Charinus desirade Teruel & Questel, 2015

Miranda, Gustavo Silva de, Giupponi, Alessandro P. L., Prendini, Lorenzo & Scharff, Nikolaj, 2021, Systematic revision of the pantropical whip spider family Charinidae Quintero, 1986 (Arachnida, Amblypygi), European Journal of Taxonomy 772, pp. 1-409 : 28-29

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2021.772.1505

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9B82A32F-0A07-47E3-8684-FED7C8EBF1E9

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5536611

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8F431375-FF82-FFCF-A50C-FCE0FB74DE65

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Felipe

scientific name

Charinus desirade Teruel & Questel, 2015
status

 

Charinus desirade Teruel & Questel, 2015 View in CoL

Fig. 12 View Fig ; Table 1 View Table 1

Charinus desirade Teruel & Questel, 2015: 43–47 View in CoL , figs 1–4.

Charinus desirade View in CoL – Teruel 2016: 9. — Teruel & Coulis 2017: 35.

Diagnosis

Based on the description of Teruel & Questel (2015), this species may be separated from other Caribbean and Central American Charinus by means of the following combination of characters: coloration olive-yellowish, immaculate; alcohol preserved specimens uniformly olive-yellowish in color, slightly darker on carapace and pedipalps, venter and chelicerae paler; intersegmental membranes whitish; live animals conspicuously darker and reddish; median ocular tubercle vestigial, median eyes absent and unpigmented, but with pair of small oval, translucent-whitish spots, lateral eyes well developed, silverwhite in color; tritosternum/tetrasternum/pentasternum with 4/2/1 pairs of spiniform setae, respectively; gonopods unsclerotized; minimal secondary sexual dimorphism, females larger, with shorter pedipalp segments than males; pedipalp femur with two dorsal and two ventral spines; pedipalp patella with three dorsal spines (including long setiferous tubercle distal to spine I) and two ventral spines; pedipalp tarsus with two dorsal spines; tibia of leg I with 23 articles, tarsus I with 41 articles; first tarsal article about three times as long as second tarsal article; leg IV basitibia with three pseudo-articles.

Etymology

Noun in apposition, taken from the type locality, La Désirade ( Teruel & Questel 2015) .

Type material

Holotype GUADELOUPE • ♂; La Désirade, Morne à Marthe; 16°18′30.32″ N, 61°05′15.02″ W; 4 Jul. 2014; K. Questel, G. Moulard, M. Coulis and E. Curot Lodéon leg.; BIOECO [not examined]. GoogleMaps

Paratypes GUADELOUPE • 1 ♀, 1 ♂, 1 juv.; same collection data as for holotype; BIOECO [not examined] GoogleMaps .

Measurements

See Table 1 View Table 1 .

Distribution

Known only from the type locality.

Natural history

Specimens were collected under a rock of volcanic tuff, with a juvenile of the scorpion Oiclus cf. nanus Teruel & Chazal, 2010 (Diplocentridae) . The rock was semi-buried in the ground, under dry forest.

Remarks

For comparison with other species, variation and habitat, see Teruel & Questel (2015).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Amblypygi

Family

Charinidae

Genus

Charinus

Loc

Charinus desirade Teruel & Questel, 2015

Miranda, Gustavo Silva de, Giupponi, Alessandro P. L., Prendini, Lorenzo & Scharff, Nikolaj 2021
2021
Loc

Charinus desirade

Teruel R. & Coulis M. 2017: 35
2017
Loc

Charinus desirade

Teruel R. & Questel K. 2015: 47
2015
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