Charinus tingomaria Ballón-Estacio & Armas, 2019

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 : 84

Charinus tingomaria Ballón-Estacio & Armas, 2019

Fig. 34 ; Table 3

Charinus tingomaria Ballón-Estacio & Armas, 2019: 16–19 , figs 2–11.

Diagnosis

Based in part on Ballón-Estacio & Armas (2019), this species may be separated from other Charinus in western South America by means of the following combination of characters: median and lateral eyes and median ocular tubercle well developed; female gonopod cushion-like; male gonopods with fistula, dorsal lobe and lateral lobe 2 markedly sclerotized; males with pedipalp femur and patella longer than females; tibia of leg I with 23 articles and tarsus I with 43 articles; leg IV basitibia with four pseudoarticles; sc and sf series each with five trichobothria.

Charinus tingomaria resembles C. gertschi , C. insularis and C. koepckei but may be distinguished from C. gertschi by the smaller number of dorsal and ventral spines on the pedipalp patella (seven dorsal spines and four ventral spines are present in C. gertschi ); from C. insularis by the greater number of spines on the pedipalp femur and patella; and from C. koepckei by its smaller size, secondary sexual dimorphism of the pedipalps, undivided tetrasternum and pentasternum, and cushion-like female gonopods.

Etymology

Noun in apposition taken from the type locality.

Type material

Holotype PERU • ♀; Huánuco Departament, Provincia Leoncio Prado, Parque Nacional Tingo María , Cueva de las Lechuzas , ca 100–200 m from entrance; 09°19′45″ S, 76°01′37″ W; 673 m a.s.l.; 6 Mar. 2019; R. Ballon Estacio leg.; under stones; MHNS [not examined].

Paratypes PERU • 1 juv.; same collection data as for holotype; MHNS [not examined] • 3 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂; same locality as for holotype; 21 Mar. 2019; R. Ballón, A. Ricra and W. Fernández leg.; under stones, dark zone, more than 220 m from entrance; MHNS [not examined] .

Measurements

See Table 3 .

Distribution

Known only from the type localities.

Natural history

The species is found from the entrance to deeper regions of the cave, and is sympatric with Heterophrynus elaphus Pocock, 1903 .

Remarks

According to Ballón-Estacio & Armas (2019), the pedipalp femur possesses six ventral spines, but these authors also counted spines outside the primary series, i.e., small spines between larger spines which are situated prolaterally. The true count of ventral spines on the femur, according to Ballón-Estacio & Armas (2019: 18, fig. 5) is four.

Figures

Fig. 34. Map plotting known distributions of species of Charinus Simon, 1892 in western South America.