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Cobania

Cobania picea (Bertkau, 1880) - Brazil - from Laboratory of arthropod behavior and evolution - cropped. Copyright © Glauco Machado

Suborder

Laniatores

Superfamily

Gonyleptoidea

Family

Gonyleptidae

Subfamily

Cobaniinae

Cobania is the only genus of the subfamily Cobaniinae with two species[1].

Type species[]

Gonyleptes piceus Bertkau, 1880, by original designation

Synonymy[]

  • Cobania Roewer, 1913: 86; 1923: 424; Mello-Leitão, 1923c: 123; 1926: 343; Roewer, 1929: 186; Mello-Leitão, 1932: 196; 1935b: 100; Soares & Soares, 1954b: 243; Soares & Bauab-Vianna, 1972a: 210; Muñoz-Cuevas, 1973b: 226; Soares & Soares, 1984: 309; 1994c: 351 (type species Gonyleptes piceus Bertkau, 1880, by original designation).
  • Liogyndulus Mello-Leitão, 1931d: 119 [nomen nudum]; 1932: 140; 1935b: 98; Soares & Soares, 1954b: 269; 1954a: 497 [= Crypturocytia] (type species Liogyndulus luteifemur Mello-Leitão, 1932, by original designation). Synonymy established by Soares & Soares, 1984.
  • Crypturocytia Mello-Leitão, 1930 [fictitious citation] 1931d: 123 [nomen nudum]; 1932: 236; 1935b: 102; Soares & Soares, 1949b: 164 (type species Crypturocytia crypturocy- tia Mello-Leitão, 1931, by monotypy).
  • Flangeia Mello-Leitão, 1933b: 135; 1935b: 100; Soares & Soares, 1954b: 263 (type species Flangeia validissima Mello-Leitão, 1933b, by original designation).

Distribution[]

From southeast of Brazil, MInas Gerais and Parana states

Diagnosis[]

Species[]

  • Cobania picea (Bertkau, 1880)
  • Cobania validissima (Mello-Leitão, 1933)

References[]

  1. Kury, A. B., 2003. Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones). Revista Iberica de Aracnología, Zaragoza, vol. especial monográfico, nº 1: 1-337.