Mischonyx
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Ordo: Opiliones
Familia: Gonyleptidae
Name
Mischonyx Bertkau, 1880 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Mischonyx Bertkau, 1880: 106; Kury 2003[1]: 132; (type species: Mischonyx squalidus Bertkau, 1880, by monotypy).
- Eugonyleptes Roewer, 1913: 219; Kury 2003[1]: 123; (type species: Gonyleptes scaber Kirby, 1819, by monotypy). Syn. n.
- Gonazula Roewer, 1930: 417; Kury 2003[1]: 126; (type species: Gonazula gibbosa Roewer, 1930, by monotypy). Syn. n.
Diagnosis
Mischonyx resembles Currala Roewer, 1927 and Schenkelibunus Strand, 1932, which are gonyleptine of relatively smaller size (about 5 mm of dorsal scutum length). Mischonyx can be distinguished from those genera by the combination of the following characters: anterior border of the carapace with robust spines; frontal hump on anterior margin of carapace and ocularium with a pair of spines; scutal areas I–III with a paramedian pair of tubercles, those on I–II elliptical and widest pair on scutal area III; lateral margin of the dorsal scutum with large white tubercles (in specimens preserved in 70% ethanol).
Taxonomical note
According DaSilva and Pinto-da-Rocha (2010)[2], Mischonyx is phylogenetically close to Hernandariinae. It is probable that due to the Roewerian classification, some species which should be in Mischonyx is placed elsewhere in Gonyleptinae. Therefore, a comprehensive revision of the subfamily is needed.
Composition
Mischonyx anomalus (Mello-Leitão, 1936); Mischonyx antiquus (Mello-Leitão, 1934); Mischonyx cuspidatus (Roewer, 1913); Mischonyx fidelis (Mello-Leitão, 1931); Mischonyx insulanus (Soares, 1972); Mischonyx intermedius (Mello-Leitão, 1935); Mischonyx kaisara Vasconcelos, 2004; Mischonyx poeta Vasconcelos, 2005; Mischonyx processigerus (Soares & Soares, 1970); Mischonyx squalidus Bertkau, 1880 and Mischonyx sulinus (Soares & Soares, 1947).
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 1.2 Kury A (2003) Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 1: 5–337.
- ↑ DaSilva M, Pinto-da-Rocha R (2010) Systematic review and cladistic analysis of the Hernandariinae (Opiliones: Gonyleptidae). Zoologia 27 (4): 577-642.
