Sarax mardua Rahmadi, Harvey & Kojima, 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 : 191-192

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.5566897

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8F431375-FF27-FF6C-A6E3-F9D6FD6DD860

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scientific name

Sarax mardua Rahmadi, Harvey & Kojima, 2010
status

 

Sarax mardua Rahmadi, Harvey & Kojima, 2010 View in CoL

Fig. 103 View Fig ; Table 8

Sarax mardua Rahmadi et al., 2010: 13–18 View in CoL , figs 26–32, 39–40.

Diagnosis

This species may be separated from other species of Sarax in Southeast Asia and Oceania by the following combination of characters: large body size (adult length 8.5–10.1 mm); secondary sexual dimorphism, pedipalps of male longer than those of female; median ocular tubercle small and shallow, completely divided into two, each half with an ocellus; pedipalp femur with four dorsal spines and three ventral spines; pedipalp tibia with four dorsal spines and four ventral spines; leg IV basitibia trichobothrium bt situated close to proximal margin; distitibia trichobothrium bc situated equidistant between bf and sbf.

Etymology

The species name is a noun in apposition, taken from Gua Mardua, the cave in which the type material was collected ( Rahmadi et al. 2010).

Type material

Holotype INDONESIA • ♂; East Kalimantan, Kutai Timur Regency, Sangkulirang District, Pengadan Village , Gua Mardua , near Pengadan; 01°13′55.13″ N, 117°44′23.53″ E; 19 Aug. 2004; L. Deharveng and A. Bedos leg.; MZB Ambl. 151 [not examined]. GoogleMaps

Paratypes INDONESIA • 1 ♀, 2 juv.; same locality data as for holotype; MNHN Am. 12 [not examined] GoogleMaps .

Measurements. See Table 8.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality.

Natural history

This species was collected in a cave. It co-occurs with a mite harvestman, Stylocellus sp. (Styleyesdae Hansen & Sørensen, 1904).

Remarks

See Rahmadi et al. (2010) for description.

MNHN

France, Paris, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Amblypygi

Family

Charinidae

Genus

Sarax

Loc

Sarax mardua Rahmadi, Harvey & Kojima, 2010

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

Sarax mardua

Rahmadi et al. 2010: 13 - 18
2010
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