Charinus desirade Teruel & Questel, 2015

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Charinus desirade Teruel & Questel, 2015

Fig. 12 ; Table 1

Charinus desirade Teruel & Questel, 2015: 43–47 , figs 1–4.

Charinus desirade – Teruel 2016: 9. — Teruel & Coulis 2017: 35.

Diagnosis

Based on the description of Teruel & Questel (2015), this species may be separated from other Caribbean and Central American Charinus by means of the following combination of characters: coloration olive-yellowish, immaculate; alcohol preserved specimens uniformly olive-yellowish in color, slightly darker on carapace and pedipalps, venter and chelicerae paler; intersegmental membranes whitish; live animals conspicuously darker and reddish; median ocular tubercle vestigial, median eyes absent and unpigmented, but with pair of small oval, translucent-whitish spots, lateral eyes well developed, silverwhite in color; tritosternum/tetrasternum/pentasternum with 4/2/1 pairs of spiniform setae, respectively; gonopods unsclerotized; minimal secondary sexual dimorphism, females larger, with shorter pedipalp segments than males; pedipalp femur with two dorsal and two ventral spines; pedipalp patella with three dorsal spines (including long setiferous tubercle distal to spine I) and two ventral spines; pedipalp tarsus with two dorsal spines; tibia of leg I with 23 articles, tarsus I with 41 articles; first tarsal article about three times as long as second tarsal article; leg IV basitibia with three pseudo-articles.

Etymology

Noun in apposition, taken from the type locality, La Désirade ( Teruel & Questel 2015) .

Type material

Holotype GUADELOUPE • ♂; La Désirade, Morne à Marthe; 16°18′30.32″ N, 61°05′15.02″ W; 4 Jul. 2014; K. Questel, G. Moulard, M. Coulis and E. Curot Lodéon leg.; BIOECO [not examined].

Paratypes GUADELOUPE • 1 ♀, 1 ♂, 1 juv.; same collection data as for holotype; BIOECO [not examined] .

Measurements

See Table 1 .

Distribution

Known only from the type locality.

Natural history

Specimens were collected under a rock of volcanic tuff, with a juvenile of the scorpion Oiclus cf. nanus Teruel & Chazal, 2010 (Diplocentridae) . The rock was semi-buried in the ground, under dry forest.

Remarks

For comparison with other species, variation and habitat, see Teruel & Questel (2015).

Figures

Fig. 12. Map plotting known distributions of species of Charinus Simon, 1892 in the Caribbean and Central America.