167 lines
16 KiB
XML
167 lines
16 KiB
XML
<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="CD27A26AB0B64F5A2B142DF7718D4876" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 328: 59-117" docOrigin="ZooKeys 328" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.328.5439" docTitle="Megalopsalis minima Kauri 1954, comb. n." docType="treatment" docVersion="4" lastPageNumber="67" masterDocId="DB53CC7BFF8FA05DFFA3FFDBFFF4FFC0" masterDocTitle="Further revision of the genus Megalopsalis (Opiliones, Neopilionidae), with the description of seven new species" masterLastPageNumber="117" masterPageNumber="59" pageNumber="65" updateTime="1668156393602" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
|
||
<mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
|
||
<mods:titleInfo>
|
||
<mods:title>Further revision of the genus Megalopsalis (Opiliones, Neopilionidae), with the description of seven new species</mods:title>
|
||
</mods:titleInfo>
|
||
<mods:name type="personal">
|
||
<mods:role>
|
||
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
|
||
</mods:role>
|
||
<mods:namePart>Taylor, Christopher K.</mods:namePart>
|
||
</mods:name>
|
||
<mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource>
|
||
<mods:relatedItem type="host">
|
||
<mods:titleInfo>
|
||
<mods:title>ZooKeys</mods:title>
|
||
</mods:titleInfo>
|
||
<mods:part>
|
||
<mods:date>2013</mods:date>
|
||
<mods:detail type="volume">
|
||
<mods:number>328</mods:number>
|
||
</mods:detail>
|
||
<mods:extent unit="page">
|
||
<mods:start>59</mods:start>
|
||
<mods:end>117</mods:end>
|
||
</mods:extent>
|
||
</mods:part>
|
||
</mods:relatedItem>
|
||
<mods:location>
|
||
<mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.328.5439</mods:url>
|
||
</mods:location>
|
||
<mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification>
|
||
<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.328.5439</mods:identifier>
|
||
<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1313-2970-328-59</mods:identifier>
|
||
</mods:mods>
|
||
<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152047438" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:CD27A26AB0B64F5A2B142DF7718D4876" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/CD27A26AB0B64F5A2B142DF7718D4876" lastPageId="8" lastPageNumber="67" pageId="6" pageNumber="65">
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="65" type="nomenclature">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="65">
|
||
<taxonomicName LSID="http://species-id.net/wiki/Megalopsalis_minima" authority="Kauri, 1954" authorityName="Kauri" authorityYear="1954" class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis minima" order="Opiliones" pageId="6" pageNumber="65" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minima">Megalopsalis minima (Kauri, 1954)</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="6" pageNumber="65">comb. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
Fig. 3
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="65" type="reference_group">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="65">
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Spinicrus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Spinicrus minimus" order="Opiliones" pageId="6" pageNumber="65" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minimus">Spinicrus minimus</taxonomicName>
|
||
Kauri, 1954: 7-8, fig. 4
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="a–b">a-b</normalizedToken>
|
||
(incorrect original spelling).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="65">
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Spinicrus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Spinicrus minimum" order="Opiliones" pageId="6" pageNumber="65" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minimum">Spinicrus minimum</taxonomicName>
|
||
Kauri -
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Taylor, CK" journalOrPublisher="Tuhinga" pageId="43" pageNumber="102" pagination="53 - 76" title="New Zealand harvestmen of the subfamily Megalopsalidinae (Opiliones: Monoscutidae) - the genus Pantopsalis." volume="15" year="2004">Taylor 2004</bibRefCitation>
|
||
: 76 (spelling emended therein by W.
