Discocyrtus

Teratological male (with abnormally small dorsal spines) of Discocyrtus testudineus, copyright Daniel N. Proud.


Belongs within: Gonyleptidae.

Discocyrtus is a diverse but poorly defined genus of gonyleptid harvestmen found in southern South America.

<==Discocyrtus Holmberg 1878 K03 (see below for synonymy)
    |--*D. testudineus (Holmberg 1876) (see below for synonymy) K03
    |--D. affinis Roewer 1913 K03
    |--D. alticola Mello-Leitão 1935 K03
    |--D. antiquus Soares 1946 K03
    |--D. areolatus Piza 1938 [incl. D. sulcatus Soares 1944] K03
    |--D. armatissimus Roewer 1913 K03
    |--D. banhado Kury 2003 [=Lyopachylus canalsi Soares 1945 non D. canalsi Roewer 1943] K03
    |--D. boraceae Soares 1942 K03
    |--D. bos Roewer 1929 K03
    |--D. brevifemur Soares & Soares 1947 K03
    |--D. bucki Mello-Leitão 1935 K03
    |--D. calcarifer Roewer 1917 K03
    |--D. canalsi Roewer 1943 K03
    |--D. carvalhoi Mello-Leitão 1941 K03
    |--D. catharinensis (Mello-Leitão 1923) (see below for synonymy) K03
    |--D. cervus Roewer 1929 K03
    |--D. clarus Roewer 1943 K03
    |--D. confusus Kury & Alonso-Zarazaga 2011 KA-Z11
    |--D. cornutus Piza 1940 (see below for synonymy) K03
    |--D. coronatus Mello-Leitão 1935 K03
    |--D. coxalis Roewer 1929 K03
    |--D. crenulatus Roewer 1913 K03
    |--D. ‘curvipes’ (Kollar in Koch 1839) [=Gonyleptes curvipes non Guérin-Méneville 1838] K03
    |--D. dilatatus Sørensen 1884 K03 (see below for synonymy)
    |--D. dubius Soares 1945 K03
    |--D. elegantulus Mello-Leitão 1939 K03
    |--D. emydeus Sørensen 1884 K03
    |--D. fazi Piza 1942 K03
    |--D. fimbriatus Mello-Leitão 1939 K03
    |--D. flavigranulatus Soares 1944 K03
    |--D. goodnighti Soares & Soares 1945 K03
    |--D. goyazius (Roewer 1929) [=*Discocyrtanus goyazius] K03
    |--D. granulatus Soares & Soares 1970 K03
    |--D. guarauna Piza 1940 K03
    |--D. guttatus Roewer 1927 K03
    |--D. hamatus Roewer 1915 K03
    |--D. heteracanthus Mello-Leitão 1936 K03
    |--D. iguapei Mello-Leitão 1935 K03
    |--D. infelix Mello-Leitão 1940 [incl. D. textor Piza 1943] K03
    |--D. invalidus Piza 1938 K03
    |--D. langei Mello-Leitão 1936 K03
    |--D. latus Mello-Leitão 1935 [incl. D. dualis Piza 1943] K03
    |--D. leonardosi Mello-Leitão 1935 K03
    |--D. lisei Tavares 1981 K03
    |--D. littoralis Mello-Leitão 1932 K03
    |--D. longicornis (Mello-Leitão 1922) [=Gonyleptes longicornis; incl. D. transversalis Piza 1940] K03
    |--D. longispinus (Mello-Leitão 1949) [=Propachylus longispinus] K03
    |--D. magnicalcar (Roewer 1943) [=*Bunopachylus magnicalcar] K03
    |--D. melanacanthus Mello-Leitão 1932 K03
    |--D. milloti Roewer 1943 K03
    |--D. modestus (Gervais 1847) [=Gonyleptes modestus] K03
    |--D. moraesianus Mello-Leitão 1923 K03
    |--D. niger Mello-Leitão 1923 K03
    |--D. nigerrimus Roewer 1943 K03
    |--D. nigrolineatus (Mello-Leitão 1935) [=Discocyrtanus nigrolineatus] K03
    |--D. nigrosulcatus (Mello-Leitão 1932) [=*Heteropucrolia nigrosulcata] K03
    |--D. oliverioi Soares 1945 K03
    |--D. orientalis (Roewer 1913) [=Pachyloides orientalis] K03
    |--D. pectinifemur Mello-Leitão 1937 [=D. pectiniferus (l. c.)] K03
    |--D. perfidus Mello-Leitão 1932 K03
    |--D. pertenuis Mello-Leitão 1935 K03
    |--D. pizai Mello-Leitão 1949 K03
    |--D. prospicuus (Holmberg 1876) (see below for synonymy) K03
    |--D. rarus Soares 1944 K03
    |--D. rectipes Roewer 1913 K03
    |--D. semipartitus Mello-Leitão 1932 K03
    |--D. serrifemur Roewer 1943 K03
    |--D. simplex Soares 1943 K03
    |--D. singularis (Roewer 1913) [=*Propachylus singularis] K03
    |--D. spinifemur Soares 1945 K03
    |--D. subinermis Mello-Leitão 1936 K03
    |--D. tenuis Roewer 1917 K03
    |--D. terezopolis Soares & Soares 1948 K03
    |--D. vegetus Canals 1939 K03
    |--D. vestitus Mello-Leitão 1922 K03
    `--D. wygodzinskyi Soares & Soares 1948 K03

