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Metavononoides Roewer, 1928 is a genus of the Neotropical family Cosmetinae, subfamily Cosmetinae with 4 species from Southeastern Brazil, after revision by Kury & Medrano 2018 [1].
Synonymy[]
Metavononoides Roewer 1928a: 618; Mello-Leitão 1932: 61; 1933c: 106; Mello-Leitão 1935b: 113; Caporiacco 1951: 12; González-Sponga 1992: 311 (part); Kury & Alonso-Zarazaga 2011: 50; Kury 2003: 70.
Metavononnoides [misspelling]: Mello-Leitão 1933c: 103.
Etymology[]
Placement[]
Originally placed in Cosmetidae, Cosmetinae.
Type species[]
Metavonones barbacenensis Mello-Leitão, 1923, by subsequent designation of Kury (2003).
Diagnosis[]
Kury 2003 writes (p.70) that "Metavononoides as here defined includes most Cosmetidae of Brazilian Atlantic Forest, characterized by an unique U-shaped marking on the scute, stylus thick with apical pointed granules, small body, slender legs, mesotergum smooth, area III with two high spines".
Included species[]
- Metavononoides barbacenensis (Mello-Leitão, 1923): 109 - Brazil (Minas Gerais).
- Metavononoides guttulosus (Mello-Leitão, 1935): 375 - Brazil (Goiás).
- Metavononoides luteopunctatus (Mello-Leitão, 1931): 93 - Brazil (Rio de Janeiro).
- Metavononoides lyra (Piza, 1944): 275 - Brazil (Minas Gerais).
- Metavononoides orientalis (Mello-Leitão, 1923): 109 - Brazil (São Paulo).
See Paecilaema
- Paecilaema albisectum (Mello-Leitão, 1942): 159 - Brazil (Espírito Santo). Was Metavononoides albisectus
- Paecilaema albosigillatum (Mello-Leitão, 1941): 436 - Brazil (Minas Gerais). Was Metavononoides albosigillatus
- Paecilaema melanacanthum Ferreira, Pedroso & Kury, 2005: 46 - Brazil (Rio de Janeiro). Was Metavononoides melanacanthus
- Paecilaema peculiare (Roewer, 1917): 104 - Brazil (São Paulo). Was Metavononoides peculiaris
- Paecilaema preciosum (Roewer, 1928): 606 - Brazil (Minas Gerais). Was Metavononoides preciosus
- Paecilaema renneri Ferreira, Pedroso & Kury, 2007: 231 - Brazil (Espírito Santo). Metavononoides renneri
- Paecilaema u-flavum (Perty, 1833): 203. - Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) Was Metavononoides bellus (Mello-Leitão, 1932): 443. Also for Metavononoides brasiliensis (Mello-Leitão, 1923): 111.
Notes[]
Kury & Alonso-Zarazaga 2011 say Metavononoides Roewer is wrongly dated as of 1927 in KC contra correctly 1928 in NN. Correct publication date of Metavononoides is February 1928 although nominal date is 1927.
References[]
- ↑ Kury, A.B. & Medrano, M. (2018) A whiter shade of pale: anchoring the name Paecilaema C. L. Koch, 1839 onto a neotype (Opiliones, Cosmetidae). Zootaxa, 4521(2), 191–219.
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