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="Staręga">Starega</normalizedToken>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="6" pageNumber="65" type="material examined">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="65">Material examined.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="65">
|
||
1 minor male, Denmark, Western Australia,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-34.95">34°57'S</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="117.35">117°21'E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
, 11 November 1990, A. F. Longbottom, under granite (WAM T72865); 3 minor males, Glenbourne farm, Old Ellensbrook Rd, S of Gracetown, Western Australia,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-33.883335">33°53'S</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="115.0">115°00'E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
, 27-28 October 1996, L. Marsh et al., pitfall (WAM T72171, T72184 [2 measured]); 3 major males, ditto, 28-30 June 1997, L. Marsh et al., dry pitfalls, base of cliff (WAM T72167-9; measured); 2 minor males, ditto, 13-15 September 1997, L. Marsh et al., dry pitfall traps (WAM T72176 [measured], T72186); 1 minor male, ditto, 27-29 December 1997, L. Marsh et al., dry pitfalls, site 3 (WAM T72160); 1 minor male,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-33.90778">33°54'28"S</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="115.01361">115°00'49"E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
, 24-26 October 1998, L. Marsh et al., dry pitfall traps (WAM T72172; measured); 2 minor males, ditto,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-33.90889">33°54'32"S</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="115.00667">115°00'24"E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
, 24-26 October 1998, L. Marsh et al., dry pitfall traps (WAM T72158); 2 minor males, ditto,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-33.911114">33°54'40"S</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="115.009445">115°00'34"E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
, 30
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="October–">October-</normalizedToken>
|
||
1 November 1999, L. Marsh et al., dry pitfall traps (WAM T72144; 1 measured); 1 minor male, ditto, 20-22 October 2001, L. Marsh et al., dry pitfall traps (WAM T72193; measured); 1 minor male, ditto,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-33.91889">33°55'08"S</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="115.01222">115°00'44"E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
, 20-23 October 2000, L. Marsh et al., dry pitfall traps (WAM T72187; measured).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="7" pageNumber="66" type="diagnosis">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">
|
||
<pageBreakToken pageId="7" pageNumber="66" start="start">Diagnosis</pageBreakToken>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis minima" order="Opiliones" pageId="7" pageNumber="66" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minima">Megalopsalis minima</taxonomicName>
|
||
can be distinguished from other members of the
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis minima" order="Opiliones" pageId="7" pageNumber="66" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minima">Megalopsalis minima</taxonomicName>
|
||
-species group by the heavier denticulation on the dorsal prosomal plate (Fig. 3a); the major males can also be distinguished from other species by the proportionately much longer chelicerae (Fig. 3b). It can be distinguished from
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis porongorupensis" order="Opiliones" pageId="7" pageNumber="66" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="porongorupensis">Megalopsalis porongorupensis</taxonomicName>
|
||
by the absence of spines on the pedipalpal femur and patella, and from
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis suffugiens" order="Opiliones" pageId="7" pageNumber="66" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="suffugiens">Megalopsalis suffugiens</taxonomicName>
|
||
by the heavily denticulate leg femora (Fig. 3b).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<caption pageId="7" pageNumber="66">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">
|
||
Figure 2. Spiracles of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis minima" order="Opiliones" pageId="7" pageNumber="66" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minima">Megalopsalis minima</taxonomicName>
|
||
species-group: a
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis porongorupensis" order="Opiliones" pageId="7" pageNumber="66" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="porongorupensis">Megalopsalis porongorupensis</taxonomicName>
|
||
b
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis walpolensis" order="Opiliones" pageId="7" pageNumber="66" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="walpolensis">Megalopsalis walpolensis</taxonomicName>
|
||
c
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis suffugiens" order="Opiliones" pageId="7" pageNumber="66" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="suffugiens">Megalopsalis suffugiens</taxonomicName>
|
||
d same, close-up of lateral corner showing area of reticulation.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<caption pageId="7" pageNumber="66">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">
|
||
Figure 3.
