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Issue: Vol. 2241 No. 1: 28 Sep. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-09-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2241.1.3
Page range: 33–46
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 1

New familial assignments for three species of Neotropical harvestmen based on cladistic analysis (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores)

Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 11461, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 05422-970
Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Arlindo Bettio no 1000, Ermelino Matarazzo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 03828-000
Arachnida Systematics taxonomy Neotropical fauna Agoristenidae Cranaidae

Abstract

We herein propose transfer of the two monotypic genera Globibunus (type-species G. rubrofemoratus Roewer, 1912) and Rivetinus (type-species R. minutus Roewer, 1919) to the subfamily Zamorinae (Agoristenidae) and Ramonus (typespecies R. conifrons Roewer, 1956), previous placed in Agoristenidae, to the Prostygninae (Cranaidae) based on several characteristics of male genitalia. These transfers are corroborated by a cladistic analysis, which also recovered the three currently recognized agoristenid subfamilies.

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