Observations on the life history of Eukoenenia chilanga Montaño (Arachnida: Palpigradi)

Héctor Montaño-Moreno; Oscar F. Francke

doi:10.1636/B12-02.1

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Héctor Montaño-Moreno,¹ Oscar F. Francke²

¹Colección de Arácnidos del Sureste de México (CASEM), El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Carr. Antiguo Aeropuerto Km 2.5; Apdo. Postal 36, Tapachula, Chiapas 30700, México. E-mail: hmontano@ecosur.mx
²Colección Nacional de Arácnidos, Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-153, Ciudad Universitaria, México, D.F. 04510, México

Abstract

The life history of a palpigrade is reconstructed through morphological and morphometric multivariate analyses applied to a series of 37 individuals collected in a single locality in Tlalnepantla, Estado de México, during different seasons. Those analyses reveal the presence of three life stages: protonymph, deutonymph and adult. Morphologically, males and females can be distinguished as deutonymphs and adults. Morphometrically the sexes can be recognized in all of the life stages, unprecedented for the family Eukoeniidae.

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Héctor Montaño-Moreno and Oscar F. Francke "Observations on the life history of Eukoenenia chilanga Montaño (Arachnida: Palpigradi)," The Journal of Arachnology 41(2), 205-212, (1 August 2013). https://doi.org/10.1636/B12-02.1

Received: 2 February 2012; Published: 1 August 2013

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