Voriax popeye Kury 2014, SP. NOV.
Creators: name: Kury, Adriano B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Opiliones
Gonyleptidae
Voriax
Voriax popeye

description: VORIAX POPEYE SP. NOV.   Etymology: Popeye the sailor is a cartoon fictional character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, and whose most distinctive feature are his massive forearms. Noun in apposition.   
 Type data: ♂ holotype, 15 ♂ 49 ♀ [2 ♂ mounted on stubs for scanning electron microscopy (SEM)] Porto Seguro: Arraial d’Ajuda, Fazenda do Sr. Valter: 16°32′18.24″S, 39°8′35.52″W, A. Kury et al. leg.   
 Description, male holotype: Dorsum. Carapace subrectangular, posterior border penetrating strongly into abdominal scutum (Fig. 12A). Abdominal scutum without meaningful constrictions, steadily widening posteriorly. Tegument deeply wrinkled, grooves very deep, especially the scutal groove, separating carapace from abdominal scutum (Fig. 12B). Ocularium narrow and high, ending in a sturdy, short spine. Frontal hump strongly projected into a point (Fig. 12C, D). Ozopore with two openings (Fig. 13B). Mesotergum divided into four areas, with straight grooves. Areas II to V with a pair of paramedian low, blunt tubercles. Anal opercle densely covered with stout setiferous tubercles (Fig. 12E). Venter. Stigmatic area short. Stigmata small, partly sunken (Fig. 13A). Coxae I−IV covered with large, rounded tubercles similar to those of anal opercle. Free sternites with one transverse row of small, setiferous tubercles each (Fig. 12E). Chelicera. Monomorphic, weakly developed, basichelicerite short, bulla with posterior apophysis (Fig. 12B). Pedipalpus. Without remarkable features, without elongate or incrassate articles. Ordinary spines on tibia and tarsus (Fig. 13C). Tibia ventromesal IiIi, ventro-ectal Iii. Tarsus both sides IiIi. Some mesal spines of tibia and tarsus have unusually strongly swollen bases (Fig. 13C, D). Legs. Legs I, II, and IV relatively short and unarmed, with femora gently sinuous (Fig. 12A). Leg III with femur, tibia immensely swollen. Femur with only a few ventral rows of small granules. Tibia and metatarsus armed with robust setiferous tubercles (Fig. 13E). Coxa IV armed with robust prodorso-apical acuminate apophysis. Trochanter IV armed with prodorsal conic apophysis. Tarsal claws III−IV without tarsal process (Fig. 13F). Tarsal counts: 4(3)/ 5(3)/5/6. Genitalia (Fig. 17A–D). Ventral plate very flat, subrectangular with rounded sides and basal half wider (Fig. 17A, B). Ventral surface of ventral plate with rows of microsetae present only on the laterals. Macrosetae A1−A2 short, robust, and somewhat spatulate, B1 minuscule, a little more ventral. D very small, lateral, mid-way between A and C. E1−E2 minuscule on the flange. Stylus C-shaped, without any process or ornament, atop a short glans. Podium overlapping ventral plate in lateral view, occupying half of its width in dorsal view. Colour. Appendage background 67 Brilliant Orange Yellow densely honeycombed with a darker tone, especially on legs I, II, and IV. Scutum background 69 Deep Orange Yellow with darker mottling of 38 Dark Reddish Orange, especially on the scutal areas.
description: Published as part of Kury, Adriano B., 2014, Why does the Tricommatinae position bounce so much within Laniatores? A cladistic analysis, with description of a new family of Gonyleptoidea (Opiliones, Laniatores), pp. 1-48 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172 (1) on pages 19-20, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12165, http://zenodo.org/record/5312904