Nemaspela Silhavy 1966
Creators: name: Martens, Jochen
name: Maghradze, Eter
name: Barjadze, Shalva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Opiliones
Nemastomatidae
Nemaspela

description: Key to the currently known Nemaspela species in the Caucasus area
(based on male specimens)
1 Dorsal apophysis on distal end of 1 st cheliceral article present.................................................. 2
- Dorsal apophysis on distal end of 1 st cheliceral article absent................................................... 7
2 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article short, just an inconspicuous, short, pointed distad-directed lobe; found in several caves in the Sochi area, Russia and Abkhazia, West Georgia ............ N. abchasica (Ljovuschkin & Starobogatov, 1963)
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article longer, distinctly elevated, not only a short lobe....................... 3
3 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article longer than the entire 2 nd cheliceral article; found in several caves in Nalchik area, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia ...................................................... N. kovali Chemeris, 2009
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article shorter than the entire 2 nd cheliceral article........................... 4
4 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article globular and knob-like, found in one cave in Abkhazia, Georgia ......................................................................................... N. gagrica Tchemeris, 2013
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article distinctly elongated, longer than broad.............................. 5
5 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article slender, sickle-shaped, pointed, with distal-directed concavity, longer than breadth of article at its position; found in one cave in Abkhazia, West Georgia .............. N. birsteini Ljovuschkin, 1972
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article not sickle-shaped, shorter or conspicuously longer than breadth of article at its position............................................................................................. 6
6 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article distinctly bent forward, shorter than breadth of article at its position; found in one cave in Imereti region, West Georgia ................................................. N. prometheus sp. nov.
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article not distinctly bent forward, longer than breadth of article at its position, apophysis distally widened and two-lobed; found in caves in Sochi area, Russia .... N. sokolovi (Ljovuschkin & Starobogatov, 1963)
7 Femur of pedipalp S-shaped; found in one cave in Kvemo-Svaneti Region, West Georgia ....................................................................................................... N. femorecurvata Martens, 2006
- Femur of pedipalp not S-shaped but stretched out; found in one cave in Imereti region, West Georgia ..... N. melouri sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Martens, Jochen, Maghradze, Eter & Barjadze, Shalva, 2021, Two new species of the genus Nemaspela Šilhavý from caves in Georgia (Opiliones Nemastomatidae), pp. 541-558 in Zootaxa 4951 (3) on page 543, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/4668453