Pirunipygus Roewer, 1936

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 : 30-31

Pirunipygus Roewer, 1936 new subfamily assignment

Pirunipygus Roewer, 1936: 341; Kury 2003: 187; (type species: Pirunipygus paradoxus Roewer, 1936, by monotypy).

Diagnosis.

Pirunipygus is a monotypic genus and resembles Ampycinae genera with a paramedian pair of enlarged tubercles on scutal areas I–II as Ampycus Simon, 1879, Hexabunus Roewer, 1913, Neopachyloides Roewer, 1913 and Parahernandria Go odnight & Goodnight, 1947. Pirunipygus paradoxus can be distinguished from these genera by the following combination of characters: ocularium with a median spiniform apophysis (Fig. 5A); dorsal scutum with secondary tubercles (sensu Maury 1992); scutal area III with a paramedian pair of spiniform apophyses; free tergite II with a median spiniform apophysis; free tergite III with three spiniform apophyses, the middle one largest and bifid.

Composition.

Monotypic.