Metabiantes unicolor

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Samooidea

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: Samooidea

Familia: Biantidae
Subfamilia: Biantinae
Genus: Metabiantes
Species: Metabiantes unicolor

Name

Metabiantes unicolor Roewer, 1912.

Type locality: Tanzania [“Ost-Afrika”], Mundani.

Typus: Holotype Male ♂, ZMB

Synonymy

• Biantes unicolor Roewer, 1912: 178. (Original combination)
• Metabiantes unicolor (Roewer, 1912); Roewer 1915: 27; Roewer 1923: 135; Roewer 1949: 248, pl. 1, fig. 6; Lawrence, 1962: 24.

References

Primary references

• Lawrence R.F. 1962b. LXXIV.- Opiliones. In: Resultats scientifiques des missions zoologiques de l`IRSAC en Afrique orientale - (P. Basilewsky et N. Leleup, 1957). Annales Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, (Sciences zoologiques) 110: 9–89. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Roewer, C.F. 1912c. Die Familien der Assamiiden und Phalangodiden der Opiliones-Laniatores (= Assamiden, Dampetriden, Phalangodiden, Epedaniden, Biantiden, Zalmoxiden, Samoiden, Palpipediden anderer Autoren). Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Abteilung A 78(3): 1–242. BHL Reference page. 
• Roewer, C.F. 1915c. 106 neue Opilioniden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Abteilung A 81(3): 1–152. BHL Reference page. 
• Roewer, C.F. 1923. Die Weberknechte der Erde. Systematische Bearbeitung der bisher bekannten Opiliones. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1116 pp. Reference page. 
• Roewer, C.F. 1949. Über Phalangodidae II. Weitere Weberknechte XIV. Senckenbergiana 30(4/6): 247–289. PDF. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A. d. A., Giribet, G., Cruz-López, J.A., Longhorn, S.J., Medrano, M.A. & de Oliveira, A.B.R. 2023. World Catalogue of Opiliones (WCO-Lite version 2.5.1 - June 2023. Digital resource at wcolite.com). In: O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D.R. Hernández Robles, C.A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R.E. DeWalt, M. Keping, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, E.M. Adriaenssens, et al. Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2023-07-13). DOI: 10.48580/dfsy-4pt Reference page.  [accessed on June 30, 2025]

Links

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