A systematic revision of Draculoides (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae) of the Pilbara, Western Australia, Part I: the Western Pilbara
Author
Abrams, Kym M.
Author
Huey, Joel A.
0000-0001-7108-0552
uey@museum.wa.gov.au
Author
Hillyer, Mia J.
mia.hillyer@curtin.edu.au
Author
Didham, Raphael K.
0000-0001-6685-7005
raphael.didham@uwa.edu.au
Author
Harvey, Mark S.
0000-0003-1482-0109
arvey@museum.wa.gov.au
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-10-22
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Genus
Draculoides
Harvey, 1992
Draculoides
Harvey 1992: 82
;
Harvey and Humphreys, 1995: 183–184
;
Reddell and Cokendolpher, 1995: 69
;
Harvey, 2001: 171–172
;
Harvey, 2003: 108
;
Harvey
et al
., 2008: 176–177
.
Paradraculoides
Harvey, Berry, Edward & Humphreys 2008: 185
. Synonymised by
Abrams
et al
., 2019
Type
species.
Draculoides
:
Schizomus vinei
Harvey, 1988
, by original designation.
Paradraculoides
:
Paradraculoides kryptus
Harvey, Berry, Edward and Humphreys, 2008
, by original designation.
Diagnosis.
Pedipalpal trochanter without mesal spur. Movable cheliceral finger with 0‒2 accessory teeth. Female genitalia with or without gonopod, and with 4 anteriorly directed ducts, sometimes subdivided, and sometimes connected basally before connection with bursa. Tergite II with 2‒3 setae. Male flagellum laterally or dorsally compressed.
Description.
Body with acuminate setae. Anterior process of propeltidium usually with pair of setae followed by single seta (sometimes with 3 setae in a row or with pair of setae only); corneate eyes and eye spots absent; metapeltidium divided. Pedipalp not sexually dimorphic and without armature; trochanteral mesal spur absent; male pedipalps not dimorphic. Moveable cheliceral finger with 0‒2 accessory teeth and guard tooth at end of serrula. An- terodorsal margin of femur IV produced at about 90
o
angle. Abdominal tergite II with two or three macrosetae; male abdomen not elongated; male with or without small development of posterodorsal process on abdominal segment XII. Male flagellum laterally or dorsally compressed; female flagellum with three articles. Spermathecae consisting of two pairs of uniramous lobes, without nodules, gonopod present in most species, but absent in
D. vinei
.
Remarks.
The multi-gene molecular analysis presented by
Clouse
et al
. (2017)
recovered a monophyletic clade comprising
Draculoides
+
Paradraculoides
, which was sister to a variety of other Australasian taxa including
Bamazomus
,
Orientzomus
Cokendolpher and Tsurusaki, 1994
,
Ovozomus
Harvey, 2001
, and some species of
Apozomus
. Species of
Draculoides
differ from these genera by the lack of a measl spur on the pedipalpal trochanter.