Catherine's Indohya Indohya catherineae Harvey & Burger, 2023
Fauna Portal species: 13742
Indohya catherineae female, dorsal (WAM T127925; Rocklea Station, Western Australia)
Image: Harvey et al. (2023; fig. 27A)
Fauna Portal Image No. 10112Diagnosis
(after Harvey et al. 2023): Indohya catherineae is a blind troglobite that differs from all other Indohya species for which sequence data are available by five synapomorphies in COI mtDNA: at base 305 there is a substitution to G; at base 308 there is a substitution to C; at base 362 there is a substitution to A; at base 368 there is a substitution to G; and at base 369 there is a substitution to T. The single sequenced specimen differs from all other sequenced specimens of Indohya by 15.6–25.8%.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
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Publications
(2023): The systematics of the pseudoscorpion genus Indohya (Pseudoscorpiones: Hyidae) in Australia. Zootaxa. 5342: 1 - 119DOI