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Amazochroma carvalhoi (Mello-Leitão, 1941 is a member of the genus Amazochroma (Laniatores:Gonyleptidae)[1].
Taxonomy[]
• Discocyrtus carvalhoi Mello-Leitão 1941: 437; Soares & Soares, 1954b: 247.
• Amazochroma carvalhoi: Carvalho & Kury 2018: 17, figs. 1 a–d, 5–6.
Diagnosis[]
Spines of ocularium higher than in A. pedroi; areas II–IV not divided by a median groove (divided in A. pedroi); area III with a pair of high, paramedian acuminated spines curved backwards (higher than the pair of low, paramedian rounded, tubercles of A. pedroi); Cx IV with retrodorsal spiniform apophysis (absent in A. pedroi); Tr IV with prolateral, distal, higher apophysis, forming a bifurcated bar ending in two spines (instead the aborted hook form in A. pedroi); Fe IV without spines, only tubercles (instead of higher spines on the prolateral and retrolateral axes of A. pedroi). [1].
Type data[]
• Amazochroma carvalhoi: ♂ holotype (MNRJ 5143), BRAZIL, Mato Grosso, Santa Terezinha.
Records[]
BRAZIL, Mato Grosso, Santa Terezinha (Mello-Leitão 1941). BRAZIL, Amazonas, Manaus. Pará, Belém; Monte Alegre. FRANCE, French Guiana, Maripasoula. SURINAME, Sipaliwini (Carvalho & Kury 2018).
Distribution[]
BRAZIL, Amazonas, Manaus. Mato Grosso, Santa Terezinha. Pará, Belém; Monte Alegre. FRANCE, French Guiana, Maripasoula. SURINAME, Sipaliwini (Carvalho & Kury 2018).
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Carvalho, R.N. & Kury, A.B. 2018. Further dismemberment of Discocyrtus with description of a new Amazonian genus and a new subfamily of Gonyleptidae (Opiliones, Laniatores). European Journal of Taxonomy 393: 1–32. doi:https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.393