On the sun-spiders of the ibirapemussu species-group of the genus Gaucha Mello-Leitão, 1924 (Solifugae, Mummuciidae), with description of a new species
Author
Carvalho, Leonardo S.
Author
Botero-Trujillo, Ricardo
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-11-19
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10.11646/zootaxa.4700.2.8
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Genus
Gaucha
Mello-Leitão, 1924
Gaucha
Mello-Leitão, 1924: 140
–141 (as
Gaùcha
[sic]).
Type
species:
Gaucha fasciata
Mello-Leitão, 1924
(by original designation).
Gauchella
Mello-Leitão, 1937: 84
(synonymized by
Botero-Trujillo
et al.
2017: 13
).
Type
species:
Gaucha stoeckeli
Roewer, 1934
.
Metacleobis
Roewer, 1934: 589
(synonymized by
Botero-Trujillo
et al.
2017: 13
).
Type
species:
Metacleobis fulvipes
Roewer, 1934
.
Mummuciella
Roewer, 1934: 583
, 587 (synonymized by Mello-Leitão, 1937: 84).
Type
species:
Mummuciella simoni
Roewer, 1934
.
Species composition.
Twelve South American species, namely:
Gaucha avexada
Botero-Trujillo, Ott & Carvalho, 2017
;
Gaucha cabriola
sp. nov.
;
Gaucha casuhati
Botero-Trujillo, Ott & Carvalho, 2017
;
Gaucha curupi
Botero- Trujillo, Ott & Carvalho, 2017;
Gaucha eremolembra
Botero-Trujillo, Ott & Carvalho, 2017
;
Gaucha fasciata
Mello-Leitão, 1924
;
Gaucha fulvipes
(Roewer, 1934)
;
Gaucha ibirapemussu
(Carvalho, Candiani, Bonaldo, Suesdek & Silva, 2010)
;
Gaucha mauryi
(
Rocha
, 2001)
;
Gaucha ramirezi
Botero-Trujillo, Ott, Mattoni, Nime
, Ojanguren- Affilastro, 2019;
Gaucha santana
Botero-Trujillo, Ott, Mattoni, Nime, Ojanguren-Affilastro, 2019
; and
Gaucha stoeckeli
Roewer, 1934
;
Distribution.
Argentina
(
Buenos Aires
,
Córdoba
and
Santiago del Estero
provinces),
Bolivia
(
Cochabamba
and
La Paz
departments),
Brazil
(States of
Bahia
,
Distrito Federal
,
Goiás
,
Mato Grosso
,
Mato Grosso do Sul
,
Minas Gerais
,
Pernambuco
[new record],
Piauí
,
Rio Grande do Sul
,
Tocantins
),
Uruguay
(
Lavalleja
,
Río Negro
,
Rivera
).
Diagnosis.
See details in
Botero-Trujillo
et al.
(2017: 13)
and amendment regarding the pleural marks made by
Botero-Trujillo
et al.
(2019)
.