Auranus tepui

Colmenares, Pío A., Porto, Willians & Tourinho, Ana Lúcia, 2016, Taxonomic notes on the genus Auranus (Opiliones, Laniatores, Stygnidae), with description of two new species, Zootaxa 4103 (2), pp. 117-129 : 121-122

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4103.2.2

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scientific name

Auranus tepui
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Auranus tepui Pinto-da-Rocha & Tourinho, 2012

( Figs 6 D, 7 D)

Auranus tepui Pinto-da-Rocha & Tourinho, 2012: 12, figs 6 A–F, 14 A–C. ( Type INPA OP- 1032, male holotype, examined).

Complementary description. Penis. Reinterpretation of the chaetotaxy (Pinto-da-Rocha and Tourinho 2012, figs 14 A–C): MS A: A 1 –A 3 inserted lateroventrally on malleus; MS B: one pair inserted ventrally on malleus. MS C: three pairs, cylindrical and sharp, forming a group placed laterally on calyx. MS D: one pair, cylindrical and sharp. MS E: asymmetric, E 1 sharp and placed ventrally, forming a group with MS C, and E 2 large, placed ventroapically on malleus, as in A. hehu .

Distribution ( Fig. 8): Brazil: Amazonas: Barcelos, Pico da Neblina ( type locality).

Material examined: male holotype (INPA-OP 1032), Amazonas, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Bebedouro Velho, Pico da Neblina, 400 m. a.s.l.; Leg. D. Candiani; 13.x. 2007 (photo voucher).

INPA

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Opiliones

Family

Stygnidae

Genus

Auranus

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