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Issue: Vol. 4012 No. 3: 4 Sept. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-09-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.8
Page range: 542–552
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of the South East Asian genus Sarax Simon, 1892 (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae) and synonymization of Sarax mediterraneus Delle Cave, 1986

Group of Arthropod Ecology and Behavior, Division of Plant Protection, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Peter Jordan Straße 82, 1190 Vienna; Austria.
Zoological Institute, Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, University of Kiel, Am Botanischen Garten 9, 24118 Kiel; Germany.
Natural History Museum Vienna, 3. Zoology (Invertebrates), Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna; Austria.
Scorpiones Whip spider Sarax huberi sp. nov. Philippines biodiversity

Abstract

A new species of the whip spider genus Sarax Simon, 1892 from Cebu Island in the Philippines is described: Sarax huberi sp. nov. With the description of this species, the diversity of the genus is increased to three species in the Philippines. Some additional data on their natural environment and their specific habitat are presented and compared with sibling species. The synonymization of Sarax mediterraneus Delle Cave, 1986 with Sarax buxtoni (Gravely, 1915) is carried out.