Indohya damocles Harvey &amp; Volschenk WAMT 2007
Creators: name: Harvey, Mark S.
name: Burger, Mieke A. A.
name: Abrams, Kym M.
name: Finston, Terrie L.
name: Huey, Joel A.
name: Perina, Giulia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Pseudoscorpiones
Hyidae
Indohya
Indohya damocles

description: <i>Indohya damocles</i> Harvey &amp; Volschenk, 2007 (Figs. 1–3, 5) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 1195D9CF-4E03-484D-8007-F2F1B5594882 <i>Indohya damocles</i> Harvey and Volschenk 2007: 387–390, figs. 5–9, 14, 17–25. <b>Material examined.</b> <i>Holotype male</i>. AUSTRALIA: <i>Western Australia:</i> Camerons Cave (C-452), Cape Range, 21°58′S, 114°07′E, 21 May 1995, under rock, calcite pool chamber, dark zone, J.M. Waldock (WAM T33235, formerly 97/1). <i>Paratypes</i>. AUSTRALIA: <i>Western Australia:</i> all from Camerons Cave (C-452): 1 tritonymph, 12 August 1993, W.F. Humphreys, R. D. Brooks, BES 2525 (WAM T44320); 2 &amp;female;, 28 August 1993, R. D. Brooks (WAM T28500– 28501, formerly 93/1816–1817); 1 Ô, 12 April 1994, R. D. Brooks (WAM T44318); 1 tritonymph, 12 April 1994, R. D. Brooks (WAM T44319); 1 Ô, 26 October 1994, R. D. Brooks (WAM T33239, formerly 97/5); 1 tritonymph, 10 May 1995, W.F. Humphreys <i>et al</i>. (WAM T33236, formerly 97/2); 1 deutonymph, 10 May 1995, W.F. Humphreys <i>et al</i>. (WAM T33237, formerly 97/3); 1 &amp;female;, 10 May 1995, B. Vine (WAM T33238, formerly 97/4). <i>Other material</i>. AUSTRALIA: <i>Western Australia:</i> 1 specimen, Camerons Cave Waters &amp; Rivers bore, 21°57′49″S, 114°07′18″E, 10 May 2015, W.F. Humphreys, R. D. Brooks (WAM T136618). <b>Diagnosis.</b> <i>Indohya damocles</i> belongs to a group of <i>Indohya</i> species that have 12 setae on the carapace and no eyes. It differs from <i>I. anastomosa</i>, <i>I. aquila</i> and <i>I. humphreysi</i> by the presence of 4 setae on tergite I (only 2 setae in <i>I. anastomosa</i>, <i>I. aquila</i> and <i>I. humphreysi</i>). It differs from <i>I. arnoldstrongi</i>, <i>I. cockingi</i>, <i>I. finitima</i> by having numerous pointed teeth on the fixed chelal finger, and from <i>I. cribbi</i> and <i>I. lynbeazleyae</i> by the partially granulate pedipalpal femur and smooth patella (femur and patella granulate in <i>I. cribbi</i> and <i>I. lynbeazleyae</i>). It differs from <i>I. jessicae</i>, <i>I. sagmata</i> and <i>I. scanloni</i> by its larger size [e.g. chela (with pedicel) 2.22–2.32 (Ô), 2.22–2.55 (&amp;female;) mm, vs. less than 1.81 mm]. It also differs from all other <i>Indohya</i> species for which sequence data are available by three synapomorphies in <i>COI</i> mtDNA: at base 100 there is a substitution to A; at base 281 there is a substitution to C; and at base 433 there is a substitution to C. The single sequenced specimen differs from all other sequenced specimens of <i>Indohya</i> by 16.1–28.7% (Table 2). <b>Description (adult).</b> See Harvey and Volschenk (2007). <b>Description (tritonymph).</b> See Harvey and Volschenk (2007). <b>Description (deutonymph).</b> See Harvey and Volschenk (2007). <b>Distribution and remarks.</b> <i>Indohya damocles</i> has only been recorded from Camerons Cave, situated on the outskirts of the Exmouth townsite (Fig. 5). <b>Conservation assessment</b>. <i>Indohya damocles</i> is listed as Critically Endangered by the Biodiversity Conservation Act. The cave is also regarded as a Threatened Ecological Community (the Camerons Cave Troglobitic Community) by the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. Threats to the cave “include uncontrolled access to the cave and its surrounds, altered water levels or quality, pollution, and dumping of waste in the cave” (see https:// www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/images/documents/plants-animals/tecs/Camerons%20Cave.pdf; accessed 15 May 2022).
description: Published as part of <i>Harvey, Mark S., Burger, Mieke A. A., Abrams, Kym M., Finston, Terrie L., Huey, Joel A. &amp; Perina, Giulia, 2023, The systematics of the pseudoscorpion genus Indohya (Pseudoscorpiones: Hyidae) in Australia, pp. 1-119 in Zootaxa 5342 (1)</i> on pages 33-34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5342.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8323879
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