Buemarinoa Roewer, 1956

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Genus Buemarinoa Roewer, 1956

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Type species: Buemarinoa patrizii Roewer, 1956

Material Examined

One female ( ZUPV ARACH#5872 ; used for SEM) from Italy: Sardinia: Urzulei, Su Eni E’ istettai , N 40.14685 E 9.47145, 760 m, 7 August 2003, collected by P. Marcia.

Comments

This specimen was collected from a different cave on Sardinia ~ 18 km south-west of the type locality for B. patrizii (Grotta di Bue Marino). The population clearly belongs to Buemarinoa based on the redescription provided by Karaman (2019), and we tentatively consider this specimen to be B. patrizii . However, this may potentially be a new species, and certainty either way will require more specimens and detailed analyses. Additionally, there are four other caves in this area from which specimens identified as B. patrizii have been recorded ( De Waele and Spiga 1995; De Waele et al. 2001, 2002), but these have yet to be examined in detail.

Figures

Fig. 8. Buemarinoa sp. Scanning electron micrographs of specimen from Su Eni E’istettai: (A) dorsum (scale bar: 500 Mm); (B) detail of prosomal carapace and ocularium (scale bar: 50 Mm); (C) sternal prosomal region (scale bar: 250 Mm); (D) left chelicera, retrolateral view (scale bar: 200 Mm); (E) left palp, retrolateral view (scale bar: 500 Mm); (F) right palp, prolateral view (scale bar: 500 Mm).