Miopsalis Thorell, 1890

Clouse, Ronald M., 2012, The lineages of Stylocellidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi), Zootaxa 3595 (1), pp. 1-34 : 28-30

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3595.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5866112

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scientific name

Miopsalis Thorell, 1890
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Miopsalis Thorell, 1890 View in CoL

Miopsalis Thorell, 1890: 381 View in CoL ; Hansen and Sørensen 1904: 99; Roewer, 1923: 47 –48, fig. 50; Roewer, 1926: 263; Shear, 1979: 356 –357; Giribet 2000: 72 (as nomen dubium); Clouse & Giribet (in press) (validated).

Type species: Miopsalis pulicaria Thorell, 1890 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Other species included: Miopsalis collinsi ( Shear, 1993) , Miopsalis globosa ( Schwendinger & Giribet, 2004) new comb., Miopsalis gryllospeca ( Shear, 1993) , Miopsalis kinabalu ( Shear, 1993) new comb., Miopsalis leakeyi ( Shear, 1993) new comb., Miopsalis lionota ( Pocock, 1897) , Miopsalis mulu ( Shear, 1993) new comb., Miopsalis pocockii ( Hansen & Sørensen, 1904) new comb., Miopsalis sabah ( Shear, 1993) , Miopsalis silhavyi ( Rambla, 1991) , Miopsalis tarumpitao ( Shear, 1993) .

Description: Leptopsalinae, with the following: anal gland pores usually present; chelicerae often with extensive granulations on the second article; Rambla’s organ sometimes present in large species; prosoma often relatively long; ventral prosomal complex usually large, with fourth coxae meeting for a length longer than the gonostome, distinct sternum present, and second coxae broadly meeting; body profile variable, but often flat in species of various sizes; sternal opisthosomal sulci between sternites 3 and 4, 4 and 5, and 5 and 6 often straight, parallel; posterior gonostome usually straight or weakly concave.

Distribution: Mostly Borneo and to a lesser extent Peninsula Malaysia, central Sumatra, and the Philippine islands of Palawan and Mindanao.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Opiliones

Family

Stylocellidae

Loc

Miopsalis Thorell, 1890

Clouse, Ronald M. 2012
2012
Loc

Miopsalis

Giribet 2000: 72
Shear 1979: 356
Roewer 1923: 47
Hansen 1904: 99
1904
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