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
195
585
672
journal article
113070
10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab043
e070d52f-d008-4f08-988a-a8b17c27418f
0024-4082
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KAYANIA
MEDRANO, KURY & MENDES
GEN. NOV.
Zoobank registration:
urn: lsid: zoobank. org:act:
317ABFDD-2AAE-4716-BF47-D27D8256416D
Etymology:
In honour and memory of the late Andreas Kay, German photographer and naturalist, established in
Ecuador
, who photographed males and females of the
type
species in nature. Gender feminine.
Diagnosis:
DS rounded in dorsal view (
Fig. 24A
). Area I with two paramedian rounded and small yellow spots and area III with robust and granular tubercles/ columns, all other areas without ornamentation (
Figs 24D
,
25A
). Long and slender legs without any ornamentation. Coxa IV with medial depression and basal incrassation, with a large, lateral, yellow strip (
Figs 24A, B, E
,
25A, B, E
). Penis unknown.
Type
species:
Metagryne bicolumnata
Roewer, 1959
.
Included species:
Kayania bicolumnata
(
Roewer, 1959
)
comb. nov.
and
K. compressicoxa
(
Avram & Soares, 1983
)
comb. nov.
Combined distribution:
Eastern Andean slopes of
Ecuador
and
Peru
(
Fig. 23
).