ; Table 2 Charinides camachoi González-Sponga, 1998: 2–3 , figs 1–8, map 1. Charinus camachoi – Harvey 2003: 5 . — Miranda & Giupponi 2011: 66 , fig. 13. — Jocqué & Giupponi 2012: 55 . — Vasconcelos et al. 2013: 497 . — Miranda et al. 2016c: 31 . Diagnosis Based on the description of González-Sponga (1998) , this species may be separated from other Charinus in Amazonia and northern South America by means of the following combination of characters: median eyes and median ocular tubercle absent; lateral eyes well developed; anterior margin of carapace straight with six setae; sternum with single platelets, not pairs of platelets; males with secondary sexual dimorphism; pedipalp femur with three dorsal spines and three ventral spines; pedipalp patella with four dorsal spines and two ventral spines; pedipalp tibia with two dorsal spines; pedipalp tarsus with two spines, proximal spine one-fifth length of distal spine and distal spine half length of article; tibia of leg I with 22 or 23 articles, tarsus I with 36–38 articles; first tarsal article twice as long as second article; leg IV basitibia with two pseudo-articles; trichobothrium bc situated closer to sbf than to bf . Etymology Patronym honoring Carlos Camacho ( González-Sponga, 1998 ). Type material Holotype VENEZUELA • ♂ ; Mérida , Sucre , Chiguará , Hacienda Buruquel ; [ 08°29′26″ N , 71°32′06″ W ]; 1000 m a.s.l. ; 10 Jan. 1988 ; A.R. Delgado de González and M.A. González-Sponga leg.; MIZA [not examined]. Paratype VENEZUELA • 1 ♀ ; same collection data as for holotype; MIZA [not examined] . Measurements See Table 2 . Distribution Known only from the type locality. Natural history According to González-Sponga (1998) , C. camachoi inhabits the leaflitter and cracks in slopes produced by erosion in a cloudy evergreen forest, interspersed with Coffea arabica Linnaeus, 1753 , Erythrina Linnaeus, 1753 , and Musa Linnaeus, 1753 . Remarks González-Sponga (1998: 3) described leg IV of C. camachoi as “with three segments” but did not differentiate the basitibia and distitibia, hence the two proximal segments must be the basitibia and the third, the distitibia. The basitibia of leg IV should be considered to consist of two pseudo-articles in this species, contrary to González-Sponga (1998) .