Cajango Kury & Bernabe 2023
Creators: name: Kury, Adriano B.
name: Granado, Alexia De A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Opiliones
Gonyleptidae
Cajango

description: Genus Cajango Kury & Bernabé, 2023
Cajango Kury & Bernabé 2023: 404.
Included species. Cajango camacanensis Kury & Bernabé, 2023 (type species),
Cajango ednardoi sp. nov., Cajango pestifer Kury & Bernabé, 2023, Cajango vindicator Kury & Bernabé, 2023.
Combined distribution. Eastern Brazil, northern bank of the Jequitinhonha River, Bahia and Minas Gerais states. WWF Ecoregions: NT0103 = Bahia coastal forests; NT0104 = Bahia interior forests (Fig. 2).
Key to the species of Cajango
Key adapted from that of Kury and Bernabé (2023), with KB indicating figures therein.
1. Dorso-apical apophysis of Cx IV much shorter than Tr IV in situ (fig. KB 3c); scutal area III with two acuminate high spines (fig. KB 4d); Fe IV retrolateral with a row of small subequal spines (fig. KB 1c).................................... (females)............................................................................................ 2
1’. Dorso-apical apophysis of Cx IV as long as Tr IV in situ (fig. KB 3a); scutal area III with two low, blunt tubercles (fig. KB 4a); Fe IV retrolateral with a few clearly larger spines (fig. KB 5).................................................... (males)............................................................................................. 5
2. Body background color dark brown (fig. KB 3c); scutal areas with several granules (fig. KB 3c).. C. camacanensis (females)
2’. Body background dark yellow to dark green, with carapace and area III more strongly shaded in brown (Fig. 10c); scutal areas with only a pair of paramedian granules each (fig. KB 10c).................................................... 3
3. Anal operculum with a small tubercle (fig. KB 7d) or entirely unarmed........................................... 4
3’. Anal operculum with large cardioid apophysis (figs. KB 10c, d; 11d)........................... C. vindicator (females)
4. Darker coloration occupying all carapace.................................................. C. pestifer (females)
4’. Darker coloration restricted to a triangle........................................... C. ednardoi sp. nov. (females)
5. Brown body background color with numerous yellow granules; coxa IV with strong retrolateral (inner) apophysis......................................................................................... C. camacanensis (males)
5’. Dark green or yellow body background color with sparse granulation; coxa IV without retrolateral (inner) apophysis...... 6
6. Dorsal scutum with green background, dark brown mottling on carapace narrow, triangular; mesotergal areas I and II each with transverse row of granules; trochanter IV with small apical retrolateral apophysis; femur III with rows of proventral, retroventral and retrolateral (stronger) spines......................................... C. ednardoi sp. nov. (males)
6’. Dorsal scutum with yellow background, carapace entirely dark brown; mesotergal areas I and II each with a paramedian pair of granules; trochanter IV with strong V-shaped double apophysis; femur III unarmed................................. 7
7. Lanceolate apophysis on anal operculum; short retroapical apophysis of trochanter IV (smaller than the width of the trochanter)........................................................................... C. vindicator (males)
7’. Anal operculum unarmed; long retroapical trochanter apophysis (greater or comparable to the width of the trochanter)............................................................................................ C. pestifer (males)
description: Published as part of Kury, Adriano B. & Granado, Alexia De A., 2025, MicroCT Scan visualization of femur IV apophyses: a promising tool for phylogenetic reconstruction in K 92, exemplified by a new species of Cajango (Arachnida: Opiliones: Gonyleptidae), pp. 209-221 in Zootaxa 5563 (1) on pages 211-212, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1.14, http://zenodo.org/record/14595829