Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-02-10
Page range: 47–55
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 1

On the subfamilial assignment of Platybunoides (Opiliones: Eupnoi: Phalangiidae), with the description of a new species from China

College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei, 071002, China
College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei, 071002, China
Arachnida Phalangiidae taxonomy Liupan Mountain China

Abstract

Platybunoides Šilhavý, 1955, currently included in the subfamily Platybuninae Staręga, 1976, is reassigned to Phalangii-nae Latreille, 1802 for the absence of ventral spur in proximal segment of chelicerae, the absence of ventral thorns on pe-dipalpal femur, and the presence of distomesal bump on pedipalpal patella and tibia. A new species, Platybunoides songisp. nov., from Liupan Mountain, Ningxia, China, is described and can be recognized by having a large ocularium, unarmed pedipalps, hairs being restricted to ventral femur, and the presence of a small bump distally on prolateral femur.

References

  1. Banks, N. (1893) The Phalanginae of the United States. The Canadian Entomologist, 25 (8), 205–211.

    Caporiacco, L. di. (1935) Aracnidi dell’Himalaia e del Karakoram raccolti dalla Missione Italiana al Karakoram (1929-VII). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana, 13, 113–250.

    Cokendolpher, J.C. (1985) Revision of the harvestman genus Leptobunus and dismantlement of the Leptobunidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Palpatores). Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 92 (4), 371–402.

    Cokendolpher, J.C., Tsurusaki, N., Tourinho, A.L. et al. (2007) Eupnoi. In: Pinto-da-Rocha, R, Machado, G. & Giribet, G. (Eds), Harvestmen: The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, pp. 108–114.

    Crawford, R.L. (1992) Catalogue of the genera and type species of the harvestman superfamily Phalangioidea (Arachnida). Burke Museum Contributions in Anthropology and Natural History, 8, 1–60.

    Dumitrescu, D. (1970) Contributions à l'étude de la morphologie des organes génitaux externes chez quelques Opilions de la famille Phalangiidae de Roumanie. Travaux du Muséum d'Historie naturelle «Grigore Antipa», 10, 79–90.

    Giribet, G. & Kury, A.B. (2007) Phylogeny and Biogeography. In: Pinto-da-Rocha, R, Machado, G. & Giribet, G. (Eds), Harvestmen: The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, pp. 80–81.

    Hadži, J. (1931) Opilioni Triglavskoga masiva. Prirodoslovne Razprave, 1, 107–154.

    Hadži, J. (1973) Novi taksoni suhih južin (Opilionidea) v Jugoslaviji. Razprave Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in Umetnosti (SAZU), IV, 16 (1), 1–120.

    Hansen, H.J. (1921) The Pedipalpi, Ricinulei, and Opiliones (exc. Op. Laniatores) collected by Mr. Leonardo Fea in tropical West Africa and adjacent islands. In: Hansen, H.J. (Eds), Studies on Arthropoda. Vol. 1. Gyldendalske Boghandel, Kjøbenhavn, pp. 1–55.

    Heer, O. (1845) Ueber die obersten Gränzen des thierischen und pflanzlichen Lebens in unseren Alpen. An die Zürcherische Jugend auf das Jahr 1945, 47, 1–19.

    Hillyard, P.D. & Sankey, J.H.P. (1989) Harvestmen: Keys and notes for the identification of the species. In: Kermack, D.M. & Barnes, R.S.K. (Eds), Synopses of the British Fauna. No. 4 . Linnean Society of London, E.J. Brill, Leiden, pp. 1–119.

    Karsch, F. (1881) Diagnoses Arachnoidarum Japoniae. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 25, 35–40.

    Koch, L. (1872) Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Opilioniden des Mittel-Rhein-Gebietes. Bericht über die Tätigkeit des Offenbacher Vereins für Naturkunde, 12, 52–91.

    Koch, C.L. (1835) Arachniden. In: Herrich-Schäffer, G.A.W. (Eds), Deutschlands Insecten. Band 34, F. Pustet, Regensburg, pp. 128–133.

    Koch, C.L. (1836) Die Arachniden getreu nach der Natur abgebildet und beschrieben. Vol. 3, C. H. Zeh'schen Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, 120 pp.

    Koch, C.L. (1839) Uebersicht des Arachnidensystems, 2. C.H. Zeh’sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, 38 pp.

    Koch, C.L. (1847) Die Arachniden getreu nach der Natur abgebildet und beschrieben. Vol 15, J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, 136 pp.

    Kraepelin, K. (1896) Phalangiden aus der Umgebung Hamburgs. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum, 13, 219–234.

