| Autor: |
Wu SY; Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, USA.. user@example.com., Zhu XY; School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China. . user@example.com., Liu YJ; School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China. . user@example.com., De Miranda GS; Entomology Department, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA.. user@example.com., Romn-Palacios C; School of Information, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA. . cromanpa94@arizona.edu., Li Z; Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin 78705, USA. . zheng.li@austin.utexas.edu., He ZQ; Museum of Biology, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China. . zqhe@bio.ecnu.edu.cn. |
| Abstrakt: |
To date, only two whip spider species have been recorded in China. We describe a new species, Sarax sinensis sp. nov., from Fujian, China. This species is morphologically similar to S. ioanniticus (Kritscher, 1959), S. israelensis (Miranda et al., 2016), and S. seychellarum (Kraepelin, 1898), but can be distinguished by the combination of the following characters: 35 segments in leg I tarsus, eight teeth on cheliceral claw, and four dorsal and ventral spines respectively on pedipalp femur. To examine the evolutionary history of S. sinensis sp. nov., we sequenced 12S, 16S, and COI gene regions of our specimens and inferred its phylogenetic position. The inferred phylogenetic trees placed the new species within Sarax, with its closest relative being distributed across the western Asia. The type specimens are deposited in the Museum of Biology, East China Normal University (ECNU). |
