A new species of whip spider, Sarax sinensis sp. nov., from Fujian, China (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae)

Autor:	SHI-YANG WU, XIAO-YU ZHU, YI-JIAO LIU, GUSTAVO SILVA De MIRANDA, CRISTIAN ROMÁN-PALACIOS, ZHENG LI, ZHU-QING HE
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	China Arthropoda Charinidae Spiders Organ Size Biodiversity Arachnida Animals Body Size Humans Animalia Animal Science and Zoology Amblypygi Animal Distribution Phylogeny Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Taxonomy
Zdroj:	Zootaxa. 5162:397-409
ISSN:	1175-5334 1175-5326
Popis:	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).
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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