Draculoides bythius
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 bythius

description: Draculoides bythius (Harvey, Berry, Edward and Humphreys, 2008)
(Figs. 1–8)
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Paradraculoides bythius Harvey, Berry, Edward and Humphreys 2008: 187–188, figs. 1–3, 10, 36–42.
Draculoides bythius (Harvey, Berry, Edward and Humphreys): Abrams et al. 2019 MPE 106532: 8, fig. 2.
Material examined. Holotype male. AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: Mesa B (Borehole 0016, trap 3), 37.9 km W of Pannawonica, 21°39’49”S, 115°57’2”E, 1 June 2005, M. Greenham, D. Kamien and L. Mould (WAM T 63364).
Paratypes. AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 1 ♀, same data as holotype (WAM T 63365); 1 ♂, Mesa B, Bore- hole 0014 (trap 3), 37.9 km W of Pannawonica, 21°39’58”S, 115°57’27”E, March–May 2005, M. Greenham, D. Kamien and L. Mould (WAM T 65759); 2 ♀, Mesa B, Borehole 0021 (trap 2), 38.1 km W of Pannawonica, 21°39’3”S, 115°57’2”E, March–May 2005, M. Greenham, D. Kamien and L. Mould (WAM T 63340, T 66070).
Other material. AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: See Harvey et al. (2008); Abrams et al. (2019).
Diagnosis. The shape of the male flagellum of Draculoides bythius most closely resembles D. affinis, D. anachoretus, 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 D. affinis, D. eremius and D. gnophicola in the presence of a distally tapered end (blunt end in the aforementioned species). It differs from D. anachoretus, D. cochranus, D. mckechnieorum, D. noctigrassator and D. warramboo in the position of dm4 being in line with dl3, dm4 is anterior to dl 3 in the aforementioned species. It differs from D. kryptus in the anterior position of dm 4 in relation to dl3 (dm4 posterior to dl 3 in D. kryptus). Females of this species differ from all other females by the position of microsetae between the two most anterior flagellomere of the flagellum. Draculoides bythius can be diagnosed from all other Draculoides species that were sequenced at COI and 12S by the 50bp mini-barcodes shown in Figures 3 and 5. Draculoides bythius can be diagnosed from all other Draculoides species that were sequenced at ITS2 (Fig. 7) except for Draculoides anachoretus, D. eremius, D. gnophicola, D. kryptus, D. mckechnieorum, D. warramboo, D. immortalis, D. belalugosii, D. christopherleei, D. piscivultus and D. akashae, which are not distinguishable using the ITS2 mini-barcode.
Description. See Harvey et al. (2008).
Remarks. Draculoides bythius is found in Mesas B and C situated west of Pannawonica in the Pilbara region of Western Australia (Fig. 1A).
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 pages 35-36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4416849