Erginulus

Erginulus
Erginulus subserialis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Opiliones
Superfamily:	Gonyleptoidea
Family:	Cosmetidae
Subfamily:	Metergininae
Genus:	Erginulus Roewer, 1912
Type species
Erginus serratipes Roewer, 1912
Diversity
29 spp. (see text)
Synonyms
List EuerginusRoewer, 1912 AcromaresGoodnight & Goodnight, 1942 BivononesGoodnight & Goodnight, 1942

Erginulus is a genus of harvestmen in the family Cosmetidae with twenty-nine described species (as of early 2025). ^{[1] [2]} The species are from eastern Mexico & Northern Central America, although a few have been described from outlying geographic regions. ^{[1] [3] [4]}

Description

The genus Erginulus was described by Roewer, 1912 with the type species Erginus serratipes Roewer, 1912. The genus was later included in the subfamily Metergininae. ^[5]

Species

These species belong to the genus Erginulus:

• Erginulus arcuatus (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) –Guatemala
• Erginulus australis (Roewer, 1916) –Colombia
• Erginulus bimaculatus Goodnight & Goodnight, 1977 –Mexico (Campeche)
• Erginulus biserratus Roewer, 1947 –Guatemala
• Erginulus brevispinosus Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947 –Honduras
• Erginulus castaneus (Banks, 1906) –Bahamas
• Erginulus centralis (Sørensen, 1932) –Mexico (Durango, later allegedly Tamaulipas)
• Erginulus clavipes (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) –Guatemala, Mexico
• Erginulus clavotibialis (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) –Mexico (Yucatán, etc), Guatemala, Belize
• Erginulus crassescens (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) –Guatemala
• Erginulus cristatus (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) –Guatemala
• Erginulus erectispinus (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) –Guatemala
• Erginulus figuratus (Roewer, 1947) –Costa Rica
• Erginulus gervaisii (Sørensen, 1932) –Mexico (Yucatán)
• Erginulus leviarcuatus (Sørensen, 1932) –Mexico (Veracruz)
• Erginulus pectiginerus (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) –Guatemala, Honduras
• Erginulus pulcher Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 –Mexico (Veracruz)
• Erginulus quadricristatus (Franganillo Balboa, 1926) –Cuba
• Erginulus rectus (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) –Guatemala
• Erginulus roeweri (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947) –Mexico (Yucatán)
• Erginulus serratifer (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) –Guatemala
• Erginulus serratipes (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) –Guatemala
• Erginulus serratofemoralis Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947 –Belize
• Erginulus simplicipes (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) –Guatemala
• Erginulus singularis Goodnight & Goodnight, 1977 –Belize
• Erginulus sinuosus (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) –Guatemala
• Erginulus subserialis (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) –Mexico (Chiapas), Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica
• Erginulus triangularis (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) –Guatemala
• Erginulus weyerensis Goodnight & Goodnight, 1977 –Belize

Etymology

The genus is masculine.

References

1. "Erginulus". Kury, A. et al. (2025). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
2. "Erginulus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
3. "Erginulus". iNaturalist. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
4. "Erginulus". GBIF. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
5. Medrano, Miguel; Kury, Adriano Brilhante; Mendes, Amanda Cruz (2022). "Morphology-based cladistics splinters the century-old dichotomy of the pied harvestmen (Arachnida: Gonyleptoidea: Cosmetidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 195 (2): 585–672. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab043.

Further reading

• Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Machado, G. & Giribet, G. (eds.) (2007). Harvestmen – The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press, USA. ISBN   0-674-02343-9

• Medrano, M.; Kury, A.B.; Martins, P.H.; Proud, D.N. (2024). "The first harvestman described from Bocas del Toro Archipelago: a new Poecilaemula (Opiliones: Cosmetidae) and notes about the genus". Journal of Natural History. 58 (9–12): 311–329. doi:10.1080/00222933.2024.2314966.

External links

• Media related to Erginulus at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Erginulus at Wikispecies