    Kury, A.B. (2011) Checklist of valid genera of Opiliones of the World. Museu Nacional/UFRJ website. Available from: http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/mndi/Aracnologia/checklaniator.htm (accessed 21 April 2011)

    Latreille, P.A. (1802) Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des Crustacés et des insectes. Tome 3. Familles naturelles des genres. F. Dufart, Paris, 467 pp.

    Martens, J. (1973) Opiliones aus dem Nepal-Himalaya. II. Phalangiidae und Sclerosomatidae (Arachnida). Senckenbergiana biologica, 54 (1/3), 181–217.

    Martens, J. (1978) Spinnentiere, Arachnida - Weberknechte, Opiliones. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, 64, 1–464.

    Meade, R.H. (1855) Monograph on the British Species of Phalangiidae or Harvestmen. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 2 (15), 393–416.

    Murányi, D. (2008) The first species of the genus Megabunus Meade, 1855 (Opiliones: Phalangiidae) in the Balkan region. Opuscula Zoologica, 39, 53–63.

    Pinto-da-Rocha, R. & Giribet, G. (2007) Taxonomy. In: Pinto-da-Rocha, R, Machado, G. & Giribet, G. (Eds), Harvestmen: The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, pp. 88–92.

    Roewer, C.F. (1911) Übersicht der Genera der Subfamilie der Phalangiini der Opiliones Palpatores nebst Beschreibung einiger neuer Gattungen und Arten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 77 (Supplementheft 2), 1–106.

    Roewer, C.F. (1912) Revision der Opiliones Palpatores (= Opiliones Plagiostethi). II. Teil: Familie der Phalangiidae. (Subfamilien: Sclerosomini, Oligolophini, Phalangiini). Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften, 20 (1), 1–295.

    Roewer, C.F. (1956) Über Phalangiinae (Phalangiidae, Opiliones Palpatores): Weitere Weberknechte XIX. Senckenbergiana, 37 (3/4), 247–318.

    Šilhavý, V. (1955) Výsledky zoologické expedice Národního musea v Praze do Turecka. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 30 (441), 31–39.

    Šilhavý, V. (1965) Die Weberknechte der Unterordnung Eupnoi aus Bulgarien; zugleich eine Revision Europäischer Gattungen der Unterfamilien Oligolophinae und Phalangiinae (Arachnoidea, Opilionidea). Ceskoslovenská Spolecnost Entomologická, 62 (5), 369–406.

    Staręga, W. (1963) Ein neuer Weberknecht, Paropilio (Rafalskia) bulgaricus subgen. n., sp.n. (Opiliones). Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences, 11 (6), 289–292.

    Staręga, W. (1972) Revision der Phalangiidae (Opiliones), I. Gattung Bunochelis Roewer, 1923. Annales Zoologici, 29 (14), 461–471.

    Staręga, W. (1973) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Weberknechte (Opiliones) des Nahen Ostens. Annales Zoologici (Polska Akademia Nauk), 30 (6), 129–153.

    Staręga, W. (1976) Die Weberknechte (Opiliones, excl. Sironidae) Bulgariens. Annales Zoologici, 33 (18), 287–433.

    Staręga, W. (1981) Über Platybunus strigosus (L. Koch, 1867), nebst Bemerkungen über andere Arten der Platybuninae (Opiliones: Phalangiidae). Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences, 28 (8–9), 521–525.

    Staręga, W. (1984) Revision der Phalangiidae (Opiliones), III. Die afrikanischen Gattungen der Phalangiinae, nebst Katalog aller afrikanischen Arten der Familie. Annales Zoologici, 38 (1), 1–79.

    Staręga, W. (2003) On the identity and synonymies of some Asiatic Opilioninae (Opiliones: Phalangiidae). Acta Arachnologica, 52 (2), 91–102.

    Tchemeris, A.N. (2000) Contribution to the knowledge of the harvestman fauna in the Russian Far East and Eastern Siberia (Arachnida: Opiliones). Arthropoda selecta, 9 (1), 31–49.

    Thorell, T.T.T. (1876) Sopra alcuni Opilioni (Phalangidea) d'Europa e dell' Asia occidentale, con un quadro dei generi europei di quest' Ordine. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 1 (8): 452–508.

    Tsurusaki, N. (2007) Phalangiidae Latreille, 1802. In: Pinto-da-Rocha, R, Machado, G. & Giribet, G. (Eds), Harvestmen: The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, pp. 123–126.

    Tsurusaki, N., Tchemeris, A.N. & Logunov, D.V. (2000) Two New Species of Opiliones from Southern Siberia and Mongolia, with an Establishment of a New Genus and Redefinition of the Genus Homolophus (Arachnida: Opiliones: Phalangiidae). Acta Arachnologica, 49 (1), 73–86.

    Wang, F.C. (1941) Chinesische Spinnentiere. I. Opiliones. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 135 (5/6), 97–115.