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
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Zootaxa
2015
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4027.3.6
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Holcobunus ibitirama
sp. nov.
Fig. 3
,
4
,
7
Etymology.
After
type
locality,
Ibitirama
, a word of the indigenous Tupi people of
Brazil
that means "region with many mountains."
Type
locality.
Brazil
, Espírito Santo,
Ibitirama
, Santa
Marta
.
Type
Material:
Brazil
, Espírito Santo,
Ibitirama
, Santa
Marta
, (
20o29’52”S
–
41o43’47”W
) M.B.da Silva & G.E. Kaneto leg.,
III.2006
,
MZSP
57264, male
holotype
and two male
paratypes
; 3 immatures.
Distribution.
only known from
type
locality (
Fig. 7
).
Diagnosis.
Body color orange, legs trochanter and eye mound black (
Fig. 3
A–C). Femur, patella and proximal half of pedipalpal tibia brownish, distal half of tibia and tarsus cream (
Fig. 3
A,C), chelicerae cream. Eye mound armed with sharp granules (
Fig. 3
C). Femoral nodule formula: 2/4/2-3/3-4.
Description.
Male
paratype
: lengths: body:
2.55 mm
, carapace:
0.71 mm
, chelicera:
0.80 mm
, pedipalps:
2.75 mm
. Femora: 9.6/15.4/8.5/
11.9 mm
. Dorsal and ventral body surface reticulate. Supracheliceral lamina armed distally with one triangular and crenulated tubercle on each lobe. Eye mound armed with two rows of 10 or more sharp granules. 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 ventral row of sharp pointed tubercles. Patella, including inner apophysis, armed with dorsolateral sharp-pointed tubercles, inner apical apophysis as long as wide. Tibia armed with sharp tubercles. Tarsus unarmed. Legs: femoral nodule formula: 2/4/2- 3/3-4. Penis (
Fig. 4
): Winglets not projected laterally, longer than wide, shorter than in other species of
Holcobunus
(
Fig. 4
A, B). Dorsal surface of glans not depressed (
Fig. 4
C, D). Stylus bent in ventral view, with two pairs of lateroapical setae (
Fig. 4
D).