Nemaspela Silhavy 1966
Creators: name: Martens, Jochen
name: Maghradze, Eter
name: Barjadze, Shalva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Opiliones
Nemastomatidae
Nemaspela

description: Key to the currently known Nemaspela species in the Caucasus area, extended from Martens et al. (2021) (based on male specimens)
1 Dorsal apophysis on distal end of 1 st cheliceral article present.................................................. 2
- Dorsal apophysis on distal end of 1 st cheliceral article absent.................................................. 7
2 Dorsal apophysis of 1 st cheliceral article short, being just an inconspicuous, pointed distad-directed lobe; found in several caves in the Sochi area, Russia and Abkhazia, West Georgia ................. N. abchasica (Ljovushkin & Starobogatov, 1963)
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article longer, distinct................................................. 3
3 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article longer than the entire 2 nd cheliceral article; found in several caves in Nalchik area, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia ...................................................... N. kovali Chemeris, 2009
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article shorter than the entire 2 nd cheliceral article........................... 4
4 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article globular and knob-like, found in one cave in Abkhazia, Georgia ........................................................................................ N. gagrica Tchemeris, 2013
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article distinctly elongated, longer than broad.............................. 5
5 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article slender, sickle-shaped, with distad-directed concavity, longer than breadth of article at its position; found in one cave in Abkhazia, West Georgia ..................... N. birsteini (Ljovushkin, 1972)
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article not sickle-shaped, shorter or conspicuously longer than breadth of article at its position............................................................................................ 6
6 Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article distinctly bent forward, shorter than breadth of article at its position; found in two caves in Imereti region, West Georgia ...................... N. melouri Martens, Maghradze & Sh. Barjadze, 2021
- Dorsal apophysis on top of 1 st cheliceral article not distinctly bent forward, longer than breadth of article at its position, apophysis distally widened and bilobate; found in caves in Sochi area, Russia ................................................................................................... N. sokolovi (Ljovuschkin & Starobogatov, 1963)
7 Femur of pedipalp S-shaped; found in one cave in Kvemo-Svaneti Region, West Georgia ....................................................................................................... N. femorecurvata Martens, 2006
- Femur of pedipalp straight.............................................................................. 8
8 Penis in dorsal and ventral views relatively stout, glans stout as well, slightly broader than truncus penis; found in one cave in Imereti region, West Georgia ................................. N. prometheus Martens, Maghradze & Barjadze, 2021
- Penis in dorsal and ventral view extremely narrow, glans drawn out and narrow, not broader than truncus penis; found in one cave in Imereti Region, western Georgia ..................................................... N. kotia sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Martens, Jochen, Maghradze, Eter & Barjadze, Shalva, 2023, An additional species of the genus Nemaspela Šilhavý, 1966 from a cave in Georgia with a note on Nemaspela melouri (Opiliones: Nemastomatidae), pp. 361-370 in Zootaxa 5293 (2) on page 368, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5293.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/7960306