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Issue: Vol. 329 No. 1: 15 Oct. 2003
Type: Article
Published: 2003-10-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.329.1.1
Page range: 1–18
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 4

A new Afrotropical Ogovea (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) from Cameroon, with a discussion on the taxonomic characters in the family Ogoveidae

Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Departamento de Zoología & Dinámica Celular Animal, Universidad del País Vasco/EHU, Apdo. 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
Opiliones Cyphophthalmi Ogoveidae Ogovea Huitaca Cameroon Equatorial West Africa

Abstract

A new species of the genus Ogovea is described and illustrated, Ogovea cameroonensis n. sp. from Yaoundé. This species considerably enlarges the distribution range of the family Ogoveidae towards the Northeast. The new species, only known from its type locality in Cameroon, is the first described cyphophthalmid for that country. A new diagnosis for the family Ogoveidae is provided and a putative relationship of Ogovea with the South American genus Huitaca is rejected.

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