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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.328.5439" ID-GBIF-Dataset="dae4ece1-a5a6-4e1d-8121-53672e946970" ID-PMC="PMC3800822" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-328-59" ID-PubMed="24146548" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2013" ModsDocID="1313-2970-328-59" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 328" ModsDocTitle="Further revision of the genus Megalopsalis (Opiliones, Neopilionidae), with the description of seven new species" checkinTime="1451246982575" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Taylor, Christopher K." docDate="2013" docId="CB50A1C9BB77A5107E3595A3B12A3F96" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 328: 59-117" docOrigin="ZooKeys 328" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.328.5439" docTitle="Megalopsalis puerilis Taylor, 2013, sp. n." docType="treatment" docVersion="4" lastPageNumber="85" masterDocId="DB53CC7BFF8FA05DFFA3FFDBFFF4FFC0" masterDocTitle="Further revision of the genus Megalopsalis (Opiliones, Neopilionidae), with the description of seven new species" masterLastPageNumber="117" masterPageNumber="59" pageNumber="83" updateTime="1668156393602" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Further revision of the genus Megalopsalis (Opiliones, Neopilionidae), with the description of seven new species</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Taylor, Christopher K.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:title>ZooKeys</mods:title>
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<mods:date>2013</mods:date>
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<mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.328.5439</mods:url>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.328.5439</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152047439" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:6ED54D80-108C-4AFC-BB79-E9B5B92CB5E4" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/CB50A1C9BB77A5107E3595A3B12A3F96" lastPageId="26" lastPageNumber="85" pageId="24" pageNumber="83">
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/6ED54D80-108C-4AFC-BB79-E9B5B92CB5E4" class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis puerilis" order="Opiliones" pageId="24" pageNumber="83" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="puerilis">Megalopsalis puerilis</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="24" pageNumber="83">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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Figs 13
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, 15
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<subSubSection pageId="24" pageNumber="83" type="material examined">
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<paragraph pageId="24" pageNumber="83">Material examined.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="24" pageNumber="83">Male holotype. SE Queensland, Binna Burra, 27 March 1976, R. Raven, VED, night collection (QM S2835).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="24" pageNumber="83">
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Paratype. 1 male, Springbrook Repeater, SE Queensland, 1000 m,
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-28.25">28°15'S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="153.26666">153°16'E</geoCoordinate>
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, 9
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<normalizedToken originalValue="January–">January-</normalizedToken>
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19 February 1995, G. B. Monteith, intercept traps (QM S46985).
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<subSubSection pageId="24" pageNumber="83" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="24" pageNumber="83">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="24" pageNumber="83">
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis puerilis" order="Opiliones" pageId="24" pageNumber="83" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="puerilis">Megalopsalis puerilis</taxonomicName>
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is distinguished from all other
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis" order="Opiliones" pageId="24" pageNumber="83" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Megalopsalis</taxonomicName>
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species except
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis tanisphyros" order="Opiliones" pageId="24" pageNumber="83" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tanisphyros">Megalopsalis tanisphyros</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis coronata" order="Opiliones" pageId="24" pageNumber="83" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="coronata">Megalopsalis coronata</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis sublucens" order="Opiliones" pageId="24" pageNumber="83" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sublucens">Megalopsalis sublucens</taxonomicName>
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by its small, unarmed chelicerae. It is distinguished from
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis tanisphyros" order="Opiliones" pageId="24" pageNumber="83" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tanisphyros">Megalopsalis tanisphyros</taxonomicName>
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by the absence of a pedipalpal patellar apophysis, from
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis coronata" order="Opiliones" pageId="24" pageNumber="83" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="coronata">Megalopsalis coronata</taxonomicName>
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by the absence of denticles on the ocularium, and from
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis sublucens" order="Opiliones" pageId="24" pageNumber="83" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sublucens">Megalopsalis sublucens</taxonomicName>
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by the absence of ventral brush-like bristles on distitarsi III and IV. The glans of
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis puerilis" order="Opiliones" pageId="24" pageNumber="83" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="puerilis">Megalopsalis puerilis</taxonomicName>
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is less triangular in overall shape than most other
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis" order="Opiliones" pageId="24" pageNumber="83" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Megalopsalis</taxonomicName>
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species, with the sides distally subparallel in ventral view (Fig. 15c).
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Figure 15.
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis puerilis" order="Opiliones" pageId="24" pageNumber="83" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="puerilis">Megalopsalis puerilis</taxonomicName>
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, male (all QM S2835): a body, dorsal view b body, lateral view c glans, ventral view d glans, left ventrolateral view.
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<subSubSection lastPageId="26" lastPageNumber="85" pageId="25" pageNumber="84" type="description">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="25" pageNumber="84" start="start">Description</pageBreakToken>
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<paragraph pageId="25" pageNumber="84">MALE (N = 2). Prosoma length 0.89 (0.83-0.94), width 1.72 (1.56-1.88); total body length 2.37 (2.35-2.38). Dorsum entirely unarmed. Anterior propeltidial area with central stripe of light orange-brown between ocularium and anterior margin of prosoma, flanked by two yellow stripes; remainder of anterior and median propeltidial areas mottled black and dark orange-brown with broad iridescent dark silver patches between ocularium and ozopores. Ocularium iridescent white with dark grey stripe down central groove. Mesopeltidium, metapeltidium and first four segments of opisthosoma orange-yellow medially and along segment boundaries with blackish brown patches laterally; fifth opisthosomal segment with transverse iridescent white stripe bordered by mottled black; remaining segments mottled black with yellow segment boundaries. Mouthparts brown-cream. Coxae dull orange proximally, mottled black distally; venter of opisthosoma iridescent white.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="25" pageNumber="84">Chelicerae. Segment I 0.53 (0.52-0.54), segment II 1.07 (1.00-1.14). Cream; segment I with iridescent white reticulation dorsally. Both segments unarmed. Fingers long; mobile finger closes tightly with segment II.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="85">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="26" pageNumber="85" start="start">Pedipalps</pageBreakToken>
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. Femur 0.94 (0.90-0.97), patella 0.45 (0.44-0.45), tibia 0.58 (0.57-0.59), tarsus 1.15 (1.14-1.15). Cream; unarmed. Patella with distomedial bulge, but no true apophysis. Microtrichia on distal three-quarters of tarsus; claw with ventral tooth-comb. Legs: Femora 4.16 (3.86-4.45), 7.20 (6.08-8.31), 4.00 (3.76-4.23), 5.65 (5.10-6.19); patellae 0.91 (0.87-0.94), 1.13, 0.87 (0.84-0.89), 1.00 (0.98-1.02); tibiae 4.10 (3.64-4.55), 7.50 (6.46-8.54), 3.74 (3.46-4.02), 5.46 (4.98-5.94). Trochanters mottled black on orange, remaining segments orange-yellow, with widely-spaced mottled black transverse stripes. Femora with scattered denticles, mostly dorsal; other segments unarmed.
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Penis (Figs 15
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). Bristle groups well-developed on both sides, left groups set slightly back and longer than right groups. Glans short, sides in ventral view subparallel, dorso-ventrally flattened distally, dorsal surface in plane with shaft. Deep pores.
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Spiracle (Figs 13
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). Curtain of robust reticulate spines extending only partway across spiracle; terminations of spines multifurcate but not palmate; lace tubercles on margin of lateral corner only.
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<subSubSection pageId="26" pageNumber="85" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="85">Etymology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="85">From the Latin puerilis, childish, referring to the lack of ornamentation or significant secondary sexual characteristics in the adult male.</paragraph>
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