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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.434.7486" ID-GBIF-Dataset="a0241082-1202-4a31-a36c-6a755a1d9ad3" ID-PMC="PMC4141165" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-434-37" ID-PubMed="25152679" ID-ZBK="0A3E6FDDE27D49DF92FD04D0987C9CC0" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2014" ModsDocID="1313-2970-434-37" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 434" ModsDocTitle="Two new species of harvestmen (Opiliones, Eupnoi, Neopilionidae) from Waitomo, New Zealand" checkinTime="1451245500961" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Taylor, Christopher K. &amp; Probert, Anna" docDate="2014" docId="EC144510FABBA117254478B73CBFE0CF" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 434: 37-45" docOrigin="ZooKeys 434" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.434.7486" docTitle="Forsteropsalis bona Taylor &amp; Probert, 2014, sp. n." docType="treatment" docUuid="32F7E0A3-1CE0-41EF-B7AA-48DDAE2A529A" docUuidSource="ZooBank" docVersion="4" lastPageNumber="41" masterDocId="565CFFE70267FFD7FF8FFF85193EAC34" masterDocTitle="Two new species of harvestmen (Opiliones, Eupnoi, Neopilionidae) from Waitomo, New Zealand" masterLastPageNumber="45" masterPageNumber="37" pageNumber="39" updateTime="1668159148989" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Two new species of harvestmen (Opiliones, Eupnoi, Neopilionidae) from Waitomo, New Zealand</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Taylor, Christopher K.</mods:namePart>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="39">Taxon classification Animalia Opiliones Neopilionidae</paragraph>
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Figure 1
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="39">Holotype male.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="39">WO. Lucky Strike Cave, Te Kuiti, on wall near entrance, 14 Feb 1959, K. A. J. Wise (MONZ).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="39">Paratypes.</paragraph>
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WO. 2 males, Waitomo Valley, in stream crevice outside cave entrance (shady), specimens intertwined and sluggish, 30 Mar 1959, L. G. Watson (MONZ); 1 male, Weir Cave, Stubbs Farm, Waitomo, ca. 2 m from cave entrance within a 15 cm radius of
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larvae, 23 Aug 2010, A. Probert (NZAC).
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="39">Etymology.</paragraph>
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From the Latin bonus, good, in contrast to the related
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.
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="39">Male (n=4).</paragraph>
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Total body length 4.8-6.6; prosoma length 2.5-2.8, width 4.0-4.2. Prosoma (including ocularium) unarmed (Fig. 1A); ground colour in alcohol orange-brown with longitudinal yellow stripes on either side of ocularium (live coloration very dark brown [almost black] with orange-yellow stripes; appendages also black). Ozopores elongate, with small flanking lobes. Opisthosoma grey-yellow. Mouthparts cream-coloured; medial side of pedipalpal coxa with dense array of sharp denticles; cervix unarmed. Coxae yellow. Chelicerae (Fig. 1B): Segment I length 6.2-8.4; segment II 9.4-10.4. Elongate; segment I orange with lighter yellow patch at distal end, segment II dark orange-brown. Segment I denticulate, with denticles concentrated along dorsal, proventral and retroventral margins. Segment II massively inflated, evenly denticulate. Cheliceral fingers elongate, widely bowed apart; setae present on distal half of mobile finger. Pedipalps: Femur length 5.4-5.7; patella 2.2-2.4; tibia 2.8-3.1; tarsus 5.8-6.5. Distinctly elongate, yellow. Femur dorsally denticulate on proximal two-thirds; remainder of pedipalp unarmed. Setae sparse except for small concentration at prodistal end of patella; microtrichia present on tarsus and distal half of tibia; prodorsal end of patella with distinct protrusion but without definite finger-like apophysis (Fig. 1C). Tarsal claw without ventral tooth-row. Legs: Legs I femur length 8.6-9.9, patella 1.9-2.5, tibia 8.3-9.8; leg II femur 14.3-17.2, patella 2.2-2.8, tibia 14.4-17.8; leg III femur 7.5-8.7, patella 1.7-2.3, tibia 5.3-8.2; leg IV femur 8.5-10.7, patella 1.8-2.7, tibia 10.2-10.8. Femora sparsely denticulate, particularly in proximal half; remainder of legs unarmed. Distitarsus I with strong ventral tooth at distal end of each of first five or six pseudosegments (Fig. 1D). Tibia II with nine to fifteen pseudosegments; tibia IV with two pseudosegments. Penis (Fig. 1
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): Shaft subquadrate; tendon long. Bristle groups relatively long, posterior bristle group with longest bristles reaching dorsal margin in lateral view. Glans short, subtriangular in ventral view, narrowing rapidly in lateral view.
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Figure 1.
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sp. n. A dorsal view of body, holotype B lateral view of body, pedipalps and chelicerae, holotype C dorsal view of right pedipalpal patella and tibia, holotype D proximal pseudosegments of right distitarsus I (venter upwards), holotype, showing ventrodistal teeth E penis, ventral view, specimen from Waitomo Valley F penis, right lateral view, specimen from Waitomo Valley.
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="39">Comments.</paragraph>
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Females of this species are currently unknown.
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bona
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can be distinguished from most other
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species by its unarmed prosoma and enormous, sub-globose cheliceral segment II with widely bowed cheliceral fingers (
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). In these features it strongly resembles
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, and would key out to either
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or
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in the key to
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species provided by
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. These two species are synonymised below.
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can be distinguished from
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by the form of the pedipalpal patella:
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has a distinct finger-like prodistal apophysis on the patella (
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: Fig. C p. 732), while the patellar apophysis is almost absent in
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(Fig. 1C).
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also has denticles both dorsally and ventrally on the pedipalpal femur, while
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has denticles dorsally only.
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<pageBreakToken pageId="4" pageNumber="41" start="start">An</pageBreakToken>
interesting feature of
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is the presence of a strong ventrodistal tooth on the end of each of the proximal pseudosegments of the distitarsus. This tooth sits between the two spinose setae generally present on each tarsal pseudosegment in all
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(Fig. 1D). Such a feature has not previously been recorded for this subfamily, though it is also present in
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(specimens from MONZ, details given in
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). This may represent a distinct synapomorphy of these two species.
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The glans of both
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(
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) and
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is relatively short compared to other
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species, and converges in shape on that of the Australian genus
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(
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,
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). Nevertheless, the remaining features of these two species support a direct relationship with other New Zealand species of
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and
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, and with
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in particular. These features include dorsal papillae on the glans (
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), setae on the mobile finger of the chelicera (absent in
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except
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;
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,
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), and an array of denticles on the medial side of the pedipalpal coxa (Fig. 3A;
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).
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