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PHYLOGENY/TAXONOMY

Phylogeny of the Solifugae
Keys to FamiliesFamily Ammotrechidae
AMMOTRECHINAE
  Ammotrecha
  Ammotrechella
  Ammotrechesta
  Ammotrechinus
  Ammotrechula
  Antillotrecha
  Campostrecha

  Dasycleobis
  Neocleobis
  Pseudocleobis
MORTOLINAE
  Mortola
NOTHOPUGINAE
  Nothopuga
OLTACOLINAE
  Oltacola
SARONOMINAE
  Branchia
  Chinchippus
  Inessa
  Procleobis
  Saronomus
INCERTAE SEDIS
  Chileotrecha
  Eutrecha
  Xenotrecha
  Happlodontus

Family Ceromidae
Family Daesiidae
Family Eremobatidae
Family Galeodidae
Family Gylippidae
Family Hexisopodidae
Family Karschiidae
Family Melanoblossidae
Family Mummuciidae
Family RhagodidaeFamily Solpugidae
Catalog of the Solifugae

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 


 

Ammotrecha cobinensis Muma 1951

Ammotrecha cobinensis Muma, 1951: 135, figs 302-304; Muma, 1970b: 49; Muma, 1976: 26; Muma, 1987: 21; Vázquez Rojas, 1995: 31; Vázquez Rojas, 1996e: 76; Brookhart and Brookhart, 2006: 323.

HOLOTYPE: United States. California: Los Angeles County. - Covina, 30 December 1927  (J.C. Chamberlin), 1 males (holotype).  Deposited in the University of Utah.  [Note:  Muma (1951) lists the type locality as "Cobina, California".  No such community exists within California.  The locality is therefore presumed (Harvey 2001) to be Covina, California, a city within Los Angeles County.]

Original description:
Muma, 1951: 135, figs 302-304:

        "MALE HOLOTYPE:  Total length, 9.0 mm.   Chelicerae, 0.7 mm. wide and 2.6 mm. long.   Propeltidium, 1.9 mm. wide and 1.7 mm. long.  Chelicerae, 0.7 mm. wide and 2.6 mm. long.  Propeltidium, 1.9 mm. wide and 1.7 mm. long.
         Coloration and markings in alcohol  bleached and faded but apparently as follows:  chelicerae light yellow; propeltidium light brown, with a narrow yellow median stripe; mesopeltidium, metapeltidium and abdominal tergites light, with a dusky purple median stripe and a pair of dusky submarginal stripes; legs apparently light on all segments; palpi apparently light except on metatarsi and tarsi where some duskiness is visible; eye tubercle dark; malleoli light.
         Dentition typical of Ammotrechinae as shown in figures 302 and 303. Fixed finger not modified and lacking carina.  Intermediate tooth of movable finger about equidistant between principal and anterior teeth.  Dental group of movable finger occupying about one-fourth the length of the finger.  Flagellum as in A. peninsulana (Banks) except it is attached over the first fondal tooth of the mesal row and is not rolled mesally so far, covering less than one-fourth of the mesal surface.
         Palpi clothed with long and short hairs and a moderate number of cylinder bristles on the tarsi, metatarsi, and tibiae.  Metatarsi and tibiae also provided ventrally with eight pairs of stout cylindrical spines.
         Chelicerae nearly four times as long as wide.  Propeltidium wider than long by a ratio of 1 to 1.1. Eyes separated by slightly less than one diameter.
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[Illustration forthcoming]

DISTRIBUTION: United States (California).  Known only from holotype.

NOTES:  Muma (1951) noted that the holotype is missing all but one first and one third leg, a condition which he considered as preventing its generic placement. He thus chose to describe it "under the genus Ammotrecha, sensu lato."
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
   
 


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