Dino Loman , 1893

Kury, Adriano B., 2008, On the systematic position of Dino Loman and Toccolus Roewer (Opiliones, Laniatores, Epedanidae), with the description of a new species from western Java, Indonesia, Zootaxa 1932, pp. 61-68 : 62

Dino Loman, 1893

Dino Loman 1893: 17 ; Loman 1902: 198; Roewer 1912: 209; Roewer 1923: 179 [type species Dino weberi Loman, 1893 , by monotypy].

Etymology. From the Greek Δεɩνώ, one of the Graeae ( Loman 1893: 17, footnote).

Remarks. Roewer (1923) gives 1892 as the publication date of the name Dino . The volume by Max Weber is dated 1894, but some individual parts surely appeared earlier. Both Neave’s Nomenclator zoologicus and the Zoological Record give 1893 for Loman’s chapter, which is the date I use here, in the absence of any other source of information on the precise publication date.

Diagnosis. Epedanidae with peltidium subrectangular, sides concave. Ocularium absent, eyes situated on separated, individual eyemounds. Basichelicerite elongate and very slender. Pedipalpal trochanter and femur armed ventrally with strong spines. Femur short and curved distally. Patella ventro-mesally with 1 spine, ventro-ectally unarmed. Leg I strongly enlarged (femur I 75 % as long as peltidium and thicker than pedipalpal femur). Tarsal counts 6(2)/14(2)/6/7.