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Issue: Vol. 3814 No. 1: 6 Jun. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-06-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.1.4
Page range: 81–95
Abstract views: 24
PDF downloaded: 1

A new Amazonian species of Cryptocellus (Arachnida, Ricinulei), with descriptions of its integumental structures and all free-living life stages

Museum of Comparative Zoology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Carste Consultores Associados, Rua Manoel Alonso Esteves, 93, Jd. Esmeralda, CEP 05589-020, São Paulo, Brazil.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Coordenação de Biodiversidade (CBIO), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Avenida André Araújo, 2936, Aleixo, CEP 69011-970, Cx. Postal 478, Manaus, AM, Brazil. The George Washington University, Department of Biological Sciences, Washington, D.C. 20052, USA
Amazon forest cryptozoic species rare species SEM nature conservation taxonomy systematics

Abstract

A new species of Cryptocellus Westwood, 1874 is described, based on males, females and all free-living immature stages. Cryptocellus muiraquitan sp. nov. from Juruti, Pará, Brazil, is a member of the foedus group of species and probably closely related to Cryptocellus icamiabas Tourinho & Azevedo, 2007, C. abaporu Bonaldo & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2003 and C. simonis Hansen & Sørensen, 1904. The new species is illustrated using stereomicroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The large diversity of integumental structures of the new species is described and compared to that of previously studied species of Cryptocellus and Pseudocellus Platnick, 1980.