Charinus tronchonii
Creators: name: Miranda, Gustavo Silva de
name: Giupponi, Alessandro P. L.
name: Prendini, Lorenzo
name: Scharff, Nikolaj
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Amblypygi
Charinidae
Charinus
Charinus tronchonii

description: Charinus tronchonii (Ravelo, 1975)
Fig. 27; Table 2
Speleophrynus tronchonii Ravelo, 1975: 79–84, figs 1–3, 4a–e.
Charinides tronchonii – Quintero 1983: 28. — González-Sponga 1998: 2, map 1.
Charinus tronchonii – Delle Cave 1986: 163, fig. II. — Weygoldt 1994: 242, 244. — Harvey 2003: 7. — Galán & Herrera 2006: 42, 48. — Miranda & Giupponi 2011: 66, fig. 13. — Jocqué & Giupponi 2012: 55. — Vasconcelos et al. 2013: 497. — Torres-Contreras et al. 2015: 148. — Miranda et al. 2016c: 31.
Diagnosis
Based on the original description, supplemented by observations of Quintero (1983), this species may be separated from other Charinus in Amazonia and northern South America by means of the following combination of characters: median eyes and median ocular tubercle absent; lateral eyes reduced; sternum with undivided platelets, not pairs; pedipalp femur with three dorsal spines and three or four ventral spines; pedipalp patella with three dorsal spines and large setiferous tubercle between spine I and distal margin, and two prominent setiferous tubercles, decreasing in size, proximal to spine III; pedipalp patella with two ventral spines; pedipalp tibia with two dorsal spines, distal spine very long, more than half length of tibia, proximal spine one-third length of distal spine; cheliceral claw with five or six teeth; pedipalp tarsus with two dorsal spines; tibia of leg I with 23 articles, and with 41 articles; leg IV basitibia with three articles (Ravelo (1975), and also Quintero (1983), considered the distitibia to be part of the tibia, resulting in a count of four articles); leg IV distitibia trichobothrium bc situated closer to sbf than to bf; sc and sf series each with five trichobothria.
Etymology
Patronym honoring Juan Antonio Tronchoni (Ravelo 1975).
Type material
Holotype VENEZUELA • ♀; Falcón, Cave 2 of River Hueque, 6.5 km N 50° E of Cabure village; [11°11′14.09″ N, 69°37′57.73″ W]; 700 m a.s.l.; 9 Apr. 1971; O. Linares leg.; MBSVE 617 [not examined].
Paratypes VENEZUELA • 2 ♀♀; same locality as for holotype; 9 Apr. 1971; O. Ravelo leg.; MBSVE 14, 612 [not examined] • 1 ♂; same locality as for holotype; 9 Apr. 1971; O. Ravelo leg.; MBSVE 611 [not examined] • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; MBSVE 618 [not examined] • 1 juv. ♀; same locality as for holotype; 9 Apr. 1971; O. Ravelo leg.; MBSVE 15 [not examined] • 1 juv. ♂; same locality as for holotype; 20 May 1971; O. Ravelo leg.; MBSVE 613 [not examined] • 1 juv. ♀; same locality as for holotype; 20 May 1971; O. Ravelo leg.; MBSVE 614 [not examined].
Measurements
See Table 2.
Distribution
Known only rom the type locality.
Natural history
Charinus tronchonii was the first species of the genus to be considered troglobitic in South America (Ravelo 1975), due to the absence of median eyes.
description: Published as part of Miranda, Gustavo Silva de, Giupponi, Alessandro P. L., Prendini, Lorenzo & Scharff, Nikolaj, 2021, Systematic revision of the pantropical whip spider family Charinidae Quintero, 1986 (Arachnida, Amblypygi), pp. 1-409 in European Journal of Taxonomy 772 on pages 70-71, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.772.1505, http://zenodo.org/record/5536410