Rhaucus

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Cosmetidae
Subfamilia: Metergininae
Genus: Rhaucus
Species: R. artifex – R. florezi – R. gaiterus – R. marmoratus – R. papilionaceus – R. quinquelineatus – R. robustus – R. serratus – R. serripes – R. trilineatus – R. vulneratus

Name

Rhaucus Simon, 1879

Type species: Rhaucus vulneratus Simon, 1879: 213, by subsequent designation of F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1905.

Gender: masculine

Synonymy

• Rhaucus Simon, 1879: 213.

• Metarhaucus F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1905: 572; Junior subjective synonym of Rhaucus in Garcia & Kury, 2017: 417. [by implication]
  • Type species: Metarhaucus fuscus F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1905: 572, by monotypy. (Junior subjective synonym of Rhaucus serripes (Simon, 1879) in Garcia & Kury, 2017: 417).
• Neorhaucus F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1905: 572; Junior subjective synonym of Rhaucus in Garcia & Kury, 2017: 403.
  • Type species: Neorhaucus aurolineatus F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1905: 572, by monotypy. (Junior subjective synonym of Rhaucus vulneratus Simon, 1879) in Garcia & Kury, 2017: 405).
• Pararhaucus F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1905: 572; Junior subjective synonym of Rhaucus in Garcia & Kury, 2017: 403.
  • Type species: Pararhaucus obscurus F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1905: 572 by monotypy (Junior subjective synonym of Rhaucus quinquelineatus Simon, 1879 in García & Kury, 2017: 413).
• Megarhaucus Mello-Leitão, 1941: 169. Junior subjective synonym of Rhaucus in Garcia & Kury, 2017: 404.
  • Type species: Megarhaucus robustus Mello-Leitão, 1941: 166. (recombination in García & Kury, 2017: 422).

References

Primary references

• Simon, E. 1879c. Essai d'une classification des Opiliones Mecostethi. Remarques synonymiques et descriptions d'espèces nouvelles. Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique 22: 183-241. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Pickard-Cambridge, F.O. 1905. Arachnida Araneida and Opiliones. Vol. II. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London: 561–610. BHL Reference page. 
• García, A.F. & Kury, A.B. 2017. Taxonomic revision of the Andean harvestman genus Rhaucus Simon, 1879 (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cosmetidae). Zootaxa 4338(3): 401–440. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.3.1 Reference page. 
• García, A.F., Ahumada-C., D. 2018. Completing the puzzle: Another species of Rhaucus Simon, 1879 (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cosmetidae) from Colombia. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exatas, Físicas e Naturales 42(163): 200–206. DOI: 10.18257/raccefyn.611 Reference page.