FLIRTEINAE MEDRANO, KURY & MENDES, 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 : 617

FLIRTEINAE MEDRANO, KURY & MENDES SUBFAM. NOV.

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Diagnosis: Large cosmetids with long, strong but entirely unarmed legs. Dorsal scutum beta-type with weakly marked constrictions ( Fig. 4D ). Scutal areas without prominent ornamentation (spines or tubercles) or with spines in area III. Some species with dimorphic chelicera ( P. ornata , Fig. 22 ). Coxa IV entirely visible and concave in dorsal view ( Fig. 5E ).

Included genera (from the analysis):

Flirtea C.L. Koch, 1839 (type genus)

and Paecilaemella Roewer, 1925 .

Other included genera (according to the present diagnosis): Paecilaemana Roewer, 1928 .

Figures

Figure 4. Habitus in vivo of some non-discosomaticinae. A, Eucynortella cryptograma from Manabí (Ecuador). B, Vononana adrik from the biological research station Panguana (Peru). C, Taito spaceinvaders from Humaitá (Brazil). D, Flirtea valida from Pará (Brazil). E, Eulibitia scalaris from Boyacá (Colombia). F, Metalibitia sp. from Bolivian Amazon. G, Acantholibitia pluriarcuata from Piauí (Brazil). H, Libitioides albolineata from North Carolina (USA). Photographs of Martin Mandák (A), Dieter Schulten (B), Leonardo Carvalho (C, D, G), Miguel Medrano (E), Arthur Anker (F) and Jason Crockwell (H).

Figure 5. Examples of some characters defined by us and used in the present phylogenetic analysis.

Figure 22. Protus ornatus. A–D, male from Santa Helena, Ecuador (QCAZ 0390): A, dorsal view; B, dorsal panoramic view; C, lateral view; D, detail of basichelicerite, dorsal view. E, female holotype of P. ornatus (SMF RI 286), dorsal view. F, female holotype of Paecilaemella albantica (SMF RII 1472/146), dorsal view. G, female from Santa Helena, Ecuador (QCAZ 0390) dorsal view. Scale bars: 1 mm. Photos of types courtesy Abel Pérez (E) and Ricardo Pinto-da- Rocha (F).