Charinus perezassoi Armas, 2010

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 : 35-36

Charinus perezassoi Armas, 2010

Fig. 12 ; Table 1

Charinus perezassoi Armas, 2010: 60 , figs 2b–i, 3f, 4d.

Charinus perezassoi – Teruel & Questel 2015: 47. — Miranda et al. 2016b: 555, 557. — Teruel 2016: 10. — Armas 2017: 113. — Teruel & Coulis 2017: 35. — Seiter et al. 2018: 351. — Torres-Contreras et al. 2019: 131.

Diagnosis

Based on the description of Armas (2010), this species may be separated from other Caribbean and Central American Charinus by means of the following combination of characters: tegument light yellowish-brown, with faint grey-green hue on opisthosomal tergites; median eyes and ocular tubercle absent; lateral eyes pigmented; tritosternum long and narrow, with typical setation; female gonopods cushion-like with wide openings of genital atrium; narrow cheliceral claw with five teeth; pedipalp femur with three dorsal spines and three ventral spines; pedipalp femur with two prominent setiferous tubercles proximal to first dorsal spine; pedipalp patella with three dorsal spines and long setiferous tubercle distal to first spine; pedipalp patella with two ventral spines; pedipalp tarsus with two dorsal spines; tibia of leg I with 21 articles, tarsus I with 37–39 articles; first article of leg I tarsus three times as long as second article; leg IV basitibia with three pseudo-articles; trichobothrium bt situated in proximal third of distitibia; sc and sf series each with five trichobothria. The male is unknown.

Charinus perezassoi occurs together with C. aguayoi on Puerto Rico, but can be distinguished by the absence of median eyes and the different count of articles on the tibia and tarsus of leg I.

Etymology

Patronym honoring Antonio Pérez Asso ( Armas 2010).

Type material

Holotype PUERTO RICO • ♀; Patillas Municipality, Barrio Los Pollos, Sierra de Guardarraya , farm at end of road 7757; 17°59′53.25″ N, 65°59′03.17″ W; 28 Jul. 2010; 100 m a.s.l.; L.F. de Armas and A. Pérez Asso leg.; disturbed semi-deciduous forest under old sheet of galvanized zinc; IES [not examined].

Paratypes PUERTO RICO • 9 ♀♀; same collection data as for holotype; IES [not examined] .

Measurements

See Table 1 .

Distribution

Known only from the type locality.

Natural history

All known specimens were collected in a disturbed area, under a zinc sheet. According to Armas (2010), of all females collected, six carried egg sacs, suggesting that populations of C. perezassoi may be parthenogenetic. The number of embryos and protonymphs on the females varied between two and seven.

Remarks

Further comparisons between C. perezassoi and other Caribbean and Central American species may be found in Miranda et al. (2016b).

Figures

Fig. 12. Map plotting known distributions of species of Charinus Simon, 1892 in the Caribbean and Central America.