Roquettea, Mello-Leitao, 1931

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 : 663-664

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ROQUETTEA View in CoL MELLO- LEITÃO, 1931

Roquettea Mello-Leitão, 1931: 117 View in CoL .

Type-species by original designation: Roquettea singularis Mello-Leitão, 1931 View in CoL .

Tetracyphus Sørensen in Henriksen, 1932: 312 [junior homonym of Tetracyphus Chevrolat, 1881 (Coleoptera) View in CoL ; junior subjective synonym of Roquettea Mello-Leitão, 1931 View in CoL by Mello-Leitão (1933)]. Typespecies by monotypy: Tetracyphus mirabilis Sørensen, 1932 .

Etymology: The genus name honours the prominent Brazilian anthropologist Edgar Roquette-Pinto (1884–1954), who was a colleague of Mello-Leitão in the Museu Nacional and eventually director of that institution. Gender feminine.

Diagnosis: See Medrano & Kury (2018).

Included species: Roquettea andina ( Roewer, 1947) comb. nov., R. bubalina Medrano & Kury, 2018 , R. carajas Kury & Ferreira 2012 , R. decioi Kury 2013 , R. jalapensis Ferreira & Kury, 2010 , R. peba Kury & Ferreira 2012 , R. scrotalis Ferreira & Kury, 2010 , R. singularis Mello-Leitão, 1931 , R. taurina Ferreira & Kury, 2010 and R. troguloides Medrano & Kury, 2018 .