Hara Marcos R, Bragagnolo Cibele, Pinto-DA-Rocha Ricardo
Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Arlindo Béttio n° 1000, Ermelino Matarazzo, 03828-000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Zootaxa. 2017 Apr 19;4254(4):457-472. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.4.3.
Gonyleptid systematics has changed considerably in recent years, thanks to the increasing number of opilionologists and use of new data sources to infer relationships. This scenario promotes revisions of yet unrevised or recently proposed supraspecific groups. In an ongoing revision of the Gonyleptidae subfamilies Pachylinae, Ampycinae and some species of Cranainae (former Cranaidae), we found that Thaumatocranaus Roewer, 1932, a hitherto monotypic cranaine genus, is currently misplaced. According to the recent characterization of gonyleptid subfamilies and its close families, it should be transferred to Ampycinae based on pedipalpal and penial characters. This genus is revised, including redescription of its type species, T. mirabilis Roewer, 1932, and description of two new species, both from Colombia, Amazonas: T. magnificus sp. nov. (from Araracuara) and T. splendidus sp. nov. (from Leticia). The relationship of this genus with other Ampycinae genera is also discussed.
近年来，由于食蛛鞭蝎学家数量的增加以及利用新数据源推断亲缘关系，食蛛鞭蝎的系统分类发生了很大变化。这种情况促使人们对尚未修订或最近提出的超特定类群进行修订。在对食蛛鞭蝎科的帕氏鞭蝎亚科、安氏鞭蝎亚科和一些克兰鞭蝎亚科（原克兰科）物种进行的正在进行的修订中，我们发现1932年的奇异鞭蝎属（Thaumatocranaus Roewer），一个迄今为止单型的克兰鞭蝎属，目前位置有误。根据最近对食蛛鞭蝎亚科及其近缘科的特征描述，基于须肢和阴茎特征，它应被转移到安氏鞭蝎亚科。对该属进行了修订，包括重新描述其模式种，1932年的奇异奇异鞭蝎（T. mirabilis Roewer），并描述了两个新物种，均来自哥伦比亚亚马逊地区：壮丽奇异鞭蝎（T. magnificus sp. nov.，来自阿拉拉夸拉）和华丽奇异鞭蝎（T. splendidus sp. nov.，来自莱蒂西亚）。还讨论了该属与其他安氏鞭蝎亚科属的亲缘关系。
