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<emphasis box="[140,268,835,861]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="355" reason="1">Mitostoma</emphasis>
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gruberi
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,
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<figureCitation box="[221,236,906,932]" captionStart="Figures 6-9" captionStartId="6.[140,222,1527,1549]" captionTargetBox="[195,1052,165,1499]" captionTargetId="figure@6.[192,1055,165,1503]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="Figures 6-9. Camera lucida drawings of the specimens shown in 1-3. 6?Histricostoma tuberculatum (Koch & Berendt, 1854), MB.A. 1652 7 the same – detail of the apophysis at the tip of the first cheliceral segment (right chelicerae, dorso-lateral view) 8?H. tuberculatum, MB.A. 1653 9 Mitostoma gruberi sp. n. MB.A. 1654 (holotype). All from Bitterfeld amber (Palaeogene: Oligocene). Scale bars equal 1.0 mm (6, 8) and 0.5 mm (9)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3814833" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3814833/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="355">9</figureCitation>
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,
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.A. 1654. Bitterfeld amber. Probably from the site of the Goitsche Open Cast Mine near Bitterfeld,
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; Palaeogene (Oligocene: Chattian).
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<emphasis box="[185,307,1081,1107]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="355" reason="1">Diagnosis</emphasis>
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Fossil
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<emphasis box="[388,504,1083,1108]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="355">Mitostoma</emphasis>
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with a specific form of the apophysis on the first cheliceral segment and specific form of the palpal tarsal segment.
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<emphasis box="[185,315,1152,1178]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="355" reason="1">Etymology</emphasis>
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.
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In honour of Dr Jürgen Gruber (
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) in recognition of his extensive studies on harvestmen, and nemastomatids in particular.
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<emphasis box="[185,330,1222,1248]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="355" reason="1">Description</emphasis>
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.
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MB.A. 1654 comprises a well-preserved body and pedipalps in lateral view, with a number of slightly disarticulated leg femora. Body length,
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. Ocular tubercle distinct, eye diameter
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. Opisthosoma with hints of segmentation and slight tuberculation on the dorsal surface towards the posterior half of the body. Chelicerae largely obscured, but dorsal part of first segment appears inflated forming an apophysis whose form is close to that of the Italian endemic
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="355">Mitostoma orobicum</emphasis>
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(
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)
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(see
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: fig. 11). Pedipalps long and slender, article lengths in mm: trochanter, 0.27; femur, 1.42; patella, 1.63; tibia, 0.80; tarsus, 0.48. Tarsus slightly swollen at its distal end. Pedipalps setose, many palpal setae, particularly towards the distal end, with rounded tips (i.e. clavate setae). Trochanters of legs oval, femora long and slender, but more distal parts of the legs equivocal. Femora with scattering of short, thorn-like spines and one femur (femur 4?) with at least three short pseudoannulations, beginning about
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along its length.
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.
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This fossil can be assigned to
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<emphasis box="[647,763,167,192]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="356">Mitostoma</emphasis>
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, as opposed to
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<emphasis box="[944,1071,167,192]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="356">Nemastoma</emphasis>
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C. L. Koch, 1836
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, on the basis of the proportions of the pedipalp articles, while the cheliceral apophysis indicates a male specimen. Whether it is juvenile or adult is less clear, but strong parallels can be drawn with the widespread European species
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<emphasis box="[944,1108,272,298]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="356">M. chrysomelas</emphasis>
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(
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)
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if the fossil is juvenile, or with the Sardinian troglobitic endemic
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="356">M. patrizii</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation author="Roewer" box="[226,382,342,369]" firstAuthor="Roewer" pageId="9" pageNumber="356" pagination="39 - 49" refId="ref11313" refString="Roewer C-F (1953) Cavernicole Arachniden aus Sardinien. Notes Biospeologiques 8: 39 - 49." type="journal article" year="1953">Roewer, 1953</bibRefCitation>
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</taxonomicName>
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if adult (cf.
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). Juveniles of the former and adults of the latter have small tubercles on the scutum – see especially
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<bibRefCitation author="Roewer" box="[714,878,378,405]" firstAuthor="Roewer" pageId="9" pageNumber="356" pagination="39 - 49" refId="ref11313" refString="Roewer C-F (1953) Cavernicole Arachniden aus Sardinien. Notes Biospeologiques 8: 39 - 49." type="journal article" year="1953">Roewer (1953</bibRefCitation>
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: fig. 1) and
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<bibRefCitation author="Tedeschi and Sciaky" firstAuthor="Tedeschi" pageId="9" pageNumber="356" pagination="503 - 616" refId="ref11999" refString="Tedeschi M, Sciaky R (1997) Towards a revision of the Italian Mitostoma. 1: Subdivision in groups and description of new species (Arachnida, Opiliones, Nemastomatidae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 104: 503 - 616." type="journal article" year="1997">Tedeschi and Sciaky (1997</bibRefCitation>
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: fig. 1) for
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<emphasis box="[460,580,414,439]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="356">M. patrizii</emphasis>
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– although the scutum of the fossil specimen is better developed than in comparable juveniles of
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<emphasis box="[695,859,448,474]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="356">M. chrysomelas</emphasis>
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(cf.
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).
