Piaroa (arachnid) explained

Piaroa is a genus of hubbardiid short-tailed whipscorpions, first described by Osvaldo Manzanilla, Alessandro Giupponi and Ana Tourinho in 2008.^[1]

Species

, the World Schizomida Catalog accepts the following nine species:^[2]

• Piaroa bacata Moreno-González, Delgado-Santa & Armas, 2014 – Colombia
• Piaroa bijagua Armas & Víques, 2009 – Costa Rica
• Piaroa escalerete Moreno-González, Delgado-Santa & Armas, 2014 – Colombia
• Piaroa guipongai Villarreal & García, 2012 – Colombia
• Piaroa hoyosi Delgado-Santa & de Armas, 2013 – Colombia
• Piaroa pioi Villarreal, Armas & García, 2014 – Venezuela
• Piaroa turbacoensis Segovia-Paccini, Ahumada-C. & Moreno-González, 2018 – Colombia
• Piaroa virichaj Villarreal, Giupponi & Tourinho, 2008 – Venezuela
• Piaroa youngi Armas & Víquez, 2010 – Costa Rica, Panama

Notes and References

1. Manzanilla . Osvaldo Villarreal . Giupponi . Alessandro Ponce De Leão . Tourinho . Ana Lúcia . 2008 . New Venezuelan genus of Hubardiidae (Arachnida: Schizomida) . . 1860 . 60-68 . 10.11646/zootaxa.1860.1.5.
2. Web site: Piaroa Villarreal, Giupponi and Tourinho, 2008 . 31 August 2022 . World Schizomida Catalog . Natural History Museum Bern.