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Issue: Vol. 1330 No. 1: 9 Oct. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-10-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1330.1.2
Page range: 27–42
Abstract views: 68
PDF downloaded: 30

A new species of Cyphophthalmi (Arachnida, Opiliones, Sironidae) from Eastern Slovenia

University of Maribor, Department of Biology, Koroška 160, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Arthropoda Taxonomy Siro Alps Europe

Abstract

A new species of Cyphophthalmi belonging to the Laurasian family Sironidae is described and illustrated on the basis of external anatomy and genitalia. Siro crassus sp. n., known from leaf litter from two beech forest localities in Eastern Slovenia, is a relatively large (2.2–2.6 mm in length), long-legged epigean species, in which the patella of leg IV surpasses the end of the body. The new species resembles the European Siro rubens Latreille, 1804 and S. valleorum Chemini, 1990 in the projecting female rear end, but differs from these species, among other features, in having ornamented metatarsi on all four pairs of walking legs.

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