Sarax Simon 1892
Creators
- 1. Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, USA. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6812 - 1878
- 2. School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9221 - 2673
- 3. School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2169 - 5628 Entomology Department, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA.
- 4. School of Information, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
- 5. Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin 78705, USA.
- 6. Museum of Biology, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
Description
Key to the identification of the species of Sarax in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia revised from Miranda et al. (2021b)
1. Median eyes absent.................................................................................... 2
- Median eyes present................................................................................... 3
2. Lateral eyes reduced; tibia of leg I with more than 28 articles; leg I tarsus with more than 58 articles............................................................................ S. omanensis (Delle Cave, Gardner & Weygoldt, 2009)
- Lateral eyes absent; tibia of leg I with 21 articles; leg I tarsus with 35 articles.................................................................................................. S. stygochthobius (Weygoldt & Van Damme, 2004)
3. Pedipalp tarsus with one spine........................................................................... 4
- Pedipalp tarsus with two spines.......................................................................... 5
4. Pedipalp femur with three dorsal spines; pedipalp patella with five dorsal spines; female gonopods finger-like........................................................................................ S. cochinensis (Gravely, 1915)
- Pedipalp femur with four dorsal spines; pedipalp patella with four dorsal spines; female gonopods plunger-like.......................................................................... S. dhofarensis (Weygoldt, Pohl & Polak, 2002)
5. Cheliceral claw with twelve teeth; leg IV basitibia with two pseudo-articles... S. socotranus (Weygoldt, Pohl & Polak, 2002)
- Cheliceral claw with fewer than ten teeth; leg IV basitibia with three or four pseudo-articles.......................... 6
6. Leg IV basitibia with three pseudo-articles................................................................. 7
- Leg IV basitibia with four pseudo-articles................................................................. 11
7. Cheliceral claw with four teeth; tibia of leg I with 23 articles; leg I tarsus with 39 articles........ S. bispinosus (Nair, 1934)
- Cheliceral claw with more than four teeth; tibia of leg I with fewer than 23 articles; leg I tarsus with fewer than 39 articles...8
8. Pedipalp patella with two ventral spines............................................ S. abbatei (Delle Cave, 1986)
- Pedipalp patella with three ventral spines.................................................................. 9
9. Median and lateral eyes reduced................................................ S. pakistanus (Weygoldt, 2005)
- Median and lateral eyes well developed................................................................... 10
10. Pedipalp patella with small ventral setiferous tubercle between spine I and distal margin.... S. bengalensis (Gravely, 1911)
- Pedipalp patella with long ventral spine between spine I and distal margin, half the size of spine I...... S. sinensis sp. nov.
11. Pedipalp patella with four dorsal spines; female gonopod ‘absent’ (flat)............... S. seychellarum (Kraepelin, 1898)
- Pedipalp patella with five dorsal spines; female gonopods finger-like........................................... 11
12. Pedipalp femur with five dorsal spines and five ventral spines.......................... S. ioanniticus (Kritscher, 1959)
- Pedipalp femur with four dorsal spines and four ventral spines..................... S. israelensis (Miranda et al., 2016)
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Charinidae
- Genus
- Sarax
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amblypygi
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Simon
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sarax Simon, 1892 sec. Wu, Zhu, Liu, Miranda, Román-Palacios, Li & He, 2022
References
- Miranda, G. S., Giupponi, A. P., Prendini, L. & Scharff, N. (2021 b) Systematic Revision of Charinidae Quintero, 1986 (Arachnida, Amblypygi). European Journal of Taxonomy, 772, 1 - 409. https: // doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2021.772.1505