Bolton's Indohya (WAM PSE002) Indohya boltoni Harvey & Burger, 2023
Fauna Portal species: 13473
Indohya boltonimale, dorsal (WAM T152501; Woodgina, Western Australia)
Image: P. Middelfart
Fauna Portal Image No. 10148Diagnosis
(after Harvey et al. 2023): Indohya boltoni is an epigean species with two pairs of eyes and 14 setae on the carapace, thus resembling I. cardo, I. julianneae and I. karenae. It differs from I. karenae by the less robust chelal hand [hand (without pedicel) 1.63–1.92 (♂) ×, 1.62–1.86 (♀) × longer than broad, vs. 1.39 (♀) in I. karenae], from I. cardo by the less prominent chelal teeth in the basal half of the fixed chelal finger, and from I. julianneae by its larger size [e.g. chela (with pedicel) greater than 1.0 mm, vs. less than 0.8 mm in I. julianneae]. There are no unique nucleotide substitutions in COI mtDNA that distinguish this species from all other species of Indohya. The 20 sequenced specimens differ from all other sequenced specimens of Indohya by 11.7–28.2%
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(2023): The systematics of the pseudoscorpion genus Indohya (Pseudoscorpiones: Hyidae) in Australia. Zootaxa. 5342: 1 - 119DOI