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Eulibitia, Roewer, 1912

Medrano, Miguel & Kury, Adriano B., 2017, Taxonomic revision of the Andean genus Eulibitia Roewer, 1912 (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cosmetidae), with the description of five new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 357, pp. 1-55 : 17

publication ID

 https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.357

publication LSID

 lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7A3BDEB4-DCF4-4111-A164-573CB62DC09F

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3851992

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AE87A6-0906-7E5F-B9AE-FEF1FDD258C0

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scientific name

 Eulibitia
status

 

Eulibitia View in CoL h-inscriptum ( Mello-Leitão, 1941) comb. nov.

Fig. 32 View Fig

Platymessa View in CoL h-inscripta Mello-Leitão, 1941: 167, fig 2.

Platymessa nigrolimbata Mello-Leitão, 1941: 168 View in CoL , fig 3 (junior subjective synonym of Platymessa View in CoL h-inscripta according to Medrano & Kury 2016).

Platymessa nigrolimbata View in CoL – B. Soares 1945: 344. — Kury 2003: 81.

Cynorta h-inscripta View in CoL – H. Soares 1970: 325.

Platymessa h-inscripta View in CoL – Kury 2003: 81.

Platymessa h-inscriptum View in CoL – Kury & Alonso-Zarazaga 2011: 51. — Medrano & Kury 2016: 58 View Cited Treatment , figs 1–29.

Diagnosis

E. h-inscriptum has a pair of paramedian tubercles in areas I, III and on the posterior margin, but differs from its congenerics because its ladder mask is not confined to the mesotergum, reaching the lateral margins of the scutum.

Material examined

Holotypes

COLOMBIA: ♂, Santander Department, Espinal (holotype of Platymessa h-inscripta, MNRJ 282 ).

COLOMBIA: ♀, Santander Department, San Gil (holotype of Platymessa nigrolimbata , MNRJ 463 ).

Paratypes

COLOMBIA: 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Boyacá Province, La Uvita (paratypes of Platymessa nigrolimbata , MNRJ 58).

Other material

COLOMBIA: 1 ♂, 11 ♀♀, Boyacá Department, Tipacoque, Vereda La Calera, 6°23.8′91′′ N, 72°43.4′10′′ W, 2800 m a.s.l., 1– 5 Apr. 2013, M. Medrano leg. ( ICN-AO 1186); 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, Santander Province, Zapatoca, Vereda La Cacica, Reserva La Montaña Mágica, 6°50.044′ N, 73°18.241′ W, 1964 m a.s.l., 6 Nov. 2013, C. Perafán and D. Martínez leg. ( ICN-AO 1384).

Remarks

This species was recently redescribed by Medrano & Kury (2016) and their morphological features match the new diagnosis of Eulibitia .

Kury A. B. 2003. Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones). Revista Iberica de Aracnologia, Volumen especial monografico 1: 1 - 337.

Kury A. B. & Alonso-Zarazaga M. - A. 2011. Addenda and corrigenda to the Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones) . Zootaxa 3034: 47 - 68.

Medrano M. & Kury A. B. 2016. Characterization of Platymessa with redescription of the type species and a new generic synonymy (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cosmetidae). Zootaxa 4085 (1): 52 - 62. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4085.1.2

Mello-Leitao C. F. de 1941. Alguns opilioes novos da Colombia. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 13 (3): 165 - 171.

Soares B. A. M. 1945. Opilioes da colecao do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. Arquivos de Zoologia do Estado de Sao Paulo 4 (9): 341 - 394.

Soares H. E. M. 1970. Novas especies de opilioes da Regiao Amazonica (Opiliones, Cosmetidae, Gonyleptidae, Phalangiidae, Stygnidae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 30 (3): 323 - 338.

Gallery Image

Fig. 32. Northern Andes in Colombia, showing localities for Eulibitia maculata Roewer, 1912 and E. h-inscriptum (Mello-Leitão, 1941) comb. nov. Colored patches on the background represent WWF ecoregions.

MNRJ

Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro
N

Nanjing University
W

Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
M

Botanische Staatssammlung M�nchen
C

University of Copenhagen

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Opiliones

SubOrder

Laniatores

InfraOrder

Grassatores

SuperFamily

Gonyleptoidea

Family

Cosmetidae

SubFamily

Cosmetinae

Specimens