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Miopsalis kinabalu Shear 1993, new comb.
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Description
Miopsalis kinabalu (Shear, 1993) new comb.
Stylocellus kinabalu Shear, 1993: 184, figs. 69–78.
Comments: This small, ovoid species from Borneo lacks an anal gland pore and has other features which might normally place it in Leptopsalis, including a concave posterior gonostome, smooth second cheliceral second article, and large eyes. However, it strongly resembles a specimen collected from the same area that consistently places within Miopsalis in molecular phylogenies, and it appears to simply be highly convergent on Leptopsalis.
Material examined: Holotype, Male (AMNH), Malaysia, Borneo, Sabah, Kinabalu National Park, H.Q., elev. 1500 m, 26 June 1976, col. M. Perranck.
Notes
Published as part of Clouse, Ronald M., 2012, The lineages of Stylocellidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi), pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 3595 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3595.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/246218
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Event date
- 1976-06-26
- Family
- Stylocellidae
- Genus
- Miopsalis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Opiliones
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Shear
- Species
- kinabalu
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1976-06-26
- Taxonomic concept label
- Miopsalis kinabalu (Shear, 1993) sec. Clouse, 2012
References
- Shear, W. A. (1993) New species in the opilionid genus Stylocellus from Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Stylocellidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 9, 174 - 188.