Sarax curioi Giupponi & Miranda, 2012

Miranda, Gustavo Silva de, Giupponi, Alessandro P. L., Prendini, Lorenzo & Scharff, Nikolaj, 2021, Systematic revision of the pantropical whip spider family Charinidae Quintero, 1986 (Arachnida, Amblypygi), European Journal of Taxonomy 772, pp. 1-409 : 181-182

Sarax curioi Giupponi & Miranda, 2012

Fig. 103 ; Table 8

Sarax curioi Giupponi & Miranda, 2012: 166–172 , figs 1–7, 14.

Sarax curioi – Seiter et al. 2015: 542, 545–547, 549–551, figs 5–6. — Wolff et al. 2017: 2–3, 5, fig. 1.

Diagnosis

Based in part on Giupponi & Miranda (2012), this species may be separated from other species of Sarax in Southeast Asia and Oceania by the following combination of characters: median eyes and median ocular tubercle present; lateral eyes well developed and situated near lateral margin of carapace; cheliceral claw without teeth; pedipalp femur with four dorsal spines and three ventral spines; pedipalp patella with five dorsal spines and four ventral spines; pedipalp tarsus with curved and geminate spines on dorsal margin; tibia of leg I with 21 articles, tarsus I with 37 articles; leg IV basitibia with four pseudo-articles, trichobothrium bc situated equidistant between bf and sbf, and sc and sf series each with five trichobothria.

The absence of teeth on the cheliceral claw and presence of geminate spines on the pedipalp tarsus distinguish this species from all others in the genus.

Etymology

Patronym honoring Eberhard Curio ( Giupponi & Miranda 2012).

Type material

Holotype PHILIPPINES • ♀; Panay , Malumpati; 11°46′02.27″ N, 122°04′35.27″ E; 20 Sep. 2006; D. Bellhoff leg.; NMP.

Measurements

See Table 8.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality.

Remarks

See Giupponi & Miranda (2011) for description.

Figures

Fig. 103. Map plotting known distributions of species of Sarax Simon, 1892 in Southeast Asia and Oceania, with insets for Singapore (A), eastern Borneo (B), and western West Papua (C).