Marronia elegans, (ROEWER, 1947), 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 : 622

MARRONIA ELEGANS ( ROEWER, 1947) COMB. NOV. ( FIGS 26 , 27 )

Metagryne elegans Roewer, 1947: 32 , pl. 12, fig. 104.

Type data: Holotype: Suriname. Paramaribo: [ 5.86348°, –55.25442°], 1 ♂ ( SMF RII 8681/13 , examined by photograph) .

Diagnosis: Same as for the genus.

Distribution: Only known from type locality reported by Roewer (1947) that lies in the Amazon- Orinoco Southern Caribbean mangroves ecoregion ( Fig. 26 ).

Figures

Figure 26. Map of known distribution of Sibambea and Marronia. Numbers correspond to the following WWF ecoregions: 1 = Eastern Cordillera real montane forest, 2 = Napo moist forest, 3 = Iquitos Várzea, 4 = Southwest Amazon moist forest, 5 = Solimões-Japura moist forest, 6 = Caquetá moist forest, 7 = Purus Várzea, 8 = Uatuma-Trombetas moist forest, 9 = Amazon-Orinoco Southern Caribbean mangroves.

Figure 27. Marronia elegans, male holotype (SMF RII 8681/13). A, dorsal view. B, panoramic dorsal view. C, original label. Photos courtesy Abel Pérez.