TY - JOUR T1 - On the identity of Flirtea (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cosmetidae) JF - Zootaxa Y1 - 2016 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4093.2.5 A1 - Kury, Adriano B A1 - García, Andres F SP - 231–247 AB -

Flirtea C.L. Koch, 1839, is one of the oldest genera described in Cosmetidae, currently including 30 species mostly from the Andes. Its type species, Cosmetus pictus Perty, 1833, from Brazil, the type material of which is long lost, has since long been misidentified in the literature due to a redescription based on another unrelated species, while the true F. picta was widely known as Flirtea phalerata C.L. Koch, 1840. This unrelated species is here described as Cynorta pictoides sp. nov. Flirtea picta is here redescribed based on abundant material collected in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest biome from Bahia state, and a neotype is designated for its type species. Here, we propose a particular pattern of a white mask blot on the dorsal scutum be called “scaramuccia”, and variation in this pattern is described. Genital morphology of Flirtea picta is described for the first time. Flirtea is rediagnosed and most species currently assigned to Flirtea are suggested to belong to other genera. Cynorta valida Roewer, 1928 and Paecilaema batman Pinto-da-Rocha & Yamaguti, 2013 are newly transferred to Flirtea, yielding the new combinations Flirtea valida and Flirtea batman.

VL - 4093 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299290101 IS - 2 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Three new phalangids from Tropical America JF - American Museum Novitates Y1 - 1943 A1 - Goodnight, Clarence J A1 - Goodnight, Marie L SP - 1 EP - 4 VL - 1228 UR - http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/4752 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Die Familie der Cosmetiden der Opiliones- Laniatores JF - Archiv für Naturgeschichte Y1 - 1912 A1 - Roewer, Carl F SP - 1 EP - 122 VL - 78A IS - 10 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Ergebnisse der Österreichischen biologischen Costa-Rica-Expedition 1930. IV. Teil. Opilioniden. JF - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien Y1 - 1933 A1 - Roewer, Carl F SP - 275–295 VL - 46 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Studies of the phlangid fauna of Central America JF - American Museum Novitates Y1 - 1947 A1 - Goodnight, Clarence J A1 - Goodnight, Marie L SP - 1 EP - 21 AB -

As a result of receiving several new collections, the writers have been able to continue their studies on the taxonomic and distributional problems of the Central American phalangids. In the study of these collections, the material from Central America at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, was consulted. Here the authors were enabled to study various types through the kindness of Mr. Nathan Banks. Dr. Alexander Petrunkevitch of Yale University generously allowed the authors to study his collection of Central American phalangids. Types redescribed from these two collections are acknowledged in this paper. The new species described below were collected mainly by Dr. and Mrs. Charles D.Michener with the assistance of Dr. Edson H. Fichter. All holotypes of new species are deposited in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History.

VL - 1340 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Phalangida from Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone JF - American Museum Novitates Y1 - 1942 A1 - Goodnight, Clarence J A1 - Goodnight, Marie L SP - 1 EP - 18 IS - 1198 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The opilionid fauna of Chiapas, Mexico. and adjacent areas (Arachnoidea, Opiliones_ JF - American Museum Novitates Y1 - 1953 A1 - Goodnight, Clarence J A1 - Goodnight, Marie L SP - 1 EP - 81 VL - 1610 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Biologia Centrali-Americana T2 - Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones Y1 - 1905 A1 - Pickard-Cambridge, Frederick O ED - Godman, Frederick D ED - Salvin, Osbert SP - 561–610, pls. 53, 54 AB -

Note Prionostemma coriaceum mentioned here in Leiobunum coreaceum from Central Mexico, but this species was transferred to Prionostemma coriaceum by Goodnight and Goodnight 1942 based on unjustified material from Barro Colorado Panama - assignment of that material to the Mexican Leiobunum coreaceum is dubious as is this generic transfer.

