Cheletonella Womersley

Genus: Cheletonella Womersley

Species: Cheletonella vespertilionis Womersley

Female

Body ovoid, length (including gnathosoma) 556 (478- 600), width 306 (246-339).

Length of gnathosoma 180 (169-193), width 145 (139- 148) ( Fig. 1 View Figure 1 ). Rostrum pointed, with two pairs of adoral setae ( or 1,2). Longitudinal apodeme on midventral line of subcapitulum, between one pair of subcapitular setae ( m). Protegmen conical, dorsal surface with faint broken striae. Tegmen with broken striae and small punctations scattered over its surface. Peritremes with nine chambers on each side ( Fig. 2A). Palps short and thick. Palp tarsus with two comb-like and two sickle-like setae. Palp tibia striated, bearing one dorsal, one ventral and one inner ventral acicular setae, palp claw bearing three basal teeth ( Fig. 2B). Palp genu short, with outer ventral acicular seta and one dorsal seta similar in form to dorsal body setae. Outwardly bulged femur striated, elbow-like in the middle of segments, with one dorsal seta similar in form to dorsal body setae, and two ventral acicular setae.

Dorsum ( Figs 3-4 View Figure 3 View Figure 4 ) with 15 pairs of fan-like setae including humerals, dorsal body setae homeomorphic. Dorsal idiosoma covered by only one prodorsal shield, sculptured like that of stylophore, with four pairs of setae ( Fig. 3 View Figure 3 ). Eyes absent. Venter striated; intercoxal setae 1a, 3a and 4a piliform. Anogenital setae three pairs ( ag 1-3), two pairs of genital setae ( g 1-2) and three pairs of pseudanal setae ( ps 1-3), ps 1-2 bifurcate, ps 3 smooth ( Fig. 5 View Figure 5 ).

Leg I 304 (283-325), leg II 254 (209-283), leg III 271 (234-297), leg IV 314 (297-323). Chaetotaxy of leg segments as follows: coxae 2–1–2–2, trochanters 1–1–2–1, femora 2–2–2–1, genua 2(+1K)–2–2–2, tibiae 4(+1φ)–4– 4–4, tarsi 9(+1 ω)–8(+1 ω)–7–7.

Male

Length of body (including gnathosoma) 472 (463-482), width 245 (237-263). Length of gnathosoma 167 (165- 169), width 135 (128-140). Leg I 307 (300-318), leg II 217 (209-225), leg III 245 (240-254), leg IV 284 (273- 297).

Resembles female in general appearance, but: dorsal body setae 13 pairs, each tibiae II-IV bearing extra one dorsal solenidion and each tarsi II-IV bearing extra one ventral solenidion, anogenital shields situated posteriorly ( Fig. 6 View Figure 6 ) Material examined

Poland: close to the entrance of Mopkowy Tunnel , Nowogród Bobrzański, May 2010, 3 ♀♀, from litter and detritus samples, 51°48' N 15°13' E (the seconds were not given as there were few collecting sites), 81 m a.s.l., coll. D. Łupicki. GoogleMaps Poland: Szczytnicki Park , Wrocław, May 2010, 20 ♀♀ and 14 ♂♂, from litter and soil samples, 51°06'52''N 17°04'51''E, 120 m a.s.l. GoogleMaps , coll. the students research group.

Distribution

Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Egypt, Iran, Malaysia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, USA ( Womersley, 1941; Baker, 1949; Volgin, 1955, 1969; Summers and Price, 1970; Fain and Nadchatram, 1980; Gerson, 1994; Halliday, 1998; Fain and Bochkov, 2001a; da Silva Ezequiel et al., 2001; Webster and Whitaker, Jr., 2005; Whitaker, Jr. et al., 2009; Doğan et al., 2011; Negm and Mesbah, 2014; Salarzehi et al., 2018) and Poland (current paper).