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Diguetinus raptator Roewer 1912

  • 1. Doctorado en Ciencias Básicas, Unidad Académica de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Av. Preparatoria s / n, Campus Universitario II, Col. Agronómica, CP. 98066. Zacatecas, Zacatecas (Mexico) & Laboratorio de Colecciones Biológicas y Sistemática Molecular, Unidad Académica de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Av. Preparatoria s / n, Campus Universitario II, Col. Agronómica, CP. 98066. Zacatecas, Zacatecas (Mexico)
  • 2. Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP), Centro de Investigación Regional Pacífico Sur (CIRPAS), Campo Experimental Valles Centrales de Oaxaca, Melchor Ocampo 7, CP. 68200, Santo Domingo Barrio Bajo, Villa de Etla, Oaxaca (Mexico)
  • 3. Laboratorio de Colecciones Biológicas y Sistemática Molecular, Unidad Académica de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Avenida Preparatoria s / n, Campus Universitario II, Col. Agronómica, CP. 98066. Zacatecas, Zacatecas (Mexico)

Description

Diguetinus raptator Roewer, 1912

(Figs 1A, B, E; 2A, B; 3A, B; 6 A-F; 7A-C; 8-9)

Diguetinus raptator Roewer, 1912: 271, pl. 1 fig. 25; 1923: 863, fig. 1030; 1956: 252. — Bronn 1932: 7, fig. 9b. — Di Caporiacco 1938: 280. — Goodnight & Goodnight 1942a: 15. — Weidner 1959: 121. — Cokendolpher & Lee 1993: 16. — Crawford 1992: 17. — Kury & Cokendolpher 2000: 150; 2020: 52. — Cokendolpher et al. 2021: 119, fig. 1-9.

TYPE DATA. — See Cokendolpher et al. (2021).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Mexico • 6 ♂, 10 ♀; Jalisco: Guadalajara: Bosque El Centinela; 20°45’44.4”N, 103°22’51.1”W; 1584 m a.s.l.; 26.X.2023; D. Ochoa-Vázquez, O. I. Ochoa-Vázquez leg.; GenBank accession numbers: PV430733-36; CRLSM-OP_01; CNAN-OP2021.

EMENDED DIAGNOSIS. — Diguetinus raptator can be distinguished from Diguetinus spinulatus stat. restit. by the combination of the following characters: a) dorsum with transverse rows of spines running across each tergite of the opisthosoma, not in a single row (as in Diguetinus spinulatus stat. restit.) but rather with random to at least two rows of spines per tergite; b) leg femur predominantly dark brown; c) glans length less than length of alae section, about 1/2 the length of alae; d) alae section proportion approximately 1/6 of the total length of the penis; e) alae section internal texture with a reticulate pattern, dark in colour, present over the entire alae surface.

Notes

Published as part of Jesús, Daniel Ochoa-Vázquez, Cruz-López, Jesús A., Elizabeth, Rogelio Rosas-Valdez & Martínez-Salazar, Elizabeth A., 2025, Redefining the Mexican genus Diguetinus Roewer, 1912 (Opiliones, Phalangioidea, Globipedidae) based on morphology and molecular phylogenetic data, with the redescription of Diguetinus spinulatus (Banks, 1898) stat. restit., pp. 731-749 in Zoosystema 47 (30) on page 734, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a30, http://zenodo.org/record/17775467

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2023-10-26
Verbatim event date
2023-10-26
Scientific name authorship
Roewer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Opiliones
Family
Globipedidae
Genus
Diguetinus
Species
raptator
Taxon rank
species
Type status
type
Taxonomic concept label
Diguetinus raptator Roewer, 1912 sec. Jesús, Cruz-López, Elizabeth & Martínez-Salazar, 2025

References

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  • BRONN H. G. 1932. - Dr. H. G. Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs: Wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Allgemeine Ubersicht der Klasse Arachnoidea (Spinnentiere). C. F. Winter, Leipzig und Heidelberg, 723 p. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10455754
  • DI CAPORIACCO L. 1938. - Aracnidi del Messico, di Guatemala e Honduras britannico. Istituto di Zoologia della R. Universita di Firenze 77 (3): 251-282.
  • GOODNIGHT C. J. & GOODNIGHT M. L. 1942 a. - New and little known Phalangida from Mexico. American Museum novitates (1163): 1-16. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/4796
  • WEIDNER H. V. 1959. - Die entomologischen Sammlungen des Zoologischen Staatsinstituts und Zoologischen Museums Hamburg, I. Pararthropoda und Chelicerata, I. Mitteilungen Hamburger Zoologischen Museums und Instituts 57: 89-142.
  • COKENDOLPHER J. C. & LEE V. 1993. - Catalogue of the Cyphopalpatores and Bibliography of the Harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones) of Greenland, Canada, U. S. A., and Mexico. James C. Cokendopher, Lubbock, Texas, 87 p.,
  • CRAWFORD R. L. 1992. - Catalogue of the Genera and type species of the harvestman superfamily Phalangioidea (Arachnida). Burke Mueseum Contributions in Antrhopology and Natural History 8: 1-59.
  • KURY A. B. & COKENDOLPHER J. C. 2000. - Opiliones, in LLORENTE-BOUSQUETS J., GONZALEZ-SORIANO E. & PAPAVERO N. (eds), Biodiversidad, taxonomia y biogeografia de artropodos de Mexico: hacia una sintesis de su conocimiento. Vol. 2. Comision Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO): 137-157.
  • KURY A. B. & COKENDOLPHER J. C. 2020. - A new family from the New World (Eupnoi: Phalangioidea), in KURY A. B., MENDES A. C., CARDOSO L., KURY M. S. & GRANADO A. d. A. (eds), WCO-Lite: online world catalogue of harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones): Version 1.0 - checklist of all valid nomina in Opiliones with authors and dates of publication up to 2018. do autor, Rio de Janeiro: 52-53. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4025287.
  • COKENDOLPHER J. C., LUCIO-PALACIO C. R. & STAREGA W. 2021. - Redescription and Natural History of the Mexican harvestman Diguetinus raptator Roewer, 1912 (Opiliones: Globipedidae), type species of the genus. Zootaxa 4984 (1): 119-133. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.12