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<emphasis id="E4B85C059D6B1A8183E054EBED95B8AC" italics="true">Eutimesius</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="80EA53559F063CBE40C083EBC1278EBA" author="Roewer C-F" issue="5" journalOrPublisher="Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Abteilung A" pagination="257-472" refId="B13" refString="Roewer C-F (1913) Die Familie der Gonyleptiden der Opiliones - Laniatores. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Abteilung A 79 (5): 257 - 472. [Part 2]" title="Die Familie der Gonyleptiden der Opiliones - Laniatores." volume="79" year="1913">Roewer, 1913</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis id="AA662A1722B8A4BCECF61CB3606B7721" italics="true">Eutimesius albicinctus</emphasis>
(
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)
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;
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<emphasis id="1D5BBFD03C20416A48C54DF896FF661F" italics="true">Eutimesius aroa</emphasis>
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;
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<emphasis id="AAF0CD835D23007EF2D29FC4EE522EA2" italics="true">Eutimesius canoabo</emphasis>
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;
<taxonomicName id="026E9ECB17855B274F7A240980897E7D" authority="(Roewer, 1915)" baseAuthorityName="Roewer" baseAuthorityYear="1915" class="Arachnida" family="Stygnidae" genus="Eutimesius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ephippiatus">
<emphasis id="684D10D55515708F7B36546B3D59F429" italics="true">Eutimesius ephippiatus</emphasis>
(
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)
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;
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<emphasis id="E1CF2279977826E18280709F79729397" italics="true">Eutimesius guaichia</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="ADA03DC95587C7C809674A3E0171B5D1" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
;
<taxonomicName id="BC5E75718467B912642FCEE7B852C28A" authority="(Rower, 1943)" baseAuthorityName="Roewer" baseAuthorityYear="1943" class="Arachnida" family="Stygnidae" genus="Eutimesius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ornatus">
<emphasis id="0CED91753687E623A03C6CD95780B7D1" italics="true">Eutimesius ornatus</emphasis>
(Rower, 1943)
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;
<taxonomicName id="D474472ABA55894F1976B8CD06FA03EE" authority="(Roewer, 1913)" baseAuthorityName="Roewer" baseAuthorityYear="1913" class="Arachnida" family="Stygnidae" genus="Eutimesius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="punctatatus">
<emphasis id="769BE9F698FABFEEE3F75AF29477C34B" italics="true">Eutimesius punctatatus</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="D300AB3435D6DFD77DCBBBB0E84F346D" author="Roewer C-F" issue="5" journalOrPublisher="Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Abteilung A" pagination="257-472" refId="B13" refString="Roewer C-F (1913) Die Familie der Gonyleptiden der Opiliones - Laniatores. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Abteilung A 79 (5): 257 - 472. [Part 2]" title="Die Familie der Gonyleptiden der Opiliones - Laniatores." volume="79" year="1913">Roewer, 1913</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="6FBF8F37E706A791A45EBDF6B0BFA975" authority="Roewer, 1913" authorityName="Roewer" authorityYear="1913" class="Arachnida" family="Stygnidae" genus="Eutimesius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simoni">
<emphasis id="0117A396E3E3021F10C098B024BCA343" italics="true">Eutimesius simoni</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="1F69E41F744CF3944A170EE1F2B39767" author="Roewer C-F" issue="5" journalOrPublisher="Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Abteilung A" pagination="257-472" refId="B13" refString="Roewer C-F (1913) Die Familie der Gonyleptiden der Opiliones - Laniatores. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Abteilung A 79 (5): 257 - 472. [Part 2]" title="Die Familie der Gonyleptiden der Opiliones - Laniatores." volume="79" year="1913">Roewer, 1913</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
.
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<heading id="B36A135A66464323AABD479C77612F17" reason="title">Diagnosis.</heading>
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<taxonomicName id="439BDFAA749BB4CC18A9EA841672D56A" authorityName="Roewer" authorityYear="1913" class="Arachnida" family="Stygnidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Heterostygninae">Heterostygninae</taxonomicName>
with white, dry spot on the dorsal scutum. Carapace with interocular monticle or spine, and scutal area
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with two acute paramedian spines. Genital “ bauplan ” as
<taxonomicName id="9AD361254941B242B6EC9E80984EEEB6" authorityName="Roewer" authorityYear="1913" class="Arachnida" family="Stygnidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Heterostygninae">Heterostygninae</taxonomicName>
,
<abbrev id="ABBRID0EIGAE" xlink_title="lamina parva">
<collectionCode id="1967BF0BCB0E16F71C39083FA896D332" country="Russia" name="Laboratory of Palaeontology">LP</collectionCode>
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with distal cleft, and long basal “ neck. ”
<abbrev id="ABBRID0EMGAE" xlink_title="macrosetae of penis">MS</abbrev>
- B ventrally positioned (Fig.
