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Auranus tepui

Description

Auranus tepui Pinto-da-Rocha & Tourinho, 2012

(Figs 6 D, 7D)

Auranus tepui Pinto-da-Rocha & Tourinho, 2012: 12, figs 6A–F, 14A–C. (Type INPA OP-1032, male holotype, examined).

Complementary description. Penis. Reinterpretation of the chaetotaxy (Pinto-da-Rocha and Tourinho 2012, figs 14 A–C): MS A: A1–A3 inserted lateroventrally on malleus; MS B: one pair inserted ventrally on malleus. MS C: three pairs, cylindrical and sharp, forming a group placed laterally on calyx. MS D: one pair, cylindrical and sharp. MS E: asymmetric, E1 sharp and placed ventrally, forming a group with MS C, and E2 large, placed ventroapically on malleus, as in A. hehu.

Distribution (Fig. 8): Brazil: Amazonas: Barcelos, Pico da Neblina (type locality).

Material examined: male holotype (INPA-OP 1032), Amazonas, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Bebedouro Velho, Pico da Neblina, 400 m. a.s.l.; Leg. D. Candiani; 13.x.2007 (photo voucher).

Notes

Published as part of Colmenares, Pío A., Porto, Willians & Tourinho, Ana Lúcia, 2016, Taxonomic notes on the genus Auranus (Opiliones, Laniatores, Stygnidae), with description of two new species, pp. 117-129 in Zootaxa 4103 (2) on pages 121-122, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/271185

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Biodiversity

Family
Stygnidae
Genus
Auranus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Opiliones
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
tepui
Taxon rank
species