Two new genera and two new species of troglobitic harvestmen of Stygnopsidae (Opiliones, Laniatores, Gonyleptoidea) from Oaxaca, Mexico, with notes on selected morphological characters
Author
Cruz-López, Jesús A.
Colección Nacional de Arácnidos, Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado postal 70 - 153, 04510, Ciudad de México (Mexico) and Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP), Centro Regional de Investigación Pacífico Sur (CIRPAS), Campo Experimental Valles Centrales, Melchor Ocampo No. 7, Santo Domingo Barrio Bajo, Villa de Etla, 68200 Oaxaca (Mexico) thelyphonidito @ gmail. com
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Zoosystema
2021
2021-02-23
43
5
101
112
journal article
7961
10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a5
1d93b583-d19b-4889-a904-7cb366aca615
1638-9387
4569986
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B7E88CF5-60E5-4B67-9EB9-C4D8FAC2996A
Genus
Brujita
n. gen.
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TYPE SPECIES. —
Brujita chapulapa
n. sp.
DIAGNOSIS. —
Brujita
n. gen.
can be recognized from other
Karosinae
harvestmen by the following combination of characters: wide dorsal lobe at the frontal margin of prosoma, slightly elevated and rounded, no eyes; movable finger of chelicera with a basal blunt tooth; penis with MS A, B, C and D very long and with only a pair of small MS E in the middle flimsy lamina.
Mictlana
is the most similar genus to
Brujita
n. gen.
, but the new genus can be differentiated from it by the absence of two dorsal lobes on prosoma,
Brujita
n. gen.
having only the anterior one; and by the penis morphology, which in
Mictlana
is spear-shaped, with two pairs of short MS C and A respectively, and four pairs of small MS E (Cruz-López & Francke 2015: fig. 55A-C), whereas the penis of
Brujita
n. gen.
is spoon-shaped, with two and four pairs of long MS C and A + B respectively and with only a pair of small MS E.
ETYMOLOGY. —
Brujita
means ‘little witch’ in Spanish, feminine name taken from the song
Brujita
, written by the Spanish compositor and singer Nacho Vegas, gender feminine.