Draculoides cochranus
Creators: name: Abrams, Kym M.
name: Huey, Joel A.
name: Hillyer, Mia J.
name: Didham, Raphael K.
name: Harvey, Mark S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Schizomida
Hubbardiidae
Draculoides
Draculoides cochranus

description: Draculoides cochranus (Framenau, Hamilton, Finston, Humphreys, Abrams, Huey and Harvey, 2018)
(Figs. 1–8)
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Paradraculoides cochranus Framenau, Hamilton, Finston, Humphreys, Abrams, Huey and Harvey 2018: 523–528, figs. 10– 12.
Draculoides cochranus (Framenau, Hamilton, Finston, Humphreys, Abrams, Huey and Harvey): Abrams et al. 2019 MPE 106532: 8, fig. 2.
Material examined. Holotype male. AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: Cochrane and Jewell, 37.7 km S. of Pannawonica, 21°55’55”S, 116°07’43”E, 25–28 November 2008, troglofauna trap, 15 m, J. Cairnes, M. Menz (Biota Environmental Sciences, RNRC083 P5 T1–3) (WAM T 93229) (DNA: COI, ITS2).
Paratypes. AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 1 ♀, Cochrane and Jewell, 37.7 km S. of Pannawonica, 21°55’55”S, 116°07’43”E, 13–16 October 2008, troglofauna trap, 15 m, G. Humphreys, M. Menz (Biota Environmental Sciences, RNRC083 P4 T1–3) (WAM T 93197) (DNA: COI, ITS2); 1 ♀, Jewell and Cochrane Bore, site RNRC162, 21°56’02.88”S, 116°08’15.54”E, 17 January 2008, troglofauna trap, J. Alexander, T. Sachse (Biota Environmental Sciences, RNRC162 P2 T2–1) (WAM T 54136).
Other material. AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: See Framenau et al. (2018).
Diagnosis. The shape of the male flagellum of Draculoides cochranus most closely resembles D. affinis, D. anachoretus, D. bythius, D. eremius, D. gnophicola, D. kryptus, D. mckechnieorum, D. noctigrassator and D. warramboo, especially in the presence of a broad base. It differs from D. affinis, D. eremius and D. gnophicola in the presence of a distally tapered tip (blunt tip in the aforementioned species). It differs from D. kryptus and D. bythius in the anterior position of dm 4 in relation to dl3 (dm4 posterior to dl 3 in D. kryptus and in line with dl 3 in D. bythius). It differs from D. anachoretus, D. mckechnieorum, D. noctigrassator and D. warramboo in the placement of dm4, which is roughly in line with dl1 (dm4 is posterior to dl 1 in D. anachoretus). The female flagellum of D. cochranus differs from all other Draculoides in the short gap between dm4 to dl1 (by the relatively anterior position of dm4). Draculoides cochranus can be diagnosed from all other Draculoides species that were sequenced at COI and ITS2 by the 50bp mini-barcodes shown in Figures 3 and 7.
Description. See Framenau et al. (2018).
Remarks. Draculoides cochranus is known from the Cochrane and Jewell Bores complex, located in the western Hamersley Range, Western Australia (Fig. 1C).
description: Published as part of Abrams, Kym M., Huey, Joel A., Hillyer, Mia J., Didham, Raphael K. & Harvey, Mark S., 2020, A systematic revision of Draculoides (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae) of the Pilbara, Western Australia, Part I: the Western Pilbara, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 4864 (1) on pages 43-44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4416849