Sarax, Simon, 1892

Wu, Shi-Yang, Zhu, Xiao-Yu, Liu, Yi-Jiao, Miranda, Gustavo Silva, Román-Palacios, Cristian, Li, Zheng & He, Zhu-Qing, 2022, A new species of whip spider, Sarax sinensis sp. nov., from Fujian, China (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae), Zootaxa 5162 (4), pp. 397-409 : 401

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5162.4.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7EA85D03-EEFB-4D45-9B7F-D31C0A87C8B0

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6816372

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FE3987DA-FF81-FFD3-E382-FDB6FA31FA3E

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Plazi

scientific name

Sarax
status

 

Key to the identification of the species of Sarax View in CoL in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia revised from Miranda et al. (2021b)

1. Median eyes absent.................................................................................... 2

- Median eyes present................................................................................... 3

2. Lateral eyes reduced; tibia of leg I with more than 28 articles; leg I tarsus with more than 58 articles............................................................................ S. omanensis (Delle Cave, Gardner & Weygoldt, 2009) View in CoL

- Lateral eyes absent; tibia of leg I with 21 articles; leg I tarsus with 35 articles.................................................................................................. S. stygochthobius (Weygoldt & Van Damme, 2004) View in CoL

3. Pedipalp tarsus with one spine........................................................................... 4

- Pedipalp tarsus with two spines.......................................................................... 5

4. Pedipalp femur with three dorsal spines; pedipalp patella with five dorsal spines; female gonopods finger-like........................................................................................ S. cochinensis (Gravely, 1915) View in CoL

- Pedipalp femur with four dorsal spines; pedipalp patella with four dorsal spines; female gonopods plunger-like.......................................................................... S. dhofarensis (Weygoldt, Pohl & Polak, 2002) View in CoL

5. Cheliceral claw with twelve teeth; leg IV basitibia with two pseudo-articles... S. socotranus (Weygoldt, Pohl & Polak, 2002) View in CoL

- Cheliceral claw with fewer than ten teeth; leg IV basitibia with three or four pseudo-articles.......................... 6

6. Leg IV basitibia with three pseudo-articles................................................................. 7

- Leg IV basitibia with four pseudo-articles................................................................. 11

7. Cheliceral claw with four teeth; tibia of leg I with 23 articles; leg I tarsus with 39 articles........ S. bispinosus (Nair, 1934) View in CoL

- Cheliceral claw with more than four teeth; tibia of leg I with fewer than 23 articles; leg I tarsus with fewer than 39 articles...8

8. Pedipalp patella with two ventral spines............................................ S. abbatei (Delle Cave, 1986) View in CoL

- Pedipalp patella with three ventral spines.................................................................. 9

9. Median and lateral eyes reduced................................................ S. pakistanus (Weygoldt, 2005) View in CoL

- Median and lateral eyes well developed................................................................... 10

10. Pedipalp patella with small ventral setiferous tubercle between spine I and distal margin.... S. bengalensis (Gravely, 1911) View in CoL

- Pedipalp patella with long ventral spine between spine I and distal margin, half the size of spine I...... S. sinensis sp. nov.

11. Pedipalp patella with four dorsal spines; female gonopod ‘absent’ (flat)............... S. seychellarum (Kraepelin, 1898) View in CoL

- Pedipalp patella with five dorsal spines; female gonopods finger-like........................................... 11

12. Pedipalp femur with five dorsal spines and five ventral spines.......................... S. ioanniticus (Kritscher, 1959) View in CoL

- Pedipalp femur with four dorsal spines and four ventral spines..................... S. israelensis (Miranda et al., 2016) View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Amblypygi

Family

Charinidae

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