Table 3.
Morphological characters of Thubunaea spp. lacking spicules in males. Measurements in micrometres, unless otherwise indicated.
| Species | T. cnemidophorus Babero & Matthias, 1967 | T. eleodori Ramallo, Goldberg, Bursey, Castillo & Acosta, 2016 | T. fitzsimonsi Ortlepp, 1931 | T. mobedii Pazoki & Rahimian, 2014 | T. parkeri Baylis, 1926 | T. schukurovi Annaev, 1973 | Thubunaea leonregagnonae sp. n. |
| Source | Babero and Matthias (1967) | Ramallo et al. (2016) | Ortlepp (1931) | Pazoki and Rahimian (2014) | Baylis (1926) | Annaev (1973) | Present study |
| Type host | Aspidoscelis tigris (Baird & Girard) (Teiidae) | Liolaemus eleodori Cei, Etheridge & Videla (Liolaemidae) | Meroles squamulosus (Peters) (Lacertidae) | Laudakia nupta nupta (De Filippi) (Agamidae) | Microlophus occipitalis (Peters) (Tropiduridae) | Ablepharus deserti Strauch (Scincidae) | Sceloporus pyrocephalus Cope (Phrynosomatidae) |
| Country | USA | Argentina | South Africa | Iran | Peru | Turkmenistan | Mexico |
| Biogeographical realm | Nearctic | Neotropical | Afrotropical | Saharo-Arabian | Neotropical | Palearctic | Nearctic |
| MTBL (mm) | 5.7–6.6 | 10.25–11.16 | 8.5–9.0 | 11.4–15.4 | 10.5 | 7.8 | 4.85–8.03 |
| MTBW | 350–390 | 360 | 290–330 | 190–330 | 300–340 | 300 | 200–300 |
| PP | 14–16 | 12 | 29–31 | 0 | 16–20 | 12 | 10–16 |
| SP | 12 | 10 | 0 | 23–37 | 0 | 16 | 11–14 |
| OE/MTBL | 0.26† | 0.12 | 0.11 | 0.12 | 0.1 | 0.15 | 0.1–0.16 |
| Eggs | 38–45 × 23–30 | 44–45 × 36–39 | 58–63 × 48–53 | 45–50 × 38–40 | |||
| (38 x 23) | (48 x 41) | (45 x 38) | (48 x 38) | (60 x 50) | (43 x 33) |
MTBL: male total body length (mm); MTBW: male total body width; PP: number of pedunculate papillae; SP: number of sessile papillae; OE: oesophagus length. † data from Bursey and Goldberg (1991).