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Type: Article
Published: 2014-08-14
Page range: 227–251
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Two new species of Piaroa (Arachnida: Schizomida, Hubbardiidae) from Colombia, with comments on the genus taxonomy and the flagellar setae pattern of Hubbardiinae

Sección de Entomología, Edificio- 320 Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Universidad del Valle, Sede Meléndez. Calle 13 # 100- 00, Santiago de Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.
Grupo de Estudio en Artrópodos de la Universidad del Quindío (GEAQ), Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Biotecnología, CIBUQ, Universidad del Quindío, Armenia, Quindío, Colombia.
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Arachnida schizomid Pacific Region Oriental Andes Valle del Cauca Cundinamarca

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Piaroa Villarreal, Tourinho & Giupponi, 2008, P. escalerete sp. nov. and P. bacata sp. nov. are described from Valle del Cauca, and Cundinamarca departments, Colombia, respectively. The female flagellum is fully illustrated for a Piaroa species for the first time; the generic diagnosis is also emended and the relationships of the new species with those previously described are discussed. New characters for Piaroa species, a new nomenclature for the chitinized arch and a reinterpretation of the Hubbardiinae flagellar setae pattern are proposed. A distribution map of the known species of Piaroa is provided.