Sarax, Simon, 1892

Wu, Shi-Yang, Zhu, Xiao-Yu, Liu, Yi-Jiao, Miranda, Gustavo Silva, Román-Palacios, Cristian, Li, Zheng & He, Zhu-Qing, 2022, A new species of whip spider, Sarax sinensis sp. nov., from Fujian, China (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae), Zootaxa 5162 (4), pp. 397-409 : 401

Key to the identification of the species of Sarax in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia revised from Miranda et al. (2021b)

1. Median eyes absent.................................................................................... 2

- Median eyes present................................................................................... 3

2. Lateral eyes reduced; tibia of leg I with more than 28 articles; leg I tarsus with more than 58 articles............................................................................ S. omanensis (Delle Cave, Gardner & Weygoldt, 2009)

- Lateral eyes absent; tibia of leg I with 21 articles; leg I tarsus with 35 articles.................................................................................................. S. stygochthobius (Weygoldt & Van Damme, 2004)

3. Pedipalp tarsus with one spine........................................................................... 4

- Pedipalp tarsus with two spines.......................................................................... 5

4. Pedipalp femur with three dorsal spines; pedipalp patella with five dorsal spines; female gonopods finger-like........................................................................................ S. cochinensis (Gravely, 1915)

- Pedipalp femur with four dorsal spines; pedipalp patella with four dorsal spines; female gonopods plunger-like.......................................................................... S. dhofarensis (Weygoldt, Pohl & Polak, 2002)

5. Cheliceral claw with twelve teeth; leg IV basitibia with two pseudo-articles... S. socotranus (Weygoldt, Pohl & Polak, 2002)

- Cheliceral claw with fewer than ten teeth; leg IV basitibia with three or four pseudo-articles.......................... 6

6. Leg IV basitibia with three pseudo-articles................................................................. 7

- Leg IV basitibia with four pseudo-articles................................................................. 11

7. Cheliceral claw with four teeth; tibia of leg I with 23 articles; leg I tarsus with 39 articles........ S. bispinosus (Nair, 1934)

- Cheliceral claw with more than four teeth; tibia of leg I with fewer than 23 articles; leg I tarsus with fewer than 39 articles...8

8. Pedipalp patella with two ventral spines............................................ S. abbatei (Delle Cave, 1986)

- Pedipalp patella with three ventral spines.................................................................. 9

9. Median and lateral eyes reduced................................................ S. pakistanus (Weygoldt, 2005)

- Median and lateral eyes well developed................................................................... 10

10. Pedipalp patella with small ventral setiferous tubercle between spine I and distal margin.... S. bengalensis (Gravely, 1911)

- Pedipalp patella with long ventral spine between spine I and distal margin, half the size of spine I...... S. sinensis sp. nov.

11. Pedipalp patella with four dorsal spines; female gonopod ‘absent’ (flat)............... S. seychellarum (Kraepelin, 1898)

- Pedipalp patella with five dorsal spines; female gonopods finger-like........................................... 11

12. Pedipalp femur with five dorsal spines and five ventral spines.......................... S. ioanniticus (Kritscher, 1959)

- Pedipalp femur with four dorsal spines and four ventral spines..................... S. israelensis (Miranda et al., 2016)