Leptopsalis sedgwicki ( Shear, 1979 ) Shear, 1979

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

Leptopsalis sedgwicki ( Shear, 1979) new comb.

Stylocellus sedgwicki Shear, 1979: 359 –360 , figs. 1–11.

Comments: The lack of an anal gland pore or Rambla’s organ, compressed ventral prosomal complex (including the lack of a sternum), and large first ventral cheliceral process place this species in Leptopsalinae subfam. nov., and most likely in Leptopsalis . The ozophores are long and thick, with a straight anterior edge; with the posterior slightly lowered they can appear perpendicular to the long body axis (as in Shear’s (1993) original drawing), but they are not entirely shaped like those of Stylocellus nor as perpendicular as those of Fangensinae subfam. nov. I have also analyzed a collection of juveniles by G. Cuccodoro and I. Löbl from the same area as the type locality (Penang Island [= Pulau Pinang]) that are consistent with this species in size (too large, it seems, to be M. pulicaria ) and shape, and which are consistently recovered as Leptopsalis in molecular phylogenies (‘Peninsula sp. 24,” MCZ DNA 101492).

Material examined: Holotype, Male ( AMNH), Malaysia, Penang Island , 7 June 1976, col. W. Sedgwick .