Charinus
Creators: name: Vasconcelos, Ana Caroline Oliveira
name: Ferreira, Rodrigo Lopes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Amblypygi
Charinidae
Charinus

description: Key to the Brazilian species of Charinus (modified version of that present by Miranda & Giupponi (2011))
1 Median eyes absent.................................................................................. 2
- Median eyes present................................................................................... 3
2 Female gonopods conical with an apical sucker-like prehensile structure; basitibia of leg IV with four pseudoarticles (Bahia: Carinhanha, Serra do Ramalho, Zé do Bastos Cave)................................................ C. troglobius
- Female gonopods rounded, cushion-like with an apical sharp edge partially covering the atrium of the seminal receptacle; basitibia of leg IV with three pseudoarticles (Rondônia: Porto Velho)..................................... C. vulgaris
3 Second and third sternal sclerites flattened and twice as wide as long (Espírito Santo: Domingos Martins)...... C. montanus
- Second and third sternal sclerites convex and rounded........................................................ 4
4 Distitibia of the leg IV with 16 trichobothria (Espírito Santo: Serra)................................... C. brasilianus
- Distitibia of the leg IV with 18 trichobothria................................................................ 5
5 Patella of the pedipalp with 2 ventral spines.................................................................6
- Patella of the pedipalp with 3 or more ventral spines.......................................................... 7
6 Lateral eyes triads with pigmentation (Bahia: Santa Luzia, Gruta Pedra do Sin Cave)....................... C. acaraje
- Lateral eyes triads without pigmentation (Rio Grande do Norte: Felipe Guerra, Buraco Redondo Cave).......... C. potiguar
7 Median eyes tubercle indistinct (Minas Gerais: Itacarambi, Olhos d’Água Cave).......................... C. eleonorae
- Median eyes tubercle distinct........................................................................... 8
8 Lateral eyes underdeveloped (Bahia: Várzea Nova: Fazenda Jurema Cave).......................... C. caatingae sp. n.
- Lateral eyes developed................................................................................ 9
9 Patella of the pedipalp with 3 ventral spines............................................................... 10
- Patella of the pedipalp with 4 or 5 ventral spines........................................................... 11
10 Femur of the pedipalp with 3 or 4 dorsal spines (Bahia: Iuiu: Lapa do Baixão Cave)....................... C. iuiu sp. n
- Femur of the pedipalp with 5 or 6 dorsal spines (Minas Gerais: Arcos: Gruta da Cazanga)..................... C. jibaossu
11 Tarsus of the pedipalp with 3 dorsal spines (Bahia: Gentio do Ouro, Encantados Cave)...................... C. mysticus
- Tarsus of the pedipalp with 2 dorsal spines (São Paulo: Ilha Bela)....................................... C. asturius
description: Published as part of Vasconcelos, Ana Caroline Oliveira & Ferreira, Rodrigo Lopes, 2016, Description of two new species of Charinus Simon, 1892 from Brazilian caves with remarks on conservation (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae), pp. 185-202 in Zootaxa 4072 (2) on page 196, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4072.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/257183