Morphology-based cladistics splinters the century-old dichotomy of the pied harvestmen (Arachnida: Gonyleptoidea: Cosmetidae)
Author
Medrano, Miguel
Author
Kury, Adriano Brilhante
Author
Mendes, Amanda Cruz
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2022
2021-08-30
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585
672
journal article
113070
10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab043
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0024-4082
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PROTUS BOLIVARI
(
ROEWER, 1952
)
COMB. NOV.
(
FIGS 1G, H
,
30–32
)
Cynortula bolivari
Roewer, 1952: 43
, fig. 26.
Type data:
Holotype
,
Peru
.
San Martín
:
Juanjui
,
Huallaga River
above
350 m
, [–7.20416°, –76.73819°,
350 m
],
1 ♂
(
SMF
RII 9813
/277, not examined)
.
Paratypes
:
Same
data as holotype
1 ♂
(
WPC
, not examined)
Non-type material:
Peru
. [
San Martín
]:
Juanjui
,
Huallaga River
, [–7.20416°, –76.73819°,
350 m
],
Ortiz
&
Beltran
leg., examined by photograph,
1 ♀
(
AMNH
).
Madre de Dios
: distrito
de Tambopata
,
Reserva Nacional de Tambopata
[–12.82822°, –69.29056°],
1 ♂
(USNMENT 511638);
[–12.52339°, –71.18131°],
1 ♂
(USNMENT 511626);
Zona
reservada
Tambopata
[–12.83333°, –69.28333°,
290 m
],
J Coddington
leg.,
7.vi.1988
, (post-fire material)
1 ♂
(USNMENT 1538074);
8.vi.1988
, (post-fire material)
1 ♀
(USNMENT 1538075)
.
Diagnosis:
It differs from the other members of
Protus
by having area
III
armed with larger paramedian yellow tubercles than those of area
II
(
Fig. 31A–C
), DS with scattered yellow dots in abdomen and carapace (
Fig. 31A
) and by the combination of the following features: carapace with a thin, yellow stripe bordering anterior margin of carapace (
Fig. 31A
),
VP
of the penis not elongated and with distal border substraight (
Fig. 32C
), stylus with short wattle (
Fig. 32D
).