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) when compared to
<taxonomicName id="3971BCF719CFB52976BFE994B9180865" authorityName="Pinto-da-Rocha" authorityYear="1997" class="Arachnida" family="Stygnidae" genus="Innoxius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="FA770A709A37EB006FBC8582432F1AE3" italics="true">Innoxius</emphasis>
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.
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<paragraph id="1BEFF60F41EBE277BCFB050966F93E79">
<label id="D09D1AD3EB1131DB3DD1470A0084CDDD">Figure 1.</label>
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<paragraph id="3CE0C0F66E37910D4774C894699EF626">
<taxonomicName id="D88F01A0D447AF2171237500D05AE76C" class="Arachnida" family="Stygnidae" genus="Eutimesius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="BA4AACCC13CB08E60953CC3052E6EB44" italics="true">Eutimesius</emphasis>
sp.
</taxonomicName>
, male (
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3000054 - undescribed species from Norte de Santander, Colombia), showing the genital bauplan in the genus. Penis:
<emphasis id="102594CD93123D9F06918ED18A69657A" bold="true">A.</emphasis>
Ventral view;
<emphasis id="043CD6B7EA9D9CC521BECE4A0ABBB641" bold="true">B, E.</emphasis>
Lateral views;
<emphasis id="5E5650AFBC60F02624430ED28B99B2A5" bold="true">C.</emphasis>
Dorsal view;
<emphasis id="7657CD4E9358669999975068E63DC173" bold="true">D.</emphasis>
Apical view;
<emphasis id="8FE0E94B6E4C4F9124AD5282E7969A8D" bold="true">F.</emphasis>
<abbrev id="ABBRID0EZHAE" xlink_title="macrosetae of penis">MS</abbrev>
- A, detail in lateral view. Abbreviations: GSt = gland, stylus;
<abbrev id="ABBRID0E4HAE" xlink_title="lamina parva">LP</abbrev>
= lamina parva; Ma = malleus;
<abbrev id="ABBRID0EBIAE" xlink_title="macrosetae of penis">MS</abbrev>
= macrosetae of penis.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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<paragraph id="78DF4F54E9715761AC2D2615F044CE91">
<heading id="07A36634F215CF21B6D4AD5356204964" reason="title">Distribution</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="52B0CD80F51BBEFDBC90612BB81EDC2E">
<emphasis id="54BB13C7D1FD0343ADC5257E33005D6C" bold="true">
(Fig.
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).
