Gamasholaspis browningi (Bregetova and Koroleva)

Gamasholaspis browningi (Bregetova and Koroleva) View in CoL

Evansolaspis browningi Bregetova and Koroleva, 1960: 54 View in CoL .

Gamasholaspis browningi View in CoL — Petrova, 1977: 338; Marchenko, 2002: 41; Kontschán et al., 2014: 20 View Cited Treatment ; Quintero-Gutiérrez and Halliday, 2021: 416 View Cited Treatment ; Hajizadeh, 2022: 230 View Cited Treatment .

Specimens examined: Five females from litter under hazelnut tree in a tea garden, Fındıkoba village , Of town, Trabzon province, Türkiye, 39°36'N 38°39'E, 3 May 2015 GoogleMaps .

Description. Female (n=5) ( Figures 1-7 View Figures 1-7 )

Dorsum ( Fig. 1 View Figures 1-7 ). Dorsal shield oval, 720-760 long, 480-490 wide at level of widest point; covered with punctations and reticulations, with 29 pairs of setae, all setae expanded in distal ½, length 50-80 long (j1 50-60, J 5 about 50). Peritremes relatively shortened, anterior end not reaching dorsal surface of idiosoma.

Venter ( Fig. 2 View Figures 1-7 ). A pair of well sclerotized presternal shields present. Sternal shield 180-186 long, 120-130 wide at level of coxae II, surface ornamented with well-defined polygonal patterns, two pairs of lyrifissures and three pairs of needle-like setae of equal length (s t1-3 60-70). Metasternal shield fused with endopodal shield and with a pair of needle-like setae, st4. Genital shield helmet-shaped, 100-115 long and 150-160 wide, its surface ornamented with polygonal patterns and with a pair of needle-like setae, st5. Ventrianal shield triangular, 260-280 long and 370-400 wide, longer than wide, ornamented with reticulate lines, with four pairs of preanal setae (60-80), two anal setae and one postanal needle-like seta. Peritrematal shields fused to podal shields or sternal shield.

Gnathosoma. Setae h1 longest, h2 similar in length to pc and h3 longer than h2. Corniculi long and sword shaped. Deutosternal groove with five rows of denticles ( Fig. 3 View Figures 1-7 ). Epistome one-piece, serrate at the margins and with a conspicuously large central process ( Fig. 4 View Figures 1-7 ). Chelicerae well developed, with a movable digit of about 90 long, and a fixed digit of about 70 long from the base of the dorsal seta. Movable digit with a short and relatively thick pilus dentilis and a dorsal seta. Base of chelicerae with two arthrodial brushes, one of which considerably longer than the other.

Legs. Claws on tarsus I absent ( Fig. 5 View Figures 1-7 ), tarsi of other legs bear claws ( Fig. 6 View Figures 1-7 ). Ventral surface of femur II with distinct short, round and thick process ( Fig. 7 View Figures 1-7 ), femur III with flat large process, coxae with small triangular process. Leg setation of G. browningi is shown in Table 1.