Poecilaemula eutypa ( Chamberlin, 1925 ) Medrano & Kury & Martins & Proud, 2024

Medrano, Miguel, Kury, Adriano B., Martins, Pedro H. & Proud, Daniel N., 2024, The first harvestman described from Bocas del Toro Archipelago: a new Poecilaemula (Opiliones: Cosmetidae) and notes about the genus, Journal of Natural History 58 (9 - 12), pp. 311-329 : 316

Poecilaemula eutypa ( Chamberlin, 1925) comb. n.

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Meterginoides eutypa Chamberlin 1925: 240 .

Paecilaemella eutypa : Goodnight and Goodnight 1947: 9, fig. 27.

Paecilaema eutypa : Goodnight and Goodnight 1953: 54; Kury 2003: 76.

Paecilaema eutypum : Kury and Alonso-Zarazaga 2011: 51.

Etymology. The specific epithet is from the latinised Ancient Greek adjective εὔτυπος (easily taking an impression; easy to shape).

Type data. ♀ holotype ( MCZ 1333 , examined from photographs), PANAMA, Canal Zone . Barro Colorado Island , W.C. Allee (Univ. of Chicago BCI Coll.), [no specific locality data], [no verbatim date data] .

Examined material. 1 ♂ 4 ♀ (USNMENT 01538059), PANAMA, Canal Zone . Barro Colorado Island . April 1976, Silberglied and Aiello leg.

Records. PANAMA, Colón, Piña ( Goodnight and Goodnight 1947).

Diagnosis. Poecilaemula eutypa differs from other members of Poecilaemula sensu stricto by the combination of the following characteristics: dorsal scutum with yellow markings (orange in P. iching ); leg IV unarmed; areas of mesotergum the same colour as the rest of the scutum (areas darker in P. signata ).; tubercles of areas I and III extremely reduced, almost imperceptible (more conspicuous in P. signata and P. iching ), yet yellow in colour.

Figures

Figure 3. Poecilaemula eutypa (Chamberlin, 1925) comb. n., live specimen from El Oleoducto (Pipeline Road), Gamboa, Colón, Panamá: a–b. male, c–d. female. Photos courtesy Rosanette Quesada.

Figure 4. Poecilaemula eutypa (Chamberlin, 1925) comb. n., female holotype of Meterginoides eutypa (MCZ 1333): a. dorsal view; b. ventral view; c. lateral view; d. original labels. ©President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Figure 5. Poecilaemula eutypa (Chamberlin, 1925) comb. n. USNM 1538059. SEM of distal part of the penis: a. dorsal view. b. ventral view of the plate; c. latero-apical view; d. detail of stylus, dorso-apical view. e. apical view of the plate. Scale bars: a, b, c, e = 50 µm; d = 20 µm.