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Issue: Vol. 1860 No. 1: 1 Sep. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-09-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1860.1.5
Page range: 60–68
Abstract views: 64
PDF downloaded: 1

New Venezuelan genus of Hubardiidae (Arachnida: Schizomida)

Laboratorio de Sistemática Molecular, Museo del Instituto de Zoologia Agrícola, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Apartado 2101-A, ZP 4579, Maracay, Edo. Aragua,Venezuela
Laboratorio de Aracnologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Quinta da Boa Vista s/n, São Cristóvão 20.940-040, Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brasil Núcleo de Morfologia e Ultraestrutura de Artrópodes, Departamento de Entomologia, IOC / Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Laboratorio de Aracnologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Quinta da Boa Vista s/n, São Cristóvão 20.940-040, Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brasil INPA - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Programa de Coleções Zoológicas – Coleção de Invertebrados, Avenida André Araújo, 2936 – Aleixo – CEP 69011-970, Cx. Postal: 478, Manaus – AM – Brasil
Arachnida Neotropics Venezuela Amazonia Schizomida taxonomy new genus

Abstract

A new Amazonian genus and species of Schizomida is described from Tobogán de la Selva, Amazonas state in Venezuela. Piaroa virichaj n. gen. and n. sp is the seventh species of the order described for Venezuela. Piaroa virichaj gen. and n. sp. is distinguished by having the metapeltidium entire; abdominal segment IX – XII elongated in the male; male without posterodorsal abdominal process on segment XII; male flagellum flattened dorsoventrally, very elongated, with two small dorsomedian depressions; pedipalps not sexually dimorphic; spermathecae with lateral lobes slender and curved, with the base swollen, ending in slightly trifid bulbs; medial lobes absent; gonopod absent. The locality where the species was collected is shown in a map, a discussion on the taxonomic characters of the new genus and species, the relationships of the new genus and the interrelationship of some species in Hubardiidae are provided.

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