Charinus desirade Teruel & Questel 2015
Authors/Creators
- 1. Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. & Entomology Department, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA.
- 2. Laboratório de Referência Nacional em Vetores das Riquetsioses, LIRN-IOC-FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
- 3. Arachnology Lab, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA.
- 4. Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. & Entomology Department, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA. & Zoology Section, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Description
Charinus desirade Teruel & Questel, 2015
Fig. 12; Table 1
Charinus desirade Teruel & Questel, 2015: 43–47, figs 1–4.
Charinus desirade – Teruel 2016: 9. — Teruel & Coulis 2017: 35.
Diagnosis
Based on the description of Teruel & Questel (2015), this species may be separated from other Caribbean and Central American Charinus by means of the following combination of characters: coloration olive-yellowish, immaculate; alcohol preserved specimens uniformly olive-yellowish in color, slightly darker on carapace and pedipalps, venter and chelicerae paler; intersegmental membranes whitish; live animals conspicuously darker and reddish; median ocular tubercle vestigial, median eyes absent and unpigmented, but with pair of small oval, translucent-whitish spots, lateral eyes well developed, silverwhite in color; tritosternum/tetrasternum/pentasternum with 4/2/1 pairs of spiniform setae, respectively; gonopods unsclerotized; minimal secondary sexual dimorphism, females larger, with shorter pedipalp segments than males; pedipalp femur with two dorsal and two ventral spines; pedipalp patella with three dorsal spines (including long setiferous tubercle distal to spine I) and two ventral spines; pedipalp tarsus with two dorsal spines; tibia of leg I with 23 articles, tarsus I with 41 articles; first tarsal article about three times as long as second tarsal article; leg IV basitibia with three pseudo-articles.
Etymology
Noun in apposition, taken from the type locality, La Désirade (Teruel & Questel 2015).
Type material
Holotype GUADELOUPE • ♂; La Désirade, Morne à Marthe; 16°18′30.32″ N, 61°05′15.02″ W; 4 Jul. 2014; K. Questel, G. Moulard, M. Coulis and E. Curot Lodéon leg.; BIOECO [not examined].
Paratypes GUADELOUPE • 1 ♀, 1 ♂, 1 juv.; same collection data as for holotype; BIOECO [not examined].
Measurements
See Table 1.
Distribution
Known only from the type locality.
Natural history
Specimens were collected under a rock of volcanic tuff, with a juvenile of the scorpion Oiclus cf. nanus Teruel & Chazal, 2010 (Diplocentridae). The rock was semi-buried in the ground, under dry forest.
Remarks
For comparison with other species, variation and habitat, see Teruel & Questel (2015).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BIOECO
- Event date
- 2014-07-04
- Verbatim event date
- 2014-07-04
- Scientific name authorship
- Teruel & Questel
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Amblypygi
- Family
- Charinidae
- Genus
- Charinus
- Species
- desirade
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Charinus desirade Teruel, 2015 sec. Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini & Scharff, 2021
References
- Teruel R. & Questel K. 2015. A new species of Charinus Simon, 1892 (Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles. Revista Iberica de Aracnologia 26: 43 - 47.
- Teruel R. 2016. The genus Charinus Simon, 1892 (Amblypygi: Charinidae) on the Island of Hispaniola, Greater Antilles. Revista Iberica de Aracnologia 28: 3 - 12.
- Teruel R. & Coulis M. 2017. First record of the genus Charinus Simon, 1892 from Martinique, Lesser Antilles, with description of a new species (Amblypygi: Charinidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 13: 30 - 36. https: // doi. org / 10.37828 / em. 2017.13.3