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<mods:title>Further notes on New Zealand Enantiobuninae (Opiliones, Neopilionidae), with the description of a new genus and two new species</mods:title>
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listeri (White, 1849)
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Figure 3
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">
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<bibRefCitation pageId="7" pageNumber="66">White 1849</bibRefCitation>
: 6 (reprinted 1850: 52).
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">
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(
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):
<bibRefCitation pageId="7" pageNumber="66">Simon 1879</bibRefCitation>
: 73,
<bibRefCitation author="Taylor, CK" journalOrPublisher="Tuhinga" pageId="13" pageNumber="72" pagination="53 - 76" title="New Zealand harvestmen of the subfamily Megalopsalidinae (Opiliones: Monoscutidae) - the genus Pantopsalis." volume="15" year="2004">Taylor 2004</bibRefCitation>
: 61 (as nomen dubium; further citations provided by
<bibRefCitation author="Taylor, CK" journalOrPublisher="Tuhinga" pageId="13" pageNumber="72" pagination="53 - 76" title="New Zealand harvestmen of the subfamily Megalopsalidinae (Opiliones: Monoscutidae) - the genus Pantopsalis." volume="15" year="2004">Taylor 2004</bibRefCitation>
).
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">
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<bibRefCitation author="Forster, RR" journalOrPublisher="Records of the Dominion Museum" pageId="12" pageNumber="71" pagination="183 - 192" title="The genus Megalopsalis Roewer in New Zealand with keys to the New Zealand genera of Opiliones." volume="1" year="1944">Forster 1944</bibRefCitation>
: 190, pl. 66 Figs 1-3 syn. n.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Pantopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pantopsalis luna" order="Opiliones" pageId="7" pageNumber="66" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="luna">Pantopsalis luna</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Forster, RR" journalOrPublisher="Records of the Dominion Museum" pageId="12" pageNumber="71" pagination="183 - 192" title="The genus Megalopsalis Roewer in New Zealand with keys to the New Zealand genera of Opiliones." volume="1" year="1944">Forster 1944</bibRefCitation>
):
<bibRefCitation author="Taylor, CK" journalOrPublisher="Tuhinga" pageId="13" pageNumber="72" pagination="53 - 76" title="New Zealand harvestmen of the subfamily Megalopsalidinae (Opiliones: Monoscutidae) - the genus Pantopsalis." volume="15" year="2004">Taylor 2004</bibRefCitation>
: 70-71, Fig. 9.
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">Neotype.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">1 ♂, 'Ile du Milieu, Filhol, 1875-75' (MNHP no. 134).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="7" pageNumber="66" type="other specimens examined">
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">Other specimens examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">1 ♂, same data as neotype; 3 ♂, New Zealand, WD. Waiho Gorge, Sth Westland, 21 July 1927 (MONZ); photographs of live males provided by Simon Pollard (Canterbury Museum, Christchurch).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">Description.</paragraph>
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As described by
<bibRefCitation pageId="7" pageNumber="66">Simon (1879)</bibRefCitation>
, with the following additions: Dorsum of opisthosoma with pale silvery, narrow, transverse stripes on posterior margins of segments (Fig. 3b). Segment II of chelicera inflated in neotype, slender in remaining specimens. Glans of penis without dorsal keel (
<bibRefCitation author="Taylor, CK" journalOrPublisher="Tuhinga" pageId="13" pageNumber="72" pagination="53 - 76" title="New Zealand harvestmen of the subfamily Megalopsalidinae (Opiliones: Monoscutidae) - the genus Pantopsalis." volume="15" year="2004">Taylor 2004</bibRefCitation>
: Fig. 9).
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Figure 3.
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. A Neotype, lateral view B live specimen, photographed by Simon Pollard.
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">Comments.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="66">
The original type specimen(s) of
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are lost; they have not been located in the collection of the Museum of Natural History, London (J. Beccaloni, pers. com.) or of the
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national
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naturelle, Paris (M. Judson, pers. com.) It was therefore treated as a nomen dubium by
<bibRefCitation author="Taylor, CK" journalOrPublisher="Tuhinga" pageId="13" pageNumber="72" pagination="53 - 76" title="New Zealand harvestmen of the subfamily Megalopsalidinae (Opiliones: Monoscutidae) - the genus Pantopsalis." volume="15" year="2004">Taylor (2004)</bibRefCitation>
. A redescription of
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was provided by
<bibRefCitation pageId="7" pageNumber="66">Simon (1879)</bibRefCitation>
, who made it the type species of his new genus
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.
