Mischonyx cuspidatus
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Ordo: Opiliones
Familia: Gonyleptidae
Genus: Mischonyx
Name
Mischonyx cuspidatus (Roewer, 1913) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Ilhaia cuspidata Roewer, 1913: 221; (male holotype; Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Ilha Grande, SMF 900; examined).
- Mischonyx cuspidatus: Kury 2003[1]: 133.
- Gonazula gibbosa Roewer, 1930: 418, fig. 32 (♂); Kury 2003[1]: 126; (male holotype; Brazil, Santa Catarina, Serra Azul; SMF 1328; examined). Syn. n.
Material examined
BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro: Ilha Grande, male holotype (SMF 900); Macaé, 16 ♂ & 6 ♀ (MNRJ 4601). Santa Catarina: Serra Azul, male holotype (SMF 1328); Gaspar, 1 ♂ (MNRJ 11584).
Diagnosis
Mischonyx cuspidatus resembles Mischonyx poeta and Mischonyx scaber (see diagnosis of Mischonyx scaber). Mischonyx cuspidatus can be distinguished from them by the median high, acuminated tubercle on the free tergites I–III.
Taxonomical note
The type locality of Gonazula gibbosa, Serra Azul (in the state of Santa Catarina), is an unknown toponym from where seven species are recorded (see Kury 2003[1]). As some of these species were rediscovered in Serra dos Órgãos (in the state of Rio de Janeiro), we believe that the opilionids from Serra Azul were mislabeled, although Mischonyx cuspidatus is a synanthropic gonyleptid (Mestre and Pinto-da-Rocha 2004[2]) with one of the largest geographical distributions known among Neotropical harvestmen (see records in Kury 2003[1]).
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 1.3 Kury A (2003) Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 1: 5–337.
- ↑ Mestre L, Pinto-da-Rocha R (2004) Population dynamics of an isolated population of the harvestmen Ilhaia cuspidata (Opiliones, Gonyleptidae), in Araucaria Forest (Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil). The Journal of Arachnology 32 (2): 208-220.
