Roeweria bittencourti Mello-Leitão, 1923

Bragagnolo, Cibele & Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo, 2009, Review of the Brazilian harvestman genus Roeweria Mello-Leitão, 1923 (Opiliones: Gonyleptidae), Zootaxa 2270, pp. 39-52 : 41-44

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Roeweria bittencourti Mello-Leitão, 1923 View in CoL

( Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 A,B, 2C,D, 3C, 6, 7D)

Roeweria bittencourti Mello-Leitão, 1923: 167 View in CoL ; Kury, 2003: 190 (complete synonymic list); (MNRJ-1526, male lectotype and 3 males paralectotypes here designated, examined).

Discocyrtoides bittencourti: Soares & Soares, 1988: 227 , figs. 1–3.

Lyopachylus mitobatoides Mello-Leitão, 1926: 374 View in CoL ; (MNRJ-1396, 2 females syntypes, examined). Synonymy established by Soares & Soares, 1988.

Discocyrtoides catarinae B. Soares, 1946: 490 View in CoL , 529, fig. 2; (MZSP-1520, male holotype, examined).

Harpachylus tibialis Roewer, 1943: 25 View in CoL , pl. 2, fig. 17; Kury, 2003: 190; (SMF RII 1378/71, 1 male and 1 female syntypes; SMF RII 3865/84, 1 male and 3 females syntypes, examined). syn. n.

Diagnosis. R. bittencourti resembles R. virescens by the male external apophysis on coxa IV without basal tubercle ( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 A,B, 4), penis with cordiform ventral plate ( Figs. 5 View FIGURE 5 , 6 View FIGURE 6 ) and absence of ventral process of stylus. It can be distinguished from R. virescens and R. garrincha sp. n. by the large acute tubercles on dorsal part of male patella and tibia IV (= tubercle length similar to or larger than tibia minimal width) ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 C) and by the similar-sized internal and external apophyses of male coxa IV ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 A).

Distribution. Coastal Atlantic Rain Forest of the state of Santa Catarina ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 ).

Material examined. BRAZIL. Santa Catarina: São Bento do Sul (Ano Bom), 3.IV.1999, R. Pinto-da- Rocha & R.S. Bérnils leg., 2 males, 1 female (MZSP-18636); Itapoá (Figueira do Portal), 6–10.IX.1999, R.S. Bérnils leg., 2 males, 2 females (MZSP-21456); Araquari (Itapocú), 2 males, 4 females syntypes of Harpachylus tibialis ( SMF 3865/84); Luiz Alves (Alto Máximo), 12.XII.2005, M.B. da Silva et al. leg., 1 male (MZSP-29081); Ilhota (Morro do Baú), 1.IV.1999, R. Pinto-da-Rocha, R.S. Bérnils & R. Lingnau leg., 2 males, 1 female (MZSP-18659); Blumenau, XI.1962, C.N. Gofferjé leg., 1 female (MHNCI-6306); idem, (Parque Spitzkopf), 31.III.1999, R. Pinto-da-Rocha, R.S. Bérnils & R. Lingnau leg., 1 male, 5 females (MZSP-18384, 18334, 18327); Camboriú (Praia da Laranjeira), 23.II.2002, A. Giupponi leg., 1 male (MNRJ- 4955); Florianópolis (Ilha de Santa Catarina), 17.XII.1999, A. Giupponi & D. Pedrosa leg., 1 male (MNRJ- 4329).