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. & 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. (In Press, 2019). Rediscovery of Eulibitia ectroxantha (Mello-Leitão, 1941) and synonymy of Sphalerocynorta Mello-Leitão, 1933 (Opiliones: Cosmetidae). Comptes Rendus Biologies. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crvi.2019.11.002 [Abstract]
Medrano, M.A. & 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., & 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.
