Garypus wilsoni Lin & Chang, 2022

Lin, Hsiang-Yun & Chang, Chih-Han, 2025, The pseudoscorpion family Garypidae (Pseudoscorpiones) of Taiwan: a new species in the newly recorded genus Anchigarypus and the first females of Garypus wilsoni and Garypus sanasai, Zoosystematics and Evolution 101 (4), pp. 1985-1994 : 1985-1994

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.164011

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17343635

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scientific name

Garypus wilsoni Lin & Chang, 2022
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Garypus wilsoni Lin & Chang, 2022

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Materials examined.

Taiwan • female; Pingtung County, Hengchun, Shadao ; 21°54'43"N, 120°50'50"E; 03 Dec. 2021; J. J. Chern & U. Ong leg.; by hand; GenBank: PV 819809 ; NTUM-PSC -0043 (former voucher no. HYPSC_00186 ) GoogleMaps .

Description.

Color in ethanol, chelicera, pedipalp, carapace similar with male, except coxae chaetotaxy I – IV: 7: 7: 10: 22.

Genital area: anterior genital operculum with 20 setae, with two lyrifissures on the second row of setae posterior with 7 setae in a row; with a pair of lateral cribriform plates, and a median cribriform plate divided into two major platelets.

Abdomen: similar with male except for tergites chaetotaxy I – XII: 8: 9: 11: 6: 5: 9: 16: 10: 12: 10: 12: 2; sternites chaetotaxy IV – XII: 10: 11: 16: 10: 15: 13: 11: 5: 2.

Pedipalp: similar with male, t, st close to the edge of the finger, but ib closer to isb than to esb.

Dimensions (in mm): Body length (excluding chelicerae) 5.08. Chelicera 0.37 / 0.22; movable finger length 0.35. Pedipalp: trochanter 0.68 / 0.47; femur 1.76 / 0.44; patella 1.54 / 0.49; chela with pedicel 2.78 / 0.41; chela without pedicel 3.28 long; hand without pedicel 1.30 long; movable finger length 2.07. Carapace 1.62 / 1.46; anterior eye 0.15; posterior eye 0.12. Leg I: femur 0.61 / 0.15; patella 0.51 / 0.22; tibia 0.57 / 0.17; metatarsus 0.35 / 0.14; tarsus 0.27 / 0.14. Leg IV: femur + patella 1.26 / 0.23; tibia 0.87 / 0.15; metatarsus 0.41 / 0.15; tarsus 0.26 / 0.11.

Remarks.

The female specimen of the species was collected from a coastal site located 24.3 km in a straight line from the type locality, thereby extending the distributional range of G. wilsoni .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Pseudoscorpiones

Family

Garypidae

Genus

Garypus