Cryptocellus sofiae, Botero-Trujillo, Ricardo, 2014

Botero-Trujillo, Ricardo, 2014, A new Colombian species of Cryptocellus (Arachnida, Ricinulei), with notes on the taxonomy of the genus, Zootaxa 3814 (1), pp. 121-132 : 122

Adisi species-group of Cryptocellus

This group of species was created by Tourinho & Saturnino (2010) to include all the species having the tarsal process (=fixed accessory piece) of male leg III thin, curved and with a rounded contour. With the addition of C. sofiae sp. nov., the adisi group encompasses species in which the tarsal process of the male copulatory apparatus is boat- or canoe-shaped ( C. florezi , C. lisbethae González-Sponga, 1997 and C. adisi Platnick, 1988 ), or else spoonlike, meaning that it has a moderate distal expansion ( C. sofiae sp. nov.). All species currently assigned to this group are less than 5 mm in length, have polygonal (navicular or calyx-like) setae, and have the basal segment of the pygidium unnotched. At this time, however, these features are not included in the diagnosis for the group, because some of them (e.g. polygonal setae) also occur in species currently assigned to other groups.