Nahual pallidus (Rowland, 1975) Monjaraz-Ruedas & Prendini & Francke, 2019

Monjaraz-Ruedas, Rodrigo, Prendini, Lorenzo & Francke, Oscar F., 2019, Systematics Of The Short-Tailed Whipscorpion Genus Stenochrus Chamberlin, 1922 (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae), With Descriptions Of Six New Genera And Five New Species, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2019 (435), pp. 1-93 : 57-58

Nahual pallidus (Rowland, 1975) , comb. nov.

Schizomus pallidus Rowland, 1975a: 6 , 7, 13–15, 17, fig. 6; 1975b: 34, 166–169, 184–186, 188, 216–219, 222, 223, 228, 230, 280, 366–369, 396, map 5, figs. 166, 179, 196, 292; Rowland and Reddell, 1977: 80, 84, 87–89, fig. 2; 1979a: 163; 1980: 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 19, figs. 1, 13, 26, 43; Reddell, 1981:17, 45, 46, 128, 129, 321, 324, fig. 23; Camilo and Cokendolpher, 1988: 57; Reddell and Cokendolpher, 1995: 6, 109.

Stenochrus pallidus: Reddell and Cokendolpher, 1991: 18 ; 1995: 6, 12, 18, 102, 103, 109; Vázquez-Rojas, 1995: 34; 1996: 65; Harvey, 2003: 125; Palacios-Vargas and Reddell, 2013: 52; Palacios-Vargas et al., 2015: 32; Monjaraz-Ruedas and Francke, 2018: 200, 201, 212.

TYPE MATERIAL: Schizomus pallidus : MEX- ICO: Veracruz: Municipio de Tlilapan: Cueva Macinga, 5.iii.1973, J. Reddell, holotype ♂, paratype ♀ ( AMNH).

NATURAL HISTORY: Cueva Macinga, the type locality of N. pallidus , comb. nov., is a small, shallow cave without penumbra or dark zone. Specimens of N. pallidus were also collected in epigean habitats in the surroundings of Cueva Macinga and at another locality, Rancho San Fermín, indicating that this species is facultatively cavernicolous.

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL EXAMINED: MEX- ICO: Veracruz: Municipio de Atoyac: Rancho San Fermín, 18°54′30″N 96°49′19″W, 542 m, 16.i.2017, D. Barrales, G. Contreras, and R. Monjaraz, 3 ♂, 1 ♀ (CNAN DNA-Sz220), 1 ♂, 1 imm. (AMCC [LP 14524]). Municipio Amatlán de los Reyes: Cañada Blanca, 18°57′10″N 96°51′19″W, 788 m, 19.viii.2017, D. Barrales, A. Cruz, J. Mendoza, and R. Monjaraz, 1 ♀ (AMCC [LP 14557]).