Holcobunus
Creators: name: Tourinho, Ana Lúcia
name: Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo
name: Bragagnolo, Cibele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Opiliones
Sclerosomatidae
Holcobunus

description: Key for the species of Holcobunus
1. Eye mound armed with two anterior blunt, single-blunt pointed spines (Se Tourinho & Kury, 2001), femur of leg I shorter than body, femur of leg II with six pseudoarticular nodules, femur of leg IV with three pseudoarticular nodules...... H. bicornutus
- Eye mound with two rows of more than three short granules (Fig. 3 C), femur of leg I longer than the body, femur of leg II with four, five or six pseudoarticular nodules.................................................................... 2
2. Body color black eye mound black or mound with a pair of yellowish stripes, females with light dorsal stripes and spots (Fig. 5), eye, femur of leg II with five or six pseudoarticular nodules, femur of leg IV with two or three pseudoarticular nodules................................................................................................ H. uaisoh
- Body uniformly yellow (Fig. 3) or background yellow or brown with white or dark stripes or stains (Fig. 1), eye mound with 8– 9 short granules, femur of leg II with four or five pseudoarticular nodules, femur of leg IV with two, three or four pseudoarticular nodules.......................................................................................... 3
3. Body color uniformly yellow without stripes or stains, femur of leg II with four pseudoarticular nodules, femur of leg IV with three or four pseudoarticular nodules............................................................. H. ibitirama
- Body color yellow with dark stripes or stains on carapace and/or dorsal scute or background brown with a white arch and several white spots and stripes distributed on scute (Fig. 1), femur of leg II with four or five pseudoarticular nodules, femur of leg IV with two, three or four pseudoarticular nodules........................................................... 4
4. Body color yellow (when recently collected it tends to be orange), with median posterior region of dorsal scute and anterior border of coxae covered by a faint black spot in males, females with a lateral rounded spot in the dorsal scute, dorsal black faint spot lacking (See Tourinho & Kury, 2001), femur of leg II with five pseudoarticular nodules, femur of leg IV with two or three pseudoarticular nodules.................................................................. H. nigripalpis
- Body color yellow, with abdomen with large dark median stripe along its full extent, or background brown with a white arch surrounding anterior prosoma and several white spots and stripes distributed on scute, eye mound darkish brown (Fig. 1), femur of leg II with four or five pseudoarticular nodules, femur of leg IV with two, three or four pseudoarticular nodules femoral....................................................................................... H. dissimilis
description: Published as part of Tourinho, Ana Lúcia, Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo & Bragagnolo, Cibele, 2015, Taxonomic notes on Holcobunus Roewer, 1910, with descriptions of three new species, and new records for Holcobunus nigripalpis Roewer, 1910 (Opiliones: Eupnoi: Sclerosomatidae), pp. 425-436 in Zootaxa 4027 (3) on page 427, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4027.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/241194