Rilaena pusilla ( Roewer, 1952 )

Snegovaya, Nataly Yu., Cokendolpher, James C. & Zamani, Alireza, 2021, Further studies on harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) from Iran, with the descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 4984 (1), pp. 73-86 : 79

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.7
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5196817
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scientific name	Rilaena pusilla ( Roewer, 1952 )
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Treatment

Rilaena pusilla ( Roewer, 1952) View in CoL

Zacheus hyrcanus Redikorzev, 1936: 45–46 View in CoL , figs 18–19 [nec Phalangium hyrcanum Thorell, 1876 View in CoL , see comment below].

Platybunus pusillus Roewer, 1952: 513 View in CoL ; Roewer 1956: 305.

Metadasylobus dentichelis Roewer, 1956: 268–269 View in CoL , figs 65–68 (synonymized by Staręga 1973: 144).

Rilaena pusilla Staręga, 1973: 143–146 View in CoL , figs 31–33 [replacement name for Rilaena hyrcana ( Redikorzev, 1936) View in CoL ]; Staręga 1978: 218 (in part, not the record from Azerbaijan); Komposch 2002: 99; Snegovaya 2007: 90; Kurt 2015: 345; Snegovaya et al. 2018: 78, figs 3a–o; Cokendolpher et al. 2019: 341, fig. 10.

Type localities. Iran, Golestan Province, Gorgan, ( Zacheus hyrcanus ) ; Iran, Gilan Province, Lahidjan ( Platybunus pusillus ) ; Iran Tehran Province, Tehran ( Metadasylobus dentichelis ) .

Material examined. IRAN: North Khorasan Province: 1 male, 3 females ( ZMMU), 10 km NW of Dasht Village , 37°22’5.96”N, 55°56’40.57”E, 800–900 m a.s.l., Denis Kasatkin leg. 27.5.2017 GoogleMaps . Golestan Province: 4 males, 14 females ( RCNS), Shast Kalateh , 36°46’N, 54°11’E, 483 m a.s.l., Razieh Rafiei-Jahed leg. November 2017 GoogleMaps .

Records from Iran. Gilan, Golestan, Kermanshah, Markazi, Mazandaran, Tehran, West Azerbaijan ( Snegovaya et al. 2018), North Khorasan (present paper) .

Distribution. An endemic of Iran.

Comment. When Staręga (1973) transferred Phalangium hyrcanum Thorell, 1876 to the genus Rilaena , he also recognized Zacheus hyrcanus Redikorzev, 1936 as a member of Rilaena but not as the same species as Thorell’s. Therefore he substituted R. pusilla for the pre-occupied R. hyrcana ( Redikorzev, 1936) and he wrote (in German): One has to call the treated species “ pusilla ” because the older name of Redikorzev is pre-occupied.