Phareicranaus albimedialis ( Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943 )

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 : 7-8

Phareicranaus albimedialis ( Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943)

( Fig. 4 A, B)

Santinezia albimedialis Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943: 8 (male holotype, “female holotype, Peru, Bassler collection, AMNH”, examined); Pinto-da-Rocha & Kury 2003: 179.

Phareicranaus albimedialis: Kury 2003: 96 .

Phareicranaus bolivarius Roewer, 1952: 56 (male holotype and two females paratypes, “ Peru, Juanjui, rio Huallaga, trop. Regenwald, 350m, SMF-9804” examined). Synonymy stablished by Pinto-da-Rocha & Kury, 2003: 179.

Diagnosis. Coxa IV with apophysis twice longer than wide, placed near stigmata. Color brown, lateral of areas, area II and trochanters lighter, two white patches on lateral of area II, white patches on median grove of area I, center of II and between spines of III (lighter, more evident on females). Anterior margin with three tubercles each side, four in the center. Ocularium with two long spines. Area I with three tubercles; II with six; III with 6 tubercles behind black and divergent pair of spines. Lateral margin with tubercles concentrated near groove I. Posterior margin with 14 tubercles concentrated laterally. Cheliceral segment I with eight thick tubercles. Pedipalpal trochanter with two ventral tubercles (1 large), two dorsal tubercles; femur with one row of seven ventral tubercles, one row of smaller tubercles on lateral and dorsal, dorsoapical tubercle spiniform (base as wide as femur); patella and tibia with dorsal tubercles; tibia ectal iiiIi, mesal IiIi; tarsus mesal IiI, ectal iiI. Coxa IV with dorsal apophysis pointed, lateral tubercles scattered. Trochanters II–III with one dorsal tubercle (long); III IV with 1 dorsal large tubercle, three mesal (apical larger), seven prolateral. Femur III with two ventral row of tubercles slightly larger than lateral; IV straight, with one ectal, subapical, curved tubercle, one ventral row, and one retrolateral row of tubercles more evident. Patella-tibia IV tuberculate. Tarsal formula: 7,?, 9, 9.

Male genitalia. Ventral plate slightly concave on distal border, lateral borders concave on base to first setae, straight to apex (slightly convergent). With 2–3 basal setae, 4 distal, all setae conical, except distalmost spatulate. Stylus with apex inflated, with stylar apophysis ( Fig. 4 A, B).

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FIGURE 4. Penis of Phareicranaus. P. albimedialis (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943): A, dorsal; B, lateral. P. angelicus (Roewer, 1963): C, dorsal; D, lateral. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.