Draculoides affinis
Creators: name: Abrams, Kym M.
name: Huey, Joel A.
name: Hillyer, Mia J.
name: Didham, Raphael K.
name: Harvey, Mark S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Schizomida
Hubbardiidae
Draculoides
Draculoides affinis

description: Draculoides affinis (Framenau, Hamilton, Finston, Humphreys, Abrams, Huey and Harvey, 2018)
(Figs. 1–8)
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Paradraculoides affinis Framenau, Hamilton, Finston, Humphreys, Abrams, Huey and Harvey 2018: 514–521, figs. 3–5. Draculoides affinis (Framenau, Hamilton, Finston, Humphreys, Abrams, Huey and Harvey): Abrams et al. 2019 MPE 106532:
8, fig. 2.
Material examined. Holotype male. AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: Cane and Upper Cane [River], 60.6 km S. of Pannawonica, 22°11’32”S, 116°16’31”E, 25–28 November 2008, troglofauna trap, 20 m, J. Cairnes, M. Menz (Biota Environmental Sciences, UCRC040 P5 T2–3) (WAM T 93211) (DNA: COI, ITS2).
Paratypes. AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 1 ♀, Cardo Bore North, 55.7 km S. of Pannawonica, 22°08’24”S, 116°14’06”E, 15–21 August 2008, troglofauna trap, 15 m, J. Alexander, T. Sachse (Biota Environmental Sciences, CBRC091 P3 T1–2) (WAM T 93141); 1 ♀, Upper Cane, 60.6 km S. of Pannawonica, 22°11’32”S, 116°16’31”E, 7–10 July 2009, troglofauna trap, 30 m, J. Cairnes, D. Keirle (Biota Environmental Sciences, UCRC040 P8 T3–5) (WAM T 98702) (DNA: COI).
Other material. AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: See Framenau et al. (2018).
Diagnosis. The shape of the male flagellum of Draculoides affinis most closely resembles D. bythius, D. cochranus, D. eremius, D. gnophicola, D. kryptus, D. mckechnieorum, D. noctigrassator and D. warramboo especially in the presence of a broad base. It differs from bythius, D. cochranus, D. kryptus, D. mckechnieorum, D. noctigrassator and D. warramboo in its blunt, rounded distal end which is tapered in all of the aforementioned species. Its blunt distal end is similar to that of D. eremius and D. gnophicola but it differs from the former by the subdistal position of vl2 (vl2 at edge of flagellum in D. eremius) and it differs from the latter in the anterior position of vm 5 in relation to vl1 (vm5 is posterior to vl 1 in D. gnophicola). Females differ from all other species of Draculoides by the comparatively wide separation of both setae vm3. Draculoides affinis can be diagnosed from all other Draculoides species that were sequenced at COI and 12S by the 50bp mini-barcodes shown in Figs. 3 and 5. Draculoides affinis can be diagnosed from all other Draculoides species that were sequenced at ITS2 (Fig. 7) except for D. celatus, D. obrutus and Draculoides sp. SCH100, which are not distinguishable using the ITS2 minibarcode.
Description. See Framenau et al. (2018).
Remarks. Draculoides affinis is known only from subterranean habitats in a small area of the Pilbara (Fig. 1C).
description: Published as part of Abrams, Kym M., Huey, Joel A., Hillyer, Mia J., Didham, Raphael K. & Harvey, Mark S., 2020, A systematic revision of Draculoides (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae) of the Pilbara, Western Australia, Part I: the Western Pilbara, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 4864 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4416849