Neocynorta marmorata Medrano & Villarreal & Kury 2019, comb. nov
Creators: name: Medrano, Miguel
name: Villarreal, Osvaldo
name: Kury, Adriano B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Opiliones
Cosmetidae
Neocynorta
Neocynorta marmorata

description: Neocynorta marmorata (González-Sponga, 1992) comb. nov.
(Figures 2 – 6, 20 (b))
Forfexia marmorata González-Sponga 1992: 198, figs 238 – 243
Szczurekia dianae González-Sponga 1992: 407, figs 536 – 541. syn. nov.
Type data
Forfexia marmorata: ♂ holotype MAGS 365b, ♀ paratype MAGS 365b, 16 ♂ 41 ♀ paratypes MAGS (none of them examined), from VENEZUELA, Lara, Morán: Guárico, 1100 m. Szczurekia dianae: ♂ lectotype 15 ♂ 20 ♀ paralectotypes, herein designated (ICZN 74.7.3), MAGS 111 (examined), from VENEZUELA, Lara, Palavecino: Parque Nacional Terepaima, 1200 m.
Records
VENEZUELA, Lara, Jiménez: Parque Nacional Yacambú (González-Sponga 1992, as Forfexia marmorata).
Other material examined
18 ♂ 26 ♀, MNRJ 18011, from VENEZUELA, Lara, Parque Nacional Yacambú. December 2002. Pérez, Giupponi and Villarreal leg.; 11 ♂ 19 ♀ 1 immature, MHNLS IV-0267, same data; 11 ♂ 19 ♀ 1 immature, MNRJ 18009, same data. 4 ♂ 3 ♀, MIZA 0103078, from VENEZUELA, Lara, Parque Nacional Yacambú, Cerro La Fumarola, Quebrada La Tigrera, near Bojó. 27 September 2002, L. Hernández and Villarreal O. leg. (new record). 1 ♀, MIZA 0103104, from VENEZUELA, Trujillo, Cerro La Virgen, 1100 m, 28 July 2006, Villarreal O. leg. (new record).
Remarks
The illustrations provided by González-Sponga (1992) of the two species are remarkably similar; although it was not possible for us to examine the holotype of Forfexia marmorata, we examined abundant material collected from the type locality (topotypes), sufficient to justify the synonymy here proposed comparing with the types of Szczurekia dianae (Figure 6). Besides, slight variations can be observed in the pattern of dorsal scutum spots (Figure 6 (d,e)).
González-Sponga (1992) assigned a male ‘ holotype ’ (MAGS 111a) and a female ‘ paratype ’ (MAGS 111b) in the original description of Szczurekia dianae; however, they were not identified amidst the type series, which are all stored together as syntypes. Here we assign the only dissected male as a lectotype and the remaining individuals as paralectotypes.
González-Sponga (1992) assigned letters ‘ a ’ and ‘ b ’ to the holotype and paratypes in the same lot. However, these designations do not mean that they were physically separated. Therefore, they are actually syntypes, incorrectly called ‘ holotype ’ and ‘ paratype ’.
It is highly probable that the only male dissected in MAGS 111 was also illustrated in the original description, and therefore it is here chosen as lectotype (ICZN Recommendation 74B). The same situation applies for the species N. petraeı N. punctataı N. virginis and N. yaracuyana.
description: Published as part of Medrano, Miguel, Villarreal, Osvaldo & Kury, Adriano B., 2019, Review of Neocynorta Roewerı 1915 with two new generic synonymies (Opiliones: Gonyleptoidea: Cosmetidae), pp. 677-704 in Journal of Natural History 53 (11) on pages 684-686, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1606357, http://zenodo.org/record/3675516