Charinus bromeliaea Jocqué & Giupponi, 2012

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 : 48-50

Charinus bromeliaea Jocqué & Giupponi, 2012

Fig. 27 ; Table 2

Charinus bromeliaea Jocqué & Giupponi, 2012: 55–58 , figs 1–5.

Charinus bromeliaea – Vasconcelos et al. 2013: 497. — Réveillion & Maquart 2015: 190–192, fig. 1e–f. — Armas et al. 2016: 48. — Miranda et al. 2016c: 29.

Diagnosis

Based on Jocqué & Giupponi (2012), this species may be separated from other Charinus in Amazonia and northern South America by means of the following combination of characters: tegument pale yellow-brown; median eyes and median ocular tubercle present; lateral eyes well developed; pedipalp femur with three dorsal spines and three ventral spines; pedipalp patella with three dorsal spines and two ventral spines; pedipalp tibia with two small dorsal spines; tibia of leg I with 23 articles, tarsus I with 25 articles; leg IV basitibia with two pseudo-articles; leg IV distitibia trichobothrium bc situated closer to sbf than to bf; sc and sf series each with four trichobothria.

According to Jocqué & Giupponi (2012), the distitibia of leg IV possesses four trichobothria in the sc and sf series, a count otherwise observed only in C. alagoanus sp. nov., from which C. bromeliaea can be distinguished by the number of pseudo-articles on basitibia IV and number of articles on the tarsus of leg I. Jocqué & Giupponi (2012: 55) mention that the “median and lateral eyes [are] reduced in comparison to average size for the genus”, but the development of the eyes is similar to that in other species of Charinus with fully developed eyes. Jocqué & Giupponi (2012) also described the pedipalp patella C. bromeliaea as possessing five dorsal spines, but considered the distal spine and the relatively long proximal setiferous tubercle as spines in their counts, inflating the true number from three. The basitibia of leg IV consists of two pseudo-articles in C. bromeliaea , as in C. bichuetteae , C. bonaldoi , C. brescoviti , C. camachoi , C. carvalhoi sp. nov., C. pardillalensis , C. platnicki , C. quinteroi and C. ricardoi , but C. bromeliaea can be distinguished from these species, except for C. brescoviti , by the presence of median eyes and a median ocular tubercle. The sucker-like female gonopod further separates C. bromeliaea from C. brescoviti , in which the gonopod is cushion-like. Charinus bromeliaea superficially resembles C. platnicki , but is larger, light brown in color, with the basal spine of the pedipalp tibia about two-thirds the length of the medial spine, rather than about one-quarter its length, as in C. platnicki . Additionally, the distitibia of leg IV possesses four trichobothria in C. bromeliaea and five in C. platnicki .

Etymology

Noun refering to the habitat of the species, bromeliads ( Jocqué & Giupponi 2012).

Type material

Holotype FRENCH GUIANA • ♀; Savanna Roche La Virginie ; 04°11′24″ N, 52°09′ W; 20 Aug. 2008; M. Jocqué leg.; in Achmea cf. melionii bromeliads; MNRJ 9185 .

Paratypes FRENCH GUIANA • 3 ♀♀; same collection data as for holotype; MNRJ 9185 .

Measurements

See Table 2 .

Distribution

Known only from the type locality.

Natural history

Inhabits bromeliads.

Figures

Fig. 27. Map plotting known distributions of species of Charinus Simon, 1892 in northern South America.