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Issue: Vol. 5351 No. 2: 26 Sept. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-09-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.2.5
Page range: 276-286
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On the genus Tegestria Roewer, 1936, new senior synonym of Gintingius Roewer, 1938 with the description of a new species (Opiliones: Epedanidae: Sarasinicinae)

Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application of Hebei Province; College of Life Sciences; Hebei University; Baoding; Hebei 071002; China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application of Hebei Province; College of Life Sciences; Hebei University; Baoding; Hebei 071002; China
Institut für Organismische und Molekulare Evolutionsbiologie (iomE); D-55099 Mainz; Germany; Senckenberg Research Institute; Arachnology; D-60325 Frankfurt am Main; Germany
Opiliones Arachnida Laniatores harvestmen taxonomy genitalia

Abstract

Tegestria altmannae sp. nov. is described and illustrated based on male and female specimens collected in Malaysia. It is characterized by the unarmed dorsal scutum, and basal segment of chelicerae dorsally with three seta-tipped tubercles. The type species of the monotypic genus Gintingius Roewer, 1938, G. robustus Roewer, 1938, is treated as a new synonym of Tegestria coniata Roewer, 1938 and the genus Gintingius as a new synonym of Tegestria Roewer, 1936, accordingly.

 

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