JF - Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones PB - Published for the editors by R. H. Porter CY - London VL - Arachnida 2 UR - http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/bca/navigation/bca_08_00_00/bca_08_00_00select.cfm ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Arachnida from Costa Rica JF - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Y1 - 1909 A1 - Banks, Nathan SP - 194 EP - 234 VL - 61 UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/4063280?origin=JSTOR-pdf ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Arachnida from Panama JF - Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Y1 - 1925 A1 - Petrunkevitch, Alexander SP - 51 EP - 248 VL - 27 UR - http://www.mediafire.com/view/a04b365wc7wx5qu/Petrunkevitch1925TranConnSoc_Arachnida_Panama_PART_TO_REPLACE.pdf N1 - NOT YET AT BHL, ONLY UPTO VOL25 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/7541 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Laniatores (Opiliones) of the Yucatan peninsula and Belize (British Honduras) JF - Bulletin of the Association for Mexican Cave Studies Y1 - 1977 A1 - Goodnight, Clarence J A1 - Goodnight, Marie L SP - 139 EP - 166 VL - 6 UR - http://www.amcs-pubs.org/bul/bul6.pdf ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones) JF - Revista Ibérica de Aracnología Y1 - 2003 A1 - Adriano B Kury SP - 1 EP - 336 KW - Agoristenidae KW - Cosmetidae KW - Gonyleptidae KW - Phalangodidae KW - Zalmoxidae AB -

All the systematic literature (774 references) of the suborder Laniatores of the Americas up to year 2002 is tabulated to generate a thorough annotated classification. 2372 species in 746 genera of Laniatores of the New World are listed. 26 families of Laniatores are recognized as valid, of which 21 occur in the New World. The most diverse family is Gonyleptidae (823 species), followed by Cosmetidae (710 species), both endemic to the New World. Synonymies, revalidations, replacement names and emended spellings are done when necessary. The complete list of nomenclatural acts herein proposed is given. The new family Escadabiidae Kury & Pérez is proposed, the new subfamily Ampycinae Kury is proposed in Gonyleptidae. Countries and ultramarine departments included are 1) South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guyana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela; 2) Central America: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama; 3) Antilles: Bahamas, Bermuda Island, Caicos Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Netherland Antilles, Puerto Rico, Tortuga Island, UK Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Windward Islands; 4) North America: Canada, Greenland, Mexico, U.S.A. First order administrative divisions (departments, provinces, states) for all most diverse countries are interpolated in the locality names. A list of species by first order administrative divisions is provided for all countries treated. The most diverse country is Brazil, with 855 species of Laniatores, followed by Venezuela with 328 species. An exhaustive list of the depository institutions of the type material with curators and contacts addresses is given.

VL - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Addenda and corrigenda to the “Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones)” JF - Zootaxa Y1 - 2011 A1 - Adriano B Kury A1 - Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A SP - 47 EP - 68 KW - grammatical inflection KW - homonymy KW - Neotropics KW - nomenclature KW - revalidation KW - synonymy AB -

