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Zootaxa 1325: 191–198 (2006) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ ZOOTAXA 1325 Copyright © 2006 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) Martensolasma jocheni, a new genus and species of harvestman from Mexico (Opiliones: Nemastomatidae: Ortholasmatinae) WILLIAM A. SHEAR Department of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943 USA. Abstract Martensolasma jocheni n. g., n. sp. is described from the Mexican State of Aguascalientes. The new genus is distinct from Dendrolasma Banks and Ortholasma Banks in lacking the extensive modifications of the eye tubercle. Key words: Aguascalientes, Ortholasma, Crosbycus, Nemastomatinae, Ceratotlasmatidae Introduction The Nemastomatidae harvestman subfamily Ortholasmatinae was erected in 1983 by Shear & Gruber for nine North American and one Japanese species formerly of uncertain taxonomic position; they previously had been considered members of Trogulidae (Banks 1894, Roewer 1923, Goodnight and Goodnight 1942), Ischyropsalididae (Goodnight & Goodnight 1945) or Dicranolasmatidae (Silhavy 1967, Suzuki 1974). Martens (1969) correctly placed them in Nemastomatidae. The members of the subfamily were characterized (Shear & Gruber 1983) as bearing a hood overhanging and concealing the chelicerae and palpi, formed from an extension of the eye tubercle and one or two lateral processes from the margin of the dorsal shield on each side; cuticular sculpture consisting of a series of cells covering the dorsum and formed from keels and keel pegs derived from extended and fused anvil-shaped teeth, and the long, acute glans of the penis in males. Since their monographic study, little new information has been published, save for the description of a fourth species of Dendrolasma, from Thailand (Schwendinger & Gruber 1992). Also, Shear and Gruber later (1987) found that their species Ortholasma setulipes was a synonym of O. coronadense Cockerell 1916. Previously known species of Dendrolasma came from Japan and from northwestern Accepted by P. Schwendinger: 25 Jul. 2006; published: 28 Sept. 2006 191.

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