Revalidation of Obidosus Roewerı 1913 and description of two new cave-dwelling species of Protimesius Roewerı 1913 from Brazil (Opiliones: Stygnidae) Author Osvaldo Villarreal Author Ludson Neves de Ázara Author Kury, Adriano Brilhante text Journal of Natural History 2019 2019-06-03 53 15 965 989 journal article 23975 10.1080/00222933.2019.1620893 42ae9e66-896e-456b-85a1-156825ee9a3e 1464-5262 3673222 C4E9C04D-A646-41E4-AE59-B6D0C951DEAB Protimesius gracilis Roewerı 1913 Protimesius gracilis Roewer, 1913: 439 , fig. 173; Roewer 1923: 576 , fig. 722; Mello-Leitão 1923: 179 ; Roewer 1931: 151 ; Mello-Leitão 1932: 421 , fig. 278; B. Soares 1945: 387 ; B. Soares 1946: 526 ; H. Soares and B. Soares 1974: 614 ; H. Soares 1978: 75 ; Pinto-da-Rocha 1997: 282 , figs 378 – 385, 543 – 544, 602; Kury 2003: 230 ; Kury and Pinto-da-Rocha 2008: 320 , 322; Pinto-da-Rocha and Villarreal 2009: 54 ; Ochoa and Pinto-da-Rocha 2013: 197 ; Bragagnolo 2013: 285 , 286. Type data ³ lectotype and ♀ paralectotype ( MNHN ), BRAZIL, Amapá, Between Oyapock and Calçoene rivers (= Contesté Franco-brésilien, old litigious region). Figure 2. Protimesius orcus sp. nov. ı holotype (MNRJ 19ı403)ı (a – c) habitus: (a) dorsal viewı (b) ventral viewı (c) lateral view; (dıe) patellaı tibia and tarsus of right pedipalp: ectal view (d)ı mesal view (e); (fıg) distal portion of penis (MNRJ 4278): dorsal view (f)ı lateral view (g). Scale bars = 1 mm. Records BRAZIL, Amapá, Serra do Navio; Vila Nova, near Gaivota. FRENCH GUYANA, Inini, Bas Oyapock ( Pinto-da-Rocha 1997 ). SURINAME ( Roewer 1923 ). Doubtful/unconfirmed records The specimen from Pernambuco, Tapera, mentioned by Mello-Leitão (1923) [and repeated by B. Soares 1945 ] as Protimesius gracilis is a misidentification of Pickeliana pickeli (see H. Soares 1978 ). Amazonas, Manaus ( Mello-Leitão 1923 , followed by Roewer 1931 ) – misidentification of Obidosus sp., see B. Soares 1946: 526 .