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Issue: Vol. 3583 No. 1: 13 Dec. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-12-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3583.1.6
Page range: 77–82
Abstract views: 50
PDF downloaded: 3

New species of Fissiphallius Martens 1988 from Brazil and notes on the mor-phology of Fissiphalliidae (Arachnida, Opiliones)

Laboratório de Aracnologia, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Avenida Nazaré, 481, 04263-000, São Paulo/SP, Brasil
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 11461, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 05422-970
Arachnida Amazonian Rainforest harvestmen taxonomy Laniatores genitalic morphology

Abstract

The seventh species of Fissiphallidae, Fissiphallius orube sp. nov., and the fourth from Brazil (type locality state of Acre,Cruzeiro do Sul, at the Moa river), is described. The new species differs from the remaining species of the family in lack-ing a pergula, having a knob at the base of the rutrum, and the ocularium spiniform projection with apical portion single or divided in two to three parts.

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