Eulibitia ectroxantha (Mello-Leitão, 1941)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Brachylibitia ectroxantha Mello-Leitão, 1941 (original combination); Cynorta ectroxantha (Mello-Leitão, 1941); Platymessa ectroxantha (Mello-Leitão, 1941)
Conservation Status
Rediscovered
Distribution
Boyacá Department, Colombia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Mello-Leitão, C.F. de (1941). Alguns opiliões novos da Colômbia. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 13(3), 165–171.
Other references:
Goodnight, C. J. and Goodnight, M. L. (1953). The opilionid fauna of Chiapas, Mexico, and adjacent areas (Arachnoidea, Opiliones). American Museum Novitates 1610: 1-81.
Kury, A. B. (2003) Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, vol. especial monográfico 1: 1-337.
Medrano, Miguel, Ázara, Ludson Neves and Kury, Adriano B. (2019). Rediscovery of Eulibitia ectroxantha (Mello-Leitão, 1941) and synonymy of Sphalerocynorta Mello-Leitão, 1933 (Opiliones: Cosmetidae). Comptes Rendus Biologies 342(9-10): 345-350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crvi.2019.11.002
Medrano, M. A. and Kury, A. B. (2016). Characterization of Platymessa with redescription of the type species and a new generic synonymy (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cosmetidae). Zootaxa 4085(1): 52-62.
Medrano, M. and Kury, A. B. (2017). Taxonomic revision of the Andean genus Eulibitia Roewer, 1912 (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cosmetidae), with the description of five new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 357: 1-55.