Titanoleptes cupidensis ( Soares & Soares, 1946 ) Kury & Bernabé, 2023

Kury, Adriano B. & Bernabé, Tiago, 2023, Description of two new genera and five new species of clade K 92 from Bahia and Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil (Arachnida, Opiliones, Gonyleptidae), Zootaxa 5351 (4), pp. 401-434 : 421

Titanoleptes cupidensis ( Soares & Soares, 1946) comb. nov.

( Figs 19–22 )

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Metagonyleptoides cupidensis Soares & Soares 1946 d: 196 , figs 1, 1A.

Metagonyleptes cupidensis: Kury 2003: 132 .

Type series. BRAZIL, Espirito Santo State: ♀ holotype ( MZSP OS 2913 , examined by photograph), “Linhares” [currently Sooretama]: Chapada de Cupido .

Material examined. BRAZIL, Espirito Santo State: 1 ♀ ( MNRJ 9097 ), Linhares, Reserva Florestal da Companhia Vale do Rio Doce , 28.viii.1981, C.A.G. Cruz, E. Izecksohn & O.L. Peixoto, leg.; 2 ♂, 1 ♀ ( MNRJ 17869 ), Sooretama , REBIO de Sooretama, (-19.0012° -40.1392°), 93 m, 21.iv.2006, T. Bernabé, A.P.L. Giupponi, A.B. Kury, C.S. Costa, E.G. Vasconcelos & E. Wienskoski leg.; 1 ♂ ( MACN AK 076 ), Sooretama, REBIO de Sooretama, x.1962 .

Diagnosis. Ocularium in both sexes with two high erect spines, concolorous with background ( Figs. 19 , a, b, h). Scutal area III in both sexes armed with small, paramedian, rounded tubercles ( Figs. 19b, d ). Free tergite III armed with a median spiniform apophysis in both sexes ( Figs. 19b, h ). Coxa IV of male with strong, retrolateral, apical apophysis, clearly longer than the prolateral one ( Fig 20a ). Trochanter IV of male without proximal prolateral apophysis ( Fig 20a ). Glans free, without a circular wall around stylus ( Fig. 22g ).

Distribution. Brazil, Espírito Santo State (ES), Linhares; Sooretama.

Figures

FIGURE 19. Titanoleptes cupidensis (Soares & Soares, 1946), (MNRJ 17869), male (A–F), and female (G, H), from Sooretama: a. Male, habitus, dorsal view; b. Same, detail of dorsal scutum; c. Same, ventral view; d. Same, dextrolateral view; e. Same, posterior view; f. Same, frontal view; g. Female, habitus, dextrolateral view; h. Same, dorsal view. Scale bars = 1 mm.

FIGURE 20. Titanoleptes cupidensis (Soares & Soares, 1946), male (MNRJ 17869), from Sooretama:a. Left coxa andtrochanter IV, dorsal view; b. Left patella IV, prolateral view; c. Left coxa to proximal femur IV, prolateral view; d. Left leg IV, ventral view. Scale bars = 1mm.

FIGURE 21. Titanoleptes cupidensis (Soares & Soares, 1946), male (MNRJ 17869), from Sooretama, left Fe IV: a. Dorsal view; b. Retrolateral (external) view; c. Ventral view; d. Prolateral (internal) view. Anterior direction upwards in a to c. Scale bars = 5 mm.

FIGURE 22. Titanoleptes cupidensis (Soares & Soares, 1946), (MNRJ 17869), from Sooretama, male genitalia, distal part: a. Dorsal view; b. Ventral view; c. Dextrolateral view; d. Same, panoramic; e. Latero-apical view; f. Dorso-apical view; g. Glans, dextrolateral view. Scale bars = 100 μm (a, b, d, e), 50 μm (c, f, g).