Taxonomic notes on Holcobunus Roewer, 1910, with descriptions of three new species, and new records for Holcobunus nigripalpis Roewer, 1910 (Opiliones: Eupnoi: Sclerosomatidae)
Author
Tourinho, Ana Lúcia
Author
Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo
Author
Bragagnolo, Cibele
text
Zootaxa
2015
4027
3
425
436
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4027.3.6
aeea1e53-a725-44d7-a0c7-0c5811c12d6c
1175-5326
241194
A3F9E54F-A59B-4DFC-8F88-AFD5FEDE5B2C
Holcobunus uaisoh
sp.nov
Fig. 5–7
Etymology.
“uai sô” is a popular expression from people of Minas Gerais State of
Brazil
, that has English origin, meaning and pronunciation of “Why so?”
Type
locality.
Brasil
, Minas Gerais, Fervedouro, Parque Estadual Serra do Brigadeiro.
Type
Material.
Male
holotype
,
4 females
paratypes
, 3 immatures (
MZSP
69117), M.B. daSilva & G.E. Kaneto leg.,
III.2006
.
FIGURE 4.
Holcobunus ibitirama
sp. nov.
Male genitalia: A, dorsal view (scale bar=100µm); B, ventral view (scale bar=20µm); C, lateral view (scale bar=100µm); D, detail of glans, ventral view (scale bar=10µm); E, detail of glans, dorsal view (scale bar=20µm).
Distribution
. Only known from the
type
locality (
Fig. 7
).
Diagnosis.
Males with body color black (
Fig. 5
A–C), females with light dorsal stripes and spots, eye mound with a pair of yellowish stripes (
Fig. 5
D–F). Femur, patella and proximal half of pedipalpal tibia black, distal half of tibia and tarsus cream, chelicerae cream (
Fig. 5
C and F). Eye mound armed with sharp granules. Femoral nodule formula: 2/5-6/2-3/2-3. Penis: Dorsal orifice of anterior shaft of penis lacking (
Fig.6
A and C).
Description.
Male
paratype
: lengths: body:
2.65 mm
, carapace:
0.81 mm
, chelicera:
1.22 mm
, pedipalps:
2.95 mm
. Femora: 10.1/19.2/9.5/
14.2 mm
. Dorsal and ventral surface body surface reticulate. Supracheliceral lamina armed distally with one or two blunt tubercles on each lobe. Eye mound armed with two rows of 10 or more sharp granules (
Fig.5
C). Lateral margins of genital operculum armed with three-pointed sharp granules, arculi genitales II unarmed. Chelicerae: ventrobasal spine of basichelicerite blunt. Pedipalps: Femur armed with a ventral row of sharp pointed tubercles. Patella, including inner apophysis, armed with dorsolateral sharp pointed tubercles, inner apical apophysis longer than wide. Tibia armed with sharp tubercles. Tarsus unarmed. Legs: Femoral nodule formula: 2/5-6/2-3/2-3. Penis (
Fig. 6
) similar to
H. nigripalpis
and
H. dissimilis
. Winglets longer than wide, narrower than shaft (
Fig. 6
A–B), ventral collar present but not very marked (
Fig. 6
B and D), shaft almost straight. Dorsal and ventral faces of glans not depressed, with two pairs of subapical setae (
Fig. 6
C–F). Stylus bent in ventral view (
Fig. 6
D).
Female
paratype
: lengths: body:
4.12 mm
, carapace:
1.15 mm
, chelicera:
1.4 mm
, pedipalps:
2.9 mm
. As in the male, except body swollen dorsoventrally and articular membrane isolating all sclerites (
Fig.5
D–F). Membrane very evident, widely surpassing sclerites (
Fig. 5
E).