Table 1.

Morphometric data on male species of the genus Delicata in America.

Species	Delicata khalili	Delicata appendiculata	Delicata perronae	Delicata soyerae	Delicata pseudoappendiculata	Delicata delicata	Delicata ransomi	Delicata uncinata	Delicata similis	Delicata variabilis	Delicata cameroni	Delicata speciosa	Delicata abbai	Delicata tatouay
Host	Tamandua tetradactyla	Tamandua tetradactyla	Tamandua tetradactyla	Tamandua tetradactyla	Tamandua longicaudata	Cabassous unicinctus	Cabassous unicinctus	Cabassous unicinctus	Cabassous unicinctus	Dasypus novemcinctus	Dasypus hybridus	Dasypus novemcinctus	Dasypus hybridus	Cabassous tatouay
Length	6.50	3.00	3.80	2.50	2.80	3.50	4.90	3.30	2.00	2.80	4.20	4.923	3.05	5.97
Width	170	77	45	41	–	78	130	70	51	62	90	65	80	80.5
Cephalic Vesicle L	50	46	62	70	–	49	56	54	40	35	32	75	38	80.5
Cephalic Vesicle W	–	–	25	21	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	31	33.5
Nerve ring	–	–	105	137	–	–	–	–	120	120	150	180	140	212
Deirids	–	–	124	175	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	155	235
Excretory Pore	–	–	140	165	–	–	–	–	160	240	200	400	190	276
Esophagus	–	380	220	200	230	360	350	320	300	290	290	315	–	500
Type	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2-1-2	2-1-2	2-1-2
Spicule	250	115	520	105	100	99	163	81	81	180	72	222/179	56	134/143
Ratio of spicule/body total length	3.84%	3.83%	13.68%	4.20%	3.57%	2.82%	3.32%	2.45%	4.05%	6.42%	1.71%	4.50%	1.83%	2.34%
Gubernaculum L	115	69	80	58	–	63	127	–	48	29	48	139	34	35.6
Gubernaculum W	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	6	16
Locality	Brazil	Brazil	Brazil	Brazil	Trinidad	Brazil	Brazil	Brazil	Brazil	Brazil	Brazil	Brazil	Argentina	Brazil
Author	Travassos (21)	Travassos (21)	Durette-Desset et al. (22)	Durette-Desset et al. (22)	Cameron (23)	Travassos (24)	Travassos (24)	Travassos (25)	Travassos (25)	Travassos (25)	Travassos (25)	Lux Hoppe et al. (26)	Ezquiaga et al. (1)	Present study