Two new species of the genus Paramitraceras Pickard-Cambridge, 1905 (Opiliones: Laniatores: Stygnopsidae) from Chiapas, Mexico
Author
Cruz-López, Jesús A.
Author
Francke, Oscar F.
text
Zootaxa
2013
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3641.4.13
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1175-5326
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Paramitraceras pickardcambridgei
sp. nov.
(
Figures 3
,
4–10
,
25–30
)
Paramitraceras granulatus
(partim): Goodnight and Goodnight (1953a): 25 (Pichucalco specimen), misindentification.
Type
material:
male
holotype
(CNAN-0731) [
July/17/1947
; C. & M. Goodnight], (lat 17.50861º lon -93.11833º),
MEXICO
: Chiapas:
Pichucalco.
Etymology:
The specific name is a patronymic in honor of O. F. Pickard-Cambridge, the author who described the genus and its
type
species.
Diagnosis:
Differs from
P
.
femorale
,
P
.
hispidulum
and
P
.
veracruz
in males having a bigger cheliceral hand. Similar to
P. granulatum
and
P. t z o t z i l
sp. nov.
, but it is distinct in the distal apex of the eye mound; dorsal body ornamentation composed of numerous spiniform setae; middle tooth of the cheliceral movable finger rounded; basal tooth of the fixed finger low; medium notch of cheliceral fixed finger shallow, wide; mesodistal tubercle of the pedipalpal tibia with basal bulge; mesal margin not convex in middle portion; femur and tibia IV with ventrodistal tubercles slightly developed; male genitalia with middle portion of
pars distalis
wide, lateral setae arranged in two rows (with four and six setae, respectively).
Description
. Male
holotype
: Measurements:
Scutum
length: 4.9,
scutum
width: 4.1.
Dorsum
: Granulose, densely covered by small rounded tubercles; setae of these tubercles long and spiniform, longer posteriorly; eye mound conical, apex not elongated, straight in both anterior and posterior margins; eye mound ornamentation similar to body (
Fig. 7
).
Venter
: Tubercles similar in size and shape to those on dorsum; setae longer in free sternites; lateral margins of the sternum short, only present between fourth coxae.
Chelicera
:
Scutum
/cheliceral hand ratio: 1.37. Middle tooth of movable finger rounded, pointing to fixed finger base. Basal tooth of the fixed finger inconspicuous, flat; median notch shallow, wide, approximately half of fixed finger length; middle tooth hump-shaped, low (
Fig. 8
). Cheliceral hand covered with a few long setae at the fingers base.
Pedipalps
: Measurements: 2.30/1.00/1.75/1.80/1.00. Femur with six rounded tubercles ventrally, scattered, decreasing in size distally. Tibia with ectodistal tubercle hook-shaped, distally rounded; mesodistal tubercle flat, with basal bulge. Tarsus widened in middle, spoon-shaped, mesal margin with at most eight robust spiniform setae, not uniformly scattered (
Figs. 4–6
).
Legs
: Measurements: I: 2.70/0.97/2.00/2.32, II: 3.50/1.35/2.85/3.20, III: 2.90/1.00/2.35/2.80, IV: 3.65/1.00/ 3.10/3.80. All legs similar in ornamentation; densely covered with small rounded tubercles, like those on the dorsum. Femur IV with a row of tiny spiniform tubercles ventrally; ectodistal tubercle thorn-shaped, similar to ectodistal tubercle on tibia IV (
Fig. 10
).
Genitalia
:
Pars distalis
wide in middle, with distal edge dorsally turned and concave in the middle; bilobular projection with lateral lobes stout, distally pointed, spiniform projections hidden behind
stylus
. Lateral setae arranged in two rows, the basal row composed of four setae, distoventral seta separate from the rest; lateral row composed of six setae, along lateral edge of
pars distalis
, distal pair slightly ventral, close to ventral microsetae. Lateral setae slightly spatulate distally (
Figs. 25–30
).
Female:
Unknown.
Distribution.
Known only from the
type
locality.