Rhabdopygus fuscus Roewer, 1912

Bauer, Christian & Prieto, Carlos E., 2009, Three new Assamiidae (Arachnida: Opiliones) from Cameroon, with a redescription of Chilon robustus and comments on related species, Zootaxa 2059, pp. 1-22 : 20

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.186783

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5617799

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scientific name

Rhabdopygus fuscus Roewer, 1912
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Rhabdopygus fuscus Roewer, 1912 View in CoL

Figs 60–63 View FIGURES 56 – 67

Rhabdopygus fuscus Roewer, 1912: 93 View in CoL .

Material studied. 1 3 syntype ("cotype") ( SMF /RI-387), Ssibange ( Gabon), Roewer det.

Description of penis ( Figs 60–63 View FIGURES 56 – 67 ). Total length, 3.95. Stalk long and slender, widening progressively towards apex. Neck relatively wide. Penis head broad, ovate in ventral view. Lateral sides clearly divergent, with five pairs of ventrally curved, spatulate setae in basal half. Distal margin convex, with a wide notch filled with a broad bulge on ventral side. Dorsal side with voluminous complex glans ending in a process with an apical knob. Three pairs of tiny additional setae present: A disto-ventral pair in groove around apical bulge, a lateral pair on disto-lateral angle and a dorsal pair flanking base of glans.

Roewer, C. F. (1912) Die Familien Assamiiden und Phalangodiden der Opiliones-Laniatores (= Assamiden, Dampetriden, Phalangodiden, Epedaniden, Biantiden Zalmoxiden, Samoiden, Palpipediden; auderer Autoren). Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 78 A (3), 1 - 242.

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FIGURES 56 – 67. Penises of Rhabdopygus spp., penis head in ventral (56, 60, 64), lateral (57, 61, 65) and dorsal view (58, 62, 66), and total penis in dorsal view (59, 63, 67). 56 – 59, Rhabdopygus puylaerti sp. nov. (holotype, MRAC / 148199). 60 – 63. Rhabdopygus fuscus Roewer, 1912 (cotype, SSibange, Gabon, SMF / RI – 387). 64 – 67. Rhabdopygus? maculatus Roewer, 1935 (syntype, Lossida Berge, SMF / RII – 5052). Scale bars: Left 0.1 mm, right 1 mm.

SMF

Forschungsinstitut und Natur-Museum Senckenberg

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Opiliones

Family

Assamiidae

Genus

Rhabdopygus