Charinus, Simon, 1892

Miranda, Gustavo S., Aharon, Shlomi, Gavish-Regev, Efrat, Giupponi, Alessandro P. L. & Wizen, Gil, 2016, A new species of Charinus Simon, 1892 (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Israel and new records of C ioanniticus (Kritscher, 1959), European Journal of Taxonomy 234, pp. 1-17 : 12-13

Key to the Charinus species of the bengalensis group:

1. Basitiba IV divided into two pseudo-articles ( Weygoldt et al. 2002: fig 12) ……………………2 – Basitiba IV divided into three pseudo-articles ( Delle Cave et al. 2009: fig. 3) …………………3 – Basitiba IV divided into four pseudo-articles ( Weygoldt 2006: fig. 30) …………………………4

2. Reduced lateral and median eyes, standard size legs, pedipalps held horizontally ………………………………………………………… C. socotranus Weygoldt, Pohl & Polak, 2002

– No median and lateral eyes, elongate legs, pedipalps turned upwards ………………………… ………………………………………………… C. stygochthobius Weygoldt & Van Damme, 2004

3. Female genitalia with curved, rigid finger-like appendage vestiges; genital operculum with pointed apex; eyes well developed ………………………………………… C. bengalensis (Gravely, 1911)

– Female genitalia with straight, soft finger-like appendage vestiges; genital operculum with curved apex; eyes well developed ……………………………… C. pakistanus Weygoldt, 2005

– Female genitalia with straight, soft finger-like appendage vestiges; genital operculum with straight apex; median eyes absent, vestiges of the lateral eyes ……………………… ……………………………………………… C. omanensis Delle Cave, Gardner & Weygoldt, 2009

4. Eyes well developed; female genital operculum with a steep ventral flexure at about two thirds of its length; tibia I with 23 and tarsus I with 41 articles ………… C. africanus Hansen, 1921

– Median eyes, tubercle and lateral eyes present and prominent ( Fig. 4B ), frontal border of carapace projected anteriorly ( Fig. 4B ), frontal process rhomboid ( Fig. 4E ), femur with five dorsal and ventral spines; tibia I with 21 and tarsus I with 37 articles …… C. ioanniticus ( Kritscher, 1959)

– Median eyes extremely reduced and tubercle absent and lateral eyes extremely reduced ( Fig. 4A ), frontal border of carapace rounded ( Fig. 4A ), frontal process acute ( Fig. 4C ), femur with four dorsal and ventral spines; tibia I with 21 and tarsus I with 37 articles ……………… C israelensis sp. nov.

Figures

Fig. 4. Carapace, frontal process and habitus. A, C–D. Charinus israelensis sp. nov. B, E–F. C. ioanniticus (Kritscher, 1959). Scale bars: A–B = 1.0 mm; C–E = 0.1 mm.