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Piaroa guipongai Villarreal and Garcia 2012

Description

Piaroa guipongai Villarreal and Garcia, 2012

Figs 13–14, 22–23, 24–37.

Piaroa guipongai Villarreal and Garcia, 2012: 186, figs 1–10; Armas and Delgado-Santa, 2012a: 183.

Type data. Holotype male (MCUB Ar-530), Colombia, Tolima, Mariquita, 490 m a.s.l. March 2009 (L.F. García, A. Rojas). Female paratype (MCUB Ar-530), same data as holotype.

Material examined: 1 male (destroyed for SEM images) and 2 females (CIUQ 8600, 8601), Colombia, Tolima, Mariquita, 490 m a.s.l., 14 December 2009 (João da Silva).

Complementary description of the female and remarks. Males and females of this species have been described recently (Villarreal and García 2012), but the spermathecae were not described. The spermathecae of P. guipongai have the general pattern of the genus with two lateral finger-like and curved lobes and absence of the medial lobes. The chitinized arc is mask-shaped and 3 times wider than long, and lacks a gonopod.

Notes

Published as part of Villarreal, Osvaldo, De Armas, Luis F. & García, Luis Fernando, 2014, A new species of Piaroa (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae) from Venezuela, with taxonomic notes on the genus, pp. 371-381 in Zootaxa 3765 (4) on page 376, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3765.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/230332

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Villarreal and Garcia
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Schizomida
Family
Hubbardiidae
Genus
Piaroa
Species
guipongai
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Piaroa guipongai and, 2012 sec. Villarreal, Armas & García, 2014

References

  • Villarreal, M. O. & Garcia, L. F. (2012) A new species of Piaroa Villarreal, Giupponi and Tourinho, 2008 (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae) from Colombia. Turkish Journal of Zoology, 36 (2), 185 - 189.
  • Armas, L. F. de & Delgado-Santa, L. (2012 a) Nueva especie de Piaroa de la Cordillera Occidental de los Andes colombianos y segundo registro de Stenochrus portoricensis Chamberlin, 1922 para Colombia (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 50, 183 - 186.