Baalrog yacato, Monjaraz-Ruedas & Prendini & Francke, 2019

Monjaraz-Ruedas, Rodrigo, Prendini, Lorenzo & Francke, Oscar F., 2019, Systematics Of The Short-Tailed Whipscorpion Genus Stenochrus Chamberlin, 1922 (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae), With Descriptions Of Six New Genera And Five New Species, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2019 (435), pp. 1-93 : 37

Baalrog yacato , sp. nov.

Schizomus sbordonii male: Cokendolpher and Reddell 1984a: 5, figs. 1–4; 1984b: 241–243; Reddell and Cokendolpher, 1986: 36 [misidentification].

Stenochrus sbordonii male: Reddell and Cokendolpher, 1991: 18; 1995: 6, 12, 18, 101, 103, 115. Monjaraz-Ruedas and Francke, 2018: 190 [misidentification].

TYPE MATERIAL: MEXICO: Veracruz: Municipio de Atoyac: Grutas de Atoyac, 18°55′17″N 96°45′55″W, 22.ix.2004, A. Gluesenkamp, C. Savvas, P. Sprouse, E. González, and O. Francke, holotype ♂ (AMCC [LP 3756]).

DIAGNOSIS: Baalrog yacato , sp. nov., resembles other species of the genus in possessing robust pedipalps with spiniform setae but may be distinguished from them by the fan-shaped apical process on the pedipalp trochanter of the male, and the ovate pygidial flagellum, with a single, circular posterodorsal depression, of the male. Baalrog yacato also resembles species of Nahual , gen. nov., in the ovate male pygidial flagellum but may be separated from the latter by the presence of a sin- gle depression, rather than a pair of depressions in the dorsal surface of the flagellum.

ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet is an anagram derived from the type locality and used as a noun in apposition.

REMARKS: Based on the morphology of the male pygidial flagellum, as well as DNA sequence data, the male holotype of B. yacato , sp. nov., is not conspecific with B. sbordonii , comb. nov., as mistakenly assumed by previous authors ( Cokendolpher and Reddell, 1984a, 1984b; Reddell and Cokendolpher, 1986, 1991; Monjaraz-Ruedas and Francke, 2018). The type locality of B. sbordonii, Cueva de Ojo de Agua , is a considerable distance from the type locality of B. yacato, Grutas de Atoyac , and part of a different cave system. Further collecting is needed to obtain the male of B. sbordonii and the female of B. yacato .

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL EXAMINED: MEX- ICO: Veracruz: Cueva de Atoyac, 2 km E Atoyac, C. Bolívar Pieltain, 1 ♂ (AMNH).