A new species of Charinus (Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Ghana, with notes on West African whip spiders
The fauna of whip spiders (Amblypygi) in Western Africa is poorly known but probably diverse. Here, I describe the new species Charinus kakum sp. n. based on female morphology, and accompanied by DNA sequence data. The species is small and differs from other African species of Charinus in the low nu...
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| description | The fauna of whip spiders (Amblypygi) in Western Africa is poorly known but probably diverse. Here, I describe the new species Charinus kakum sp. n. based on female morphology, and accompanied by DNA sequence data. The species is small and differs from other African species of Charinus in the low number of pseudosegments on leg IV, female genital features, spination patterns of the pedipalp, and small body size. It was collected from wet tropical rainforest in Kakum National Park, Ghana and is only the fourth species of Charinus to be recorded from the highly diverse Western African biodiversity hotspot. With a total body length of not even 6 mm it is also one of the smallest whip spiders in the world. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f7cfa8d8303b4c09bea17cbc8be1beb82022-12-22T03:34:59ZengPensoft PublishersEvolutionary Systematics2535-07302018-04-0121455310.3897/evolsyst.2.2450524505A new species of Charinus (Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Ghana, with notes on West African whip spidersDanilo Harms0Zoological Museum, Center of Natural History, University of HamburgThe fauna of whip spiders (Amblypygi) in Western Africa is poorly known but probably diverse. Here, I describe the new species Charinus kakum sp. n. based on female morphology, and accompanied by DNA sequence data. The species is small and differs from other African species of Charinus in the low number of pseudosegments on leg IV, female genital features, spination patterns of the pedipalp, and small body size. It was collected from wet tropical rainforest in Kakum National Park, Ghana and is only the fourth species of Charinus to be recorded from the highly diverse Western African biodiversity hotspot. With a total body length of not even 6 mm it is also one of the smallest whip spiders in the world.https://evolsyst.pensoft.net/article/24505/ |
| spellingShingle | Danilo Harms A new species of Charinus (Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Ghana, with notes on West African whip spiders Evolutionary Systematics |
| title | A new species of Charinus (Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Ghana, with notes on West African whip spiders |
| title_full | A new species of Charinus (Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Ghana, with notes on West African whip spiders |
| title_fullStr | A new species of Charinus (Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Ghana, with notes on West African whip spiders |
| title_full_unstemmed | A new species of Charinus (Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Ghana, with notes on West African whip spiders |
| title_short | A new species of Charinus (Amblypygi: Charinidae) from Ghana, with notes on West African whip spiders |
| title_sort | new species of charinus amblypygi charinidae from ghana with notes on west african whip spiders |
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