Salina tocantinensis sp.n. Oliveira & Cipola

Figures 9H, 10H, 11H, 12H, 13H, 14A and D, 15G, 16H, 18 F-G, 19E

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Diagnosis

Body and legs with blue spots; Ant I with 4 mac; cephalic groove with 1 serrated mic, without smooth chaetae; Th II–Abd I with 3–4, 3–5, 1–3 central mac, respectively; Abd III with 6 lateral mac (a7, am6, pm6, p6, p7i and one unnamed); Abd IV with 8 central mac (A3–5 absent) and lateral 10 mac; collophore with 7 anterior, 2 posterior and 13 lateral flap chaetae; trochanteral organ with 13 spine-like chaetae; manubrial plate with 2 chaetae.

Type material

Holotype ♀ on slide (COLLE 047/INPA): Brazil, Tocantins, Palmas municipality, Taquaruçu district, ecological farm of “Taquaruçu”, 10°15’S, 48°08’W, Cerrado biome, 650 m, 13-20.v.2013, Pitfall-trap, AS Lopes coll. Paratypes on slides (COLLE 047A-J/ INPA): 1 ♂, 6 ♀ and 3 juveniles, same data as holotype .

Description

Total length (head + trunk) of holotype 1.46 mm. Specimens pale white with dark blue pigments on Ant I–III distally, inner side of Ant I, anterior and lateral head; lateral side of Th II to Abd V; inner side of legs with a distal spot on femora and two spots in tibiotarsi (one basal and one subapical). Eye patches black (Figure 9H).

Head. Ant I dorsally with 4 mac and 7 basal spiny smooth mic (Figure 10H). Posterior labial chaetotaxy series ‘CG’ with 8 ciliate chaetae (CG1-3, CG5–7e) and 1 serrated mic (CG4); series ‘PLM’ with 2 ciliate chaetae (PLM1–2); series ‘PLE’ with 2 ciliate chaetae (PLE1–2); lateral side with about 28 ciliate chaetae (Figure 11H).

Dorsal chaetotaxy. Th II with 1 ‘m’ mac (m7), and 3–4 ‘p’ mac (p1–4), p2 present or absent. Th III with 1 ‘m’ mac (m7), and 3–6 ‘p’ mac (p1i, p1–3, p5), p1, p2a and p5 present or absent (Figure 12H). Abd I with 1–3 ‘p’ mac (m3–5), m3 and m5 present or absent (Figure 13H). Abd III with 1 ‘a’ mac (a7), 2 ‘m’ mac (am6, pm6), and 3 ‘p’ mac (p6, p7i and one unnamed) (similar to S. brasiliana sp.n., Figure 14A). Abd IV with 2 ‘A’ mac (A1, A6); 1 ‘Ae’ mac (Ae1); 3 ‘B’ mac (B3–5); 1 ‘Be’ mac (Be1); 1 ‘C’ mac (C1); 4 ‘E’ mac (E1-4); 4 ‘F’ mac (F1–F3p); 2 ‘Fe’ mac (Fe1–3); posterior side with 3 sens type IV (ps and two unnamed) (similar to S. brasiliana sp.n., Figure 14D). Abd V with 3 ‘a’ mac (a3, a5–6); 3 ‘m’ mac (m2–3, m5); and 2 ‘p’ mac (p4–5) (Figure 15G).

Appendages. Trochanteral organ with 13 smooth spine-like chaetae (Figure 16H). Collophore anterior side with 2 subapical mac of equal length, 1 smaller median mes, and 4 proximal smooth mic; posterior side with 1 apical and 1 subapical smooth chaetae; lateral flap formula 4(s), 4(m), 5(i) smooth chaetae, 2 inferior larger (Figures 18 F- G). Manubrial plate with 3 chaetae (Figure 19C). Mucro with 3–4 teeth (d1, ap, v1-2), v2 teeth present or absent (Figure 19E).

Etymology

The species name refers to the native indigenous name of the type locality, Tocantins State (from tupi: tocantinensis).

Remarks

See remarks of S. maculipenis sp.n. For additional information, refer to Table 2.