TY - JOUR
T1 - A new species of whip spider, Sarax sinensis sp. nov., from Fujian, China (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae)
AU - Wu, Shi Yang
AU - Zhu, Xiao Yu
AU - Liu, Yi Jiao
AU - de Miranda, Gustavo Silva
AU - Román-Palacios, Cristian
AU - Li, Zheng
AU - He, Zhu Qing
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/7/8
Y1 - 2022/7/8
N2 - 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).
AB - 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).
KW - arachnology
KW - biodiversity
KW - tailless whip scorpion
KW - taxonomy
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85137677789
U2 - 10.11646/zootaxa.5162.4.4
DO - 10.11646/zootaxa.5162.4.4
M3 - 文章
C2 - 36095500
AN - SCOPUS:85137677789
SN - 1175-5326
VL - 5162
SP - 397
EP - 409
JO - Zootaxa
JF - Zootaxa
IS - 4
ER -