Galeodes caspius Birula, 1890

Khazanehdari, Mahsa, Mirshamsi, Omid, Received, Mansour Aliabadian, Online, Published & Version, Final, 2016, Contribution to the solpugid (Arachnida: Solifugae) fauna of Iran, Turkish Journal of Zoology 40 (4), pp. 608-614 : 610-611

Galeodes caspius Birula, 1890

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Material: 1♂ (ZMFUM-SOL-1004), Khorasan-e Razavi Prov., Sarakhs (36°32′42.00″N, 61°9′28.00″E), 275 m a.s.l., 18.vii.2013, O. Mirshamsi ; 1♂ (ZMFUM-SOL-1042), Khorasan-e Jonubi Prov., Qaen (33°43′36.00″N, 59°11′4.00″E), 1146 m a.s.l., 10.iv.2010, F. Abedi ; 1♂ (ZMFUM-SOL-1043), Khorasan-e Razavi Prov., Chenaran, Kahoo (36°26′31.89″N, 59°12′19.40″E), 1419 m a.s.l., 12.v.2012, O. Mirshamsi ; 1♀ (ZMFUM-SOL-1024), Khorasan-e Razavi Prov., Joghatai, Davarzan (36°51′51″N, 56°60′08″E), 1216 m a.s.l., 02.iv.2013, H. Maddahi ; 1♀ (ZMFUM-SOL-1038), Khorasan-e Razavi Prov., Mashhad, Shelgherd (36°13′26.72″N, 59°34′45.40″E), 1132 m a.s.l., 15.vi.2013, H. Banazadeh ; 1♀ (ZMFUM-SOL-1056), Khorasan-e Razavi Prov., Mashhad , (36°18′21.74″N, 59°31′53.63″E), 1034 m a.s.l., 20.viii.2013, O. Mirshamsi ; 1♀ (ZMFUM-SOL-1061), Khorasan-e Razavi Prov., Mashhad (36°18′21.74″N, 59°31′53.63″E), 1034 m a.s.l., 20.x.2013, O. Mirshamsi .

Distribution: It is a common species known from Israel, Azerbaijan, Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Iran to central China ( Birula, 1911; Roewer, 1934; Levy and Shulov, 1964; Aliev and Gadzhiev, 1983; Gromov and Kopdykbaev, 1994). This species is a new record for NE Iran.

Comments: It is distinguished from the closely related Galeodes bacillatus by the absence of ctenidia on the 6th abdominal sternite ( Birula, 1905).

Family Gylippidae Roewer, 1933

Genus Gylippus Simon, 1879

Gylippus (Hemigylippus) lamelliger Birula, 1906

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Material: 1♀ (ZMFUM-SOL-1021), Khorasan-e Razavi Prov., Mashhad (36°17′35.97″N, 59°31′49.42″E), 1030 m a.s.l., 10.vi.2012, O. Mirshamsi .

Distribution: This species is distributed from SW Kazakhstan (Mangyshlak Plateau) across the Karakum and Kyzylkum deserts to NE Iran (Khorasan Prov.) ( Gromov and Kopdykbaev, 1994).

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Comments: This species is easily distinguished on the basis of the shape of the chitinized genital operculum.

Diagnosis: Chelicerae with elongated movable fingers; sternite of genital segment quadrangular and convex, internally posterior corners with projection and a shallow small split; bacilli of coxae thick, expanded at the end and deeply forked; pleura grayish-yellow (see Birula, 1907: 890, fig. 5; Birula, 1938: 88, fig. 57).

Family Karschiidae Kraepelin, 1899

Genus Karschia Walter, 1889

Karschia mastigofera Birula, 1890

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Material: 1♂ (ZMFUM-SOL-1049), Zanjan Prov., Qeydar, Gojeyelagh (36°0.1′7.34″N, 48°32′13.06″E), 1825 m a.s.l., 15.vi.2013, A. Mahmoudi .

Distribution: This species is known from Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia ( Harvey, 2003). New record for Iran.

Diagnosis: This species can be easily distinguished by its spiral flagellum, exits at the base of fixed fingers with a long feather-shaped seta; dorsally with two short thick spines, ventrally with a row of long thick spines and rows of feather-shaped setae (see Birula, 1938: 56–57, figs. 30, 31); ventral-medial aspect of metatarsus with palpal papillae; 4th sternite with curved needle-like ctenidia.

Figures

Figure 2. Dorsal habitus of the studied species. A) Galeodes bacillatus, female; B) G. bacillatus, male; C) G. caspius, female; D) G. caspius, male; E) Rhagodes melanochaetus, female; F) Rhagodes aureus, male.

Figure 3. Gylippus (Hemigylippus) lamelliger: A) habitus,dorsal view; B) chelicerae, external view; C) genital operculum.

Figure 4. Karschia mastigofera: A) habitus, dorsal view; B) chelicerae, internal view showing flagellum; C) ventral view of opisthosoma.