Libitiinae Medrano, Kury & Mendes, 2022, SUBFAM. NOV.
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LIBITIINAE MEDRANO, KURY & MENDES SUBFAM. NOV.
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Comment: The monophylum herein labelled ‘clade A’ and described as the new subfamily Libitiinae, includes four terminals of our analysis, which may be extrapolated to ten species. Libitia bipunctata Sørensen, 1932 and * Libitia cordata (Gervais, 1844) here represent the genus Libitia Simon, 1879, which has two further species, all four of them from Colombia (Medrano et al., 2020). * Ambatoiella vigilans Mello-Leitão, 1943 stands for the genus Ambatoiella Mello-Leitão, 1943, which has a second species, both occurring in Ecuador (Medrano & Kury, 2017). * Oligovonones brunneus Caporiacco, 1951 here represents the genus Oligovonones Caporiacco, 1951, which has further three species, all found in Venezuela (González-Sponga, 1992). All three genera in their current configurations may, for the present purposes, be treated as probable monophyletic units.
Diagnosis: Small animals with short legs. DS alphatype with large coda. Fe IV curved and shorter than DS length. DS flat in lateral view, areas of mesotergum without any armature. Coxa IV entirely visible in dorsal view, convex and short (0.3× DS length in dorsal view). Leg I with five tarsomeres; leg III with five to six tarsomeres. Penis with two pairs of MS-A. Yellow spots mostly reduced to small dots in laterals of scutal grooves, extending medially in Libitia.
Type genus: Libitia Simon, 1879.
Included genera: Ambatoiella Mello - Leitão, 1943; Libitia Simon, 1879; and Oligovonones Caporiacco, 1951.
Distribution: Northern Andes (Fig. 7).
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- URL
- http://zoobank.org/8EB3A791-F22F-4C24-B9DF-498E41DFF74C
- URL
- http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA878CFFBAFFCAFCB0FC6EFD982369
- LSID
- urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:8EB3A791-F22F-4C24-B9DF-498E41DFF74C
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Medrano, Kury, Mendes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Opiliones
- Family
- Cosmetidae
- Taxon rank
- subFamily
- Taxonomic status
- subfam. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Libitiinae Medrano, Kury & Mendes, 2022
References
- Gervais P. 1844. Aceres Phryneides, Scorpionides, Solpugides, Phalangides et Acarides; Diceres Epizoiques, Aphanipteres et Thysanoures. In: Walckenaer CA, ed. Org. Histoire naturelle des Insectes Apteres, Tome 3, viii + 476 pp. Paris: Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, 94 - 131.
- Simon E. 1879. Essai d'une classification des Opiliones Mecostethi. Remarques synonymiques et descriptions d'especes nouvelles. Premiere partie. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 22: 183 - 241.
- Medrano M, Azara LN, Kury AB. 2020. The short-legged Andean cosmetids revisited: the genus Libitia Simon, 1879 with description of two new species (Opiliones, Cosmetidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 634: 1 - 25.
- de Mello-Leitao CF. 1943. Aracnidos recogidos en el Ecuador y el Peru por la Senora H. E. Frizell Don. Comunicaciones zoologicas del Museo de Historia natural de Montevideo 1: 1 - 8.
- Medrano M, Kury AB. 2017. Taxonomic revision of the Andean genus Eulibitia Roewer, 1912 (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cosmetidae), with the description of five new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 357: 1 - 55.
- di Caporiacco L. 1951. Studi sugli Aracnidi del Venezuela raccolti dalla Sezione di Biologia (Universita Centrale del Venezuela). I Parte: Scorpiones, Opiliones, Solifuga y Chernetes. Acta Biologica Venezuelica 1: 1 - 46.
- Gonzalez-Sponga MA. 1992. Aracnidos de Venezuela. Opiliones Laniatores II. Familia Cosmetidae. Caracas: Academia de Ciencias Fisicas, Matematicas y Naturales.