Traegaardhia vicenzaensis Zacharda, 1994

Zacharda, Miloslav, Fong, Daniel, Hobbs Iii, Horton H., Piva, Erminio, Slay, Michael E. & Taylor, Steven J., 2010, 2474, Zootaxa 2474, pp. 1-64 : 18-20

Traegaardhia vicenzaensis Zacharda, 1994 ( Figs 10–12)

Traegaardhia vicenzaensis Zacharda, 1994 , Berichte des naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck, 81, 93–98.

Material examined

HOLOTYPE: adult female, Italy, Veneto, the Lessinan Mts, Torrebelvicino (Vicenza), elevation point in the Buso del Monte Naro Cave (30 V/ VI), 386 m a.s.l., coll. E. Piva, 2.7. 1989. Type deposited in the Canadian National Collection of Insects and Arachnids, Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Type No. 21,813; adult female, Italy, Veneto, the Lessinan Mts , Valstagna (Vicenza), Tana del Tasso Cave (557 V/ VI), 578 m a.s.l., coll. G. Peretto, 14.4.1990, deposited in collection of M. Zacharda.

Diagnosis

Adults large, about 1280–1300 µm. Cheliceral digits smooth along masticatory surface, fixed digit with lateral fissure located slightly distad of level of insertion of proximal cheliceral seta. Proximal cheliceral seta inserted above articulation of movable digit, its tip nearly reaching insertion of distal seta. Palpal tarsus same length as femorogenu, with ten ciliated setae and one spiniform solenidion; subterminal ventral palpal seta strikingly short. Coxae I, II, III, IV with 3-1-5-3 finely pubescent setae, respectively. Rhagidial organ I comprised of four elongated and attenuated oblique rhagidial solenidia (ω) lying in separate depressions; stellate famulus (ε) subtending second proximal rhagidial solenidion antiaxially. Rhagidial organ II comprised of three elongated and attenuated rhagidial solenidia (ω) arranged in tandem in confluent depressions. Spiniform solenidion (Φ) on tibia I ventral.

Affinities Traegaardhia vicenzaensis is very similar to T. cavernicola –see affinities of T. cavernicola , above. Description For the original description see Zacharda (1994).

Remarks

The same distinctive troglomorphisms such as the slender elongated cheliceral digits, the strikingly elongated and attenuated rhagidial solenidia in the rhagidial organs I and II, the enlarged dorsodistal lanceolate solenidion lying in a deep pit with broadly open surface pore on tibia II, occur in both T. vicenzaensis and T. cavernicola . Therefore Traegaardhia vicenzaensis is considered a troglobiont.