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Krusa Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947 is a genus in the family Sclerosomatidae, subfamily Gagrellinae.
Type species[]
Krusa mexicana Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947 by monotypy.
Synonymy[]
- Krusa Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947:55
- Krusella Roewer, 1953:184 (syn. Ringuelet, 1954:293)
Species[]
- Krusa amazonica Roewer, 1953 - Brazil (Amazonas, Manaus).
- Krusa annulata Goodnight & Goodnight, 1945 - Mexico (Guerrero).
- Krusa boliviana Roewer, 1953 - Bolivia (La Paz, Illimani).
- Krusa columbiana Roewer, 1953 - Colombia (Sierra Nevada de S.M = Departamentos Magdalena, Cesar and La Guajira).
- Krusa flava Goodnight & Goodnight, 1946 - Mexico (Hidalgo).
- Krusa metallica Goodnight & Goodnight, 1946 - Mexico (Hidalgo).
- Krusa mexicana Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947 [type by original designation] - Mexico (Veracruz).
- Krusa peruviana Roewer, 1953 - Perú (Madre de Dios, Inambari).
- Krusa pilipes (Roewer, 1953) - Venezuela (Distrito Capital, Caracas, San José del Avila)
- Krusa stellata Goodnight & Goodnight, 1946 - Mexico (Michoacán).
- Krusa tuberculata Goodnight & Goodnight, 1946 - Mexico (Michoacán)
Diagnosis[]
(from Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947)
Dorsum without spines. Eye tubercle with small spines over each carina. Nodules 0-1-0-0. Coxae with rows of lateral, three-pronged teeth. This genus differs from other Gagrellinae by having only one nodule on the femur of the second leg.
Notes[]
- Location: Tropical America
- Goodnight & Goodnight first described the genus Krusa in 1947, but they first used the name in 1945 for the description of Krusa annulata, and again in 1946 for description of Krusa flava (etc).
Literature[]
- Goodnight & Goodnight, 1945[1]
- Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947[2]
- Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947[3]
- Ringuelet, 1954[4]
References[]
- ↑ Goodnight, C. J. & M. L. Goodnight (1945a). Additional Phalangida from Mexico. American Museum Novitates 1281: 1-17.
- ↑ Goodnight, C. J. & M. L. Goodnight (1947e). Phalangida from Tropical America. Fieldiana, Zoology, Chicago, 32(1): 1-58.
- ↑ Goodnight, C.J. & M.L. Goodnight (1946). Additional studies of the phalangid fauna of Mexico. American Museum Novitates. 1310: 1-17
- ↑ Ringuelet, R.A. (1954a) Conspectus y notas críticas sobre los géneros Americanos de "Gagrellinae" (Opiliones). Notas del Museo de La Plata, Zoologia, Universidad Nacional de Eva Perón, Buenos Aires, 17(153), 273–308.