identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03D2976EFF4CFFE24FC2ABAFFA75B998.text	03D2976EFF4CFFE24FC2ABAFFA75B998.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sarax Simon 1892	<div><p>Genus Sarax Simon, 1892</p><p>Key to the identification of the species of Sarax in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and China modified from Miranda et al. (2021b)</p><p>1. Median eyes absent................................................................................ 2</p><p>- Median eyes present................................................................................ 3</p><p>2. Lateral eyes reduced; tibia of leg I with more than 28 articles; leg I tarsus with more than 58 articles....... S. omanensis</p><p>- Lateral eyes absent; tibia of leg I with 21 articles; leg I tarsus with 35 articles..................... S. stygochthobius</p><p>3. Pedipalp tarsus with one spine........................................................................ 4</p><p>- Pedipalp tarsus with two spines........................................................................5</p><p>4. Pedipalp femur with three dorsal spines; pedipalp patella with five dorsal spines; female gonopods finger-like............................................................................................... S. cochinensis</p><p>- Pedipalp femur with four dorsal spines; pedipalp patella with four dorsal spines; female gonopods plunger-like.............................................................................................. S. dhofarensis</p><p>5. Cheliceral claw with twelve teeth; leg IV basitibia with two pseudo-articles.......................... S. socotranus</p><p>- Cheliceral claw with fewer than ten teeth; leg IV basitibia with three or four pseudo-articles....................... 6</p><p>6. Leg IV basitibia with three pseudo-articles...............................................................7</p><p>- Leg IV basitibia with four pseudo-articles...............................................................11</p><p>7. Cheliceral claw with four teeth; tibia of leg I with 23 articles; leg I tarsus with 39 articles................ S. bispinosus</p><p>- Cheliceral claw with more than four teeth; tibia of leg I with fewer than 23 articles; leg I tarsus with fewer than 39 articles.......................................................................................... 8</p><p>8. Pedipalp patella with two ventral spines......................................................... S. abbatei</p><p>- Pedipalp patella with three ventral spines............................................................... 9</p><p>9. Median and lateral eyes reduced............................................................. S. pakistanus</p><p>- Median and lateral eyes well developed............................................................... 10</p><p>10. Pedipalp patella with small ventral setiferous tubercle between spine I and distal margin................ S. bengalensis</p><p>- Pedipalp patella with long ventral spine between spine I and distal margin, half the size of spine I.......... S. sinensis</p><p>11. Pedipalp patella with four dorsal spines............................................................... 12</p><p>- Pedipalp patella with five dorsal spines................................................................ 14</p><p>12. Female gonopod absent (flat)............................................................. S. seychellarum</p><p>- Female gonopod present........................................................................... 13</p><p>13. Female gonopod conspicuous and almost conical.................................................. S. yunnan</p><p>- Female gonopod conspicuous and almost clavate............................................. S. quinquespinus</p><p>14. Pedipalp femur with five dorsal spines and five ventral spines..................................... S. ioanniticus</p><p>- Pedipalp femur with four dorsal spines and four ventral spines.................................... S. israelensis</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D2976EFF4CFFE24FC2ABAFFA75B998	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Xu, Yiting;Gong, Jiaxian;Guo, Xiangbo;Zhang, Feng	Xu, Yiting, Gong, Jiaxian, Guo, Xiangbo, Zhang, Feng (2026): A new species of the genus Sarax Simon, 1892 (Amblypygi, Charinidae) from China. Zootaxa 5748 (3): 429-438, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5748.3.8, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5748.3.8
03D2976EFF4FFFE44FC2A8B2FD75B876.text	03D2976EFF4FFFE44FC2A8B2FD75B876.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Sarax quinquespinus Xu, Gong & Zhang 2026	<div><p>Sarax quinquespinus Xu, Gong &amp; Zhang sp. nov. (五刺PMĦ)</p><p>Figs 1–8</p><p>Type material. Holotype ♂ (MHBU-AMB-2025-0101), <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=113.27&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.15" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 113.27/lat 23.15)">Yuexiu Park</a>, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, CHINA, 2 January, 2025, 23.15°N, 113.27°E, under the gravel in the park, leg. Jiaxian Gong and Rui Zhao.</p><p>Paratypes. 1♂ 2♀ (MHBU-AMB-2025-0102-0104), same data as holotype .</p><p>Etymology. Compound latin adjective, derived from “quinque” and “spina”, referring to the presence of five spines on both the dorsal and ventral sides of the pedipalp femur.