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Eulibitia ectroxantha Medrano & Kury 2017, comb. nov.

  • 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.

Notes

Published as part of Medrano, Miguel & Kury, Adriano B., 2017, Taxonomic revision of the Andean genus Eulibitia Roewer, 1912 (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cosmetidae), with the description of five new species, pp. 1-55 in European Journal of Taxonomy 357 on page 16, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.357, http://zenodo.org/record/3836357

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Additional details

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