</emphasis>
So far, species of the genus (except the Amazonic
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<emphasis id="7E1DB5CBBCDE644455E93F4FC2E2E58A" italics="true">E. simoni</emphasis>
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) are primarily known to be distributed in the Andes, specifically in the Cordillera Oriental of
<collectingCountry id="1CDF49257C40F5366090A3D45794469D" name="Colombia">Colombia</collectingCountry>
(
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ecoregion, Cordillera Oriental montane forests, NT 0118; and Northern Andean páramo, NT 1006) and in the Cordillera de
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of
<collectingCountry id="7284570863A796BC1C7FD924E952E12D" name="Venezuela">Venezuela</collectingCountry>
(
<collectionCode id="3EEFB403D66A2ED8614124C7A2436641" country="USA" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:13930" name="Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation" type="Herbarium">WWF</collectionCode>
ecoregion, Venezuelan Andes montane forests, NT 0175). The records of
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<emphasis id="81867CC831F291DFEB5CE0D9CE1E3821" italics="true">Eutimesius aroa</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="1218D4322DB9946D002DBE4E4847C096" italics="true">Eutimesius canoabo</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="479EB9EB51319177817CEFA2487C3352" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
, and
<taxonomicName id="225EF6F4219F6DAD06901DD2CED7252C" authority="Villarreal &amp; Ahumada-C. &amp; Navas-S., 2024" authorityName="Villarreal &amp; Ahumada-C. &amp; Navas-S." authorityYear="2024" class="Arachnida" family="Stygnidae" genus="Eutimesius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="guaichia" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="16AD6E28EA3530012FE5EB77E18194F5" italics="true">Eutimesius guaichia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="6B2BBEFE6A9FB1C4AF52CD7A5977BAAA" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
represent the first occurrences of the genus — considered until now an Andean component — in the Venezuelan Coastal Range (
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ecoregion, Cordillera de la Costa montane forests, NT 0117) and the first records outside the Cordillera de
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in this country. Records of
<taxonomicName id="DE6006315DA323E6219D553E019FB800" authorityName="Roewer" authorityYear="1913" class="Arachnida" family="Stygnidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Heterostygninae">Heterostygninae</taxonomicName>
in the Coast Range refer primarily to the genera
<taxonomicName id="DA062645746CC172C6675E30979713E3" authority="Simon, 1879" authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1879" class="Arachnida" family="Stygnidae" genus="Stygnoplus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="0D31C57AED2F93E5FF714D7574F6145A" italics="true">Stygnoplus</emphasis>
Simon, 1879
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="D06A9052CC7E1219835C6111045BEC8F" authority="Roewer, 1913" authorityName="Roewer" authorityYear="1913" class="Arachnida" family="Stygnidae" genus="Stenostygnellus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="A70DEB0BCEE44625F78F0730724F3DDC" italics="true">Stenostygnellus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="42DDB9517E86E0E4967CAD3F63CA8336" author="Roewer C-F" issue="5" journalOrPublisher="Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Abteilung A" pagination="257-472" refId="B13" refString="Roewer C-F (1913) Die Familie der Gonyleptiden der Opiliones - Laniatores. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Abteilung A 79 (5): 257 - 472. [Part 2]" title="Die Familie der Gonyleptiden der Opiliones - Laniatores." volume="79" year="1913">Roewer, 1913</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="0229525C4F7C009DC2EF3FFA73A8CED3">
<label id="8524EDB5961B3667B6F4A646E745B8CD">Figure 2.</label>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="22EB4C7D73CE11F9D1561172945AAF23">
Map showing the distribution of
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<emphasis id="BAA84755BCCB041FADC17986D8FD1461" italics="true">Eutimesius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="0408D304438EDD15346171D8C504F6BE">
<heading id="6D40742638F8511DA91FAA070E0D9A49" reason="title">Natural history</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="5DDAA2C8D285B11DDB97259F703E601C">
<emphasis id="972E57834B3BB894FA773D115B73C793" bold="true">
(Fig.
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).
</emphasis>
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exhibit diverse microhabitat preferences within forest ecosystems. Within the family
<taxonomicName id="2A315770907DC068C4ECE504C2C3EC73" authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1879" class="Arachnida" family="Stygnidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Stygnidae</taxonomicName>
, species demonstrate foraging locations within the understory, utilizing both arboreal substrates such as tree trunks and ground-level leaf litter.
