Napostygnus Roewer, 1929

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 : 29

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.198.2337

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scientific name

Napostygnus Roewer, 1929
status

new family assignment

Napostygnus Roewer, 1929 View in CoL new family assignment

Napostygnus Roewer, 1929: 274, 275; Kury 2003: 145; (type species: Napostygnus bispinosus Roewer, 1929, by monotypy).

Diagnosis.

Napostygnus was originally placed in Gonyleptidae , Prostygninae and transferred to the Gonyleptidae , Metasarcinae by Kury (2003). It differs from the other 75 genera of Cranaidae by the following combination of characters: ocularium, scutal areas I–IV, posterior margin of dorsal scutum and free tergite I unarmed; free tergites II–III with one spine; posterior margin of dorsal scutum concave; legs thin and unarmed; penis with ventral plate wider at the middle, three pairs of distal setae, two pairs of basal setae, glans with dorsal process, stylus with apex enlarged.

Composition.

Monotypic.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Opiliones

SubOrder

Laniatores

SuperFamily

Gonyleptoidea

Family

Nomoclastidae