Charinus rocamadre Torres-Contreras, García & Armas, 2015

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 : 83

Charinus rocamadre Torres-Contreras, García & Armas, 2015

Fig. 34 ; Table 3

Charinus rocamadre Torres-Contreras et al., 2015: 145–148 , fig. 1a–h.

Charinus rocamadre – Torres-Contreras et al. 2019: 131, 138–139, figs 1–6.

Diagnosis

This species may be separated from other Charinus in western South America by means of the following combination of characters: tegument pale yellowish-brown; median eyes and median ocular tubercle absent, with pair of small setae instead; lateral eyes present, unpigmented, with seta posterior to lateral ocular triad; female gonopod cushion-like; bifid tooth of basal cheliceral segment with dorsal cusp longer than ventral cusp, and with prominent tooth on retrolateral row adjacent to bifid tooth; cheliceral claw with five teeth; pedipalp femur with three dorsal spines and three ventral spines; pedipalp femur with setiferous tubercle between ventral spine I and proximal margin; pedipalp patella with three dorsal spines and two ventral spines, and with long setiferous tubercle between dorsal spine I and distal margin; pedipalp tarsus with two dorsal spines; tibia of leg I with 23 articles, tarsus I with 41 or 42 articles; leg IV basitibia with three articles.

Etymology

Noun in apposition referring to the cave in which the species was found ( Torres-Contreras et al. 2015).

Type material

Holotype COLOMBIA • ♂; Sucre Departament , Roca Madre Cave , Tolú Viejo, corregimiento La Piche ; 09°30′50.1″ N, 75°23′36.6″ W; 4 Jan. 2015; R. Torres leg.; ICN Am-100 [not examined].

Measurements

See Table 3 .

Distribution

Known from the type locality only.

Natural history

The cave in which the holotype was collected is located in a tropical dry forest, at an altitude of 337 m. The outside forest is warm and dry, with an average temperature of 26.8°C, relative humidity of 77%, and annual precipitation between 1000 and 1200 mm. The holotype was collected under a rock in the twilight zone of the cave and, at the time of sampling, the air temperature was 27°C and relative humidity of 80%. Heterophrynus caribensis Armas, Torres-Contreras & Alvarez, 2015 was collected in the same cave.

Remarks

Torres-Contreras et al. (2019) described the female of C. rocamadre , provided additional details concerning the male gonopod, and published a DNA barcode of the species. See Torres-Contreras et al. (2015) and Torres-Contreras et al. (2019) for more details.

Figures

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