Cryptogeobiidae | |
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Pseudophalangodes unicolor Roewer, 1912 from Brazil, photo by A.B. Kury. | |
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The Cryptogeobiidae Kury, 2014 are a family of small Brazilian Gonyleptoidea, which diversity is heavily underestimated. They are typical dwellers of leaf litter in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. There are a few cavernicolous species [1]
Historical background[]
Roewer (1912) [2] created a new subfamily of Phalangodidae: the Tricommatinae, for species with trimerous basitarsus I. This subfamily served as repository for many unrelated taxa, later transferred to other families (Kury 2003) [3]. Kury (1992) [4] was the first to remove Tricommatinae from the Phalangodidae and to rank it a a separate family. Only much later, as a result of a cladistic analysis, Tricommatinae was recognized to be constituted by two unrelated groups, with most of its diversity belonging to an as yet undescribed family -- the Cryptogeobiidae (Kury 2014[5]).
Taxonomy[]
Cryptogeobiidae Kury 2014: 22.
Type genus[]
Cryptogeobius Mello-Leitão, 1935.
Placement and composition[]
This family has been created by Kury (2014)[5] to include a great number of genera transferred from Tricommatinae after a phylogenetic analysis.
Included genera[]
- Bissulla Roewer, 1929
- Bresslauius Mello-Leitão, 1935
- Bunostigma Mello-Leitão, 1935
- Camarana Mello-Leitão, 1935
- Cryptogeobius Mello-Leitão, 1935
- Heteromeloleptes Mello-Leitão, 1931
- Lanesoares Roewer, 1949
- Pararezendesius H. Soares, 1972
- Paratricommatus Piza, 1943
- Pseudopachylus Roewer, 1912
- Pseudophalangodes Roewer, 1912
- Rezendesius H. Soares, 1945
- Spinopilar Mello-Leitão, 1940
- Taquara Mello-Leitão, 1936
- Tibangara Mello-Leitão, 1940
- Zalanodius Mello-Leitão, 1936
Kury[5] identified a large number of species that are currently undescribed, some of which appear to belong to new undescribed genera.
References[]
- ↑ Kury, A.B. & Pérez-G., A. (2008) The first cave-dwelling Spinopilar (Opiliones, Gonyleptidae, Tricommatinae), described from a Brazilian cave. Tropical Zoology, 21(2), 259–267.
- ↑ Roewer, C.F. (1912c) Die Familien der Assamiiden und Phalangodiden der Opiliones-Laniatores. (= Assamiden, Dampetriden, Phalangodiden, Epedaniden, Biantiden, Zalmoxiden, Samoiden, Palpipediden anderer Autoren). Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin, Abt. A, Original-Arbeiten, 78(3), 1–242.
- ↑ Kury, A.B. (2003a) Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, vol. especial monográfico, 1, 1–337.
- ↑ Kury, A.B. (1992b) The genus Spinopilar Mello-Leitão, 1940, with notes on the status of the family Tricommatidae (Arachnida, Opiliones). Steenstrupia, 18(5), 93–99.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Kury, A.B. (2014) Why does the Tricommatinae position bounce so much within Laniatores? A cladistic analysis, with description of a new family of Gonyleptoidea (Opiliones, Laniatores). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 172, 1–48.