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<emphasis id="EBB388182159DC19E095FA67FE6EFA68" bold="true" box="[151,396,1495,1521]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">Forsteropsalis nigra</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="EBB388182159DC19E095F922FE60F932" bold="true" box="[151,386,1682,1707]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58" reason="1">Material examined.</emphasis>
<emphasis id="EBB388182159DC19E18BF923FE20F932" box="[393,450,1683,1707]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">Male</emphasis>
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(here designated).
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,
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Forster (
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/23)
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.
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<emphasis id="EBB388182159DC19E0C7F96DFDCCF96C" bold="true" box="[197,558,1757,1782]" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">
<emphasis id="EBB388182159DC19E0C7F96DFE18F96F" box="[197,506,1757,1782]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58" reason="1">Other material examined.</emphasis>
WI.
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, ditto,
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(
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.
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<emphasis id="EBB388182159DC19E0C7F8B2FEB4F882" bold="true" box="[197,342,1794,1819]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58" reason="1">Description.</emphasis>
MALE (N = 1). Prosoma length 2.2, width 3.2. Prosoma (fig. 121) medium brown, propeltidium and mesopeltidium heavily denticulate. Ocularium medium brown, heavily denticulate. Opisthosoma medium brown with scattered orange lateral punctures. Coxae dark brown with orange spots; venter of opisthosoma medium brown with orange spots.
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<emphasis id="EBB388182159DC19E0C7F828FEA2F829" box="[197,320,1944,1968]" italics="true" pageId="57" pageNumber="58">Chelicerae</emphasis>
(fig. 122). Segment I 7.5, segment II 9.0. Medium brown, slender.
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<emphasis id="EBB38818215ADC1AE095FC25FE8CFC35" bold="true" box="[151,366,917,940]" pageId="58" pageNumber="59">FIGURES 121123.</emphasis>
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(
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, male holotype. 121. Prosoma, dorsal view. 122. Left cheliceral fingers, dorsal view. 123. Right pedipalp, retrolateral view. Scale bar for fig. 121 = 1 mm; figs 122123 = 0.5 mm.
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<emphasis id="EBB38818215ADC1AE0C7FC47FED7FB96" box="[197,309,1015,1039]" italics="true" pageId="58" pageNumber="59">Pedipalps</emphasis>
(fig. 123). Femur 1.8, patella 0.6, tibia 0.8, tarsus 2.4. White with brown stripe around base of femur; with ventral row of denticles on femur. Small pointed mediodistal apophysis on patella, median side of patella and tibia not especially setose. No tooth-comb on claw.
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<emphasis id="EBB38818215ADC1AE0C7FBD6FF18FBE4" box="[197,250,1126,1149]" italics="true" pageId="58" pageNumber="59">Legs</emphasis>
. Leg I femur 7.0, patella 1.0, tibia 5.0; leg II femur 11.0, patella 1.5, tibia 10.0; leg III femur 6.0, patella 1.0, tibia 5.0; leg IV femur 8.5, patella 1.5, tibia 7.0. Medium brown. Femora denticulate; remaining segments unarmed. Tibia II with six or seven pseudosegments; tibia IV with two pseudosegments.
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<paragraph id="D978540A215ADC1AE0C7FB64FC80FAC3" blockId="58.[151,1437,1015,1959]" pageId="58" pageNumber="59">FEMALE (N = 1). Prosoma length 1.8, width 2.6. Dorsal prosomal plate mottled off-white and dark brown. Ocularium dark brown; few black setae not forming rows. Opisthosoma mottled grey-brown, few scattered black setae, scattered patches of off-white. Coxae dark grey-brown with scattered off-white spots and numerous black setae; venter of opisthosoma mottled grey-brown and off-white.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="EBB38818215ADC1AE0C7FAD7FEA2FAE6" box="[197,320,1383,1407]" italics="true" pageId="58" pageNumber="59">Chelicerae</emphasis>
. Segment I 1.0, segment II 2.0. Orange, with dorsodistal part of segment I white; distal half of second segment lighter.
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<emphasis id="EBB38818215ADC1AE0C7FA01FEC8FA50" box="[197,298,1457,1481]" italics="true" pageId="58" pageNumber="59">Pedipalp</emphasis>
. Femur 1.4, patella 0.6, tibia 0.8, tarsus 2.0. Striped dark brown and tan; small pointed patellar apophysis with hypersetose region on medial edge.
