Cystowithius ankeri Garcia & Romero-Ortiz, 2021

Romero-Ortiz, Catalina, Sarmiento, Carlos E. & Harvey, Mark S., 2023, A new genus and five new species of pseudoscorpions (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones, Withiidae) from Colombia, ZooKeys 1184, pp. 301-326 : 301

Cystowithius ankeri Garcia & Romero-Ortiz, 2021

Figs 2 , 6

Cystowithius ankeri Garcia & Romero-Ortiz, 2021: 2-5, figs 1-12, 15.

Material examined.

Colombia • 3 ♂, 3 ♀; Cundinamarca, San Antonio del Tequendama, Parque Natural Chicaque ; 04°36'51.3"N, 74°18'55.2"W; 2600 m; 1 Jun. 2009; F. Helbig leg.; on canopy log at 25 m height, manual capture; ICN-APs-298 .

Remarks.

Although these specimens were collected 320 km from the type locality in Caldas Department, we refer them to the species C. ankeri . They have similar pedipalp proportions; however, their patches of glandular setae are different. The holotype of C. ankeri has two small patches in sternite VIII, and those examined here have one long patch of setae (Fig. 6A, C ). We ascribe this characteristic to intraspecific variation.

Figures

Figure 2. Distribution of the new species and the new record of Withiidae from Colombia.

Figure 6. Cystowithius ankeri Garcia & Romero-Ortiz, 2021 (male, ICN-Aps- 298) A abdomen sternites B rallum C patch of glandular setae on sternite VIII. Scale bars: 0.1 mm (A); 0.0125 mm (B, C).