identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03B20674FF94FFBFFF69FE6FFC3DF823.text	03B20674FF94FFBFFF69FE6FFC3DF823.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Texella martensi Ubick 2021	<div><p>Texella martensi, new species</p> <p>Figs 1–3</p> <p>Type material. Holotype male: USA: California: Inyo County, Death Valley National Park, <a href="http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-117.06219&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=36.849487" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -117.06219/lat 36.849487)">Titus Canyon Cave</a>, 36°50’58.16”N, 117°3’43.85”W [ca 1230 m], G.O. Graening leg. 20.1.2012 (CASENT 9081592).</p> <p>Etymology. This species is named in honor of Jochen Martens, in recognition to his life-long and outstanding contribution to Opiliones taxonomy; name in the genitive case.</p> <p>Diagnosis. The male of Texella martensi n. sp. differs from those of other species in the kokoweef species group in having relatively longer appendages and the shortest spur on trochanter IV.</p> <p>Description. Male (holotype). Total body length 1.50. Dorsal scute length 1.10, width 1.10. Eyemound length 0.24, width 0.25. Genital operculum length 0.25, width 0.22. Postopercular process absent. Leg II length 4.40, leg II / scute length 4.0. Trochanter IV segment length 0.22, spur length 0.14.</p> <p>Color: body light orange-colored, lacking dark markings; appendages whitish, basal segments slightly darker.</p> <p>Body with uniform covering of small tubercles, with larger ones scattered on eyemound, dorsally and laterally on scute, and largest ones on posterior margins of tergites (Fig. 1B). Dorsal scute with 5 pairs of anterior tubercles in two rows, one pair slightly larger than others (Fig. 1D). Eyemound a rounded cone, eyes with well-developed retina and cornea (Fig. 1D). Genitalia not examined, but prongs of ventral plate of penis visible and slightly protruding from genital operculum (Fig. 1C).</p> <p>Palpal megaspines: trochanter without; femur with 3 ventrobasal and 1 mesodistal; patella with 1 ectal and 2 mesal; tibia with 2 ectal and 3 mesal; tarsus with 2 ectal and 2 mesal (Fig. 1D). Trochanter IV with slender spur, shorter than trochanter. Tarsal count: 3-5-4-5.</p> <p>Female not known.</p> <p>Note. It was not possible to expand the penis without damaging the single available specimen.</p> <p>Distribution. Known only from Titus Canyon Cave in California.</p></div> 	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B20674FF94FFBFFF69FE6FFC3DF823	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Ubick, Darrell	Ubick, Darrell (2021): A new cavernicolous harvestman, Texella martensi n. sp., from the Mojave Desert California (Opiliones: Laniatores: Phalangodidae). Zootaxa 4984 (1): 114-118, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.11
