Giribetia, Clouse, Ronald M., 2012

Clouse, Ronald M., 2012, The lineages of Stylocellidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi), Zootaxa 3595 (1), pp. 1-34 : 23

Giribetia gen. nov.

Fangensis (partim): Schwendinger & Giribet (2005): 299 –300.

Type species: Fangensis insulanus Schwendinger & Giribet, 2005 .

Other species included: None

Diagnosis: Fangensinae, with the following: eyes present but poorly developed, without a distinct lens; Rambla’s organ large and depressed; gonostome wide and regtangular; dorsal scutum flat, dorsal and ventral outlines parallel medially in lateral view ( Fig. 6 , B).

Etymology: This genus is named in honor of Professor Gonzalo Giribet of Harvard University. His extensive work on the molecular systematics and biogeography of Cyphophthalmi has raised a once obscure group of Opiliones to prominence.

Distribution: Ko Siray and Ko Phuket, two adjacent islands off the western coast of southern Thailand.

Figures

FIGURE 6. Lateral views of Stylocellidae genera: A, Fangensis spelaeus Schwendinger & Giribet, 2005; B, Giribetia insulana (Schwendinger & Giribet, 2005); C, Stylocellus lornei, sp. nov.; D, Meghalaya annandalei Giribet, Sharma & Bastawade, 2007; E, Miopsalis silhavyi (Rambla, 1991); F, Leptopsalis cf. beccarii (“ Sumatra sp. 4 d ” in previous analyses, MCZ DNA 101478, collected by P. Schwendinger). All images were scaled to the same total body length and aligned along the ozophore ends.