Draculoides Harvey, 1992

Abrams, Kym M., Huey, Joel A., Hillyer, Mia J., Didham, Raphael K. & Harvey, Mark S., 2020, A systematic revision of Draculoides (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae) of the Pilbara, Western Australia, Part I: the Western Pilbara, Zootaxa 4864 (1), pp. 1-75 : 25-26

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Genus Draculoides Harvey, 1992 View in CoL

Draculoides Harvey 1992: 82 View in CoL ; Harvey and Humphreys, 1995: 183–184; Reddell and Cokendolpher, 1995: 69; Harvey, 2001: 171–172; Harvey, 2003: 108; Harvey et al., 2008: 176–177.

Paradraculoides Harvey, Berry, Edward & Humphreys 2008: 185 View in CoL . Synonymised by Abrams et al., 2019

Type species. Draculoides View in CoL : Schizomus vinei Harvey, 1988 , by original designation.

Paradraculoides View in CoL : Paradraculoides kryptus Harvey, Berry, Edward and Humphreys, 2008 View in CoL , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Pedipalpal trochanter without mesal spur. Movable cheliceral finger with 0‒2 accessory teeth. Female genitalia with or without gonopod, and with 4 anteriorly directed ducts, sometimes subdivided, and sometimes connected basally before connection with bursa. Tergite II with 2‒3 setae. Male flagellum laterally or dorsally compressed.

Description. Body with acuminate setae. Anterior process of propeltidium usually with pair of setae followed by single seta (sometimes with 3 setae in a row or with pair of setae only); corneate eyes and eye spots absent; metapeltidium divided. Pedipalp not sexually dimorphic and without armature; trochanteral mesal spur absent; male pedipalps not dimorphic. Moveable cheliceral finger with 0‒2 accessory teeth and guard tooth at end of serrula. An- terodorsal margin of femur IV produced at about 90 o angle. Abdominal tergite II with two or three macrosetae; male abdomen not elongated; male with or without small development of posterodorsal process on abdominal segment XII. Male flagellum laterally or dorsally compressed; female flagellum with three articles. Spermathecae consisting of two pairs of uniramous lobes, without nodules, gonopod present in most species, but absent in D. vinei .

Remarks. The multi-gene molecular analysis presented by Clouse et al. (2017) recovered a monophyletic clade comprising Draculoides + Paradraculoides , which was sister to a variety of other Australasian taxa including Bamazomus , Orientzomus Cokendolpher and Tsurusaki, 1994 , Ovozomus Harvey, 2001 , and some species of Apozomus . Species of Draculoides differ from these genera by the lack of a measl spur on the pedipalpal trochanter.

References

Abrams, K. M., Huey, J. A., Hillyer, M. J., Humphreys, W. F., Didham, R. K. & Harvey, M. S. (2019) Too hot to handle: Tertiary aridification drives multiple independent incursions of Schizomida (Hubbardiidae) into hypogean environments. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 139, 106532. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2019.106532

Clouse, R. M., Branstetter, M. G., Buenavente, P., Crowley, L. M., Czekanski-Moir, J., Emmanuel, M., General, D. E. M., Giribet, G., Harvey, M. S., Janies, D. A., Mohagan, A. B. & Mohagan, D. P. (2017) First global molecular phylogeny and biogeographical analysis of two arachnid orders (Schizomida and Uropygi) supports a tropical Pangean origin and mid-Cretaceous diversification. Journal of Biogeography, 44 (11), 2660 - 2672. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jbi. 13076

Harvey, M. S. (1992) The Schizomida (Chelicerata) of Australia. Invertebrate Taxonomy, 6 (1), 77 - 129. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / IT 9920077

Harvey, M. S. & Humphreys, W. F. (1995) Notes on the genus Draculoides Harvey (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae), with the description of a new troglobitic species. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 52, 183 - 189.

Harvey, M. S. (2001) New cave-dwelling schizomids (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae) from Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 64, 171 - 185. https: // doi. org / 10.18195 / issn. 0313 - 122 x. 64.2001.171 - 185

Harvey, M. S. (2003) Catalogue of the smaller arachnid orders of the world: Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Ricinulei and Solifugae. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, 385 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / 9780643090071

Harvey, M. S., Berry, O., Edward, K. L. & Humphreys, G. (2008) Molecular and morphological systematics of hypogean schizomids (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae) in semi-arid Australia. Invertebrate Systematics, 22 (2), 167 - 194. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / IS 07026

Reddell, J. R. & Cokendolpher, J. C. (1995) Catalogue, bibliography, and generic revision of the order Schizomida (Arachnida). Texas Memorial Museum, Speleological Monographs, 4, 1 - 170.