Checklist of Opiliones from the Caribbean region of Colombia

Natalia De Moya Guerra; Neis José Martínez-Hernández

doi:10.15472/vz1p4e

Checklist of Opiliones from the Caribbean region of Colombia

Citation

De Moya Guerra N, Martínez-Hernández N J (2023). Checklist of Opiliones from the Caribbean region of Colombia. Universidad del Atlántico. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15472/vz1p4e accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-12.

Description

This resource presents the checklist of the species from the order Opiliones (Arachnida) collected in the Caribbean region of Colombia, founded during the revision of entomological collections in Colombia. In this checklist nine families, 18 genera and 30 species are reported. This information was gathered from the main catalogs related to the group of the most recent literature. References of all original descriptions and taxonomy revision documents are also included in the bibliography.

Purpose

This checklist has as main purpose to increase the current state of knowledge of the diversity of Opiliones in the Caribbean region where it is found protected areas, strategic ecosystems as tropical dry forest and landscapes with a high connectivity and ecological integrity. This information will be useful to further investigation on the conservation of those ecosystems. Also, with this checklist the information of Opiliones in biological collection, in national and regional level, will be available through GBIF, where this information can be consulted for taking actions to protect those important ecosystems.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

This checklist includes the species of Opiliones (Arthropoda: Arachnida) that have been registered for the Colombian caribbean coast territory according to the literature.

Sampling

Information on the names, authors and references of the species of Opiliones (Arthropoda: Arachnida) that have been recorded for the Colombian caribbean coast territory from the literature was compiled. The list was obtained from Kury (2003) and then compared with Kury et al. (2021) and later published works not included in those catalogues. The names were verified in the original descriptions, as well as in the catalogs mentioned here, as well as recent nomenclature works.

Quality Control

The taxonomic quality of the checklist is ensured by having experts confirming the identification of the species. The data quality is ensured with the revision performed by the BID Regional Project Support Team, where all critical errors are pointed and fixed.

Method steps

The survey of the species for the study area was made from the catalog of Kury (2003). This initial list was compared and complemented with Kury's online catalog (2021). Families identification was made following the key proposed by Kury & Pinto Darocha (2002).
The spelling and authorship of each name was verified in the aforementioned catalogs and in the original descriptions.
The distribution of the species in the country, by department, was compiled through the consultation of all the articles in which each species is cited for Colombia.
Bibliographic references were compiled from original descriptions, new records, or nomenclature acts.
The information was complimented with revision to national collections.

Taxonomic Coverages

This resource presents the checklist of the species from the order Opiliones (Arachnida) collected in the Caribbean region of Colombia, founded during the revision of entomological collections in Colombia. In this checklist nine families, 18 genera and 30 species are reported. This information was gathered from the main catalogs related to the group of the most recent literature. References of all original descriptions and taxonomy revision documents are also included in the bibliography.

Opiliones
common name: Harvestmen rank: order

Geographic Coverages

This resource presents a list of species from the order Opiliones (Arthropoda:Arachnida) with an occurrence for the Colombian atlantic coast.

