Salfacarus legendrei Hammen, 1977

Araújo, Marcel Santos De, Palma, Antonella Di & Feres, Reinaldo José Fazzio, 2020, Catalog of the Opilioacarida (Acari: Parasitiformes), Zootaxa 4895 (3), pp. 332-356 : 352

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.3.2

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4361478

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scientific name

Salfacarus legendrei Hammen, 1977
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11.5. Salfacarus legendrei Hammen, 1977 View in CoL

Salfacarus legendrei Hammen 1977: 54–60 View in CoL , figs. 5–8 (original description); Vázquez & Klompen 2010: 2 (new diagnosis, redescription).

Holotype: F (unknown whereabouts). MADAGASCAR, Ambohibao , forest of Eucalyptus , near Tananarive, under rocks; DEC.1958; coll Prof. Dr. R. Legendre.

Paratypes: 1 F (B-20, RMNH), 1 M, 2 F, 2 TN (unknown whereabouts), same data as holotype. 1 TN (B-9, RMNH), 1 M, 1 F (unknown whereabouts), Plateau Mahafaly , Madagascar; zone with “dolines”, near the “aven Andramanoetse Be”, under rocks; 28.JUL.1967; leg. Dr. J.M. Betsch ; 1 TN (B-19, RMNH). Morandawa region , Madagascar, Andranomena Forest, Marafandila; under dead wood; 16.DEC.1969; leg. Dr. J.M. Betsch.

Distribution: Ambohibao, Andranomena ( Madagascar).

Notes: One female in a sample from Ambohibao, preserved in tube nr. Β4, was selected as a holotype according to Hammen (1977). The female paratype (B-20) and two tritonymphs (B-9, from Mahafaly and B-19 from Marafandila) deposited in the RMNH where studied by Klompen & Vázquez (2009), respectively identified as S. legendrei , S. mahafaliensis and S. kirindiensis .

Etymology: Dedicated to Prof. Dr. R. Legendre, Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier, who first discovered the species.

RMNH

National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Opilioacarida

Family

Opilioacaridae

Genus

Salfacarus

Loc

Salfacarus legendrei Hammen, 1977

Araújo, Marcel Santos De, Palma, Antonella Di & Feres, Reinaldo José Fazzio 2020
2020
Loc

Salfacarus legendrei

Vazquez, M. M. & Klompen, H. 2010: 2
Hammen, L. van der 1977: 60
1977
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