Foveacheles halltalensis Zacharda 2000, n. sp.

• Main Author: Zacharda, Miloslav
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2000
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Prostigmata; Rhagidiidae; Foveacheles; Foveacheles halltalensis; Ranunculus glacialis; Salix herbacea; Silene acaulis
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10530494; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1E584865FFE7EC7FFE627C6EC3B0FE75

Foveacheles halltalensis n. sp. (®gures 4±6) Material examined All from Austria, Tyrol Alps. HOLOTYPE: adult female, deposited in the Canadian National Collection of Insects and Arachnids, Ottawa, in micropreparations, Type No. 22,404; Oetztal Alps, Obergurgl (11ss02¾E, 46ss52¾N), Neue Karlsruher HuÈ tte, about 2440 m altitude, under stones at foot of talus slope partly covered with soil and Salix herbacea and Polytrichum spp., 8 September 1993. PARATYPES: two adult females and two adult males, same data as holotype; two adult females, Festkogl mt, top plateau, 3000 m altitude, lower nival zone with sporadically occurring single plants of Ranunculus glacialis , Silene acaulis or Cerastium cerastoides under stones covered with snow with springtails, 6 September 1993, otherwise same data as holotype; two adult females, Gurgler Schartl-mountain range, W of Obergurgl, upper border of alpine subnival zone about 2700 m altitude, under stones on talus slope covered with wet soil with Polytrichum spp., moss and Salix herbacea , 7 September 1993; one female, Halltal valley, collected in pitfall trap left in subterranean spaces of a talus slope from 23 June 1991 to 25 June 1992. All collected by M. Zacharda. D iagnosis Chelicerae with elongated and attenuated digits and with lyri®ssure-like structure on ®xed digit positioned laterally and slightly distad of articulation of movable digit. Dorsal surface of ®xed digit with distinct narrow rim. Proximal cheliceral seta inserted distinctly distad of articulation of movable digit. Tip of proximal cheliceral seta not reaching insertion of distal seta. Rhagidial organ II consists of three rhagidial solenidia lying in tandem in conūent depressions and small spiniform famulus, e , subtending proximal rhagidial solenidion. Bothridial setae sc 1 short, not overlapping disjugal suture. Spiniform solenidion on genu I dorsodistal, on genu II dorsodistomedial and on genu III laterodorsal, medial. Solenidion on tibia IV medioproximal, dorsal. D escription Adult ...