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Issue: Vol. 4178 No. 4: 27 Oct. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-10-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.4.3
Page range: 503–520
Abstract views: 133
PDF downloaded: 85

Nine new species of the Eremobates scaber species group of the North American camel spider genus Eremobates (Solifugae, Eremobatidae)

Denver Museum of Nature and Science, 2001Colorado Blvd., Denver, CO 80205 USA.
Denver Museum of Nature and Science, 2001Colorado Blvd., Denver, CO 80205 USA.
Opiliones Camel spider solifugid revision taxonomy

Abstract

Nine new species of the Eremobates scaber species group of the solifuge genus Eremobates Banks 1900 are described, eight of them from Mexico. These new species are: E. axacoa, E. bonito, E. cyranoi, E. fisheri, E. hidalgoana, E. jaliscoana, E. minamoritaana, E. zacatecana, and E. zapal and together increase the size of this species group to 23. A key to all species in the E. scaber species group is also provided.

 

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