Phareicranaus kuryi

Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2011, Species relationships in the Neotropical genus Phareicranaus Roewer 1913 (Opiliones: Cranaidae): two new species and new data from Penial morphology, Zootaxa 3135, pp. 1-34 : 18-19

Phareicranaus kuryi n. nov.

( Fig. 14 A, B)

Comboyus albilineatus Roewer, 1943: 49 , fig. 55 (male holotype, “ Panama, Mount Comboy, SMF-3873/43”, examined); Kury 2003: 91. Preoccupied by Santinezia albilineata Roewer, 1932 .

Etymology. The name is a patronym in honor of Adriano B. Kury, who works on the taxonomy and phylogeny of Laniatores at Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, and who inspired an entirely new generation of Latin American opilionologists.

Diagnosis. Phareicranaus kuryi n. nov. is related to species with white lines on the mesotergal grooves (P. a l b i - lineatus, P. calcarfemoralis , P. capayitaensis , P. curvipes , P. glabrus , P. guaricoensis , P. humocaroensis , P. lamitisus , P. leonensis , P. marcuzzi , P. ornatus , and P. s a n a re n s i s). It can be distinguished from them by the combination of the following characteristics: short spines on area III spines, ventral apophysis of male coxa IV as long as wide, absence os mesal row os tubercles on male tibia IV, basal portion of male femur IV straight, presence of sub-apical mesal apophysis on male femur IV, and free tergite III unarmed.

Redescription. Anterior margin with two tubercles each side. Ocularium with two spines (long as ocularium length). Area I with three tubercles each side; II with two tubercles each side; III with two low and parallel spines, two tubercles each side. Free tergite I with four tubercles each side; II with two large spines, 2–4 tubercles each side; III with two small spines and four tubercles. Cheliceral bulla enlarged, with frontal tubercles; segment I with six tubercles. Pedipalp: trochanter with ventral large tubercle, four dorsal tubercles (1 large); femur with seven ventral tubercles (second ventral larger), one dorsal row of small tubercles, apicalmost pointed and smaller than femur width. Patella with dorsal tubercles. Tibia ectal II, mesal IiiIi. Tarsus ectal iIiIi, mesal IiIi. Coxa IV with lateral tubercles and pointed dorsoapical apophysis. Trochanter IV with dorsoapical and retrolateroapical tubercles larger than other. Femur I–II with two ventral row of tubercles, larger than those of III–IV. Femur IV densely tuberculate, larger tubercles on retroateral and prolateral sides; with subapical ectal apophysis slightly curved upwards. Tarsal formula: 9, 23, 10, 12.

Color: brown, with one white stripes on grooves I–II, the lateral ends of groove III, and on free tergite III.

Male genitalia (the holotype was dried and its penis damaged). Ventral plate strongly pyriform, lateral borders concave on base to first setae (basal one), distal third concave, and apex with lateral projections. With one spatulate basal seta, 4 distal (all setae conical) each side. Stylus bended, without apex inflated and stylar apophysis ( Fig. 14 A, B).

Female: unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 14. Penis of Phareicranaus. P. k u r y i n. nov.: A, dorsal; B, lateral. P. goodnightorum n. name: C, dorsal; D, lateral. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.