The first blind African species of Ideoroncidae is described from a cave in northwestern Botswana, Botswanoncus ellisi, representing a new genus and a new species. Apart from the complete lack of eyes, it is also unusual in having the lowest recorded number of trichobothria of any adult ideoroncid with 17 on the fixed finger and nine on the movable finger.
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1 April 2014
A new troglobitic ideoroncid pseudoscorpion (Pseudoscorpiones: Ideoroncidae) from southern Africa
Mark S. Harvey,
Gerhard Du Preez
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The Journal of Arachnology
Vol. 42 • No. 1
April 2014
Vol. 42 • No. 1
April 2014
Botswana
morphology
new genus
taxonomy