Eulibitia scalaris

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gonyleptoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Opiliones Subordo: Laniatores Infraordo: Grassatores Superfamilia: Gonyleptoidea

Eulibitia scalaris (Sørensen) in Henriksen, 1932: 414

Type locality: Colombia, Cundinamarca Department, Bogotá.

Syntypes: BMNH. 2 males ♂. and 2 females ♀

Libitia (Messa) scalaris Sørensen in Henriksen, 1932: 414 (original combination)
Messa scalaris Mello-Leitão – Mello-Leitão 1933: 112.
Messatana scalaris Mello-Leitão – Strand 1942: 398
Acromares lateralis Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943: 2

Scalaris: refers to the shape of the ladder of white blots on DS. Lateralis: refers to the rails of the ladder mask on DS (visible in the holotype of Acromares lateralis)

Henriksen, K. L. 1932. Descriptiones Laniatorum (Arachnidorum Opilionum Subordinis) fecit William Sørensen. Opus posthumum recognovit et edidit Kai L. Henriksen. Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs skrifter, København, Naturvidenskabelig og Mathematisk Afdeling, ser. 9, 3(4): 197–422. [= Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et des Lettres de Danemark, Copenhague, Section des sciences Naturelles et mathématiques] Reference page.

Goodnight, C.J. & Goodnight, M.L. 1943c. Phalangida from South America. American Museum Novitates 1234: 1–19. Reference page.
Medrano, M.A. & 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. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.357 Reference page.