Aguaytiella Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943

Hara, Marcos Ryotaro, Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo & Villarreal, Osvaldo, 2014, Revision of the cranaid genera Phalangodus, Iquitosa and Aguaytiella (Opiliones: Laniatores: Gonyleptoidea), Zootaxa 3814 (4), pp. 567-580 : 572

Aguaytiella Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943

Aguaytiella Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943: 6 (type species: Aguaytiella maculata Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943 , by original designation); (see the complete citations in Kury 2003: 89 –90).

Diagnosis. Large (DSL approximately 7.5) cranaine. Outline of dorsal scutum type beta. Ocularium enlarged and conspicuous, with a pair of high (more than three times the eye diameter) slightly frontwards spines. Dorsal scutum with three scutal areas. Dorsal scutum, lateral areas of free tergites I–III and the posterior sternites with yellowish spots. Pedipalp: Femur cylindrical, elongated, with a ventral row of enlarged, spiniform tubercles and a dorsodistal enlarged, spiniform tubercle; tibia with a subdistal conspicuously long seta socket on the ectal face; claw normal (not thickened). Femur IV of males with a proventral subdistal, strongly curved back, enlarged spine, 2 retrolateral large tubercles in the distal part of the middle third (distal largest). Tibia IV of males straight, unarmed. Penis: Ventral plate with convex lateral margins, wide and shallow v-shaped cleft on distal margin, a distal pair of long, straight setae, 4 subdistal pairs of short, unbranched (sometimes bifid) setae, 2 median pairs of long, straight setae. Glans basally unconstrained with folds (more conspicuous in lateral view). Stylus smoothly curved dorsally, without stylar caps.

Composition. Aguaytiella maculata Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943 .

Distribution. Peru: Ucayali (Eastern to central Peru, in the Peruvian Amazon).