New specimens from Mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber illuminate the phylogenetic placement of Lagonomegopidae (Arachnida: Araneae)
Author
Guo, Xiangbo
Author
Selden, Paul A.
Author
Ren, Dong
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2022
2021-06-16
195
399
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https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/e9144677-a36a-374f-9b9f-ef35c5f8cd3c/
journal article
61601
10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab027
507433fb-c54c-4c3a-9872-748cd6417b9d
0024-4082
6599779
ODONTOMEGOPS TITAN
GUO & SELDEN, 2020
(
FIG. 6
)
Guo
et al.
(2020)
: 2–4, figs 1, 2.
Material:
Male, specimen no. CNU-ARA-MA2019001 (
holotype
).
Locality and horizon:
Hukawng Valley,
Kachin State
, northern
Myanmar
; lowermost Cenomanian, Mid-Cretaceous.
Description:
See
Guo
et al.
(2020)
. Epigastric plate with more than 30 epiandrous spigots scattered along median margin of epigastric furrow (
Fig. 6C
). Tracheal spiracle broad, situated on postgastric area behind epigastric furrow, immediately dividing internally into two tracheae (
Fig. 6A, B
).
Figure 6.
Odontomegops titan
; holotype CNU-ARA-MA2019001: A, basal part of abdomen, ventral view, showing male genitalia and tracheal spiracle; B, schematic drawing of basal ventral abdomen; C, male genitalia, ventral view, showing epigastric furrow and epiandrous spigots (arrows). Scale bars represent 0.5 mm (A, B) and 0.1 mm (C).
Remarks:
After regrinding and repolishing the
holotype
of
Odontomegops titan
, the male genitalia and tracheal spiracle are now shown clearly. They differ from the single, broad opening in
Hiatomegops spinalis
(
Fig. 3G, H
), in that two small openings are situated on the postgastric area behind the epigastric furrow in
Odontomegops titan
(
Fig. 6A, B
). We interpret the abdomen of CNU-ARA-MA2019001 as being somewhat modified and broken, thus exposing the internal part of the tracheal spiracle. Hence, we interpret the posterior respiratory system of
Odontomegops titan
as a single, broad tracheal spiracle, which immediately divides internally into two smaller tracheae.