Taxonomic notes on Holcobunus Roewer, 1910, with descriptions of three new species, and new records for Holcobunus nigripalpis Roewer, 1910 (Opiliones: Eupnoi: Sclerosomatidae)
Author
Tourinho, Ana Lúcia
Author
Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo
Author
Bragagnolo, Cibele
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Zootaxa
2015
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Holcobunus nigripalpis
Roewer, 1910
Holcobunus nigripalpis
Roewer, 1910
: 163
; 1923:1070, figs.
1170–1171
; Mello-Leitão, 1932: 23;
Roewer, 1953
: 245
;
Tourinho & Kury, 2001
: 9
, figs. 14–38;
Bragagnolo & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2009
: 530
;
Resende
et al.
2012a
: 100
–102; 2012b: 150, 151, 154.
Tamboicus silvicola
Mello-Leitão, 1932b
:71
, 1938: 337
; Ringuelet, 1954: 254.
Sympathica silvicola
:
Mello-Leitão, 1938
: 337
;
Ringuelet, 1953
: 40
.
Sympathica bisignata
Mello-Leitão, 1933
:101
;
Roewer, 1953
: 255
; Ringuelet, 1954: 301.
Type
locality.
Brazil
, São Paulo, Santos.
Diagnosis.
Living specimens are darkish yellow, museum specimens are pale yellow. Males of
H. nigripalpis
can be separated from other species of
Holcobunus
by having the body yellow without a marked strong stripe; in contrast to
H. dissimilis
males, it does not have a dark well-marked median stripe; it has a faint black spot covering the anterior median portion of dorsal scute instead. Dorsal orifice of anterior shaft of penis present. Females are yellow but with rounded black spot on posterolateral border.
Material examined (New Record).
Brazil
.
1 male
MNRJ
4967,
1 female
MNRJ
4968, Minas Gerais, Rio Preto, Santa Bárbara, Fazenda do Luluca,
29/03/2002
, leg. Amazonas Chagas, Alessandro Giupponi.
Distribution.
Brazil
. Minas Gerais state. Rio Preto. Rio de Janeiro state. Guapimirim, Lumiar, Nova Friburgo, Petrópolis: Itaipava, Rezende: Serrinha do Alambari, Silva Jardim: Aldeia Velha, Teresópolis. São Paulo state. Santos. (
Fig. 7
).