Meterginoides Roewer, 1912

Kury, Adriano B. & Medrano, Miguel, 2018, A whiter shade of pale: anchoring the name Paecilaema C. L. Koch, 1839 onto a neotype (Opiliones, Cosmetidae), Zootaxa 4521 (2), pp. 191-219 : 209-210

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4521.2.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6495131
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scientific name	Meterginoides Roewer, 1912
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Meterginoides Roewer, 1912 View in CoL nom. rest.

Meterginoides Roewer 1912: 102 View in CoL ; Roewer 1923: 379; Roewer 1928: 610; Mello-Leitão 1933: 106; Mello-Leitão 1935b: 113 [junior subjective synonym of Paecilaema C.L. Koch, 1839 View in CoL by Goodnight & Goodnight (1953: 54); type species: Meterginus inermis Banks, 1909 View in CoL , by original designation].

Diagnosis. Medium sized cosmetids (approximately 5 mm of body length) with short legs (I to IV: 13/20/15.5/ 20 mm), DS outline alpha-type without median ornamentation in mesotergum. Headless arborescent chevron in lateral parts of carapace and a transverse line in scutal groove III. Basal portion of Fe III-IV enlarged and armed with

ventral rows of tubercles. Hypertelic chelicera with incrassated bulla. Tarsal counts: 7/14/8 /8 ( Meterginus inermis after Goodnight & Goodnight, 1953). Included species. Only the type species.

1) Meterginoides inermis ( Banks, 1909) comb. rest.

Meterginus inermis Banks 1909: 229 View in CoL [♂ holotype (MCZ), COSTA RICA, Tablazo].

Meterginoides inermis: Roewer 1912: 103 View in CoL ; Roewer 1923: 379; Roewer 1928: 610.

Paecilaema inermis: Goodnight & Goodnight 1953: 54 .

Paecilaema inerme: Kury 2003: 77 View in CoL .

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Opiliones
Family	Cosmetidae