Gyndesops Roewer, 1943

Pinto-da-Rocha, Ricardo, Benedetti, Alipio Rezende, de Vasconcelos, Eduardo Gomes & Hara, Marcos Ryotaro, 2012, New systematic assignments in Gonyleptoidea (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores), ZooKeys 198, pp. 25-68 : 44-45

Gyndesops Roewer, 1943 new subfamilial assignment

Gyndesops Roewer, 1943: 29; Kury 2003: 129; (type species: Gyndesops denisi Roewer, 1943).

Diagnosis.

Gyndesops resembles the largest Pachylinae genus, Discocyrtus Holmberg, 1878, which presents an ocularium and scutal area III with paired armature, four scutal areas, scutal area II–IV and free tergites I–III unarmed. This combination of characters also occurs in genera such as Gyndoides Mello-Leitão, 1927, Lacronia Strand, 1942, Paraluederwaldtia Mello-Leitão, 1927 and Parapucrolia Roewer, 1917. Gyndesops can be distinguished from Lacronia and Parapucrolia by the coloration, which is uniformly auburn ( Lacronia has green/yellow spots and/or stripes on dorsal scutum and Parapucrolia has white patches on dorsal scutum). It is very difficult to distinguish Gyndesops from the remaining genera, because no revision was ever made including those groups, and their monophyly is doubtful. It is possible that Gyndesops (as well as Gyndoides and Paraluederwaldtia ) is a junior synonym of Discocyrtus , but we refrained ourselves from such a rash nomenclatural act.

Composition.

Monotypic.