Meghalaya Giribet, Sharma & Bastawade, 2007

Clouse, Ronald M., 2012, The lineages of Stylocellidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi), Zootaxa 3595 (1), pp. 1-34 : 20

Meghalaya Giribet, Sharma & Bastawade, 2007

Meghalaya Giribet, Sharma & Bastawade, 2007 [originally family uncertain, placed in Stylocellidae by Clouse and Giribet 2010: 9].

Type species: Meghalaya annandalei Giribet, Sharma & Bastawade, 2007 by original designation.

Other species included: None

Description: Stylocellinae, with the following: anal gland pores almost always absent, small ones known in one undescribed species; granulations on second cheliceral article highly reduced, low ridge known only in the same species with the anal gland pore; Rambla’s organ large and depressed (missing in the species with the anal gland pore), when present forming a scoop-shaped fourth tarsus in males ( Fig. 3 , E–F); ozophores tapered, large, and pointing forward; ventral prosomal complex usually compressed; sternum absent; body profile deep, dorsal scutum arched; sternal opisthosomal sulci between sternites 3 and 4 indistinct due to deep ventral depression; posterior gonostome edge weakly concave, anterior edge broad, forming large, rectangular or squarish gonostome; adenostyle thick; male tibia III thickened.

Distribution: Northeastern India and northern to southern Thailand.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Rambla’s organ in Miopsalis and Meghalaya: A, Miopsalis gryllospeca (Shear 1993) type; B, undescribed species of Miopsalis from Borneo (“ Borneo sp. 18 ”, MCZ DNA 103262); C – D, undescribed species of Miopsalis from Borneo (“ Borneo sp. 13 ”, MCZ DNA 101517); E – F, undescribed species of Meghalaya from the Thai-Malay Peninsula (“ Peninsula sp. 19 d ”, MCZ DNA 101094, 101500).