Poecilaemula Roewer, 1912

Medrano, Miguel, Kury, Adriano B., Martins, Pedro H. & Proud, Daniel N., 2024, The first harvestman described from Bocas del Toro Archipelago: a new Poecilaemula (Opiliones: Cosmetidae) and notes about the genus, Journal of Natural History 58 (9 - 12), pp. 311-329 : 315-316

Poecilaemula Roewer, 1912

Poecilaemula Roewer 1912: 100 [junior subjective synonym of Paecilaema C.L. Koch, 1839 by Goodnight and Goodnight (1953, p. 54); synonymy disclaimed by Kury (2003, p. 81);

type species: Meterginus signatus Banks, 1909 , by original designation].

Poecilaemula – Roewer 1915: 125; Roewer 1928: 605; Kury 2003: 81.

‘ Paecilaemula ’ (incorrect subsequent spelling): Roewer 1915: 125; Roewer 1923: 374; Roewer 1928: 605; Mello-Leitão 1932: 64, 442; de Mello-Leitão 1933: 106.

Diagnosis. Large cosmetids (dorsal scutum length approximately 5 mm) with long legs. Dorsal scutum outline beta classic with wide carapace, scutal areas I and III each with a pair of small round tubercles, which in area I are smaller and have more space between them, thus forming a trapezium. Scutum with four blot groups arranged as elaborate fenestrate yellow-orange rounded polygons: (1) an anterior pair on the laterals of carapace and (2) a posterior pair on the laterals of the posterior border of dorsal scutum. Anterior and posterior blots joined by a longitudinal line in the margin of mesotergum in P. signata . Chelicera sexually dimorphic, in males the hand is swollen and the basichelicerite much thicker than in females. Chelicera with dual texture: basichelicerite heavily granulated and dark brown while hand is yellow-orange and glossy. Legs I–IV elongate (femur more than twice as long as dorsal scutum length), but not extremely thin. Fe I–IV straight with scattered granules, slightly thinner in females. Tibia IV monomorphic (in P. signata and P. eutypa ) or dimorphic (in P. iching : with retrodorsal and retroventral rows of spines in males). Tarsal counts: 7(3)/15-17(3)/10/11-12.

Included species (according to the present diagnosis). Poecilaemula eutypa ( Chamberlin, 1925) comb. n., Poecilaemula iching sp. n., Poecilaemula signata ( Banks, 1909) .

Species formally included in Poecilaemula , but which should be placed somewhere else in the future, are listed in Table 1 .