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis minima" order="Opiliones" pageId="7" pageNumber="66" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minima">Megalopsalis minima</taxonomicName>
|
||
, major male (all WAM T72169): a body, dorsal view b body, lateral view c right cheliceral fingers, frontal view d glans, ventral view e glans, right lateral view.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="7" pageNumber="66" type="description">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">Description.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">MAJOR MALE (N = 3). Prosoma length 0.85 (0.78-0.90), width 1.86 (1.74-1.92); total body length 2.37 (2.18-2.56). Dorsal prosomal plate golden brown; median prosomal area strongly denticulate, fewer denticles on margins of anterior and posterior prosomal areas. Ocularium black with row of denticles along edge on each side. Ozopore large, lenticulate. Dorsum of opisthosoma with alternating tan and dark brown mottled with tan stripes, and scattered iridescent white patches. Coxae tan with medium brown distal ends; venter of opisthosoma dark brown medially; tan dusted with black laterally.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">Chelicerae. Segment I 5.81 (4.78-7.00), segment II 6.83 (6.10-7.88). Chelicerae golden brown with second segment tan distad; evenly denticulate. Fingers long; mobile finger crescent-shaped (Fig. 3c).</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">Pedipalps. Femur 0.96 (0.89-1.00), patella 0.44 (0.43-0.46), tibia 0.55 (0.54-0.59), tarsus 1.23 (1.21-1.26). Alternating tan and brown bands; femur without denticles. Femur to proximal part of tibia with longitudinal rows of large setae, distal tibia and tarsus with large setae interspersed among small setae. Inner dorsal distal patella with swelling but no distinct apophysis. Microtrichia on distal end of tibia and tarsus; claw with ventral tooth-row.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">Legs. Femora 4.27 (3.82-4.55), 7.51 (6.92-7.92), 3.72 (3.48-3.96), 5.75 (5.33-5.94); patellae 0.87 (0.80-0.98), 0.96 (0.92-1.07), 0.81 (0.76-0.86), 0.95 (0.93-1.00); tibiae 3.96 (3.62-4.28), 8.15 (7.42-8.46), 3.67 (3.44-3.84), 5.79 (5.27-5.98). Femora with strong denticles. Patella I with two longitudinal rows of spines, one on each side; rows continue on tibia, dwindling distalwards. Patellae of other legs only lightly denticulate; tibiae smooth. Tibia II with 7-9 pseudosegments, tibia IV with two pseudosegments.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">
|
||
Penis (Figs 3
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="d–e">d-e</normalizedToken>
|
||
). Tendon long; waist in shaft behind bristle groups; left anterior bristle group reduced. Glans short, triangular in ventral view, not strongly flattened distally; dorsal side in line with shaft, evenly convex. Deep pores.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">Spiracle. Spines almost entirely absent, residual reticulate bases only towards lateral corner; dense field of lace tubercles at lateral corner.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">MINOR MALE (N = 7). Prosoma length 0.73 (0.55-0.83), width 1.82 (1.39-1.68); total body length 1.83 (1.45-2.25). As above, except for following.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">Chelicerae. Segment I 0.96 (0.66-2.61), segment II 1.68 (1.27-3.44).</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">Pedipalps. Femur 0.84 (0.78-0.90), patella 0.37 (0.34-0.39), tibia 0.48 (0.43-0.53), tarsus 1.05 (0.93-1.10).</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">Legs. Femora 3.48 (3.20-3.70), 6.57 (6.27-6.79), 3.34 (3.00-3.52), 4.79 (4.30-5.00); patellae 0.72 (0.63-0.80), 0.83 (0.77-0.87), 0.72 (0.69-0.76), 0.83 (0.70-0.85); tibiae 3.46 (2.84-3.80), 7.02 (6.33-7.34), 3.26 (2.72-3.52), 4.74 (4.15-5.00). Patella I lightly denticulate, without longitudinal spine rows.</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="8" pageNumber="67" type="comments">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="67">
|
||
<pageBreakToken pageId="8" pageNumber="67" start="start">Comments</pageBreakToken>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="67">
|
||
Unfortunately, the type specimen(s) of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis minima" order="Opiliones" pageId="8" pageNumber="67" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minima">Megalopsalis minima</taxonomicName>
|
||
were not available for the present study. This species has been identified based on its original description by
|
||
<bibRefCitation pageId="8" pageNumber="67">Kauri (1954)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="67">
|
||
Females have been found in association with males of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis minima" order="Opiliones" pageId="8" pageNumber="67" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minima">Megalopsalis minima</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis porongorupensis" order="Opiliones" pageId="8" pageNumber="67" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="porongorupensis">Megalopsalis porongorupensis</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis walpolensis" order="Opiliones" pageId="8" pageNumber="67" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="walpolensis">Megalopsalis walpolensis</taxonomicName>
|
||
(unpublished observations, specimens in WAM). However, as no distinct morphotypes have been distinguished among the likely females, while the ranges of these species overlap, it has not been possible as yet to determine which females are assignable to which species.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
</document> |