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Neocarus siankaanensis

  • 1. Laboratório de Estudos Subterrâneos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Via Washington Luís, km 235, Caixa Postal 676, CEP 13565 - 905, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • 2. Department of Agriculture Food Natural Science Engineering (DAFNE), University of Foggia, Via Napoli 25, 71122, Foggia, Italy.
  • 3. Departamento de Zoologia e Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rua Cristóvão Colombo 2265, São José do Rio Preto CEP 15054 - 000, Brazil

Description

6.17. Neocarus siankaanensis (Vázquez & Klompen, 2002) *

Neocarus siankaanensis Vázquez & Klompen 2009: 25 (new status)

Opilioacarus (Neocarus) siankaanensis: Vázquez & Klompen 2002: 313–314, figs. lB, 2D, 3E, 4B, 5D, 7B, 8B, 9D, l0B, llC). (original description)

Holotype: F (CNAC, AL 5881). MEXICO, Quintana Roo, Sian Ka’an Biosphere Res., l 9°43’N 87°49’W, ex litter of Bucida buceras and Dalbergia glabra, 8.MAR.1995, coll M.M. Vazquez.

Paratypes: F, same data, 5.JUL.1995, coll. M.M. Vazquez, AL5880; M, same data, ex. litter and under stones, 16.JUN.1999, colls. M.M. Vazquez, H. Klompen, AL5702; PN, MEXICO: Quintana Roo, Lol Beh restaurant, on road from Tulum to Coba, 20°25’N 87°39’W, 10.JUN.1999, ex. litter, coll. J.A. Rodriguez, AL5700; (F, 2 TN, 3 DN), same site, ex litter and under stones, 17.JUN.1999, colls. M.M. Vazquez, H. Klompen, AL5720; (F, 2 DN), same site, 24.JUN.1999, coll. M.M. Vazquez, H. Klompen, AL5733.

Distribution: Quintana Roo (Mexico).

Notes: F (OSAL000561) and allotype male (OSAL000562) deposited at CNAC. Paratypes at UQROO (F, TN, 4 DN, PN) and OSAL (2 F, TN, 2 DN, PN; OSAL000563, 565, 567, 570, 572–573).

Etymology: Named after the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve in which the original material was collected.

Notes

Published as part of Araújo, Marcel Santos De, Palma, Antonella Di & Feres, Reinaldo José Fazzio, 2020, Catalog of the Opilioacarida (Acari: Parasitiformes), pp. 332-356 in Zootaxa 4895 (3) on page 346, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4326711

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References

  • Vazquez, M. M. & Klompen, H. (2002) The family Opilioacaridae (Acari: Parasitiformes) in North and Central America, with description of four new species. Acarologia, 42, 299 - 322.
  • Vazquez, M. M. & Klompen, H. (2009) New species of New World Opilioacaridae (Acari: Parasitiformes) with the description of a new genus from the Caribbean region. Zootaxa, 2061, 23 - 44. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2061.1.2