Gonyleptes
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Ordo: Opiliones
Familia: Gonyleptidae
Name
Gonyleptes Kirby, 1819 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Gonyleptes Kirby, 1819: 450; Kury 2003[1]: 126; (type species: Gonyleptes horridus Kirby, 1819, by subsequent designation, Roewer 1913[2]).
- Collonychium Bertkau, 1880: 108; Kury 2003[1]: 122; (type species: Collonychium bicuspidatum Bertkau, 1880, by monotypy). Syn. n.
Diagnosis
Gonyleptes is a genus composed of generally large species (dorsal scutum length longer than 8 mm), which males present femur IV with conspicuous armature and scutal areas I–III convex in lateral view. The penis presents ventral plate very convex and apex of ventral process serrate and semicircular. See taxonomical note below.
Taxonomical note
Gonyleptes possesses 23 species and its habitus resembles other genera placed in Gonyleptinae. As Kury (2003)[1] already suggested, the generic boundaries are not so clear cut. Collonychium is an objective synonym of Gonyleptes since both type species are synonymous. It can be only distinguished from related taxa, such as Geraeocormobius Holmberg, 1887, by a combination of unsatisfactory Roewerian characteristics. The composition of the genus below includes the changes proposed in this article.
Composition. Gonyleptes acanthopus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824); Gonyleptes armatus Perty, 1833; Gonyleptes atrus Mello-Leitão, 1923, revalidated; Gonyleptes barbiellinii Mello-Leitão, 1932; Gonyleptes calcaripes (Roewer, 1917); Gonyleptes curticornis (Mello-Leitão, 1940); Gonyleptes curvicornis (Roewer, 1932), revalidated, comb. n.; Gonyleptes fragilis Mello-Leitão, 1923; Gonyleptes gertschi Soares & Soares, 1948; Gonyleptes gonyleptoides (Soares & Soares, 1945); Gonyleptes granulatus (Piza, 1940); Gonyleptes horridus Kirby, 1819; Gonyleptes parcigranulatus Soares & Soares, 1949; Gonyleptes pectinatus Koch, 1845; Gonyleptes pectinipes Roewer, 1917; Gonyleptes perlatus (Mello-Leitão, 1935), comb. n.; Gonyleptes pseudogranulatus Soares & Soares, 1946; Gonyleptes pseudoguttatus Giltay, 1928; Gonyleptes pustulatus Sørensen, 1884; Gonyleptes recentissimus Mello-Leitão, 1932; Gonyleptes saprophilus Mello-Leitão, 1922; Gonyleptes vatius Bertkau, 1880; Gonyleptes viridisagittatus Soares & Soares, 1945.
Taxon Treatment
- Pinto-da-Rocha, R; Benedetti, A; de Vasconcelos, E; Hara, M; 2012: New systematic assignments in Gonyleptoidea (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores) ZooKeys, 198: 25-68. doi
