Paecilaemella ornata, (ROEWER, 1912) COMB., 2022

Medrano, Miguel, Kury, Adriano Brilhante & Mendes, Amanda Cruz, 2022, Morphology-based cladistics splinters the century-old dichotomy of the pied harvestmen (Arachnida: Gonyleptoidea: Cosmetidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195, pp. 585-672 : 618

PAECILAEMELLA ORNATA ( ROEWER, 1912) COMB. NOV.

( FIG. 22 )

Protus ornatus Roewer, 1912: 118 , pl. 2, fig. 24.

Paecilaemella albantica Roewer, 1947: 27 pl. 10, fig. 85, syn. nov.

Paecilaema albantica: Goodnight & Goodnight, 1953: 54 .

Type data: Holotype: Ecuador. [Chimborazo]: Riobamba, [–1.66482°, –78.71318], 1 ♀ ( SMF RI

Diagnosis: It differs from P. festae and from

P. multimaculata ( Wood, 1869) by: (1) the pattern of coloration in DS ( Fig. 22A ); (2) dimorphic chelicerae in males, having inflated cheliceral hands in males ( Figs 22C, D ); and (3) legs III and IV with bipectinate tarsal claws ( Roewer, 1912).

Figures

Figure 22. Protus ornatus. A–D, male from Santa Helena, Ecuador (QCAZ 0390): A, dorsal view; B, dorsal panoramic view; C, lateral view; D, detail of basichelicerite, dorsal view. E, female holotype of P. ornatus (SMF RI 286), dorsal view. F, female holotype of Paecilaemella albantica (SMF RII 1472/146), dorsal view. G, female from Santa Helena, Ecuador (QCAZ 0390) dorsal view. Scale bars: 1 mm. Photos of types courtesy Abel Pérez (E) and Ricardo Pinto-da- Rocha (F).