Charinus Simon, 1892

Harms, Danilo, 2018, A new species of Charinus (Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Ghana, with notes on West African whip spiders, Evolutionary Systematics 2 (1), pp. 45-53 : 45

Charinus Simon, 1892

Type species.

Phrynus australianus L. Koch, 1867, by original designation.

Taxonomic remarks.

Weygoldt (2000a) defined Charinus based on the armature of the pedipalp: with three large dorsal spines on the tibia of which the first one is the largest and the others decrease proximally in length; spine 1 sometimes followed distally by one to three spinelets, pedipalp basitarsus with two spines of which the distal spine is largest. Charinus also differs from the closely related Sarax in lacking ventral sac covers ( Rahmadi and Kojima 2010). The genus currently includes more than 70 species ( Vasconcelos and Ferreira 2017) but is in need of revision ( Weygoldt 2000a, b). Nonetheless, the new species aligns well with the current genus diagnosis and is placed here until such revision has been carried out.