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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="4FA35715EE7893BBF76B84046E24EFA5" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 328: 59-117" docOrigin="ZooKeys 328" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.328.5439" docTitle="Megalopsalis stewarti Forster 1949, comb. n." docType="treatment" docVersion="4" lastPageNumber="86" masterDocId="DB53CC7BFF8FA05DFFA3FFDBFFF4FFC0" masterDocTitle="Further revision of the genus Megalopsalis (Opiliones, Neopilionidae), with the description of seven new species" masterLastPageNumber="117" masterPageNumber="59" pageNumber="85" 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:number>328</mods:number>
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<mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.328.5439</mods:url>
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<mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.328.5439</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1313-2970-328-59</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152047445" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:4FA35715EE7893BBF76B84046E24EFA5" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4FA35715EE7893BBF76B84046E24EFA5" lastPageId="27" lastPageNumber="86" pageId="26" pageNumber="85">
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<subSubSection pageId="26" pageNumber="85" type="nomenclature">
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://species-id.net/wiki/Megalopsalis_stewarti" authority="Forster, 1949" authorityName="Forster" authorityYear="1949" class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis stewarti" order="Opiliones" pageId="26" pageNumber="85" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stewarti">Megalopsalis stewarti (Forster, 1949)</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="26" pageNumber="85">comb. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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Figs 16, 18a
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<subSubSection pageId="26" pageNumber="85" type="reference_group">
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<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="85">
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Spinicrus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Spinicrus stewarti" order="Opiliones" pageId="26" pageNumber="85" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stewarti">Spinicrus stewarti</taxonomicName>
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Forster, 1949: 68-70, figs 11-16.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="26" pageNumber="85" type="material examined">
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<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="85">Material examined.</paragraph>
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Paratypes. 1 female, Victoria, Mount Buffalo, 30-31 December 1947, ex bole of snow gum (
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Eucalyptus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Eucalyptus pauciflora" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="85" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pauciflora">Eucalyptus pauciflora</taxonomicName>
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) (NMV K-8910); 8 males, ditto (NMV K-8911-8919).
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Other material examined. 1 male, Victoria, Lala Falls, near Warburton,
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="-37.766666">37°46'S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="145.7">145°42'E</geoCoordinate>
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, 22 December 2002, M. S. Harvey, M. E. Blosfelds, under bark of
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<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Eucalyptus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Eucalyptus regnans" order="Myrtales" pageId="26" pageNumber="85" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="regnans">Eucalyptus regnans</taxonomicName>
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(WAM T72315).
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<subSubSection pageId="26" pageNumber="85" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="85">Description.</paragraph>
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MALE. Description as in
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<bibRefCitation author="Forster, RR" journalOrPublisher="Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria" pageId="42" pageNumber="101" pagination="59 - 89" title="Australian Opiliones." volume="16" year="1949">Forster (1949)</bibRefCitation>
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, except following.
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<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="85">Legs. Leg I with anterior longitudinal row of enlarged denticles from proximal end of femur to distal end of tibia (males with smaller chelicerae with reduced denticle row on femur only), scattered denticles on basitarsus I; smaller row on femora and patellae of other legs.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="85">Penis (Fig. 16). Shaft and tendon elongate; all four bristle-groups well-developed. Distinct lateral protrusion of glans above left anterior bristle group. Glans short, broad, triangular in dorsal view, dorsoventrally flattened at distal end. Pores shallowly recessed.</paragraph>
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<caption pageId="26" pageNumber="85">
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<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="85">
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Figure 16.
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis stewarti" order="Opiliones" pageId="26" pageNumber="85" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stewarti">Megalopsalis stewarti</taxonomicName>
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, male, glans (all WAM T72315): a ventral view b right lateral view c dorsal view.
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</paragraph>
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</caption>
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<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="85">Spiracle (Fig. 18a). Reticulate spines extending only partway across spiracle; terminations of spines palmate; small group of lace tubercles in lateral corner.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="85">
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FEMALE. Description as in
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<bibRefCitation author="Forster, RR" journalOrPublisher="Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria" pageId="42" pageNumber="101" pagination="59 - 89" title="Australian Opiliones." volume="16" year="1949">Forster (1949)</bibRefCitation>
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, except all legs with dorsal longitudinal row of small denticles along femora.
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<subSubSection lastPageId="27" lastPageNumber="86" pageId="26" pageNumber="85" type="comments">
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<paragraph pageId="26" pageNumber="85">Comments.</paragraph>
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<bibRefCitation author="Forster, RR" journalOrPublisher="Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria" pageId="42" pageNumber="101" pagination="59 - 89" title="Australian Opiliones." volume="16" year="1949">Forster (1949)</bibRefCitation>
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stated that the holotype and female paratype had been deposited in NMV, while the remaining male paratypes (of unspecified number) had been deposited in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand (CMNZ). However, as indicated above, NMV holds eight male specimens of this species labelled as paratypes. Because these specimens share the same collection data as the female paratype, it seems likely that these correspond to the specimens that
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<bibRefCitation author="Forster, RR" journalOrPublisher="Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria" pageId="42" pageNumber="101" pagination="59 - 89" title="Australian Opiliones." volume="16" year="1949">Forster (1949)</bibRefCitation>
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intended to place in CMNZ.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="27" pageNumber="86">
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis thryptica" order="Opiliones" pageId="27" pageNumber="86" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="thryptica">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="27" pageNumber="86" start="start">Megalopsalis</pageBreakToken>
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thryptica
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</taxonomicName>
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is very similar to
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis stewarti" order="Opiliones" pageId="27" pageNumber="86" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stewarti">Megalopsalis stewarti</taxonomicName>
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, from which it can be distinguished by having distitarsus IV basally swollen.
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<bibRefCitation author="Hickman, VV" journalOrPublisher="Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania" pageId="42" pageNumber="101" pagination="65 - 79" title="Some Tasmanian harvestmen of the sub-order Palpatores." volume="91" year="1957">Hickman (1957)</bibRefCitation>
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initially distinguished
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis stewarti" order="Opiliones" pageId="27" pageNumber="86" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stewarti">Megalopsalis stewarti</taxonomicName>
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from
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis thryptica" order="Opiliones" pageId="27" pageNumber="86" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="thryptica">Megalopsalis thryptica</taxonomicName>
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by the presence of denticles on tibia I in males of
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis thryptica" order="Opiliones" pageId="27" pageNumber="86" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="thryptica">Megalopsalis thryptica</taxonomicName>
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, compared to their supposed absence in
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis stewarti" order="Opiliones" pageId="27" pageNumber="86" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stewarti">Megalopsalis stewarti</taxonomicName>
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as described by
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<bibRefCitation author="Forster, RR" journalOrPublisher="Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria" pageId="42" pageNumber="101" pagination="59 - 89" title="Australian Opiliones." volume="16" year="1949">Forster (1949)</bibRefCitation>
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. However, specimens of
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis stewarti" order="Opiliones" pageId="27" pageNumber="86" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stewarti">Megalopsalis stewarti</taxonomicName>
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with longer chelicerae also have more extensive denticulation on leg I, extending as far as the basitarsus in some specimens. There is insufficient data as yet to determine whether this indicates a division between major and minor males or whether variation is continuous.
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis thryptica" order="Opiliones" pageId="27" pageNumber="86" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="thryptica">Megalopsalis thryptica</taxonomicName>
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may still be distinguished from
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Megalopsalis stewarti" order="Opiliones" pageId="27" pageNumber="86" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stewarti">Megalopsalis stewarti</taxonomicName>
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by the male of the former having distitarsus IV basally inflated (personal examination of holotype, AMS).
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