Two new species of the genus Nemaspela Šilhavý from caves in Georgia (Opiliones Nemastomatidae)
Author
Martens, Jochen
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Institut für Organismische und Molekulare Evolutionsbiologie (iomE), D- 55099 Mainz, Germany; Senckenberg Research Institute, Arachnology, D- 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Author
Maghradze, Eter
Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University, Giorgi Tsereteli 3, 0162, Tbilisi, Georgia
Author
Barjadze, Shalva
Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University, Giorgi Tsereteli 3, 0162, Tbilisi, Georgia
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-04-07
4951
3
541
558
journal article
7383
10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.7
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Key to the currently known
Nemaspela
species in the Caucasus area
(based on male specimens)
1 Dorsal apophysis on distal end of 1
st
cheliceral article present.................................................. 2
- Dorsal apophysis on distal end of 1
st
cheliceral article absent................................................... 7
2 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1
st
cheliceral article short, just an inconspicuous, short, pointed distad-directed lobe; found in several caves in the Sochi area,
Russia
and
Abkhazia
, West
Georgia
............
N. abchasica
(
Ljovuschkin & Starobogatov, 1963
)
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1
st
cheliceral article longer, distinctly elevated, not only a short lobe....................... 3
3 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1
st
cheliceral article longer than the entire 2
nd
cheliceral article; found in several caves in Nalchik area,
Kabardino-Balkaria
,
Russia
......................................................
N. kovali
Chemeris, 2009
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1
st
cheliceral article shorter than the entire 2
nd
cheliceral article........................... 4
4 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1
st
cheliceral article globular and knob-like, found in one cave in
Abkhazia
,
Georgia
.........................................................................................
N. gagrica
Tchemeris, 2013
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1
st
cheliceral article distinctly elongated, longer than broad.............................. 5
5 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1
st
cheliceral article slender, sickle-shaped, pointed, with distal-directed concavity, longer than breadth of article at its position; found in one cave in
Abkhazia
, West
Georgia
..............
N. birsteini
Ljovuschkin, 1972
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1
st
cheliceral article not sickle-shaped, shorter or conspicuously longer than breadth of article at its position............................................................................................. 6
6 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1
st
cheliceral article distinctly bent forward, shorter than breadth of article at its position; found in one cave in
Imereti region
, West
Georgia
.................................................
N. prometheus
sp. nov.
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1
st
cheliceral article not distinctly bent forward, longer than breadth of article at its position, apophysis distally widened and two-lobed; found in caves in Sochi area,
Russia
....
N. sokolovi
(
Ljovuschkin & Starobogatov, 1963
)
7 Femur of pedipalp S-shaped; found in one cave in Kvemo-Svaneti Region, West
Georgia
.......................................................................................................
N. femorecurvata
Martens, 2006
- Femur of pedipalp not S-shaped but stretched out; found in one cave in
Imereti region
, West
Georgia
.....
N. melouri
sp. nov.