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Erecanana
CASENT 9052253 - Erecanana horrida - Tanzania - macho (2)
Erecanana mordax (Sørensen, 1910) from Tanzania. Photo copyright © A.B. Kury.

Suborder

Laniatores

Superfamily

Epedanoidea

Family

Podoctidae

Subfamily

Erecananinae


Erecanana Strand, 1911[1] is a genus of the family Podoctidae, subfamily Erecananinae with 9 species from subsaharian Africa.

Synonymy[]

  • Palpipes Sørensen 1910[2]: 68 [junior homonym of Palpipes Roth, 1851 (Arachnida), first noted by Strand (1911d); junior subjective synonym of Sitalces Simon 1879 by Hirst (1911a); synonymy disclaimed by Roewer (1912c); type species: never designated].
  • Erecanana Strand 1911d[1]: 14; Roewer 1912c[3]: 212; Roewer 1923[4]: 184; Roewer 1949c[5]: 282; Staręga 1992: 292 [valid replacement name for Palpipes Sørensen, 1910; type species: Palpipes typus Sørensen, 1910, by subsequent designation of Roewer (1949c)[5]].
  • Ambolotsca Roewer 1949c: 283 [junior subjective synonym of Erecanana Strand, 1911 by Staręga (1992); type species: Ambolotsca remyi Roewer, 1949b, by original designation].

Species included[]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Strand, E. (1911d) Zwei vergebene Gattungsnammen in Opiliones. Societas entomologica, Stuttgart, 26, 14.
  2. Sørensen, W.E. (1910) 4. Opiliones. In: Yngve Sjöstedt (Ed.), Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905–1906, vol. 3 part 20. Arachnoidea, pp. 59–82, plate 4. Stockholm: K. Schwedische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  3. 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, Berlin, Abt. A, Original-Arbeiten, 78(3), 1–242.
  4. Roewer, C.F. (1923) Die Weberknechte der Erde. Systematische Bearbeitung der bisher bekannten Opiliones. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1116 pp.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Roewer, C.F. (1949c) Über Phalangodidae II. Weitere Weberknechte XIV. Senckenbergiana, 30(4/6), 247–289.
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