A new species of Queubus Barnard, 1946 (arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from Namibia

A new species of the enigmatic pycnogonid genus Queubus is described from an ovigerous male collected at 46 m depth off southern Namibia. Q. echidna sp. nov. has a unique disposition of blunt spines over the leg articles; it is also distinct from the only other described species, Q. jamesanus, in the presence of a palp and of compound spines on the oviger, in the absence of a propodal heel or dorsal trunk tubercles, and in having a bulbous, rather than tapering, proboscis. The genus remains endemic to Atlantic southern Africa. Copyright © 2007 Magnolia Press.