Protus bolivari Medrano & Kury & Mendes, 2022

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, pp. 585-672 : 626

PROTUS BOLIVARI ( ROEWER, 1952) COMB. NOV.

( FIGS 1G, H , 30–32 )

Cynortula bolivari Roewer, 1952: 43 , fig. 26. Type data: Holotype, Peru. San Martín: Juanjui, Huallaga River above 350 m, [–7.20416°, –76.73819°, 350 m], 1 ♂ ( SMF RII 9813 /277, not examined) . Paratypes: Same data as holotype 1 ♂ ( WPC, not examined)

Non-type material: Peru. [San Martín]: Juanjui, Huallaga River, [–7.20416°, –76.73819°, 350 m], Ortiz & Beltran leg., examined by photograph, 1 ♀ ( AMNH). Madre de Dios: distrito de Tambopata, Reserva Nacional de Tambopata [–12.82822°, –69.29056°], 1 ♂ (USNMENT 511638); [–12.52339°, –71.18131°], 1 ♂ (USNMENT 511626); Zona reservada Tambopata [–12.83333°, –69.28333°, 290 m], J Coddington leg., 7.vi.1988, (post-fire material) 1 ♂ (USNMENT 1538074); 8.vi.1988, (post-fire material) 1 ♀ (USNMENT 1538075) .

Diagnosis: It differs from the other members of Protus by having area III armed with larger paramedian yellow tubercles than those of area II ( Fig. 31A–C ), DS with scattered yellow dots in abdomen and carapace ( Fig. 31A ) and by the combination of the following features: carapace with a thin, yellow stripe bordering anterior margin of carapace ( Fig. 31A ), VP of the penis not elongated and with distal border substraight ( Fig. 32C ), stylus with short wattle ( Fig. 32D ).

Figures

Figure 1. Habitus in vivo of lenticular Discosomaticinae. A–B, Sibambea waorani from Yasuní National Park (Ecuador) C–D, Sibambea rotunda from Orellana (Ecuador). E–F, Kayania bicolumnata from Ecuadorian Amazon. G–H, Protus bolivari from Madre de Dios (Peru). I, Protus speciosus from Amazonas (Colombia). Photographs of Arthur Anker (A–B, I), Andreas Kay (C–F), Nicky Bay (G) and Paul Bertner (H).

Figure 30. Map of known distribution of Protus. Numbers correspond to the following WWF ecoregions: 1 = Ucayali moist forest, 2 = Iquitos varzea, 3 = Southwest Amazon moist forest, 4 = Solimões-Japurá moist forest, 5 = Juruá-Purus moist forest, 6 = Madeira-Tapajos moist forest, 7 = Japurá-Solimões-Negro moist forest, 8 = Uatuma-Trombetas moist forest, 9 = Mato Grosso seasonal forest.

Figure 31. Protus bolivari, male (USNMENT 01538074). A, dorsal view. B, lateral view. C, frontal view. D, panoramic dorsal view. E, ventral view. Scale bars: 1 mm (A–C, E), 2 mm (D).

Figure 32. SEM images of some structures of Protus bolivari, male (USNMENT 01538074). A–D, penis: A, dorsal view; B, lateral view; C, ventral view; D, detail of stylus, oblique view. E–F, right claw IV: E, ventral view; F, ventro-lateral view. Scale bars: 50 μm (A–C), 20 μm (D, F), 100 μm (E).