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 santanensis Vasconcelos & Ferreira, 2017 Fig. 43 ; Table 4 Charinus satanensis Vasconcelos & Ferreira, 2017: 283–286 , figs 16–23, 29–30. Diagnosis Based on Vasconcelos & Ferreira (2017) , this species may be separated from other Charinus in eastern South America by means of the following combination of characters: median and lateral eyes well developed; male gonopods with processus internus and lateral lobe 1 forming several long lobes, lateral lobe 2 and dorsal lobe drop-shaped, with dorsal lobe larger than lateral lobe 2, and lamina medialis forceps-shaped; cheliceral claw with eight teeth; pedipalp femur with four or five dorsal spines and five ventral spines, patella with six dorsal spines and three or four ventral spines, and tibia with dorsal spine 2 two to three times as long as spine 1; leg IV distitibia with eighteen trichobothria, sc and sf series each with six trichobothria. Etymology Refers to Santana, the municipality in the Brazilian state of Bahia , in which the type locality is situated ( Vasconcelos & Ferreira 2017 ). Type material Holotype BRAZIL • 1 ♂ ; Bahia , Santana , Gruta do Padre ; 13°13′07.18″ S , 44°03′51.98″ W ; 11 Jul. 2014 ; R.L. Ferreira leg.; ISLA 12777 [not examined]. Paratype BRAZIL • 1 ♂ ; same collection data as for holotype; ISLA 12778 [not examined]. Measurements See Table 4 . Remarks See Vasconcelos & Ferreira (2017) for more details about this species. Distribution Known only from the type locality. Natural history Gruta do Padre Cave is one of the largest and best preserved caves in Brazil . The cave has three distinct levels and a river at the lowest level. The type specimens of C. santanensis were collected in a large chamber in the upper level, some 250 m from the entrance, on rock blocks covered by a shallow, moist layer of mud. Due to their proximity to the entrance of the cave and the lack of any troglomorphic characters, C. santanensis appears to be troglophilic, not troglobitic ( Vasconcelos & Ferreira 2017 ).