Amendments are made to inconsistencies, mistakes and omissions in the catalogue of American Laniatores by Kury (2003). Discrepancies between dates given in Kury (2003) and Neave’s Nomenclator and the Zoological Record are discussed. Accurate issue dates for relevant publications are used to define priorities. Etymologies are surveyed for generic names, establishing their grammatical gender, so specific names are inflected according to the provisions of the Code. Unavailable generic names are: Messa Sørensen, 1932, Zarax Sørensen, 1932, Prasia Sørensen, 1932, Angistrisoma Roewer, 1932, Angistrisoma Mello-Leitão, 1935, Bunoweyhia Mello-Leitão, 1935, Batomites Mello-Leitão, 1931, Euminua Sørensen, 1932, Minua Sørensen, 1932, Ilhastygnus Roewer, 1943, Fonteboatus Roewer, 1931, Malea Sørensen, 1932, Chersobleptes Sørensen, 1932 and Jimeneziella Avram, 1970. Hernandria Banks, 1909 is unavailable and must be placed as an “incorrect subsequent spelling” of Hernandaria Sørensen, 1884. The valid genus name is Parahernandria Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947 (stat. res.). Zaraxolia Strand, 1942 (stat. res.) is revalidated from the synonymy of Neocynorta Roewer, 1915 with Zarax devians Sørensen, 1932 as type species. Friburgoia Mello-Leitão, 1932 [December] is deemed a junior subjective synonym of Schenkelibunus Strand, 1932 [September] (stat. res.) (inverted precedence between synonyms). Liops Mello-Leitão, 1940 (non Fieber, 1870, nec Gidley, 1906) is a junior homonym and is replaced by its first available synonym, Corcovadesia Soares & Soares, 1954 (stat. res.). The following unavailable generic names are formally described as new: (1) Jimeneziella Kury & Alonso-Zarazaga, gen. nov. (type species: Jimeneziella decui Avram, 1973); (2) Euminua Kury & Alonso-Zarazaga, gen. nov. (type species: Euminua brevitarsa Sørensen, 1932). The following homonym generic names are replaced: (1) Cranellus Roewer 1932, with Narcellus Kury & Alonso-Zarazaga, nom. nov., (2) Metapachylus Pickard-Cambridge, 1905, with Pyropharynx Kury & Alonso-Zarazaga, nom. nov.; (3) Ovalia González-Sponga, 1987, with Oo Kury & Alonso-Zarazaga, nom. nov.; (4) Tiara González-Sponga, 1987 with Mitraia Kury & Alonso-Zarazaga, nom. nov.; (5) Limonia González-Sponga, 1998, with Manuelangelia Kury & Alonso-Zaraza- ga, nom. nov. Gonyleptes melloleitaoi Kury & Alonso-Zarazaga, nom. nov. is a replacement name for Gonyleptes curvicornis Mello-Leitão, 1932. Discocyrtus confusus Kury, 2003 is unavailable, so this species is here re-described as Discocyrtus confusus Kury n. sp. New combinations are: Parahernandria spinosa (Banks, 1909) (from Hernandaria), Schenkelibunus impar (Mello-Leitão, 1932) (from Friburgoia), Schenkelibunus perditus (Mello-Leitão, 1927) (from Friburgoia), Narcellus balthazar (Roewer, 1932) (from Cranellus), Narcellus montgomeryi (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947) (from Cranellus), Pyropharynx gracilis (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) (from Metapachylus), Oo spinosum (González-Sponga, 1999) (from Ovalia), Mitraia unispina (González-Sponga, 1987) (from Tiara), Manuelangelia tuberosa (González-Sponga, 1998) (from Limonia), Zaraxolia devians (Sørensen, 1932) (from Zarax), Corcovadesia hexabunus (Mello-Leitão, 1940) (from Liops) and Corcovadesia venefica (H. Soares, 1966) (from Liops). The following genera of Pachylinae, which appeared in conflicting subfamilies in Kury 2003, are formally transferred to the Ampycinae: Ampycella Roewer, 1929, Glysterus Roewer, 1931, Hernandarioides Pickard-Cambridge, 1905, Parahernandria Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947 and Hutamaia Soares & Soares, 1977. A list of taxa described in 2003 is interpolated. A complementary list of the 2004–2009 systematic literature on the subject is given.

VL - 3034 UR - http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/mndi/Aracnologia/aracnopdfs/Kury%20&%20Alonso%202011%20limpo.pdf ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Key to the Cosmetidae (Arachnida, Opiliones) of Central America, with notes on penis morphology and sexual dimorphisms JF - Zootaxa Y1 - 2010 A1 - Townsend, Victor R A1 - Víquez, Carlos A1 - VanZandt, P.A A1 - Proud, Daniel N SP - 1 EP - 26 KW - Arachnida KW - Central America KW - Cosmetidae KW - Laniatores KW - Opiliones KW - taxonomic key AB -

To facilitate identification of harvestmen of the family Cosmetidae in Central America, we developed dichotomous keys that distinguish the 33 known genera and the 133 described species for this region. Couplets are based upon characters found in the literature and examinations of museum specimens. Important characters include the number of tarsomeres on leg I, armature of the dorsal scutum, free tergites and legs, as well as the coloration and relative length of the body and legs. In addition, we provide a summary of sexually dimorphic features and comment on the potential usefulness of penis morphology and coloration as characters for distinguishing taxa.

VL - 2414 UR - http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02414p026f.pdf IS - 1 ER -