Eremochelis coloradensis
(Muma 1962)
Therobates
coloradensis Muma, 1962: 9-10, figs 6-7
.
Eremochelis coloradensis
(Muma): Muma, 1970a: 31; Muma, 1976: 19; Brookhart and Brookhart, 2006:
316.
HOLOTYPE:
United
States.
Arizona:
Mohave County - Grand Canyon, 2 July 1956, 1 female (holotype).
Deposited in the American Museum of Natural History.
Original
description
Muma, 1962: 10-11, fig. 8 (as Therobates coloradensis):
female
holotype:
Total length, 22.0 mm.
LENGTH WIDTH
Chelicerae 7.2 mm
2.6 mm
Propeltidium 2.8
4.7
Palpi
18.5 -
1st legs
13.5
-
4th legs 23.5
-
Color in alcohol light rusty yellow, with
dusky purplish markings similar to those on T. malkini.
Dentition and structure similar to
those of T. branchi Muma except there is a tiny supernumerary
tooth just behind anterior tooth on fixed finger of chelicerae, there
are six trace ctenidia on first post-spiracular abdominal sternite,
there are about 20 widely spaced papillae in a thin scopula on
metatarsus of palpi (fig. 6), and opercula of genital segment differ
(fig. 7).
