Invisible Indohya (WAM PSE152) Indohya aphana Harvey & Burger, 2023
Fauna Portal species: 13736
Indohya aphana tritonymph, dorsal (WAM T131857; Mesa K, Western Australia)
Image: Harvey et al. (2023; fig. 13A)
Fauna Portal Image No. 10102Diagnosis
(after Harvey et al. 2023): Indohya aphana is a blind troglobite that differs from all other Indohya species for which sequence data are available by a synapomorphy in COI mtDNA: at base 220 there is a substitution to G. The four sequenced specimens differ from all other sequenced specimens of Indohya by 16.5–27.5%.
Status
- native
Australia
- Western Australia
Publications
(2023): The systematics of the pseudoscorpion genus Indohya (Pseudoscorpiones: Hyidae) in Australia. Zootaxa. 5342: 1 - 119DOI