<bibRefCitation id="0741F0D38CA4B59ACAF90F727E3947A0" DOI="10.1590/1678-4766e2019008" author="Villarreal O &amp; Sanchéz N &amp; De Ascenção A" issue="1" journalOrPublisher="Série Zoologia" pagination="1-6" refId="B18" refString="Villarreal O, Sanchéz N, De Ascenção A (2019 b) New generic assignment to the harvestman Metaphareus punctatus (Opiliones: Stygnidae) and observations about it reproductive behavior. Iheringia. Série Zoologia 109 (1): 16. https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-4766e2019008" title="New generic assignment to the harvestman Metaphareus punctatus (Opiliones: Stygnidae) and observations about it reproductive behavior. Iheringia." volume="109">Villarreal et al. (2019 b</bibRefCitation>
) documented
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<emphasis id="0AA1C2AB1A50CCE0A98C7C63087A44C1" italics="true">E. punctatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
utilizing the upper vegetation, such as small trees and shrubs, positioned well above the forest floor at heights of 1.53 meters, for foraging and oviposition. Additionally, at least one species of
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<emphasis id="AE313A84C522CF4AAB387F54E308CD9A" italics="true">Stenostygnellus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been reported to deposit its eggs between the leaf and stem of certain palms (
<bibRefCitation id="1F75B4E87BC394EE92BDB13947BFBCB6" DOI="10.1636/Hi11-29.1" author="Villarreal and Machado" firstAuthor="Villarreal" issue="3" journalOrPublisher="The Journal of Arachnology" pagination="500-502" refId="B16" refString="Villarreal O, Machado G (2011) First record of paternal care in the family Stygnidae (Opiliones: Laniatores). The Journal of Arachnology 39 (3): 500502. https://doi.org/10.1636/Hi11-29.1" title="First record of paternal care in the family Stygnidae (Opiliones: Laniatores)." volume="39" year="2011">Villarreal and Machado 2011</bibRefCitation>
). The three species described here were consistently collected at heights between 1.5 and 2 meters above ground, exclusively within shrubby vegetation or small trees. A preference for microhabitat was suggested for species within this genus (
<bibRefCitation id="0E5311443FA38A2BD49D9186E7975828" DOI="10.1590/1678-4766e2019008" author="Villarreal O &amp; Sanchéz N &amp; De Ascenção A" issue="1" journalOrPublisher="Série Zoologia" pagination="1-6" refId="B18" refString="Villarreal O, Sanchéz N, De Ascenção A (2019 b) New generic assignment to the harvestman Metaphareus punctatus (Opiliones: Stygnidae) and observations about it reproductive behavior. Iheringia. Série Zoologia 109 (1): 16. https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-4766e2019008" title="New generic assignment to the harvestman Metaphareus punctatus (Opiliones: Stygnidae) and observations about it reproductive behavior. Iheringia." volume="109">Villarreal et al. 2019 b</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="EDE1D05C1C8422827261CB00CDB95B46">
<label id="1CC6389D0601D0506941395296199B9C">Figure 3.</label>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="4BD8F2163E1F108CBE70C0818B29B9A9">
Schematic diagram illustrating the known altitudinal range for species of
<taxonomicName id="67268BF493B4ED5E7E4040C3902B434A" authorityName="Roewer" authorityYear="1913" class="Arachnida" family="Stygnidae" genus="Eutimesius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="AF8A7CB68A6C1B62188E759E76689091" italics="true">Eutimesius</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, their biogeographic area of occurrence, the country, and the microhabitat used if known.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="93FBF82CA1C62D3848AF503398A21A95">
The altitudinal range occupied by species of this genus is extensive, ranging from low elevations in the Amazon to heights reaching 3,050 meters in the Venezuelan Andes. However, the majority of species are found above 1,000 meters, typically in cloud forest habitats. Only
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<emphasis id="F30A25391F3861C044A5A14D08D4EFE6" italics="true">E. simoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been recorded in lowland areas between 70 and 110 meters in altitude, which is characteristic of the Amazonian region.
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<emphasis id="E3B254614A65750444020CAE5A6557F3" italics="true">E. ephippiatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
occurs at the foothills of the Andes between 500 and 1,000 meters. All other species occur above 1,000 meters in altitude. The highest altitude record corresponds to a single female from
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in
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, misidentified as
<taxonomicName id="72A98F49B8821B4C35794AAD2615BE47" baseAuthorityName="Roewer" baseAuthorityYear="1943" class="Arachnida" family="Stygnidae" genus="Eutimesius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Opiliones" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ornatus">
<emphasis id="84899FF18F5BE14792B89D2525FBCA50" italics="true">E. ornatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="53DFF6E007F1C91BF4DE4FB25C7A2251" DOI="10.11606/issn.2176-7793.v33i4p163-342" author="Pinto-da-Rocha" firstAuthor="Pinto-da-Rocha" issue="4" journalOrPublisher="Arquivos de Zoologia" pagination="163-342" refId="B12" refString="Pinto-da-Rocha R (1997) Systematic review of the neotropical family Stygnidae (Opiliones: Laniatores, Gonyleptoidea). Arquivos de Zoologia 33 (4): 163342. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-7793.v33i4p163-342" title="Systematic review of the neotropical family Stygnidae (Opiliones: Laniatores, Gonyleptoidea)." volume="33" year="1997">Pinto-da-Rocha 1997</bibRefCitation>
), reaching
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.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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