</p><p>Diagnosis. Sarax quinquespinus sp. nov. can be distinguished from S. yunnan by the presence of five dorsal spines and five ventral spines on pedipalp femur (vs. three dorsal spines and four ventral spines in S. yunnan), the presence of 23 articles on tibia of leg I (vs. tibia I ranging from 25 to 30 in S. yunnan), and the clavate-shaped female gonopod (vs. female gonopod conical in S. yunnan); from S. sinensis by the presence of five teeth on cheliceral claw (vs. eight in S. sinensis), the presence of five dorsal spines and five ventral spines on pedipalp femur (vs. four dorsal spines and four ventral spines in S. sinensis), the presence of four pseudo-articles on basitibia IV (vs. basitibia IV with three pseudo-articles in S. sinensis), the presence of 23 articles on tibia of leg I (vs. 20 articles in S. sinensis), and the presence of 39 articles on tarsus I (vs. 35 articles in S. sinensis).</p><p>Description. Male (Holotype; Figs 1A, 2A–B, 3A–B, E–G, 4A, C, 5, 6, 7A–C, 8A–B, E–H, 9).</p><p>Carapace. Flat, wider than long, slightly bent downwards, ventral to lateral eyes (Figs 2A, 3G), with a triangular frontal process, six anterior setae. Small granules densely scattered between ocular triads and among sulci. Median eyes and median ocular tubercle well developed, median ocular tubercle shallow, lateral ocular triad and nearby area bristleless, with curved carina between ocular triads and carapace margin (Fig. 3G).</p><p>Sternum. Three hard sclerotized sternites that bear setae (Fig. 5A). Tritosternum elongate anteriorly, surpassing base of pedipalp coxae. Tetrasternum relatively short and small, with one pair of setae on top area and a pair of setae at the base, and an additional seta in the middle on the left side. Pentasternum shortest, with two pairs of setae, setae of posterior pair obviously smaller.</p><p>Abdomen. Ventral sacs and ventral sac cover well developed (Fig. 2B).</p><p>Gonopod. Male gonopod longer than wide, wider in distal third (Figs 7A–C, 8F); LoL1 and LoL2 subequal in length, both densely covered with minute denticles; LoD covered with denticulate projections; LaM elongated, reaching LoD, with smooth surface; PI with smooth surface and acute apex; fistula with sparse denticles, ventral internal surface sclerotized.</p><p>Chelicera. Basal segment with four retromarginal teeth, the fourth tooth largest proximally, with the second and third teeth being equal in size. First distal tooth (upper) is bifid. Claw with five teeth (Figs 3E, 8E).</p><p>Pedipalp. Coxae with many setae on the ventral surface. Trochanter with three large setae and one small seta on antero-dorsal side, two small subequal ventral spines, one large and prominently pointed ventral apophysis (Fig. 4). Femur with five dorsal spines, five ventral spines, and two prominent setiferous tubercles between first dorsal spine and proximal margin. Patella with four dorsal spines in primary series, one prominent setiferous tubercle located distal compared to spine I, three ventral spines, and two setiferous tubercles between spine I and distal margin. Tibia with two dorsal spines and one ventral spine (Figs 3A–B, 8A–B). Tarsus with two dorsal spines, with distal one long (Figs 3B, 8B), tarsal cleaning organ with 33–36 setae in ventral row (Fig. 3F).</p><p>Legs. Tibia of leg I with 23 articles; tarsus I with 39 articles, proximal articles slightly longer than subsequent articles (Fig. 6). Basitibia IV divided into four pseudo-articles (Figs 5C, 8H). Trichobothria of distitibia IV (Figs 5B, 8G): sc and sf series each with five and three trichobothria; bt situated in proximal third of pseudo-article; bc situated closer to bf than to sbf; distances between bf, sbf and stf unequal; stf located at ca. 1/3 position from distal end of distitibia IV; the arrangement of tf, tm, and tc constitutes a triangular configuration. All walking legs with pulvilli (Fig. 5D).</p><p>Measurements. Total length (not including chelicerae) 8.06; carapace length 3.02, width 4.41; abdomen length 5.04, width 3.21; pedipalp: trochanter 0.99, femur 5.21, patella 6.03, tibia 1.17, tarsus and claw 1.61; leg I 34.93, leg II 14.48, leg III 16.21, leg IV 15.08.</p><p>Female (paratype, MHBU-AMB-2025-1003; Figs 1B–C, 2C–D, 3C–D, 4B, D, 7D–E, 8C–D). Body features mostly like those in males.</p><p>Genitalia. Genital operculum acute, triangular (Fig. 2D), with posteromedial setae. Gonopod clavate, long, finger-shaped (Figs 7D–E).</p><p>Pedipalp. Corpus shorter compared to the male, but with ventral spines on the femur longer than male, especially spines four and five (Figs 3C–D, 8C–D).</p><p>Measurements. Total length (not including chelicerae) 8.31; carapace length 3.01, width 3.92; abdomen length 5.30, width 3.62; pedipalp: trochanter 0.58, femur 2.51, patella 2.98, tibia 1.05, tarsus and claw 1.39; Leg I -, leg II 12.95, leg III -, leg IV 14.43.</p><p>Distribution. China (Guangdong, Fig. 8).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D2976EFF4FFFE44FC2A8B2FD75B876	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Xu, Yiting;Gong, Jiaxian;Guo, Xiangbo;Zhang, Feng	Xu, Yiting, Gong, Jiaxian, Guo, Xiangbo, Zhang, Feng (2026): A new species of the genus Sarax Simon, 1892 (Amblypygi, Charinidae) from China. Zootaxa 5748 (3): 429-438, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5748.3.8, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5748.3.8
