Marronia, 2022

Medrano, Miguel, Kury, Adriano Brilhante & Mendes, Amanda Cruz, 2022, Morphology-based cladistics splinters the century-old dichotomy of the pied harvestmen (Arachnida: Gonyleptoidea: Cosmetidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195, pp. 585-672 : 622

MARRONIA MEDRANO, KURY & MENDES. GEN. NOV.

Zoobank registration: urn: lsid: zoobank. org:act: F76760C6-6D06-460A-A369-8C7F7546E6B6

Etymology: This genus honours the descendants of freed African slaves in Suriname, there often referred to as ‘boslandcreolen’ in Dutch or ‘bushinengue’ in Surinamese, literally meaning ‘people of the forest’. Currently the more neutral word ‘marrons’ is used, which is derived from the French ‘ couleur marron ’, meaning chestnut coloured. Gender feminine.

Diagnosis: Delicate animals with rounded DS in dorsal view. Long and slender legs without any ornamentation. Coxa IV covered by DS and, therefore, not visible in dorsal view. Colour entirely reddish brown without any yellow strip. Area I with two paramedian rounded and small tubercles and area III with high acuminate tubercles, all other areas without ornamentation. Leg I with three basitarsomeres.

Type species: Metagryne elegans Roewer, 1947 .

Included species: Only the type species.

Remarks: Although superficial similarity is present with other Discosomaticinae , the results do not support its inclusion in none of the genera recovered in the cladistic analysis. Type material is mixed with specimens of a Gryne species, possibly Gryne marginalis .