Syarinus strandi ( Ellingsen, 1901 )

Zaragoza, Juan A., 2010, Arcanobisium, a remarkable new genus, representing a new subfamily with a relictual distribution from eastern Spain (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones: Syarinidae), Zootaxa 2491, pp. 41-60 : 53

Syarinus strandi ( Ellingsen, 1901)

Ideobisium (Ideoblothrus) strandi Ellingsen 1901: 88 –89.

Syarinus strandi (Ellingsen) : Mahnert 1976: 206 –209, figs 20–25.

Material examined. Austria, North Tyrol, Kufstein, 6 August 1988, det. T. Schmarda: 1 female, deposited in NHMW.

Supplementary description. Body greatly elongate, vermiform, very pale in colour. Segments X–XI normal in size and quite visible.

Carapace short, almost quadrate, epistome absent. Cheliceral galea with 3 wide rami, apically subdivided [simple or finely dentate in male ( Mahnert 1976)]; subgaleal seta situated close to apex of finger, 0.80×, dental row confined to distal portion of finger ( Fig. 31 ).

Apex of pedipalpal coxa rounded and with 3 setae ( Fig. 29 ). Feather-shaped setae absent from fixed chelal finger.

Junction femur-patella of leg IV markedly oblique, patella much longer than the femur. Subterminal seta acuminate.

Figures

FIGURES 26 – 32. Morphological details of Syarinidae. 26. Hadoblothrus gigas (Caporiacco, 1951), male, tip of fixed finger of left chela, antiaxial view. 27. H. gigas, male, tip of movable finger of left chela, lateral-paraxial view. 28. Pseudoblothrus roszkovskii (Redikorzev, 1918), male, gland openings area sternite VI. 29. Syarinus strandi (Ellingsen, 1901), female, apex pedipalpal lobe; 31. S. strandi, female, partial view of fingers left chelicera. 30. Syarinus obscurus (Banks, 1893), male, apex pedipalpal lobe. 32. S. strandi, female, partial view of fingers right chelicera. Scale bars (mm): 0.10 (Figs 26 – 28, 31 – 32), 0.20 (Figs 29 – 30).