Epicriopsis sp. 1

Unless otherwise mentioned, all photos are of adult females

Morphological Characteristics

No males illustrated as no males have yet been found

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(A) Full body dorsal.
(B) Full body ventral.
(C) Extremely long leg I.
(D) Only one pair of setae on sternal shield.
(E) Circular tubercules on the anterior portion of dorsal shield.
(F) Tectum (arrow).

Related Taxa
Thus far in this project I have found no other species within this genus in Alberta. Using the key provided in Narita and De Moraes (2016), this species keys out to E. walteri Halliday; however, in Epicriopsis sp. 1 the dorsal setae are longer, the dorsal shield lacks a pair of incisions on the posterolateral margins, and it has one pair rather than two pairs of setae on the sternal shield.

Literature Used for Identification
Halliday 1997
Karg 1993
Narita and De Moraes 2016

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