Taulisa Roewer, 1956

Pinto-da-Rocha, Ricardo, Benedetti, Alipio Rezende, de Vasconcelos, Eduardo Gomes & Hara, Marcos Ryotaro, 2012, New systematic assignments in Gonyleptoidea (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores), ZooKeys 198, pp. 25-68 : 28-29

Taulisa Roewer, 1956 new family assignment

Taulisa Roewer, 1956: 433; Kury 2003: 145; (type species: Taulisa koepckei Roewer, 1956, by original designation).

Diagnosis.

Taulisa (Fig. 2) differs from the other 10 genera of Leiosteninae by the following combination of characters: ocularium unarmed, saddle-shaped; areas of dorsal scutum with two large tubercles each, posterior margin of dorsal scutum and free tergites, each one with a central large tubercle; area I undivided; lateral margin of dorsal scutum coriaceus; pedipalp with slender articles, its femur with dorsoapical spine, with row of four ventral large setae; pedipalpal patella with prolateral large setae; pedipalpal tibia–tarsus with ectal-mesal large setae; leg I filiform, three-segmented. Male unknown.

Taxonomical note.

Taulisa was originally placed in Phalangodidae , Tricommatinae . Kury (1992a) elevated Tricommatinae to family level. In 2003, Kury transferred Taulisa from Tricommatinae to Gonyleptidae , Metasarcinae without further remarks. We propose to transfer Taulisa to Agoristenidae , Leiosteninae based on characteristics of the body, viz., filiform leg I, saddle-shaped ocularium, pedipalpus with well developed and long setae in ventral row of femur and on prolateral/retrolateral of tibiae/tarsi ( Kury 1993; Pinto-da-Rocha 1996; Kury 1997; Pinto-da-Rocha and Hara 2009). Information regarding male genitalia was unavailable, since this species is only known from the female holotype.

Composition.

Monotypic.