FLIRTEINAE MEDRANO, KURY & MENDES, 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 : 617

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scientific name	FLIRTEINAE MEDRANO, KURY & MENDES
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FLIRTEINAE MEDRANO, KURY & MENDES SUBFAM. NOV.

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Diagnosis: Large cosmetids with long, strong but entirely unarmed legs. Dorsal scutum beta-type with weakly marked constrictions ( Fig. 4D View Figure 4 ). Scutal areas without prominent ornamentation (spines or tubercles) or with spines in area III. Some species with dimorphic chelicera ( P. ornata , Fig. 22 View Figure 22 ). Coxa IV entirely visible and concave in dorsal view ( Fig. 5E View Figure 5 ).

Included genera (from the analysis):

Flirtea C.L. Koch, 1839 View in CoL (type genus)

and Paecilaemella Roewer, 1925 .

Other included genera (according to the present diagnosis): Paecilaemana Roewer, 1928 .

References

Koch CL. 1839. Ubersicht des Arachnidensystems. Zweites Heft. Nurnberg: C. H. Zeh'schen Buchhandlung.

Roewer CF. 1925. Opilioniden aus Sud-Amerika. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia e di Anatomia Comparata della Reale Universita di Torino, N. S. 40: 1 - 34, plates 5 - 6.

Roewer CF. 1928 [' 1927 ']. Weitere Weberknechte II. (2. Erganzung der Weberknechte der Erde, 1923). Abhandlungen der Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein zu Bremen 26: 527 - 632.

Figures

Figure 4. Habitus in vivo of some non-discosomaticinae. A, Eucynortella cryptograma from Manabí (Ecuador). B, Vononana adrik from the biological research station Panguana (Peru). C, Taito spaceinvaders from Humaitá (Brazil). D, Flirtea valida from Pará (Brazil). E, Eulibitia scalaris from Boyacá (Colombia). F, Metalibitia sp. from Bolivian Amazon. G, Acantholibitia pluriarcuata from Piauí (Brazil). H, Libitioides albolineata from North Carolina (USA). Photographs of Martin Mandák (A), Dieter Schulten (B), Leonardo Carvalho (C, D, G), Miguel Medrano (E), Arthur Anker (F) and Jason Crockwell (H).

Figure 5. Examples of some characters defined by us and used in the present phylogenetic analysis.

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).