Discocyrtus Holmberg 1878 K03 [incl. Bunopachylus Roewer 1943 K03, Discocyrtanus Roewer 1929 K03, Discocyrtulusoma Piza 1943 K03, KA-Z11, Discocyrtulosoma (l. c.) KA-Z11, Heteropucrolia Mello-Leitão 1932 K03, Microgoniosoma Mello-Leitão 1930 K03, Opisthoplatus Holmberg 1878 K03, Pachylobos Piza 1940 K03, Parasadocus Mello-Leitão 1927 K03, Propachylus Roewer 1913 K03]

Discocyrtus catharinensis (Mello-Leitão 1923) [=Sadocus catharinensis, *Parasadocus catharinensis; incl. S. aquifugus Mello-Leitão 1931, Gonyleptes pugilator Mello-Leitão 1932] K03

Discocyrtus cornutus Piza 1940 [incl. *Pachylobos areolatus Piza 1940 non D. areolatus Piza 1938, *Discocyrtulosoma soaresi Piza 1943, Discocyrtulosoma searesi (l. c.)] K03

Discocyrtus dilatatus Sørensen 1884 K03 [incl. Pachyloides fischeri Müller 1917 K03, KA-Z11, Pachylus spinosus Canestrini 1888 K03, Pachyloides spinosus K03, Pachyloides tuberculatus Müller 1917 K03]

Discocyrtus prospicuus (Holmberg 1876) [=Gonyleptes prospicuus, D. propicuus (l. c.), D. propincuus (l. c.), *Opisthoplatus prospicuus; incl. D. argentinus Mello-Leitão 1930, D. exceptionalis Mello-Leitão 1933, D. frersi Mello-Leitão 1933, D. luteipalpis Mello-Leitão 1931, D. spinosus Roewer 1917] K03

*Discocyrtus testudineus (Holmberg 1876) [=Gonyleptes testudineus; incl. *Microgoniosoma fuscum Mello-Leitão 1930, Discocyrtus laevis Mello-Leitão 1931, D. minutus Roewer 1913] K03

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[K03] Kury, A. B. 2003. Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, volumen especial monográfico 1: 1–337.

[KA-Z11] Kury, A. B., & M. A. Alonso-Zarazaga. 2011. Addenda and corrigenda to the "Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones)". Zootaxa 3034: 47–68.

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