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| Erginulus | |
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| Erginulus subserialis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Opiliones |
| Family: | Cosmetidae |
| Subfamily: | Metergininae |
| Genus: | Erginulus Roewer, 1912 |
| Type species | |
| Erginus serratipes Roewer, 1912 | |
| Diversity | |
| 29 spp. (see text) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Erginulus is a genus of harvestmen in the family Cosmetidae with twenty-nine described species (as of early 2025).[1][2] The species are from eastern Mexico & Northern Central America, although a few have been described from outlying geographic regions.[1][3][4]
Description
[edit]The genus Erginulus was described by Roewer, 1912 with the type species Erginus serratipes Roewer, 1912. The genus was later included in the subfamily Metergininae.[5]
Species
[edit]These species belong to the genus Erginulus:
- Erginulus arcuatus (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) – Guatemala
- Erginulus australis (Roewer, 1916) – Colombia
- Erginulus bimaculatus Goodnight & Goodnight, 1977 – Mexico (Campeche)
- Erginulus biserratus Roewer, 1947 – Guatemala
- Erginulus brevispinosus Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947 – Honduras
- Erginulus castaneus (Banks, 1906) – Bahamas
- Erginulus centralis (Sørensen, 1932) – Mexico (Durango, later allegedly Tamaulipas)
- Erginulus clavipes (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) – Guatemala, Mexico
- Erginulus clavotibialis (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) – Mexico (Yucatán, etc), Guatemala, Belize
- Erginulus crassescens (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) – Guatemala
- Erginulus cristatus (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) – Guatemala
- Erginulus erectispinus (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) – Guatemala
- Erginulus figuratus (Roewer, 1947) – Costa Rica
- Erginulus gervaisii (Sørensen, 1932) – Mexico (Yucatán)
- Erginulus leviarcuatus (Sørensen, 1932) – Mexico (Veracruz)
- Erginulus pectiginerus (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) – Guatemala, Honduras
- Erginulus pulcher Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 – Mexico (Veracruz)
- Erginulus quadricristatus (Franganillo Balboa, 1926) – Cuba
- Erginulus rectus (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) – Guatemala
- Erginulus roeweri (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947) – Mexico (Yucatán)
- Erginulus serratifer (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) – Guatemala
- Erginulus serratipes (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) – Guatemala
- Erginulus serratofemoralis Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947 – Belize
- Erginulus simplicipes (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) – Guatemala
- Erginulus singularis Goodnight & Goodnight, 1977 – Belize
- Erginulus sinuosus (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) – Guatemala
- Erginulus subserialis (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) – Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica
- Erginulus triangularis (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) – Guatemala
- Erginulus weyerensis Goodnight & Goodnight, 1977 – Belize
Etymology
[edit]The genus is masculine.
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Erginulus". Kury, A. et al. (2025). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ↑ "Erginulus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ↑ "Erginulus". iNaturalist. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ↑ "Erginulus". GBIF. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ↑ Medrano, Miguel; Kury, Adriano Brilhante; Mendes, Amanda Cruz (2022). "Morphology-based cladistics splinters the century-old dichotomy of the pied harvestmen (Arachnida: Gonyleptoidea: Cosmetidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 195 (2): 585–672. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab043.
Further reading
[edit]- Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Machado, G. & Giribet, G. (eds.) (2007). Harvestmen – The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press, USA. ISBN 0-674-02343-9
- Medrano, M.; Kury, A.B.; Martins, P.H.; Proud, D.N. (2024). "The first harvestman described from Bocas del Toro Archipelago: a new Poecilaemula (Opiliones: Cosmetidae) and notes about the genus". Journal of Natural History. 58 (9–12): 311–329. doi:10.1080/00222933.2024.2314966.
