Starengovia, Snegovaya, 2010

Jochen Martens, 2017, On Starengovia Snegovaya, a genus of Asian nemastomatines (Arachnida: Opiliones: Nemastomatidae), Revue suisse de Zoologie 124 (2), pp. 187-201 : 188

Key to the currently known Starengovia species

Distributed in Kyrgyzstan (one record also in Uzbekistan), larger species (male 1.5-1.75 mm, female 1.6-2.2 mm body length), para-median tubercles of dorsal scutum conical, relatively high ( Figs 1, 3 , 5 ), sometimes present on first free opisthosomal tergite ( Fig. 5 ); penis with alae of wings, their tips bent to ventral side ( Figs 20-24 ).................. .................................................................................................................................................................. S. kirgizica

Distributed in northwestern Pakistan, smaller species (male 1.3-1.5 mm, female 1.3-1.65 mm body length), para-median tubercles of dorsal scutum peg-like, low, slender ( Figs 6 , 27, 29 ), not present on first free opisthosomal tergite; penis with alae of wings straight, not bent to ventral side ( Figs 38-41 )....................................... S. ivanloebli sp. n.

Figures

Figs 1 - 4. Starengovia kirgizica. (1) Body of male in dorsal view. (2) Same in ventral view. (3) Body of female in dorsal view. (4) Same in ventral view. Scale: 0.5 mm.

Figs 5 - 6 B. Body of male in lateral view (5 - 6 A) and in dorsal view (6 B). (5) Starengovia kirgizica. (6 A) S. ivanloebli sp. n. (6 B) Mediostoma pamiricum Staręga, 1986; reproduced from Staręga (1986). Scale: 1 mm.

Figs 20 - 26. Starengovia kirgizica, male genital morphology. (20) Truncus penis in ventral view. (21) Same in dorsal view. (22) Same in lateral view. (23) Distal part of truncus in ventral view. (24) Same in lateral view. (25) Glans penis in ventral view. (26) Same in lateral view. Scales: 0.3 mm (Figs 20 - 22); 0.2 mm (Figs 23 - 24); 0.1 mm (Figs 25 - 26).

Figs 27 - 30. Starengovia ivanloebli sp. n. (27) Body of male in dorsal view. (28) Same in ventral view. (29) Body of female in dorsal view. (30) Same in ventral view. Scale: 0.5 mm.

Figs 38 - 43. Starengovia ivanloebli sp. n., male genital morphology. (38) Truncus penis in ventral view. (39) Same in lateral view. (40) Distal part of truncus penis in ventral view. (41) Same in lateral view. (42) Glans penis in ventral view. (43) Same in lateral view. Scales: 0.3 mm (Figs 38 - 39); 0.2 mm (Figs 40 - 41); 0.1 mm (Figs 42 - 43).