Holovonones bimaculatus ( Banks, 1893 ) Kury & Medrano, 2023

Kury, Adriano B. & Medrano, Miguel, 2023, Once upon a time in America: recognition of the species of Libitioides from USA, with comments on other American Cosmetidae (Opiliones, Laniatores), European Journal of Taxonomy 875 (1), pp. 101-141 : 121

Holovonones bimaculatus ( Banks, 1893) comb. nov. nomen inquirendum

Cynorta bimaculata Banks, 1893: 150 .

Eucynortella bimaculata – Roewer 1912: 53.

Calicynorta bimaculata – Goodnight & Goodnight 1943: 643, fig. 1.

Vonones bimaculatus – Goodnight & Goodnight 1953a: 60.

Vonones bimaculata – Edgar 1990: 546.

Type data

Holotype

COSTA RICA • ♀; [San José]; MCZ IV 14667 (examined by photo).

Comments on type data

Specimen originally reported by Banks as from “California, San Diego”. On MCZ website there are images of the holotype and the labels. One of them says clearly “San Jose”, and the specimen sheet reads “ COSTA RICA, San José”. Neither San Diego nor California are mentioned anywhere in the labels or the associate data. Also in the same website it is said [incorrectly]: “there is no locality label with specimen”. Therefore, the ascription of “Costa Rica” to this locality “San José” is doubtful. There is no record of anything similar from Costa Rica. San José must be one of the commonest toponyms in Latin America. Given the great similarity of the images of the female holotype with H. compressus , and if this “San José” refers to a toponym in Mexico or Guatemala, this species could well be a senior synonym of Holovonones compressus . However, with such fragmentary evidence, we refrain from doing this synonymy here, especially because Holovonones compressus is a much more widely used name.