Charinus magua Seiter, Schramm & Schwaha, 2018

Fig. 12; Table 1

Charinus magua Seiter et al., 2018: 350–359, figs 1–8.

Diagnosis

Based in part on Seiter et al. (2018), this species may be separated from other Caribbean and Central American Charinus by means of the following combination of characters: median eyes absent and lateral eyes reduced; cheliceral claw with 2–4 teeth; female gonopods cushion-like with lateral projections directed posteriorly and unsclerotized; tibia of leg I with 21 or 22 articles, tarsus I with 37 or 38 articles; first tarsal article about five times as long as second article; pedipalp femur with three dorsal spines and two ventral spines; pedipalp patella with three dorsal spines and two ventral spines; leg IV basitibia with three pseudo-articles; leg IV distitibia with 16 trichobothria; trichobothrium bc situated closer to bf than to sbf.

Etymology

Noun in apposition taken from the historical Taíno chiefdom of Maguá (Seiter et al. 2018) .

Type material

Holotype DOMINICAN REPUBLIC • ♂; Monseñor Nouel Province, Subida a Casabíto; 19°01.643′ N, 70°22.762′ W; 382 m a.s.l.; Sep. 2016; Seiter, Schramm, Nigl and Teruel leg.; NHMW 29153 [not examined].

Paratypes DOMINICAN REPUBLIC • 1 ♀, 2 juv.; Monseñor Nouel Province, Subida a Casabíto; 19°01.581′ N, 70°28.828′ W; 795 m a.s.l.; Sep. 2016; Seiter, Schramm, Nigl and Teruel leg.; NHMW 29154 [not examined] • 2 juv.; same collection data as for preceding; NHMW 29155 [not examined] • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; NHMW 29156 [not examined] .

Measurements

See Table 1.

Distribution

Known only from Monseñor Nouel Province in the Dominican Republic.

Natural history

Found under stones partially buried in soil covered with wet and dry leaf litter close to small waterway. Sympatric with Phrynus longipes Pocock, 1894 .