Bibliographic Citations

1. Colmenares, Pío A., Tourinho, Ana Lúcia (2014): Two new species of Phareicranaus Roewer, 1913 (Opiliones: Laniatores: Cranaidae), with notes on gregarious behavior and maternal care in Phareicranaus manauara. Zootaxa 3768 (1): 59-72, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3768.1.4 -
2. Simon, E. (1879a) Essai d'une classification des Opiliones Mecostethi. Remarques synonymiques et descriptions d'espèces nouvelles. Première partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 22, 183–241. -
3. Koch, C.L. (1839b) Die Arachniden getreu nach der Natur abgebildet und beschrieben. Band 7 (parts 1–5). C. H. Zeh'schen Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, 1–106, 30 pls. pp. -
4. Simon, E. (1879a) Essai d'une classification des Opiliones Mecostethi. Remarques synonymiques et descriptions d'espèces nouvelles. Première partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 22, 183–241. -
5. Pinzón-Morales, C.A., Townsend, V.R., Jr. & Martínez-H., N. (2017) New record for the genus Platymessa Mello-Leitão, 1941 in Colombia, with the description of a new species (Opiliones, Cosmetidae). ZooKeys 665, 59–70. -
6. Banks, N. (1909b) Arachnida of Cuba. Second Report 2, 150–174. -
7. Roewer, C.-F. (1913d) Die Familie der Gonyleptiden der Opiliones - Laniatores. [Part 2]. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 79, 257–472. -
8. Villarreal, O. & García, A.F. (2016) Unveiling the diversity of Phalangodus Gervais, 1842 (Opiliones: Cranaidae): descriptions of four new species from Colombia. European Journal of Taxonomy 242, 1–41. -
9. Roewer, C.-F. (1913d) Die Familie der Gonyleptiden der Opiliones - Laniatores. [Part 2]. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 79, 257–472 -
10. Roewer, C.-F. (1913d) Die Familie der Gonyleptiden der Opiliones - Laniatores. [Part 2]. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 79, 257–472. -
11. González-Sponga, M.-A. (1987) Aracnidos de Venezuela. Opiliones Laniatores I. Familias Phalangodidae y Agoristenidae. Academia de Ciencias Fisicas, Matematicas y Naturales, Caracas, 1–562 pp. -
12. Šilhavý, V. (1973a) Two new systematic groups of gonyleptomorphid phalangids from the Antillean- Caribbean Region, Agoristenidae Fam. N., and Caribbiantinae Subfam. N. (Arachn.: Opilionidea). Věstník československé Společnosti zoologické 37, 110–143. -
13. Pinzón-M., Conchita A. & Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha. 2020. Two new Colombian harvestmen of the genus Quindina Roewer, 1914 (Opiliones: Nomoclastidae). Zootaxa 4748(3): 531–547. -
14. Roewer, C.-F. (1915a) Fünfzehn neue Opilioniden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 80, 106–132. [1914] -
15. Roewer, C.-F. (1949a) Über Phalangodiden I. (Subfam. Phalangodinae, Tricommatinae, Samoinae.) Weitere Weberknechte XIII. Senckenbergiana 30, 11–61. -
16. Villarreal, O., Kury, A.B. & Colmenares, P.A. (2022) A new genus with two new species of Colombian harvestmen (Opiliones: Stygnidae: Stygninae). American Museum Novitates, 3991, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1206/3991.1 -
17. Simon, E. (1879a) Essai d'une classification des Opiliones Mecostethi. Remarques synonymiques et descriptions d'espèces nouvelles. Première partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 22, 183–241. -
18. Roewer, C.-F. (1949a) Über Phalangodiden I. (Subfam. Phalangodinae, Tricommatinae, Samoinae.) Weitere Weberknechte XIII. Senckenbergiana 30, 11–61. -
19. Mello-Leitão, C.F. (1940e) Un [sic] solifugo da Argentina e alguns opiliões da Colômbia. Annaes da Academia Brasileira de Sciencias 12, 301–311. source: World Catalogue of Opiliones -
20. Barinas piragua Ahumada-C. & Garcia, 2020 in GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-03. -
21. Roewer, C.-F. (1943) Über Gonyleptiden. Weitere Webernechte (Arachn., Opil.) XI. Senckenbergiana 26, 12–68 -
22. Kury, A.B., García, A.F. & Medrano, M.A. (2019) A new genus of Kimulidae; first record of the family from Colombia (Opliones, Grassatores). Comptes Rendus Biologies 342, 236–244. -
23. Koch, C.L. (1839c) 2 Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. C. H. Zeh'schen Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, 1–38 pp. -
24. Roewer, C.-F. (1913d) Die Familie der Gonyleptiden der Opiliones - Laniatores. [Part 2]. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 79, 257–472. -
25. González-Sponga, M.-A. (1987) Aracnidos de Venezuela. Opiliones Laniatores I. Familias Phalangodidae y Agoristenidae. Academia de Ciencias Fisicas, Matematicas y Naturales, Caracas, 1–562 pp. -
26. Koch, C.L. (1839c) 2 Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. C. H. Zeh'schen Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, 1–38 pp. -
27. Pickard-Cambridge, F.O. (1905) Order Opiliones [2nd part]. In: F. D. Godman and O. Salvin (Eds), Biologia centrali-Americana. Arachnida. Araneidea and Opiliones. R. H. Porter/Dulau & Co., London, pp. 561–610. -
28. Roewer, C.-F. (1910a) Revision der Opiliones Plagiostethi (= Opiliones Palpatores). I. Teil: Familie der Phalangiidae. (Subfamilien: Gagrellini, Liobunini, Leptobunini). Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften, herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein in Hamburg 19, 1–294, pls. 1–6. -
29. Pérez-González, A. & Kury, A.B. (2007a) Kimulidae Pérez González, Kury and Alonso-Zarazaga, new name. In: R. Pinto-da-Rocha, G. Machado, and G. Giribet (Eds), Harvestmen: the biology of the Opiliones. Harvard University Press, Cambridge and London, pp. 207–209. -
30. Kury, A. B., 2003. Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones). Revista Iberica de Aracnología, Zaragoza, vol. especial monográfico, nº 1: 1-337. -
31. Kury AB, Mendes AC, Cardoso L, Kury MS, Granado AA, Yoder MJ & Kury IS (2021) WCO-Lite version 1.1: an online nomenclatural catalog of harvestmen of the World (Arachnida, Opiliones) curated in TaxonWorks. Zootaxa, 4908 (3): 447–450. -
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Contacts

Natalia De Moya Guerra
originator
position: Opiliones data provider
Universidad del Atlántico
Barranquilla
Atlántico
CO
email: ndemoyag@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0632-0411

Neis José Martínez-Hernández
originator
position: Coordinator
Universidad del Atlántico
CO
email: neyjosemartinez@gmail.com

Natalia De Moya Guerra
metadata author
position: Opiliones data provider
Universidad del Atlántico
Barranquilla
Atlántico
CO
email: ndemoyag@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0632-0411

Neis Martínez
curator
position: Curator
Universidad del Atlántico
Puerto Colombia
Atlántico
CO

Natalia De Moya Guerra
administrative point of contact
position: Opiliones data provider
Universidad del Atlántico
Barranquilla
Atlántico
CO
email: ndemoyag@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0632-0411