Sinella baca Christiansen & Bellinger, 1980

Figs 10–12

Sinella (Sinella) baca Christiansen & Bellinger, 1980

Type locality. Empiree Cave, Santa Cruz, California, USA.

Material examined. One slide per locality, USA: California: Amador: Fiddler Cave, 15.iv.1979 (# 4377) ; USA: California: Santa Cruz, 21.iv.1979 (# 4388) ; USA: California: Santa Cruz, 22.iv.1979 (#4400). Deposited in CARC .

Additions to original description. Th.II with 4 (m1, m2, m 2i, m 2i 2) medio-medial, 5–6 (m4, m 4i, m4p, m4pi, m4pi2) medio-lateral, and 26–37 posterior mac (Fig. 10). Th.III with about 45 mac and 5 (m5, m 5i, a6, a 6i, a6e) mac in Gr. III (Fig. 11). Abd.II with 4 (m3, m3e, m3ea, m3ep) mac in M3 arch (sensu Chen & Christiansen 1993). Abd.IV with 7 central and 9–11 lateral mac (Fig. 12).

Ecology. Most from caves.

Distribution. California.

Remarks. This species is similar to cave species S. agna and S. basidens (see Christiansen 1960 and Christiansen & Bellinger 1980), but differs from them in ungual teeth (unpaired tooth present in S. baca but absent in other two species), and dorsal chaetotaxy.