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Zoology Publications from Victoria University of Wellington—Nos. 49 to 51

Genus: Papillomurus Salmon, 1941 — Papillomurus transequatoria n.sp

Genus: Papillomurus Salmon, 1941

Papillomurus transequatoria n.sp.

Figs. 24-28.

Colour: In alcohol trunk bluish to purplish brown or grayish brown overlain with fine blue and rose coloured pigment granules. Head grey brown with a purple spot on the vertex, and two light bluish pigment bands extending towards the posterior margins of the ocellar fields to form a V mark with an intense purple base. Ocellar fields deep bluish black. Antennae pale ochreous with pale purplish pigment towards the apex of segments I, II and III. Ant. IV pale purplish brown. Legs and furcula pale ochreous without further pigment.

Clothing: Densely clothed with short simple setae sometimes faintly serrated towards their tips, and occasionally mostly around the posterior longer slender setae with a few serrations along their entire length. Setae of the antennae, legs and furcula, all moderately long and simple. Setae of the body, and of the basal segments of the legs, the antennae and the furcula, all arising from small papillae.

Body: Length, 1.47 mm. Antennae subequal to head in length, four segmented with the segments related as 53:33:30:17. Ant. IV with apical dome, stout stiff apical sense rod and numerous curved sense rods interspersed among the setae. Ant. III with many similar slender sense rods. Abds. III and IV related as 6:7. Ocelli eight to each side, six large subequal and two much smaller. PAO elliptical, equal to the diameter of an adjacent ocellus and with lateral lamellae as in Fig. 28. Rami of tenaculum each with four barbs, the corpus with a transverse basal row of three simple setae.

Legs: Claw with two strong exterior lateral teeth about half way down and one small inner tooth about two-thirds down. Base of claw finely granulate, unguiculus page 47 about half as long as claw, lanceolate with three broad lamellae. Front feet with two slender clavate tenent hairs one slightly longer than the other. Middle feet and hind feet each with three slender clavate tenent hairs, the middle hair longer and stouter than the two lateral hairs, the longer middle hair not quite as long as the claw. A short basal seta to each side of claw.

Furcula: Mucro dens 3.2 times longer than manubrium. Dens annulated and corrugated, the uncorrugated part of the dens 2-3 times as long as mucro. Mucro indistinctly separated from dens, tridentate, with large apical, slightly longer preapical and large lateral teeth.

Locality: Described from one holotype specimen collected at Lachung, Sikkim, from moss on rotten tree trunk in pine wood at 8610′ altitude.