Junicus gerhardi Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947

Acosta, Luis E., 2006, Marayniocus martensi, a new genus and a new species of Peruvian harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones: Gonyleptidae), Zootaxa 1325, pp. 199-210 : 207-208

Junicus gerhardi Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947

Material examined (referred to as Acrographinotus luteipalpis by Roewer 1959): FML 143 (2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, ex Coll. Weyrauch), SMF RII 12766/133 (1 ♂, 2 ♀♀): Central Peru, Hacienda Maraynioc (3500 m), east slope of the Andes , basin of río Chanchamayo , east of Tarma, under stones in grassland, 10.x.1956 (W. Weyrauch coll.). The label of RII 12766/ 133 just states “ Peru, Tarma”; full data, as in Roewer (1959), are included in the RII card catalog .

Note: Junicus gerhardi is the valid name of the species I formerly ( Acosta 2001) referred to as Sokkupia olivacea Mello­Leitão, 1949 . While determining A. luteipalpis to be a junior synonym of S. olivacea, Soares & Soares (1979) also proposed the generic synonymy Acrographinotus = Sokkupia Mello­Leitão, 1949 , so that olivacea was then transferred to Acrographinotus . Acosta (2001) demonstrated that S. olivacea belongs to an independent genus, thus revalidating Sokkupia . Finally, Kury (2003) rescued Goodnight & Goodnight’s (1947) generic and specific names Junicus and J. gerhardi (originally placed in Phalangodidae Tricommatinae, transferred to Pachylinae by Kury 2003), stating that they are the valid names for the corresponding taxa ( S. olivacea and A. luteipalpis being accordingly placed in the synonymy of J. gerhardi ). Despite those intricate nomenclatural changes, Marayniocus martensi gen. n. sp. n. is clearly different from the actual species it was confused with.