Auranus Mello-Leitão, 1941

Colmenares, Pío A., Porto, Willians & Tourinho, Ana Lúcia, 2016, Taxonomic notes on the genus Auranus (Opiliones, Laniatores, Stygnidae), with description of two new species, Zootaxa 4103 (2), pp. 117-129 : 118

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.2.2

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6088021

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Auranus Mello-Leitão, 1941
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Auranus Mello-Leitão, 1941 View in CoL

Auranus Mello-Leitão, 1941: 441 View in CoL ; Pinto-da-Rocha 1995: 196; Pinto-da-Rocha 1997: 263; Kury 2003: 228; Kury & Villarreal 2015: 12, 29, 30, 32, 40. (Type species Auranus parvus Mello-Leitão, 1941 View in CoL , by original designation, examined).

Emended diagnosis. External morphology: Dorsal scutum rectangular. Prosoma slightly tuberculate, sometimes with an anterior hump. Eye mounds smooth. Area I divided by a median groove; I–II with small tubercles; III with two spines (just one spine in Auranus xerxes View in CoL sp. nov.). Pedipalpal femur large; basal socket apex of tibia normal. Without tarsal process or scopula. Penis: Ventral plate present as a thin lamina parva, apically shaped as a calyx ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 A–D, 5A–C) and with two lateral flat projections directed ventrally ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 B, 5B–C). Truncus large and cylindrical, swollen distally, malleus surrounding completely the basis of the lamina parva. Chaetotaxy: MS A1– A3 flat and bifid, placed laterally on malleus; B ventrally on malleus, usually following the same row as MS A; MS C small, cylindrical and sharp, laterally on lamina parva; MS D reduced only to D1, dorsally on lamina parva; MS E1 close and similar in size and shape to MS C, E2 absent or when present, very large and located ventrally on malleus. Glans without dorsal process (one exception occurs in Auranus xerxes View in CoL sp. nov.).

Species included. Auranus hehu View in CoL Pinto-da-Rocha & Tourinho, 2012, Auranus leonidas View in CoL sp. nov., Auranus parvus Mello-Leitão, 1941 View in CoL (type species), Auranus tepui View in CoL Pinto-da-Rocha & Tourinho, 2012 and Auranus xerxes View in CoL sp. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Opiliones

Family

Stygnidae

Loc

Auranus Mello-Leitão, 1941

Colmenares, Pío A., Porto, Willians & Tourinho, Ana Lúcia 2016
2016
Loc

Auranus Mello-Leitão, 1941 : 441

Kury 2015: 12
Kury 2003: 228
Mello-Leitao 1941: 441
1941
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