Sarax Simon 1892
Creators: name: Wu, Shi-Yang
name: Zhu, Xiao-Yu
name: Liu, Yi-Jiao
name: Miranda, Gustavo Silva
name: Román-Palacios, Cristian
name: Li, Zheng
name: He, Zhu-Qing
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Amblypygi
Charinidae
Sarax

description: Key to the identification of the species of Sarax in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia revised from Miranda et al. (2021b)
1. Median eyes absent.................................................................................... 2
- Median eyes present................................................................................... 3
2. Lateral eyes reduced; tibia of leg I with more than 28 articles; leg I tarsus with more than 58 articles............................................................................ S. omanensis (Delle Cave, Gardner & Weygoldt, 2009)
- Lateral eyes absent; tibia of leg I with 21 articles; leg I tarsus with 35 articles.................................................................................................. S. stygochthobius (Weygoldt & Van Damme, 2004)
3. Pedipalp tarsus with one spine........................................................................... 4
- Pedipalp tarsus with two spines.......................................................................... 5
4. Pedipalp femur with three dorsal spines; pedipalp patella with five dorsal spines; female gonopods finger-like........................................................................................ S. cochinensis (Gravely, 1915)
- Pedipalp femur with four dorsal spines; pedipalp patella with four dorsal spines; female gonopods plunger-like.......................................................................... S. dhofarensis (Weygoldt, Pohl & Polak, 2002)
5. Cheliceral claw with twelve teeth; leg IV basitibia with two pseudo-articles... S. socotranus (Weygoldt, Pohl & Polak, 2002)
- Cheliceral claw with fewer than ten teeth; leg IV basitibia with three or four pseudo-articles.......................... 6
6. Leg IV basitibia with three pseudo-articles................................................................. 7
- Leg IV basitibia with four pseudo-articles................................................................. 11
7. Cheliceral claw with four teeth; tibia of leg I with 23 articles; leg I tarsus with 39 articles........ S. bispinosus (Nair, 1934)
- Cheliceral claw with more than four teeth; tibia of leg I with fewer than 23 articles; leg I tarsus with fewer than 39 articles...8
8. Pedipalp patella with two ventral spines............................................ S. abbatei (Delle Cave, 1986)
- Pedipalp patella with three ventral spines.................................................................. 9
9. Median and lateral eyes reduced................................................ S. pakistanus (Weygoldt, 2005)
- Median and lateral eyes well developed................................................................... 10
10. Pedipalp patella with small ventral setiferous tubercle between spine I and distal margin.... S. bengalensis (Gravely, 1911)
- Pedipalp patella with long ventral spine between spine I and distal margin, half the size of spine I...... S. sinensis sp. nov.
11. Pedipalp patella with four dorsal spines; female gonopod ‘absent’ (flat)............... S. seychellarum (Kraepelin, 1898)
- Pedipalp patella with five dorsal spines; female gonopods finger-like........................................... 11
12. Pedipalp femur with five dorsal spines and five ventral spines.......................... S. ioanniticus (Kritscher, 1959)
- Pedipalp femur with four dorsal spines and four ventral spines..................... S. israelensis (Miranda et al., 2016)
description: Published as part of Wu, Shi-Yang, Zhu, Xiao-Yu, Liu, Yi-Jiao, Miranda, Gustavo Silva, Román-Palacios, Cristian, Li, Zheng & He, Zhu-Qing, 2022, A new species of whip spider, Sarax sinensis sp. nov., from Fujian, China (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae), pp. 397-409 in Zootaxa 5162 (4) on page 401, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5162.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/6810390