Eulibitia ectroxantha Medrano & Kury 2017, comb. nov.
Authors/Creators
- 1. Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional / UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil. & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: C 7 F 7 D 4 CF-F 9 B 2 - 44 AF- 9 F 03 - 86278 ADBD 4 F 2 & Corresponding author: miangelmed @ gmail. com
- 2. Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional / UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil. & Email: adrianok @ gmail. com & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 60 FAE 1 F 8 - 87 F 7 - 4 A 5 F-BE 78 - BEB 25 BC 4 F 898
Description
Eulibitia ectroxantha (Mello-Leitão, 1941) comb. nov., species inquirenda
Fig. 34
Brachylibitia ectroxantha Mello-Leitão, 1941: 166, fig 1.
Cynorta ectroxantha – Goodnight & Goodnight 1953: 38.
Brachylibitia ectroxantha – Kury 2003: 38.
Platymessa ectroxantha – Medrano & Kury 2016: 57 (tagged as species inquirenda).
Diagnosis
Paramedian tubercles of posterior margin of scutum acuminate. Differs from other species of the genus in the presence of paramedian tubercles in area III but without any armature in area I, and the ladder mask with rungs only, no rails in scutal grooves I, II and III (see Mello-Leitão 1941 and Medrano & Kury 2016).
Etymology
From the Greek ἐκτρανóω (signify clearly) + ξανθóς (yellow).Type data
Whereabouts of type (s) unknown, probably once deposited in MNRJ, now lost. Type locality: Colombia, Boyacá Department, La Uvita [06°17′ N, 72°30′ W].
Remarks
This species was discussed and tagged as species inquirenda in Medrano & Kury (2016) and the available information is sufficient to include it within the new diagnosis of Eulibitia.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Medrano & Kury
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Opiliones
- Family
- Cosmetidae
- Genus
- Eulibitia
- Species
- ectroxantha
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eulibitia ectroxantha (Mello-Leitao, 1941) sec. Medrano & Kury, 2017
References
- Mello-Leitao C. F. de 1941. Alguns opilioes novos da Colombia. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 13 (3): 165 - 171.
- Goodnight C. J. & Goodnight M. L. 1953. The opilionid fauna of Chiapas, Mexico, and adjacent areas (Arachnoidea, Opiliones). American Museum Novitates 1610: 1 - 81.
- Kury A. B. 2003. Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones). Revista Iberica de Aracnologia, Volumen especial monografico 1: 1 - 337.
- Medrano M. & Kury A. B. 2016. Characterization of Platymessa with redescription of the type species and a new generic synonymy (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cosmetidae). Zootaxa 4085 (1): 52 - 62. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4085.1.2