Taxonomic notes on Holcobunus Roewer, 1910, with descriptions of three new species, and new records for Holcobunus nigripalpis Roewer, 1910 (Opiliones: Eupnoi: Sclerosomatidae)
Author
Tourinho, Ana Lúcia
Author
Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo
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Bragagnolo, Cibele
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Zootaxa
2015
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10.11646/zootaxa.4027.3.6
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Key for the species of
Holcobunus
1. Eye mound armed with two anterior blunt, single-blunt pointed spines (Se
Tourinho & Kury, 2001
), femur of leg I shorter than body, femur of leg II with six pseudoarticular nodules, femur of leg IV with three pseudoarticular nodules......
H. bicornutus
- Eye mound with two rows of more than three short granules (
Fig. 3
C), femur of leg I longer than the body, femur of leg II with four, five or six pseudoarticular nodules.................................................................... 2
2. Body color black eye mound black or mound with a pair of yellowish stripes, females with light dorsal stripes and spots (
Fig. 5
), eye, femur of leg II with five or six pseudoarticular nodules, femur of leg IV with two or three pseudoarticular nodules................................................................................................
H. uaisoh
- Body uniformly yellow (
Fig. 3
) or background yellow or brown with white or dark stripes or stains (
Fig. 1
), eye mound with 8– 9 short granules, femur of leg II with four or five pseudoarticular nodules, femur of leg IV with two, three or four pseudoarticular nodules.......................................................................................... 3
3. Body color uniformly yellow without stripes or stains, femur of leg II with four pseudoarticular nodules, femur of leg IV with three or four pseudoarticular nodules.............................................................
H. ibitirama
- Body color yellow with dark stripes or stains on carapace and/or dorsal scute or background brown with a white arch and several white spots and stripes distributed on scute (
Fig. 1
), femur of leg II with four or five pseudoarticular nodules, femur of leg IV with two, three or four pseudoarticular nodules........................................................... 4
4. Body color yellow (when recently collected it tends to be orange), with median posterior region of dorsal scute and anterior border of coxae covered by a faint black spot in males, females with a lateral rounded spot in the dorsal scute, dorsal black faint spot lacking (See
Tourinho & Kury, 2001
), femur of leg II with five pseudoarticular nodules, femur of leg IV with two or three pseudoarticular nodules..................................................................
H. nigripalpis
- Body color yellow, with abdomen with large dark median stripe along its full extent, or background brown with a white arch surrounding anterior prosoma and several white spots and stripes distributed on scute, eye mound darkish brown (
Fig. 1
), femur of leg II with four or five pseudoarticular nodules, femur of leg IV with two, three or four pseudoarticular nodules femoral.......................................................................................
H. dissimilis