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Paraprotus Roewer 1912
Description
PARAPROTUS ROEWER, 1912
Paraprotus Roewer, 1912: 119.
Type species: Paraprotus atroluteus Roewer, 1912, by original designation.
Etymology: Paraprotus fromGreekπαρά(beside) + preexisting genus Protus. Gender masculine.
Diagnosis: It differs from other discosomaticines by having ocularium area darker than the rest of the DS and for not having paired dots in any mesotergal area (Figs 28, 29). Clearly differs from Kayania and Marronia by having low rounded tubercles in area III instead of large spines or columns. Leg I with four basitarsomeres. Penis unknown.
Included species: Paraprotus atroluteus Roewer, 1912 and Paraprotus albithorax Roewer, 1947.
Notes
Published as part of Medrano, Miguel, Kury, Adriano Brilhante & Mendes, Amanda Cruz, 2022, Morphology-based cladistics splinters the century-old dichotomy of the pied harvestmen (Arachnida: Gonyleptoidea: Cosmetidae), pp. 585-672 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195 on page 624, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab043, http://zenodo.org/record/6959516
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Cosmetidae
- Genus
- Paraprotus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Opiliones
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Roewer
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Paraprotus Roewer, 1912 sec. Medrano, Kury & Mendes, 2022
References
- Roewer CF. 1912. Die Familie der Cosmetiden Opiliones- Laniatores. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Abt. A, Original- Arbeiten 78: 1 - 122, + Taf. 1 - 2.
- Roewer CF. 1947. Diagnosen neuer Gattungen und Arten der Opiliones Laniatores (Arachn.) aus C. F. Roewer's Sammlung im Senckenberg-Museum. 1. Cosmetidae. [Weitere Weberknechte XII]. Senckenbergiana 28: 7 - 57, pls 1 - 12.