Catalog of the Opilioacarida (Acari: Parasitiformes)
Author
Araújo, Marcel Santos De
Laboratório de Estudos Subterrâneos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Via Washington Luís, km 235, Caixa Postal 676, CEP 13565 - 905, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Author
Palma, Antonella Di
Department of Agriculture Food Natural Science Engineering (DAFNE), University of Foggia, Via Napoli 25, 71122, Foggia, Italy.
Author
Feres, Reinaldo José Fazzio
Departamento de Zoologia e Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rua Cristóvão Colombo 2265, São José do Rio Preto CEP 15054 - 000, Brazil
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Zootaxa
2020
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journal article
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11.4.
Salfacarus lawrencei
Hammen, 1977
Salfacarus lawrencei
Hammen 1977: 70–74
, figs. 14–15 (original description).
Holotype
:
F (unknown whereabouts).
SOUTH AFRICA
,
Kruger National Park
,
Near Letaba
, under rocks,
NOV.1963
, col.
Dr. R. F. Lawrence.
Paratype
:
TN
/F (a nearly mature adult) (unknown whereabouts), same data as holotype
.
Distribution:
Lebata (
South Africa
).
Notes:
The
types
were supposed to be deposited in BMNH, according to Hammen, (1977), but were not found (Janet Beccaloni,
pers. com.
) in the RMNH (Karen van Dorp,
pers. com.
) or in South African institutions (Eddie Ueckermann, Lizel Hugo-Coetzee, Petro Marais, Maggie Manyatsa,
pers. com.
).
Etymology:
Dedicated to Dr. R.F. Lawrence, late director of the Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg,
South Africa
, who collected the specimens.