Indohya typhlops Harvey WAMT 1993
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 typhlops

description: <i>Indohya typhlops</i> Harvey, 1993 (Figs. 1–3, 6A) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: CB61F4D1-69FD-46FF-90CD-99A6F56770AA <i>Indohya typhlops</i> Harvey 1993: 27, figs. 3, 81–88; Harvey and Volschenk 2007: 401–402, figs. 5–9, 15. <b>Material examined.</b> <i>Holotype female</i>. AUSTRALIA: <i>Western Australia:</i> 25.3 km WSW. of Mt Blythe on Charnley River (CALM site 25/2), 16°22′35″S, 125°12′35″E, rainforest litter, January 1989, CALM staff (WAM T23651, formerly 91/1400). <i>Other material</i>. AUSTRALIA: <i>Western Australia:</i> 4 Ô, 4 &amp;female;, Charnley River-Artesian Range Wildlife Sanctuary, 16°22′20”S, 125°12′32”E, 27 July 2022, under rock, vine thicket, M.S. Harvey, J.D. Wilson, L. Kirkendale (WAM T158276, T158277, T158592, T158595, T158598). <b>Diagnosis.</b> <i>Indohya typhlops</i> has 16 setae on the carapace setae and lacks eyes, thus resembling <i>I. currani</i>, <i>I. gollum</i> and <i>I. napierensis</i>. It differs from <i>I. gollum</i> and <i>I. napierensis</i> in being smaller [e.g. chela (with pedicel) 0.77 (&amp;female;) mm vs. greater than 1.8 mm in <i>I. gollum</i> and <i>I. napierensis</i>], and from <i>I. currani</i> by its broader chela [chela (with pedicel) 3.21 (&amp;female;) × longer than broad vs. 3.98 (&amp;female;) × longer than broad in <i>I. currani</i>] and by having more teeth on the fixed chelal finger [41 teeth (&amp;female;), vs. 46 teeth (&amp;female;). 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 172 there is a substitution to G; at base 286 there is a substitution to T; and at base 492 there is a substitution to A. The two sequenced specimens differ from all other sequenced specimens of <i>Indohya</i> by 18.8–26.4% (Table 2). <b>Description (adult).</b> See Harvey (1993). <b>Distribution and remarks.</b> <i>Indohya typhlops</i> has been recorded from a single rainforest site on the Charnley River (Fig. 6A). The site is situated within the Northern Kimberley bioregion. <b>Conservation assessment</b>. Although <i>Indohya typhlops</i> has only been collected at a single location, there is no reason to believe that it is not more widely distributed in the region. The species does not meet the status of threatened using the criteria developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (2012).
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 page 115, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5342.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8323879
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