Pirunipygus paradoxus
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Ordo: Opiliones
Familia: Gonyleptidae
Genus: Pirunipygus
Name
Pirunipygus paradoxus Roewer, 1936 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Pirunipygus paradoxus Roewer, 1936: 341, fig. 4 (♂); Kury 2003[1]: 106; (male holotype, Peru, Junin, Tarma, SMF 6180/85, examined).
Description
Penis (Fig. 5B–C; holotype): ventral plate sub hexagonal, deep U-cleft on distal margin, 3–4 distal pairs of setae (2–3 distalmost curved), 2 pairs of dorsal median setae of moderate size, 2 pairs of ventral median small setae. Stylus wide on basal ¾, apex twisted, with a patch of ventral subapical trichomes and some scattered apically. Glans without dorsal and ventral processes.
Taxonomical note
Both Neopachyloides peruvianus and Pirunipygus paradoxus were formerly placed in Gonyleptidae, Pachylinae. These two species show the following diagnostic characteristics of Ampycinae (Kury 2003[1]), viz., body coloration black, integument with huge rounded tubercles, stout apophysis on free tergite III, ventral plate of penis with deep U-shape cleft on distal margin, absence of dorsal and ventral processes of glans.
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
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kury A (2003) Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 1: 5–337.
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