de Miranda Gustavo Silva, Reboleira Ana Sofia P S
Entomology Department, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Washington United States of America.
Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 København Ø, Denmark University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark.
Zookeys. 2019 Jan 28(820):1-12. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.820.30139. eCollection 2019.
The whip spider genus Simon, 1892 is widely distributed throughout Southeast Asia and part of the Indo-Malayan region. The genus is recorded from several Indonesian islands, but no species are known from inside the area that comprises the biogeographical region of Wallacea, despite being recorded from both sides of the area. An expedition to survey the biology of caves in Timor-Leste (formerly East-Timor) discovered populations of amblypygids living underground and including a remarkable new species of , , the first Amblypygi known from the island of Timor. The new species is here described bears the unique character state of two pairs of lateral eyes, instead of three or none as in all other living species of Amblypygi, and expands the biogeographic range of the genus. New records of amblypygids are given for two caves in Timor-Leste. A detailed description and a discussion of its distribution and the species characters are also provided.
1892年的西蒙鞭蛛属广泛分布于东南亚及部分印马地区。该属在印度尼西亚的多个岛屿有记录，但尽管在华莱士生物地理区域两侧均有记录，然而在该区域内部尚无已知物种。一次对东帝汶（原东帝汶）洞穴生物学的考察发现了生活在地下的鞭蛛种群，其中包括一种引人注目的新物种，这是帝汶岛已知的首个鞭蛛物种。这里描述的新物种具有独特的特征，即有两对侧眼，不同于所有其他现存鞭蛛物种的三只侧眼或无侧眼的情况，并且扩大了该属的生物地理分布范围。给出了东帝汶两个洞穴中鞭蛛的新记录。还提供了其分布及物种特征的详细描述和讨论。
