Arcanobisium, a remarkable new genus, representing a new subfamily with a relictual distribution from eastern Spain (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones: Syarinidae)
Author
Zaragoza, Juan A.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2491
41
60
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.195647
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1175-5326
195647
Hadoblothrus gigas
(
Caporiacco, 1951
)
Parablothrus gigas
Caporiacco 1951
: 97
, fig. 7.
Hadoblothrus gigas
(Caporiacco)
:
Beier 1952
: 106
–107, fig. 2.
Material examined.
Italy
, Puglia, Castro, cave L’Abisso di Castro Marino,
6 September 1978
, B. Hauser:
1 male
, 1 tritonymph, deposited in
MHNG
.
Supplementary description.
Body elongate; all abdominal segments, including XI, well developed and visible from dorsal-ventral aspects. Pleural membrane granulate. Cribrate areas on male sternite IV absent; gland openings on sternite VI absent. Stigmata III and IV each with 3 setae.
Carapace with epistome shaped like an equilateral triangle. Cheliceral galea very short, simple; dental row ending basal of subgaleal seta, situated 0.68× from base.
Apex of pedipalpal coxa triangular, very long and acute, with 2 distal setae. Feather-shaped setae absent from fixed chelal finger. Trichobothrium
t
long and simple, the same shape than the rest of trichobothria. Venom duct short,
nodus ramosus
expanded. Chelal fingers with apex as shown in
Figs 26–27
.
Femur and patella of leg IV about same length, junction perpendicular.
Remarks.
These specimens were described in detail by
Mahnert (1980)
and a complementary description of the species was given by
Inzaghi (1983)
.