Metalibitia fusca ( Simon, 1879 ) Medrano & Ázara & Kury, 2020

Medrano, Miguel, Ázara, Ludson Neves de & Kury, Adriano Brilhante, 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, pp. 1-25 : 18-19

Metalibitia fusca ( Simon, 1879) comb. nov.

Libitia fusca Simon, 1879: 217 .

Libitia fusca – Roewer 1912: 12; 1923: 294; 1928: 552. — Mello-Leitão 1932: 53. — Kury 2003: 65.

Material examined

Type

“ SOUTH AMERICA ” • ♂; without further locality data; MNHN (Coll Simon Nº 2795) (one unsexed specimen examined by photograph).

Records

“ Paraguay ”, without further locality data ( Roewer 1928). Brazil, “ Pará ”, without further locality data ( Mello-Leitão 1932)

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Remarks

We tentatively propose the new combination based on the external morphology (although examination of penis morphology is imperative to be certain) of the male type (MNHN) by the following features: (1) outline of dorsal scutum gamma-type; (2) eyes poorly spaced and ocularium without depression (“Mamelon oculaire assez grand, ovale transverse, bas, légèrement granuleux.” Simon 1879); (3) areas I– III with paramedian tubercles and (4) dorsal scutum and coxa IV without yellow spots. The impossibility to examine the holotype thoroughly and the “doubtful origin” of the specimen described by Simon does not allow us to verify whether this species corresponds to another already described species. It is very difficult to conclude whether the records provided by Roewer (1928) and Mello-Leitão (1932) are correct because both localities match with those of various species of Metalibitia (Coronato & Pintoda-Rocha 2017) .