Obidosus Roeweri 1913
Creators: name: Osvaldo Villarreal
name: Ludson Neves de Ázara
name: Kury, Adriano Brilhante
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Opiliones
Stygnidae
Obidosus

description: Obidosus Roewerı 1913 revalidated
Obidosus Roewer 1931: 154; Mello-Leitão 1932: 426; 1935: 112; Roewer 1957: 82; Kury 2003: 230 (type species Obidosus amplichelis Roewer, 1931, by monotypy).
Etymology
From toponym Óbidos. Gender masculine.
Diagnosis
Species with dorsal scutum type epsilon (never iota, as is frequently present in other Protimesius). Scutal area III with two paramedian erected spines. Leg III – IV without tarsal scopula, tarsal process normal sized (Figure 6 (b)), without terminal long seta; femur, patella and tibia without particular ornamentation, or with conspicuous tubercles on the males (e.g. O. bahiensisı O. evelineaeı O. laevis). Penis: without ventral crack between the malleus and lamina parva (LP); ventral surface of the LP without microsetae (condition only known to some species) (Figure 7 (g,h)). MS B on the malleus, and MS A1 – A2 located on the truncus (Figure 7 (g,h)); MS D2 usually larger than MS D1.
Included species
Obidosus albilineatus Roewer, 1957 restored combination, Obidosus amigos (Ochoa and Pinto-da-Rocha, 2013) new combination, Obidosus amplichelis Roewer, 1931 restored combination, Obidosus apiacas (Pinto-da-Rocha, 2000) new combination, Obidosus bahiensis (Pinto-da-Rocha and Villarreal, 2009) new combination, Obidosus boibumba (Villarreal-Manzanilla and Pinto-da-Rocha, 2006) new combination, Obidosus carnaval (Villarreal-Manzanilla and Pinto-da-Rocha, 2006) new combination, Obidosus cirio (Villarreal-Manzanilla and Pinto-da-Rocha, 2006) new combination, Obidosus coxalis (Roewer, 1931) new combination, Obidosus evelineae (H. Soares and B. Soares, 1978) new combination, Obidosus foliadereis (Villarreal-Manzanilla and Pinto-da-Rocha, 2006) new combination, Obidosus jirau (Bragagnolo, 2013) new combination, Obidosus junina (Villarreal-Manzanilla and Pinto-da-Rocha, 2006) new combination, Obidosus kakinte (Ochoa and Pinto-da-Rocha, 2013) new combination, Obidosus laevis (SØrensen, 1932) new combination, Obidosus longipalpis (Roewer, 1943) new combination, Obidosus machiguenga (Ochoa and Pinto-da-Rocha, 2013) new combination, Obidosus mendopticus (H. Soares, 1978) new combination, Obidosus osvaldoi (Kury and Pinto-da-Rocha, 2008) new combination, Obidosus palpalis (Roewer, 1931) new combination, Obidosus regalo (Bragagnolo, 2013) new combination, Obidosus trocaraincola (Pinto-da-Rocha, 1997) new combination.
Combined distribution
Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia, Tocantins), Colombia (Leticia), Ecuador (Napo) and Peru (Cusco, Madre de Dios, Ucayali) (Figure 10 (a)).
description: Published as part of Osvaldo Villarreal, Ludson Neves de Ázara & Kury, Adriano Brilhante, 2019, Revalidation of Obidosus Roewerı 1913 and description of two new cave-dwelling species of Protimesius Roewerı 1913 from Brazil (Opiliones: Stygnidae), pp. 965-989 in Journal of Natural History 53 (15) on pages 978-979, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1620893, http://zenodo.org/record/3673222