Biology:Meterginus
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Meterginus is a genus of harvestmen in the family Cosmetidae with fifteen described species (as of early 2025).[1][2] The species are from eastern Mexico & Central America, although a few have been described from outlying geographic regions.[1][3][4]
Description
The genus Meterginus was described by F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1905 with the type species Meterginus basalis Pickard-Cambridge, 1905. The genus was later included in the subfamily Metergininae.[5]
Species
These species belong to the genus Meterginus:
- Meterginus affinis Roewer, 1963 – Colombia
- Meterginus albonotatus (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1953) – Mexico (Chiapas)
- Meterginus apicalis (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) – Guatemala
- Meterginus basalis (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) – Guatemala, later Mexico
- Meterginus dorsalis (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) – Guatemala
- Meterginus flavicinctus (Gervais, 1842) – Colombia
- Meterginus inermipes Roewer, 1947 – Costa Rica
- Meterginus latesulfureus (Simon, 1879) – Brazil
- Meterginus marginellus (Simon, 1879) – Colombia
- Meterginus obscurus (Sørensen, 1932) – Colombia
- Meterginus prosopis Roewer, 1912 – Ecuador
- Meterginus simonis (With, 1932) – Colombia
- Meterginus tibialis (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) – Guatemala
- Meterginus togatus (Sørensen, 1932) – Colombia
- Meterginus zilchi Roewer, 1954 – El Salvador
Else, for former Meterginus marmoratus (Roewer, 1912), see Rhaucus marmoratus (Roewer, 1912) For former Meterginus serratus Roewer, 1912 see Rhaucus serratus (Roewer, 1912)
Etymology
The genus is masculine.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Meterginus" (in en). https://wcolite.com.
- ↑ "Meterginus" (in en). https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/7PP2J.
- ↑ "Meterginus" (in en). https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/249226-Meterginus.
- ↑ "Meterginus" (in en). https://www.gbif.org/species/4655495.
- ↑ 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.
External links
Data related to Meterginus at Wikispecies
Wikidata ☰ Q14642933 entry
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