Charinus schirchii
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 schirchii (Mello-Leitão, 1931)
Fig. 43; Table 4
Enantiosarax schirchii Mello-Leitão, 1931: 55, 56, figs 23–24.
Charinus schirchii – Quintero 1983: 47. — Delle Cave 1986: 162, fig. II. — Harvey 2003: 7. — Baptista & Giupponi 2003: 80. — Miranda & Giupponi 2011: 66, fig. 13. — Vasconcelos et al. 2013: 496, fig. 12. — Vasconcelos & Ferreira 2016: 185.
Diagnosis
Based on Mello-Leitão (1931), this species may be separated from other Charinus in eastern South America by means of the following combination of characters: lateral eyes present; tritosternum projecting anteriorly, surpassing base of pedipalp coxae; tetra- and pentasternum with small platelets with seta on each side; pedipalp femur with five dorsal spines and five ventral spines; pedipalp patella with five dorsal spines, long setiferous tubercle between spine I and distal margin, and three ventral spines; pedipalp tarsus with two dorsal spines; tibia of leg I with 23 articles.
Etymology
Patronym honoring P. Schirch (Mello-Leitão 1931).
Type material
Syntypes BRAZIL • 3 ♀♀; Rio de Janeiro, Teresópolis; [22°26′04.71″ S, 42°59′00.57″ W]; P. Schirch leg.; MNRJ [not examined].
Measurements
See Table 4.
Distribution
Known only from the type locality.
Remarks
The syntypes are lost, hence the diagnosis is based on the original description of Mello-Leitão (1931). The median eyes were not described, but the species was collected in the Atlantic Forest and is not troglobitic; hence, it is assumed to possess a median ocular tubercle with median eyes. Mello-Leitão (1931) described six dorsal spines on the pedipalp patella, but included the long setiferous tubercle in the count; the true count of dorsal spines on the patella is five.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MNRJ
- Scientific name authorship
- Mello-Leitao
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Amblypygi
- Family
- Charinidae
- Genus
- Charinus
- Species
- schirchii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- syntype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Charinus schirchii (Mello-Leitao, 1931) sec. Miranda, Giupponi, Prendini & Scharff, 2021
References
- Mello-Leitao C. 1931. Pedipalpos do Brasil e algumas notas sobre a ordem. Archivos do Museu Nacional 33: 7 - 72.
- Quintero D. J. 1983. Revision of the amblypygid spiders of Cuba and their relationships with the Caribbean and continental American amblypygid fauna. Studies on the Fauna of Curacao & other Caribbean Islands 65: 1 - 54.
- Delle Cave L. 1986. Biospeleology of the Somaliland Amblypygi (Arachnida, Chelicerata) of the caves of the Showli Berdi and Mugdile (Bardera, Somaliland). Redia 69: 143 - 170.
- Harvey M. S. 2003. Catalogue of the Smaller Arachnid Orders of the World. Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Ricinulei and Solifugae. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / 9780643090071
- Baptista R. L. C. & Giupponi A. P. L. 2003. A new troglomorphic Charinus from Minas Gerais State, Brazil (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae). Revista Iberica de Aracnologia 7: 79 - 84.
- Miranda G. S. & Giupponi A. P. L. 2011. A new synanthropic species of Charinus Simon, 1892 from Brazilian Amazonia and notes on the genus (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae). Zootaxa 2980: 61 - 68. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2980.1.5
- Vasconcelos A. C., Giupponi A. P. L. & Ferreira R. L. 2013. A new species of Charinus Simon, 1892 from northeastern Brazil with comments on the potential distribution of the genus in Central and South Americas (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae). Zootaxa 3737: 488 - 500. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3737.4.9
- Vasconcelos A. C. O. & Ferreira R. L. 2016. Description of two new species of Charinus Simon, 1892 from Brazilian caves with remarks on conservation (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae). Zootaxa 4072 (2): 185 - 202. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4072.2.3