Maratensolasma jocheni Shear, 2006

Shear, William A., 2010, New species and records of ortholasmatine harvestmen from Mexico, Honduras, and the western United States (Opiliones, Nemastomatidae, Ortholasmatinae), ZooKeys 52, pp. 9-46 : 15-16

Maratensolasma jocheni Shear, 2006

Martensolasma jocheni Shear 2006, p. 193.

New record:

24 km north of Xicotepec de Juarez, 1070 m asl, oak forest litter, Puebla, México, collected 17 June 1983 by R. Anderson, male (AMNH).

Notes.

This specimen is virtually identical to the holotype and paratype males from Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México, despite having been collected about 480 km (300 miles) east-southeast of there. The Aguascalientes type specimens came from a garden, and I speculated that they might have been introduced, but then only considered introductions from outside México. While it is possible (though unlikely) that the species has a natural range of this size, the Aguascalientes specimens could have been brought to that major urban center with garden plants from Puebla. Future collecting may solve the dilemma, and may also produce the presently unknown females.