Systematic revision of the South American “ Nuncia ” (Opiliones, Laniatores, Triaenonychidae)
Author
Porto, Willians
0000-0002-4209-5664
División Aracnología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales – CONICET, Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, C 1405 DJR Buenos Aires, Argentina & Sección Aracnología y Miriapodología, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Paseo del Bosque s / n, (1900) La Plata, Argentina
Author
Derkarabetian, Shahan
0000-0002-9163-9277
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA & San Diego Natural History Museum, Department of Entomology, San Diego, CA 92101, USA
Author
Giribet, Gonzalo
0000-0002-5467-8429
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Author
Pérez-González, Abel
0000-0002-4245-3302
División Aracnología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales – CONICET, Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, C 1405 DJR Buenos Aires, Argentina
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ZooKeys
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2024-07-12
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journal article
299803
10.3897/zookeys.1207.120068
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Genus
Mistralia
gen. nov.
Figs 35
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Nuncia
[part] (only references to
Nuncia verrucosa
):
Maury 1990: 106
;
Maury 1992: 5
;
Acosta and Maury 1998: 579
;
Kury 2003: 22
.
Etymology.
The generic epithet is a reference to the Chilean poet, diplomat, and educator Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957). Feminine grammatical gender.
Diagnosis.
It differs from all other genera in
Triaenonychidae
by the morphology of the male genitalia, where the capsula interna features a lateral plate formed by a projection of the pars basalis onto the pars distalis. The dorsal scutum is covered in sharp tubercles (
M. ramirezi
sp. nov.
) or wart-shaped (
M. verrucosa
). Ocularium with an apical apophysis.
Type species.
Nuncia verrucosa
Maury, 1990
Included species.
Mistralia ramirezi
sp. nov.
,
Mistralia verrucosa
comb. nov.
Distribution.
Argentina
:
Neuquén
,
Río Negro
.
Chile
, Regions:
Bío-Bío
,
Los Lagos
(Fig.
4 B
).