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Type: Article
Published: 2014-08-15
Page range: 347–358
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First Harvestman Record for the Juan Fernández Archipelago, Chile, with Morphological Notes on Acropsopilio chilensis (Opiliones: Caddidae: Acroposopilioninae)

División Aracnología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales - CONICET, Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR Buenos Aires, Argentina
División Aracnología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales - CONICET, Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR Buenos Aires, Argentina
Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, IEGEBA (CONICET-UBA), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria Pab. II, C1428EHA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Laboratorio de Entomología Ecológica, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de La Serena, Casilla 599, La Serena, Chile
Opiliones Eupnoi genital morphology respiratory system volcanic island biodiversity

Abstract

Acropsopilio chilensis Silvestri, 1904 (Eupnoi: Caddidae: Acropsopilioninae), is recorded for Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile. This is the first harvestman species recorded for the Juan Fernández Archipelago and also the first extra-continental record for this species. During the comparison with continental co-specific specimens, some previously unknown, remarkable morphological characteristics were discovered, among them: the absence of ovipositor seminal receptacles and tracheal system, small and probably imperforate spiracles and the presence of a subdistal spiny structure, maybe a stylus, in the major branch of the penis.