Descripción de una nueva especie del género Potosa Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947 (Opiliones: Laniatores: Stygnopsidae: Karosinae) procedente de Hidalgo, México

Jesús Alberto Cruz López

doi:10.21829/azm.2025.4112769

Autores/as

Jesús Alberto Cruz López Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP), Centro Regional de Investigación Pacífico Sur (CIRPAS), Campo Experimental Valles Centrales, Oaxaca, Mexico. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6128-0195

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21829/azm.2025.4112769

Palabras clave:

Gonyleptoidea, troglofílico, taxonomy

Resumen

Potosa pisaflores sp. nov. is described based on specimens collected from Cueva del Caracol, Pisaflores, Hidalgo, Mexico. This is the fourth species of the genus and only the second in which females have been collected. The new species is similar to Potosa dybasi Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947, but it can be recognized by the high number of tarsomeres on legs II and the general shape of male genitalia.

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Biografía del autor/a

Jesús Alberto Cruz López,

Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP), Centro Regional de Investigación Pacífico Sur (CIRPAS), Campo Experimental Valles Centrales, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Investigador Titular C,

Investigador SNI-I, CONACYT

Línea: Sanidad Agrícola y Forestal

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