Private Indohya (WAM PSE177) Indohya arcana Harvey & Burger, 2023
Fauna Portal species: 13739
Indohya arcana nymph, dorsal (WAM T151337; Yarrie Ridge, Western Australia)
Image: Harvey et al. (2023; fig.17A)
Fauna Portal Image No. 10106Diagnosis
(after Harvey et al. 2023): Indohya arcana is a blind troglobite that differs from all other Indohya species for which sequence data are available by six synapomorphies in COI mtDNA: at base 72 there is a substitution to C; at base 83 there is a substitution to A; at base 102 there is a substitution to G; at base 119 there is a substitution to A; at base 242 there is a substitution to T; and at base 363 there is a substitution to G. The single sequenced specimen differs from all other sequenced specimens of Indohya by 21.4–30.2%.
Status
- native
Australia
- Western Australia
Publications
(2023): The systematics of the pseudoscorpion genus Indohya (Pseudoscorpiones: Hyidae) in Australia. Zootaxa. 5342: 1 - 119DOI