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Note that an existing fossil from Baltic amber has already been assigned to
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–
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<taxonomicName authority="(Koch & Berendt, 1854)" baseAuthorityName="Koch & Berendt" baseAuthorityYear="1854" box="[228,685,518,545]" class="Arachnida" family="Nemastomatidae" genus="Mitostoma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="9" pageNumber="356" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="denticulatum">
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<emphasis box="[228,407,519,545]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="356">M. denticulatum</emphasis>
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(
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<bibRefCitation author="Koch & Berendt" box="[420,676,518,545]" firstAuthor="Koch" pageId="9" pageNumber="356" refId="ref10968" refString="Koch CL, Berendt GC (1854) Die im Bernstein befindlichen Crustaceen, Myriapoden, Arachniden und Apteren der Vorwelt. Edwin Groening, Berlin, 124 pp." type="book" year="1854">Koch & Berendt, 1854</bibRefCitation>
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)
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</taxonomicName>
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– transferred here from
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<taxonomicName authorityName="C. L. Koch" authorityYear="1836" box="[949,1074,519,544]" class="Arachnida" family="Nemastomatidae" genus="Nemastoma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="9" pageNumber="356" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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<emphasis box="[949,1074,519,544]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="356">Nemastoma</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
|
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by
|
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<bibRefCitation author="Starega" box="[140,313,554,581]" firstAuthor="Starega" pageId="9" pageNumber="356" refId="ref11739" refString="Starega W (1976 a) Opiliones Kosarze (Arachnoidea). Fauna Polski, Tom 5. Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Zoologii, Warszawa, 196 pp." type="book" year="1976" yearSuffix="a">Staręga (1976a)</bibRefCitation>
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; an interpretation followed by
|
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<bibRefCitation author="Dunlop" box="[646,818,554,581]" firstAuthor="Dunlop" pageId="9" pageNumber="356" pagination="167 - 182" refId="ref10654" refString="Dunlop JA (2006) Baltic amber harvestman types (Arachnida: Opiliones: Eupnoi and Dyspnoi). Fossil Record 9: 167 - 182." type="journal article" year="2006">Dunlop (2006)</bibRefCitation>
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. On reflection, this assignment to
|
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Roewer" authorityYear="1951" box="[234,347,590,615]" class="Arachnida" family="Nemastomatidae" genus="Mitostoma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="9" pageNumber="356" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
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||
<emphasis box="[234,347,590,615]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="356">Mitostoma</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
|
||
may be incorrect and the situation is not helped by the dorsal surface of the
|
||
<typeStatus box="[209,305,624,650]" pageId="9" pageNumber="356">holotype</typeStatus>
|
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being partially broken and the apparent loss of the type material of its putative junior synonym
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="Roewer, 1939" authorityName="Roewer" authorityYear="1939" box="[387,692,660,686]" class="Arachnida" family="Nemastomatidae" genus="Nemastoma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="9" pageNumber="356" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="succineum">
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||
<emphasis box="[387,530,660,685]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="356">N. succineum</emphasis>
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||
<bibRefCitation author="Roewer" box="[536,692,660,686]" firstAuthor="Roewer" pageId="9" pageNumber="356" pagination="1 - 4" refId="ref11294" refString="Roewer C-F (1939) Opilioniden im Bernstein. Palaeobiologica 7 (1): 1 - 4." type="journal article" year="1939">Roewer, 1939</bibRefCitation>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. In our revised opinion, the legs of
|
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Koch & Berendt" baseAuthorityYear="1854" class="Arachnida" family="Nemastomatidae" genus="Mitostoma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="9" pageNumber="356" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="denticulatum">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="356">M. denticulatum</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
express lengths more consistent with modern
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="Kratochvil, 1958" authorityName="Kratochvil" authorityYear="1958" box="[780,1108,694,721]" class="Arachnida" family="Nemastomatidae" genus="Carinostoma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="9" pageNumber="356" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[780,915,695,721]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="356">Carinostoma</emphasis>
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Kratochvil" box="[921,1108,694,721]" firstAuthor="Kratochvil" pageId="9" pageNumber="356" pagination="523 - 576" refId="ref10998" refString="Kratochvil J (1958) Hohlenweberknechte Bulgariens (Palpatores - Nemastomatidae). Acta Academiae Scientiarum Cechoslovenicae Basis Brunensis 30: 523 - 576." type="journal article" year="1958">Kratochvíl, 1958</bibRefCitation>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
or
|
||
<taxonomicName authority="Kratochvil, 1958" authorityName="Kratochvil" authorityYear="1958" box="[173,500,730,757]" class="Arachnida" family="Nemastomatidae" genus="Mediostoma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="9" pageNumber="356" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[173,301,730,756]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="356">Mediostoma</emphasis>
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Kratochvil" box="[311,500,730,757]" firstAuthor="Kratochvil" pageId="9" pageNumber="356" pagination="523 - 576" refId="ref10998" refString="Kratochvil J (1958) Hohlenweberknechte Bulgariens (Palpatores - Nemastomatidae). Acta Academiae Scientiarum Cechoslovenicae Basis Brunensis 30: 523 - 576." type="journal article" year="1958">Kratochvíl, 1958</bibRefCitation>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
species. These (and other) nemastomatid genera with comparable dorsal ornament may be closer to the Baltic amber fossils. The status of
|
||
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Koch & Berendt" baseAuthorityYear="1854" class="Arachnida" family="Nemastomatidae" genus="Mitostoma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="9" pageNumber="356" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="denticulatum">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="356">M. denticulatum</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
will be reassessed in a future study of Baltic amber harvestmen. Thus for the reasons outlined above we are confident that our new Bitterfeld species can be assigned to
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="Roewer" authorityYear="1951" box="[140,253,871,896]" class="Arachnida" family="Nemastomatidae" genus="Mitostoma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" pageId="9" pageNumber="356" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis box="[140,253,871,896]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="356">Mitostoma</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and is probably not conspecific with Koch and Berendt’s Baltic amber taxon.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
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</document> |