Nemaspela Silhavy 1966
- 1. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Institut für Organismische und Molekulare Evolutionsbiologie (iomE), D- 55099 Mainz, Germany; Senckenberg Research Institute, Arachnology, D- 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2. Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University, Giorgi Tsereteli 3, 0162, Tbilisi, Georgia
Description
Key to the currently known Nemaspela species in the Caucasus area
(based on male specimens)
1 Dorsal apophysis on distal end of 1 st cheliceral article present.................................................. 2
- Dorsal apophysis on distal end of 1 st cheliceral article absent................................................... 7
2 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article short, just an inconspicuous, short, pointed distad-directed lobe; found in several caves in the Sochi area, Russia and Abkhazia, West Georgia ............ N. abchasica (Ljovuschkin & Starobogatov, 1963)
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article longer, distinctly elevated, not only a short lobe....................... 3
3 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article longer than the entire 2 nd cheliceral article; found in several caves in Nalchik area, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia ...................................................... N. kovali Chemeris, 2009
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article shorter than the entire 2 nd cheliceral article........................... 4
4 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article globular and knob-like, found in one cave in Abkhazia, Georgia ......................................................................................... N. gagrica Tchemeris, 2013
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article distinctly elongated, longer than broad.............................. 5
5 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article slender, sickle-shaped, pointed, with distal-directed concavity, longer than breadth of article at its position; found in one cave in Abkhazia, West Georgia .............. N. birsteini Ljovuschkin, 1972
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article not sickle-shaped, shorter or conspicuously longer than breadth of article at its position............................................................................................. 6
6 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article distinctly bent forward, shorter than breadth of article at its position; found in one cave in Imereti region, West Georgia ................................................. N. prometheus sp. nov.
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article not distinctly bent forward, longer than breadth of article at its position, apophysis distally widened and two-lobed; found in caves in Sochi area, Russia .... N. sokolovi (Ljovuschkin & Starobogatov, 1963)
7 Femur of pedipalp S-shaped; found in one cave in Kvemo-Svaneti Region, West Georgia ....................................................................................................... N. femorecurvata Martens, 2006
- Femur of pedipalp not S-shaped but stretched out; found in one cave in Imereti region, West Georgia ..... N. melouri sp. nov.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Nemastomatidae
- Genus
- Nemaspela
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Opiliones
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Silhavy
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nemaspela Silhavy, 1966 sec. Martens, Maghradze & Barjadze, 2021
References
- Ljovuschkin, S. T. & Starobogatov, Y. I. (1963) The cavernicolous Opilionidea in the Crimea and Caucasus. Biospeologica Sovietica, XVIII. Byulletin Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody, Otdel Biologicheskii, 68 (1), 41 - 51. [in Russian]
- Chemeris, A. (2009) New data on the harvestman genus Nemaspela S ilhavy, 1966 (Arachnida: Opiliones). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 14 (7), 286 - 377. https: // doi. org / 10.13156 / arac. 2009.14.7.286
- Tchemeris, A. N. (2013) Two new harvestman species (Arachnida: Opiliones) from the collection of the Siberian Zoological Museum. Arthropoda selecta, 22, 41 - 46. https: // doi. org / 10.15298 / arthsel. 22.1.03
- Ljovuschkin, S. T. (1972) Harvestmen of the family Nematsomatidae from caves of USSR. Biospeologica Sovietica, XLVI. Sbornik Trudov Zoologiceskogo Muzeja MGU, 12, 61 - 73. [in Russian]
- Martens, J. (2006) Weberknechte aus dem Kaukasus (Arachnida, Opiliones, Nemastomatidae). Senckenbergiana biologica, 86 (2), 145 - 210.