Stenohya jiahensis Li & Shi 2023, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Li, Yun-Chun
name: Shi, Ai-Min
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Pseudoscorpiones
Neobisiidae
Stenohya
Stenohya jiahensis

description: Stenohya jiahensis sp. nov.
(Figures 2, 3B)
Type material. Holotype male: China, Guangxi Province, Guilin City, Lingui District, Lingui Town, Jiahe Garden, 25º15.134’ N, 110º12.125’ E, 156 m a.s.l., 18 February 2019, Yun-Chun Li leg., in MCWNU (Ar-Ps-GX-0003).
Diagnosis (male, female unknown). This new species is distinguished from other members of the genus Stenohya by the following combination of characters: pedipalpal femur with one distal tubercle (many small bulges) and one basal tubercle on prolateral face, hand with 42 tooth-shaped tubercles (retrolateral view). Fixed finger with 94 small cusped teeth, movable finger with 89 teeth. Pedipalpal femur 4.25× longer than broad, length 1.64 mm; chela (with pedicel) 5.19× longer than broad, length 2.93 mm; ratio movable chelal finger/chelal hand (with pedicel) 1.40×.
Etymology. Latinised adjective, derived from the type locality, namely Jiahe Garden.
Description. Carapace, chelicerae and abdomen brown, remaining parts yellowish brown.
Carapace (Fig. 2A): 1.34× longer than broad, with four well-developed eyes; two anterior eyes length 0.11 mm, breadth 0.08 mm; two posterior eyes length 0.09 mm, breadth 0.06 mm; anterior margin with distinct epistome, triangular. Carapace surface with ten lyrifissures. A total of 28 setae, including six on the anterior margin and seven on the posterior margin.
Chelicera: Hand with six setae and one or two lyrifissures dorsally, movable finger with one submedial seta; fixed cheliceral finger with nine teeth, movable finger with five teeth (Fig. 2B). Galea divided into two main branches, one of them forked apically. Serrula exterior with about 37 blades and serrula interior with 32, rallum composed of six blades.
Pedipalp (Figs 2E–I): pedipalpal femur with one distal tubercle (many small bulges) and one basal tubercle on the prolateral face, and six lyrifissures, patella with four lyrifissures, hand with 42 tooth-shaped tubercles basal to fixed chelal finger base (retrolateral view), each tooth-shaped tubercle has a seta at the base (Figs 2F, G). Trochanter 1.94×, femur 4.25×, patella 4.30× longer than broad, femur 1.09× longer than patella. Chela (with pedicel) 5.19×, hand (with pedicel) 2.26× longer than broad; movable chelal finger 1.40× longer than hand (with pedicel) length. Fixed finger with 94 small cusped teeth, movable finger with 89 teeth; venom duct in fixed finger, very short. Fixed chelal finger with eight trichobothria and movable finger with four trichobothria, eb, esb, ib and isb located basally of the fixed finger; et, est, it (retrolateral view) and ist (prolateral view) situated distally, et distinctly closer to fingertip than to it; on movable finger, b and sb located basally, t and st situated distally.
Abdomen: tergal chaetotaxy (I–XI): 6: 8: 8: 9: 11: 10: 11: 11: 11: 11: 7; sternal chaetotaxy (IV–XI): 29: 18: 14: 19: 15: 15: 12: 9; anal cone with two dorsal and two ventral setae. Tergite XI with two tactile setae. Manducatory process with five setae. Pedipalpal coxa with 14 setae, coxa I 7, II 8, III 8, IV15 setae. Anterior genital operculum with 27 setae and without lyrifissures; posterior operculum with 25 setae, two lyrifissures (Fig. 2D). Sternites V 2, VI 13, VII 13, VIII 11 medial scattered glandular setae (Fig. 2C).
Legs: Leg I: trochanter 1.08× longer than deep, femur 3.09× longer than deep and 1.01× longer than patella, patella 3.09× longer than deep, tibia 4.16× longer, basitarsus 3.14× longer, telotarsus 4.50× longer than deep, telotarsus 1.06× longer than basitarsus. Leg IV: trochanter 2.62× longer than deep, femur + patella 3.71× longer than deep, femur shorter than patella, tibia 7.24× longer than deep, basitarsus 4.41× longer, telotarsus 7.34× longer than deep. Tactile setae probably present (most setae lacking) on basitarsus (near basally of segment), telotarsus with 2 tactile setae (basally, TS = 0.25; distally, TS = 0.43), subterminal seta forked, arolia shorter than claws.
Dimensions (Length/width or, in the case of the legs, length/depth in mm).
Males: Body length 3.58. Carapace 1.31/0.97. Pedipalp: trochanter 0.73/0.37, femur 1.64/0.39, patella 1.50/0.35, hand (with pedicel) 1.27/0.56, length of movable chelal finger 1.78, chela 2.93/0.56. Leg I: trochanter 0.36/0.33, femur 0.89/0.29, patella 0.88/0.28, tibia 0.69/0.17, basitarsus 0.41/0.13, telotarsus 0.44/0.10. Leg IV: trochanter 0.61/0.23, femur + patella 1.43/0.38, tibia 1.31/0.18, basitarsus 0.54/0.12, telotarsus 0.80/0.11.
Distribution. China (Guangxi).
description: Published as part of Li, Yun-Chun & Shi, Ai-Min, 2023, Two new species of the pseudoscorpion genus Stenohya (Pseudoscorpiones Neobisiidae) from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, pp. 387-395 in Zootaxa 5278 (2) on pages 390-392, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5278.2.11, http://zenodo.org/record/7906051