Flirtea varicellosa ( Mello-Leitão, 1944 ) Medrano & Villarreal & Kury, 2019

Medrano, Miguel, Villarreal, Osvaldo & Kury, Adriano B., 2019, Review of Neocynorta Roewerı 1915 with two new generic synonymies (Opiliones: Gonyleptoidea: Cosmetidae), Journal of Natural History 53 (11), pp. 677-704 : 680-681

Flirtea varicellosa ( Mello-Leitão, 1944) comb. nov.

( Figure 1 (b – c))

Neocynorta varicellosa Mello-Leitão 1944: 15 , fig. 4

Neocynorta varicellosa – Soares and Soares 1946: 195; Kury 2003: 73

Type data

♂ lectotype , ♀ paralectotype, herein designated (ICZN 74.7.3), MNRJ 5057 (examined), from BRAZIL, Espírito Santo, Santa Teresa .

Rationale of the new generic assignment

We recognise this species as a member of Flirtea based on the large size, non-filiform legs, outline of dorsal scutum of beta type with narrow carapace in both sexes, size and orientation of spines in area III and a leuconoid blot pattern as a hollowed version of that in F. valida ( Roewer, 1928) .

Figures

Figure 1. Misplaced species transferred to other genera: (a) Cynorta m-inscripta (Mello-Leitão 1939) comb. nov. (MNRJ 05314), male lectotype, dorsal view; (b) Flirtea varicellosa (Mello-Leitão 1944) comb. nov. (MNRJ 5057), male lectotype, dorsal view; (c) same, female paralectotype, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1 mm.