Parampheres tibialis Roewer, 1917

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 : 40

Parampheres tibialis Roewer, 1917

Parampheres tibialis Roewer, 1917: 144, fig. 37 (♂); (male holotype; Brazil, São Paulo, Santos; SMF 1330; examined).

Metapachyloides rugosus Roewer, 1917: 121, fig. 22 (♀); (female holotype; Brazil, São Paulo, Santos; SMF 1322; examined). Syn. n.

Taxonomical note.

The monotypic genus Metapachyloides was formerly placed in Gonyleptidae , Pachylinae . Instead of a male, as stated in the original description, the holotype of Metapachyloides rugosus is a female, and its general aspect is similar to that of Parampheres Roewer, 1913. Surprisingly, in the same year, Roewer described Parampheres tibialis in Gonyleptinae , based on a male collected in the same locality (Santos), the most important harbor in Brazil. Roewer described many harvestmen species indicating Santos as their type locality, but those were never collected again there or in the area of endemism to which Santos belongs (Serra do Mar of São Paulo, see Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2005 for more details). We conclude that Parampheres tibialis , as well as many other species supposedly collected in Santos were probably mislabeled.