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Clarification of three species of Discocyrtus Holmberg, 1878 with convoluted taxonomic histories (Opiliones: Laniatores: Gonyleptidae: Pachylinae)

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Author(s):
Kury, Adriano B. [1] ; Pinto-da-Rocha, Ricardo [2] ; Gruber, Jurgen [3, 4] ; Carvalho, Rafael N. [1]
Total Authors: 4
Affiliation:
[1] Dept Invertebrados Museu Nacl UFRJ, BR-20940040 Rio De Janeiro, RJ - Brazil
[2] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Biociencias, Dept Zool, BR-05422970 Sao Paulo, SP - Brazil
[3] Nat Hist Museum, POB 417, Burgring 7, A-1010 Vienna - Austria
[4] Zool Abt, POB 417, Burgring 7, A-1010 Vienna - Austria
Total Affiliations: 4
Document type: Journal article
Source: JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY; v. 46, n. 2, p. 355-369, AUG 2018.
Web of Science Citations: 0
Abstract

Gonyleptes curvipes Kollar, in C.L. Koch, 1839 has taxonomic problems: it is a primary junior homonym of Gonyleptes curvipes Guerin-Meneville, 1837; the holotype of G. curvipes Kollar was cited twice by Roewer (1913) under two genera, one being a misidentification of an undescribed species and a new combination under Discocyrtus Holmberg, 1878; Koch labeled another unreported specimen as Gonyleptes curvipes. However, this specimen belongs to a species described later by Roewer as D. crenulatus Roewer, 1913. In 2003, Kury transferred G. curvipes sensu Roewer to Discocyrtus and, to avoid homonymic collision with D. curvipes sensu Romer, proposed the new name D. confusus as a replacement name. Discocyrtus confusus was later considered an invalid replacement name and was used to newly describe the species named by Kollar and Koch. Discocyrtus flavigranulatus B. Soares, 1944 is here considered a new junior subjective synonym of G. curvipes Kollar, but which is the next oldest available synonym. Discocyrtus confusus thus also becomes a junior synonym of D.flavigrimulatus. Here we discuss the history and identity of three species of Discocyrtus: D. flavigranulatus B. Soares, 1944; D. crenulatus Roewer, 1913; and D. fenax sp. nov. from Santa Catarina state, Brazil (misidentified by Roewer as D. curvipes). (AU)

FAPESP's process: 13/50297-0 - Dimensions US-BIOTA São Paulo: a multidisciplinary framework for biodiversity prediction in the Brazilian Atlantic forest hotspot
Grantee:Cristina Yumi Miyaki
Support type: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Thematic Grants
FAPESP's process: 12/02969-6 - Systematics of the genus Epiperipatus Clark, 1913 based on molecular and morphological data (Onychophora: Peripatidae)
Grantee:Ricardo Pinto da Rocha
Support type: Regular Research Grants