Meterginus

Meterginus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Opiliones
Superfamily:	Gonyleptoidea
Family:	Cosmetidae
Subfamily:	Metergininae
Genus:	Meterginus Pickard-Cambridge, 1905
Type species
Meterginus basalis Pickard-Cambridge, 1905
Diversity
15 spp. (see text)
Synonyms
None

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

Description

The genus Meterginus was described by F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1905 with the type species Meterginus basalis Pickard-Cambridge, 1905. The genus was later included in the subfamily Metergininae. ^[5]

Species

These species belong to the genus Meterginus:

• Meterginus affinis Roewer, 1963 –Colombia
• Meterginus albonotatus (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1953) –Mexico (Chiapas)
• Meterginus apicalis (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) –Guatemala
• Meterginus basalis (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) –Guatemala, later Mexico
• Meterginus dorsalis (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) –Guatemala
• Meterginus flavicinctus (Gervais, 1842) –Colombia
• Meterginus inermipes Roewer, 1947 –Costa Rica
• Meterginus latesulfureus (Simon, 1879) –Brazil
• Meterginus marginellus (Simon, 1879) –Colombia
• Meterginus obscurus (Sørensen, 1932) –Colombia
• Meterginus prosopis Roewer, 1912 –Ecuador
• Meterginus simonis (With, 1932) –Colombia
• Meterginus tibialis (Pickard-Cambridge, 1905) –Guatemala
• Meterginus togatus (Sørensen, 1932) –Colombia
• Meterginus zilchi Roewer, 1954 –El Salvador

Else, for former Meterginus marmoratus (Roewer, 1912), see Rhaucus marmoratus (Roewer, 1912) For former Meterginus serratus Roewer, 1912 see Rhaucus serratus (Roewer, 1912)

Etymology

The genus is masculine.

References

1. "Meterginus". Kury, A. et al. (2025). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
2. "Meterginus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
3. "Meterginus". iNaturalist. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
4. "Meterginus". 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 Meterginus at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Meterginus at Wikispecies