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<emphasis id="EBB38818215ADC1AE0C7FA4BFF18F98B" box="[197,250,1531,1554]" italics="true" pageId="58" pageNumber="59">Legs</emphasis>
. Leg I femur 3.5, patella 1.0, tibia 3.0; leg II femur 6.5, patella 1.5, tibia 6.5; leg III femur 3.5, patella 1.0, tibia 3.0; leg IV femur 5.0, patella 1.0, tibia 4.5. Grey-brown, spotted with white. Tibia II with six or seven pseudosegments; tibia IV with two pseudosegments.
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<bibRefCitation id="BD5629FB215ADC1AE156F9D9FE16F919" author="Forster, R. R." box="[340,500,1640,1664]" pageId="58" pageNumber="59" pagination="183 - 192" refId="ref39591" refString="Forster, R. R. (1944) The genus Megalopsalis Roewer in New Zealand with keys to the New Zealand genera of Opiliones. Records of the Dominion Museum, 1 (1), 183 - 192." type="journal article" year="1944">Forster (1944)</bibRefCitation>
refers to
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in his original description, but the type vial only includes a single specimen. To forestall confusion, this specimen is here designated as the
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. The status of the other specimen is currently unknown.
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<taxonomicName id="1EC72F89215ADC1AE0C7F967FE4FF976" authorityName="Taylor" authorityYear="2011" baseAuthorityName="Forster" baseAuthorityYear="1944" box="[197,429,1751,1775]" class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Forsteropsalis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="58" pageNumber="59" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nigra">
<emphasis id="EBB38818215ADC1AE0C7F967FE4FF976" box="[197,429,1751,1775]" italics="true" pageId="58" pageNumber="59">Forsteropsalis nigra</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is easily distinguished from
<taxonomicName id="1EC72F89215ADC1AE2F4F968FC8BF976" box="[758,873,1751,1775]" class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Megalopsalis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="58" pageNumber="59" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chiltoni">
<emphasis id="EBB38818215ADC1AE2F4F968FC8BF976" box="[758,873,1751,1775]" italics="true" pageId="58" pageNumber="59">F. chiltoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by its heavy denticulation, and there seems to be no reason to retain the former as a subspecies of the latter.
<bibRefCitation id="BD5629FB215ADC1AE326F94CFC26F88D" author="Forster, R. R." box="[804,964,1788,1812]" pageId="58" pageNumber="59" pagination="183 - 192" refId="ref39591" refString="Forster, R. R. (1944) The genus Megalopsalis Roewer in New Zealand with keys to the New Zealand genera of Opiliones. Records of the Dominion Museum, 1 (1), 183 - 192." type="journal article" year="1944">Forster (1944)</bibRefCitation>
may have based his identification on misidentified specimens of
<taxonomicName id="1EC72F89215ADC1AE1ABF891FDDCF8A1" authorityName="Taylor" authorityYear="2011" baseAuthorityName="Forster" baseAuthorityYear="1944" box="[425,574,1825,1848]" class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Forsteropsalis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="58" pageNumber="59" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="inconstans">
<emphasis id="EBB38818215ADC1AE1ABF891FDDCF8A1" box="[425,574,1825,1848]" italics="true" pageId="58" pageNumber="59">F. inconstans</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see that species above).
<taxonomicName id="1EC72F89215ADC1AE364F891FBACF8A1" authorityName="Taylor" authorityYear="2011" baseAuthorityName="Forster" baseAuthorityYear="1944" box="[870,1102,1825,1849]" class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Forsteropsalis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="58" pageNumber="59" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nigra">
<emphasis id="EBB38818215ADC1AE364F891FBACF8A1" box="[870,1102,1825,1849]" italics="true" pageId="58" pageNumber="59">Forsteropsalis nigra</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
can be distinguished from
<taxonomicName id="1EC72F89215ADC1AE585F891FEEDF8C4" authorityName="Taylor" authorityYear="2011" baseAuthorityName="Forster" baseAuthorityYear="1944" class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Forsteropsalis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="58" pageNumber="59" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="inconstans">
<emphasis id="EBB38818215ADC1AE585F891FEEDF8C4" italics="true" pageId="58" pageNumber="59">F. inconstans</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the absence of a red stripe along the boundary between the anterior and median propeltidial areas. Note, however, that in some specimens of
<taxonomicName id="1EC72F89215ADC1AE271F8DBFCE5F81B" authorityName="Taylor" authorityYear="2011" baseAuthorityName="Forster" baseAuthorityYear="1944" box="[627,775,1899,1922]" class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Forsteropsalis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="58" pageNumber="59" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="inconstans">
<emphasis id="EBB38818215ADC1AE271F8DBFCE5F81B" box="[627,775,1899,1922]" italics="true" pageId="58" pageNumber="59">F. inconstans</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the red stripe may fade and is difficult to distinguish from the surrounding background (personal observation).
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