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Since the publication of
<bibRefCitation author="Taylor, CK" journalOrPublisher="Tuhinga" pageId="13" pageNumber="72" pagination="53 - 76" title="New Zealand harvestmen of the subfamily Megalopsalidinae (Opiliones: Monoscutidae) - the genus Pantopsalis." volume="15" year="2004">Taylor (2004)</bibRefCitation>
, I have had the opportunity to examine two of the specimens used by
<bibRefCitation pageId="7" pageNumber="66">Simon (1879)</bibRefCitation>
in his redescription of this species. Their state of preservation is not ideal (they appear to have been subject to desiccation at some point in the past) and the genitalia have become distorted. Nevertheless, I was able to confirm the absence of a dorsal keel on the glans, demonstrating that
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neopilionidae" genus="Pantopsalis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Pantopsalis listeri" order="Opiliones" pageId="7" pageNumber="66" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="listeri">Pantopsalis listeri</taxonomicName>
could not be conspecific with
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,
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or
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among other South Island
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species. External characters (described by
<bibRefCitation pageId="7" pageNumber="66">Simon 1879</bibRefCitation>
), such as the unarmed ocularium with denticles restricted to the anterior propeltidium on the dorsal prosomal plate, are also consistent with male specimens referred to
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(
<bibRefCitation author="Forster, RR" journalOrPublisher="Records of the Dominion Museum" pageId="12" pageNumber="71" pagination="183 - 192" title="The genus Megalopsalis Roewer in New Zealand with keys to the New Zealand genera of Opiliones." volume="1" year="1944">Forster 1944</bibRefCitation>
) by
<bibRefCitation author="Taylor, CK" journalOrPublisher="Tuhinga" pageId="13" pageNumber="72" pagination="53 - 76" title="New Zealand harvestmen of the subfamily Megalopsalidinae (Opiliones: Monoscutidae) - the genus Pantopsalis." volume="15" year="2004">Taylor (2004)</bibRefCitation>
(pers. obs.), and it is my judgement that that species is a junior synonym of
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sensu
<bibRefCitation pageId="7" pageNumber="66">Simon (1879)</bibRefCitation>
. The opisthosoma has collapsed in both MNHP specimens, so
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(1879) failure to note the transverse striping present in this species may be an artefact of preservation and does not oppose the synonymy.
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Whites">White's</normalizedToken>
(1849) original description of
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does not provide a more detailed type locality than 'New
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, but
<bibRefCitation author="Judson, MLI" journalOrPublisher="Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology" pageId="13" pageNumber="72" pagination="1 - 54" title="Catalogue of the pseudoscorpion types (Arachnida: Chelonethi) in the Natural History Museum, London." volume="11" year="1997">Judson (1997)</bibRefCitation>
suggested the Bay of Islands, North Island, as the likely type locality for
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<bibRefCitation pageId="7" pageNumber="66">White 1849</bibRefCitation>
(now
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), described in the same paper. If this was also the case for
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, then
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(1879) specimens would be unlikely to represent the same species as
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type(s).
<bibRefCitation pageId="8" pageNumber="67">Simon (1879)</bibRefCitation>
did not explicitly indicate how he identified his specimens as
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; as no other New Zealand enantiobunine had yet been described, Simon was probably simply unaware that more than one phalangioid species with enlarged chelicerae existed there. Nevertheless, one of the MNHP specimens (Fig. 3a) is here designated as neotype of
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.
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original description was exceedingly rudimentary, giving basic characters of the chelicerae only, and inadequate for determining which of the genera
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,
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or
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was being examined.
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more detailed redescription was at least implicitly used as the basis for identification of
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by all subsequent authors (
<bibRefCitation author="Pocock, RI" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London" pageId="13" pageNumber="72" pagination="392 - 413" title="On some new harvest-spiders of the order Opiliones from the southern continents." volume="1902" year="1903 a">Pocock 1903a</bibRefCitation>
, b,
<bibRefCitation author="Hogg, HR" journalOrPublisher="Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, new series" pageId="12" pageNumber="71" pagination="273 - 283" title="Some New Zealand and Tasmanian Arachnidae." volume="42" year="1910">Hogg 1910</bibRefCitation>
, 1920,
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,
<bibRefCitation author="Taylor, CK" journalOrPublisher="Tuhinga" pageId="13" pageNumber="72" pagination="53 - 76" title="New Zealand harvestmen of the subfamily Megalopsalidinae (Opiliones: Monoscutidae) - the genus Pantopsalis." volume="15" year="2004">Taylor 2004</bibRefCitation>
). Nomenclatural stability is best served by fixing
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's identity as the species examined by Simon.
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