TY  - GEN
A1  - Kozel, Peter
A1  - Delić, Teo
A1  - Delić, Teo
A1  - Novak, Tone
T1  - Nemaspela borkoae sp. nov. (Opiliones: Nemastomatidae), the second species of the genus from the Dinaric Karst
T2  - European journal of taxonomy : 717:90–107
N2  - Nemaspela Šilhavý, 1966 (Opiliones: Nemastomatidae) is a genus of exclusively troglobiotic harvestmen species inhabiting caves in the Crimea, Caucasus and Balkan Peninsula. In this paper, Nemaspela borkoae sp. nov., recently found in four caves in Montenegro, is described. The new species is characterized by its small body, 1.5–2.1 mm long, and very long, thin appendages, with legs II about 15 times as long as the body. Although very similar, Nemaspela ladae Karaman, 2013 and N. borkoae sp. nov. can be easily distinguished by the terminally rounded vs conical glans, straight vs conspicuously ventrally bent pedipalp tarsus on its proximal portion and pedipalp tarsus measuring about ½ vs ⅔ tibia length. Nemaspela ladae and N. borkoae sp. nov. constitute the western Nemaspela group, both missing the male cheliceral apophysis present in all species of the eastern Nemaspela group from the Crimea and Caucasus, except in N. femorecurvata Martens, 2006. However, according to the glans morphology, N. borkoae sp. nov. seems much more closely related to several species from the Caucasus than to N. ladae from the Balkan Peninsula. We speculate that N. ladae and N. borkoae sp. nov. might originate from two epigean ancestral lineages.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 717:90–107 
KW  - Arachnids
KW  - Hadzinia
KW  - speleobiology
KW  - the Balkans
KW  - western Nemaspela group
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55797
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-557974
SN  - 2118-9773
VL  - 2020
SP  - 90
EP  - 107
PB  - Muséum National dHistoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -