Diguetinus Roewer, 1912

Jesús, Daniel Ochoa-Vázquez, Cruz-López, Jesús A., Elizabeth, Rogelio Rosas-Valdez & Martínez-Salazar, Elizabeth A., 2025, Redefining the Mexican genus Diguetinus Roewer, 1912 (Opiliones, Phalangioidea, Globipedidae) based on morphology and molecular phylogenetic data, with the redescription of Diguetinus spinulatus (Banks, 1898) stat. restit., Zoosystema 47 (30), pp. 731-749 : 734

Genus Diguetinus Roewer, 1912

Diguetinus Roewer, 1912: 271 , pl. 1 fig. 25; 1923: 863, fig. 1030; 1956: 252. — Bronn 1932: 7, fig. 9b. — Di Caporiacco 1938: 280. — Goodnight & Goodnight 1942a: 15. — Weidner 1959: 121. — Gruber 1969: 273. — Cokendolpher 1984a: 27-28; 1984b: 377. — Cokendolpher & Cokendolpher 1984: 168. — Cokendolpher & Lee 1993: 16. — Crawford 1992: 17. — Kury & Cokendolpher 2000: 150; 2020: 52. — Cokendolpher et al. 2021: 119 , fig. 1-9.

TYPE SPECIES. — Diguetinus raptator Roewer, 1912 .

INCLUDED SPECIES. — Diguetinus raptator Roewer, 1912 and Diguetinus spinulatus ( Banks, 1898) stat. restit.

EMENDED DIAGNOSIS. — Diguetinus can be recognized from others members of Globipedidae by the following combination of characters: a) large bodied (adult individuals dorsum length from 10 to 12.5 mm); b) dorsum with transverse rows of spines running across each opisthosomal tergite, from a single row configuration to a randomly ordered arrangement of at least two rows of spines; c) tergite spines yellowish-white and black tipped, usually with at least one chaetal sensilla present near the base of each spine, none spine extended to a height greater than the ocularium; d) stylus of the penis coiled in a complete circle.