Biology:Erginulus

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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

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

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

The genus is masculine.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Erginulus" (in en). https://wcolite.com. 
  2. ↑ "Erginulus" (in en). https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/7PDRY. 
  3. ↑ "Erginulus" (in en). https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/249216-Erginulus. 
  4. ↑ "Erginulus" (in en). https://www.gbif.org/species/4660800. 
  5. ↑ 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

  • 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" (in en). Journal of Natural History 58 (9-12): 311–329. doi:10.1080/00222933.2024.2314966. 
  • Data related to Erginulus at Wikispecies

Wikidata ☰ Q1888951 entry



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