Kayania, 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 : 621

KAYANIA MEDRANO, KURY & MENDES GEN. NOV.

Zoobank registration: urn: lsid: zoobank. org:act: 317ABFDD-2AAE-4716-BF47-D27D8256416D

Etymology: In honour and memory of the late Andreas Kay, German photographer and naturalist, established in Ecuador, who photographed males and females of the type species in nature. Gender feminine.

Diagnosis: DS rounded in dorsal view ( Fig. 24A ). Area I with two paramedian rounded and small yellow spots and area III with robust and granular tubercles/ columns, all other areas without ornamentation ( Figs 24D , 25A ). Long and slender legs without any ornamentation. Coxa IV with medial depression and basal incrassation, with a large, lateral, yellow strip ( Figs 24A, B, E , 25A, B, E ). Penis unknown.

Type species: Metagryne bicolumnata Roewer, 1959 .

Included species: Kayania bicolumnata ( Roewer, 1959) comb. nov. and K. compressicoxa ( Avram & Soares, 1983) comb. nov.

Combined distribution: Eastern Andean slopes of Ecuador and Peru ( Fig. 23 ).

Figures

Figure 23. Map of known distribution of Paraprotus and Kayania. Numbers correspond to the following WWF ecoregions: 1 = Eastern Cordillera real montane forest, 2 = Ucayali moist forest, 3 = Peruvian yungas.

Figure 24. Kayania bicolumnata, male holotype (SMF 12782/16). A, dorsal view. B, ventral view. C, distal part of the penis emerging through genital operculum. D, habitus, lateral view. E, postero-lateral view. F, original labels by Weyrauch and Roewer. Scale bars: 1 mm. Photos courtesy Abel Pérez.

Figure 25. Kayania compressicoxa, schematic female illustration modified from Avram & Soares (1983). A, dorsal view. B, ovipositor and detail of macrosetae. C, left chelicera, mesal view. D, right pedipalpus, mesal view.