Phalangodus Gervais, 1842

Hara, Marcos Ryotaro, Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo & Villarreal, Osvaldo, 2014, Revision of the cranaid genera Phalangodus, Iquitosa and Aguaytiella (Opiliones: Laniatores: Gonyleptoidea), Zootaxa 3814 (4), pp. 567-580 : 568-569

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.4.8

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6125422

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scientific name

Phalangodus Gervais, 1842
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Phalangodus Gervais, 1842 View in CoL

Phalangodus Gervais, 1842: 2 View in CoL (type species: Phalangodus anacosmetus Gervais, 1842 View in CoL , by monotypy); (see the complete citations in Kury 2003: 96.)

Phalangodes [misspelling]: Erichson, 1845: 10; Agassiz, 1846: 283.

Chauveaua Canals, 1939 View in CoL [part]: revalidated by Ringuelet, 1957.

Allocranaus View in CoL [part]: Mello-Leitão, 1940: 307.

Temucus Roewer, 1943: 27 (type species: Temucus palpiconus Roewer, 1943 , by monotypy); (see the complete citations in Kury 2003: 193). Originally in Gonyleptidae View in CoL : Pachylinae View in CoL , herein transferred to Cranaidae View in CoL : Cranainae. Syn. nov.

Diagnosis. Large (DSL 6.1–10.3) cranaine. Outline of dorsal scutum type alpha. Ocularium high ( P. palpiconus ) or low ( P. anacosmetus ). Scutal area I divided into two halves; II invading scutal area I; III with a pair of enlarged tubercles or moderately high spines; IV entire ( P. anacosmetus ) or divided ( P. palpiconus ) in left and right halves. Pedipalp: Femur convex dorsally, with a dorsal row of enlarged tubercles; ventrally with a few tubercles restricted to medial region, bearing an enlarged basal apophysis; claw of the males conspicuously thickened. Femur IV of the males straight ( P. palpiconus ) to slightly curved ( P. anacosmetus ), with a retrolateral distal/subdistal conical, enlarged tubercle. Penis: Ventral plate slightly longer than wide, with convex lateral margins, wide and shallow cleft on distal margin. Setae on ventral plate organized in distal (9–12 pairs) and basal sets (4–5 pairs) or placed continuously (as a single set). Glans inflated medially. Stylus straight, surpassing distally the ventral plate, distal tip widened and rounded, without stylar caps.

Composition. Phalangodus anacosmetus Gervais, 1842 ; P. palpiconus ( Roewer, 1943) comb. nov.

Distribution. Colombia. The record to Chile is presumably mistaken (see Pinto-da-Rocha 2002, Hara & Pintoda-Rocha 2010, Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2012 for examples of mistaken localities provided by Roewer), based on the distribution of the family, absent from southern South America.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Opiliones

Family

Cranaidae

Loc

Phalangodus Gervais, 1842

Hara, Marcos Ryotaro, Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo & Villarreal, Osvaldo 2014
2014
Loc

Temucus

Kury 2003: 193
Roewer 1943: 27
1943
Loc

Allocranaus

Mello-Leitao 1940: 307
1940
Loc

Phalangodes

Agassiz 1846: 283
Erichson 1845: 10
1845
Loc

Phalangodus

Kury 2003: 96
Gervais 1842: 2
1842
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