‘OEDOTHORAX’ BIFOVEATUS TANASEVITCH, 2017 INCERTAE SEDIS

Oedothorax bifoveatus Tanasevitch, 2017a: 148, figs 31–34, 46–51 (Dmf).

Type material: Holotype: Indonesia: Java, Cibodas Botanical Garden, near Cipanas, c. 50 km east of Bogor, 1400 m, vegetational debris in montane Lithocarpus & Castanopsis forest, sifting; ♂ 3.–6.xi.1989, leg. D. Burckhardt, I. LöbI & D.Agosti (not examined). Paratypes: Indonesia: 2♂ 17♀, collected together with the holotype (not examined); Java, Gunung Gede-Pangrango National Park, near Cibodas (6°47’0” S, 107°01’0” E), 1450–1600 m, 1♂ 21♀ 4.–11.v.2005, leg. A. Schulz (not examined). East Malaysia: Borneo Island, Sabah, Tambunan District, Crocker Range, near pass, 1550–1650 m, road Kota Kinabalu to Tambunan, Lithocarpus & Castanopsis forest, sifting dead wood, leaves and moss, 3♂ 1♀ 16.v.1987, leg. D. Burckhardt & I. Löbl (not examined).

Distribution: East Malaysia: Borneo Island; Indonesia: Java Island.

Diagnosis:

Males: This species can be identified by the shape of palpal tibia, which has a largely elevated margin on the dorsal side and a slender, setae-bearing retrolateral apophysis (fig. 49 in Tanasevitch, 2017a), and the curved shape of the radix [‘convector’ in Tanasevitch (2017a), fig. 50].

Females: Characterized by the presence of a large socket on each side of the dorsal plate of epigyne (fig. 51 in Tanasevitch, 2017a).

Habitat: Forest litter.

Remarks: Features in the male palpal configuration (e.g. paracymbium distal part massive, distal setae group distally situated; anterior radical process ending in several short, pointed processes; embolus retrolaterally spiral), as well as the epigyne (e.g. two large, rounded sockets on either side of the dorsal plate), differ significantly from Oedothorax s.s. . Furthermore, its Indomalayan distribution in constrast to the Holarctic distribution of Oedothorax also suggests that this species presumably does not belong to Oedothorax s.s ..