Genus: Ricinoides Ewing, 1929 | Family: Ricinoididae Ewing, 1929 | Order: Ricinulei Thorell, 1876

Ricinoides nzerekorensis Botero-Trujillo, Sain and Prendini, 2021

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

Original combination: Ricinoides nzerekorensis

LSID urn:lsid:wac.nmbe.ch:name:1036c3d6-b516-4a87-b161-460e95141838

Taxonomic references

Ricinoides nzerekorensis Botero-Trujillo, Sain and Prendini:

Botero-Trujillo, Sain and Prendini, 2021: 1-68, figs. 4D, E, 5, 7E, 8A, 9G, 12E, 13A, 15E, 16A, 18E, 19A, 20G, 21G, 25A, C, E, G, 31A, C, E, G, I, 33G, 34E, tables 1, 2, 5 original description

Distribution
Distribution table

Realm: West Africa

Guinea
Type locality:
GUINEA: Nzérékoré Region: Forêt Classée de Ziama

Coordinates

Locality Lat Lon
1 Ziama Forest Reserve 7.7 -8.416667
Type repository
  • Holotype Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC), Belgium Male (MRAC 209.266), the vial includes a microvial with the detached sinistral leg III and copulatory apparatus
  • Paratype Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC), Belgium tritonymph (MRAC 209.265); 1 male (MRAC 209.280); 1 female (MRAC 209.264); 1 male (MRAC 209.293); 1 male, 1 female (MRAC 209.273); 4 females (MRAC 209.274, 278, 279, 283); 1 male ((MRAC 209.263); 1 male (MRAC 209.270); tritonymph (MRAC 209.288); 1 female (MRAC 209.267); 1 male (MRAC 209.275); 2 females (MRAC 209.262, 291); 1 female (MRAC 209.277); 1 male (MRAC 209.289); 2 females (MRAC 209.281, 285); 1 male (MRAC 209.272); 1 male (MRAC 209.286); 1 female (MRAC 209.518); 1 male (MRAC 209.506); 1 male, 1 female (MRAC 209.507); 3 females (MRAC 209.510, 511, 513); tritonymph (MRAC 209.276); 1 male (MRAC 209.509); 1 female (MRAC 209.508); 1 male (MRAC 209.514); 1 female (MRAC 209.505); 1 male (MRAC 209.516); tritonymph (MRAC 209.515); 1 female (MRAC 210.140)
References

Botero-Trujillo, R., Sain, C.E. & Prendini, L. (2021). Systematics of the "giant" Ricinulei (Ricinoididae: Ricinoides) of West Africa : with descriptions of five new species and comparative morphology of the male copulatory apparatus. American Museum Novitates 448: 1–68. -- Show included taxa

Logs
Date Type Reference Old value
2022-06-29 New taxonomic reference entry Botero-Trujillo, Sain and Prendini, 2021
2022-06-29 New species inserted