Starengovia Snegovaya, 2010

Zhang, Chao & Martens, Jochen, 2018, Ancient home or in exile? The easternmost species of genus Starengovia Snegovaya, 2010 found in China (Opiliones, Nemastomatidae, Nemastomatinae), ZooKeys 770, pp. 105-115 : 105

Starengovia Snegovaya, 2010

Starengovia Snegovaya, 2010: 351-352; Schönhofer 2013: 47; Martens 2017: 187-188.

Type species.

Starengovia kirgizica Snegovaya, 2010, original designation.

Diagnosis.

Small species up to 1.7 mm, dorsal scutum with lines of anvil-shaped tubercles along margins of scutal areas. Pairs of para-median tubercles on opisthosomal areas of dorsal scutum. Truncus penis moderately slender, large muscle-containing inflated base, truncus in straight continuation of inflated base. Distal part of truncus with one large lateral wing on either side, glans inconspicuous, not well differentiated from truncus; armament of glans simple with symmetrical arrangement. Apophysis on basal cheliceral article of male well-marked, with a distad-directed hook, discharge area for secretion in a bowl-like excavation on medial side of apophysis ( Martens 2017).

Distribution.

China (Yunnan), Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Himalayas of Pakistan.

Key to the currently known species of Starengovia

1	Distributed in Yunnan, China, low para-median tubercles on opisthosomal areae III and IV (Figs 1 , 8 , 13 , 26-27 , 29-30 ), penis with alae of wings bent to ventral side (Figs 20-22 )	S. quadrituberculata sp. n.
-	Distributed in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan) and NW Pakistan; high slender or compact para-median tubercles on opisthosomal areae I-V; penis with alae of wings bent to ventral side or straight, not bent	2
2	Distributed in Kyrgyzstan (one record also in Uzbekistan), tubercles of dorsal scutum conical and compact; penis with alae of wings bent to ventral side	S. kirgizica
-	Distributed in northwestern Pakistan, tubercles of dorsal scutum slender, penis with alae of wings straight, not bent to ventral side	S. ivanloebli

Figures

Figures 1 - 7. Starengovia quadrituberculata sp. n. male (holotype) 1 Body, lateral view 2 Left chelicera, medial view 3 Left chelicera, ectal view 4 Basal segment of left chelicera, dorsal view 5 Left cheliceral fingers, frontal view 6 Left pedipalp, medial view 7 Left pedipalp, ectal view. Scale bars 0.5 mm (1); 0.25 mm (2 - 7).

Figures 8 - 19. Starengovia quadrituberculata sp. n. 8 Body, male, dorsal view 9 - 12 Right legs, retrolateral view 9 Leg I 10 Leg II 11 Leg III 12 Leg IV 13 Body, female, dorsal view 14 Left chelicera, female, medial view 15 Left pedipalp, female, medial view 16 Ovipositor, ventral view 17 Ovipositor, dorsal view 18 Ovipositor, lateral view 19 Ovipositor, frontal view. Scale bars 1 mm (9 - 13); 0.5 mm (8); 0.25 mm (14 - 18).

Figures 26 - 31. Starengovia quadrituberculata sp. n. Photographs of holotype male and female paratype 26 Body and parts of appendages, male, dorsal view 27 Ditto, lateral view 28 Ditto, ventral view 29 Body and parts of appendages, female, dorsal view 30 Ditto, lateral view 31 Ditto, ventral view. Scale bars 0.5 mm.

Figures 20 - 25. Starengovia quadrituberculata sp. n. male (holotype) 20 Penis, dorsal view 21 Penis, ventral view 22 Penis, lateral view 23 Penis tip, dorsal view 24 Penis tip, ventral view 25 Penis tip, lateral view. Scale bars 0.25 mm (20 - 22); 0.05 mm (23 - 25).