Rhaucus (harvestman)
Genus of arachnids
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Rhaucus is a genus of harvestmen in the family Cosmetidae. The genus is endemic to the northern Andes in Colombia. There are currently seven described species in the genus.[1][2]
| Rhaucus | |
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| Rhaucus serripes | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Opiliones |
| Family: | Cosmetidae |
| Subfamily: | Metergininae |
| Genus: | Rhaucus Simon, 1879 |
| Type species | |
| Rhaucus vulneratus Simon, 1879 | |
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11 species (see text) | |
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Taxonomy
Many other species were included in the genus Rhaucus, until a taxonomic revision (in 2017) reduced the genus to a more clearly defined grouping and synonymized or transferred multiple previously described species to leave five remaining species.[1] A previously synonymized species, R. papilionaceus, was revalidated in 2018.[2]Two other species were later transferred into the genus and two new species described.[3]
Etymology
Species
Rhaucus contains the following species:[4] (after García & Kury, 2017; García & Daniela Ahumada-C., 2018; Pinzón-Morales & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2024).[1][2][3]
- Rhaucus artifex Pinzón-Morales & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2024
- Rhaucus florezi Garcia & Kury, 2017[1]
- Rhaucus gaiterus Pinzón-Morales & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2024
- Rhaucus marmoratus (Roewer, 1912)
- Rhaucus papilionaceus (Simon, 1879)[2]
- Rhaucus quinquelineatus Simon, 1879
- Rhaucus robustus (Mello-Leitão, 1941)
- Rhaucus serratus (Roewer, 1912)
- Rhaucus serripes (Simon, 1879)
- Rhaucus trilineatus (Sørensen, 1932)
- Rhaucus vulneratus Simon, 1879
(Note: Rhaucus trilineatus is interpreted[4] as having been indirectly transferred to Rhaucus due to the synonymy of Metarhaucus F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1905 under Rhaucus in García & Kury (2017: 417).[1] There, the type species Metarhaucus fuscus Pickard-Cambridge 1905 became a junior synonym of Rhaucus serripes (Simon, 1879)), consequently leading to Metarhaucus = Rhaucus. Other species then placed in Metarhaucus at that time and similarly affected by the same synonymy have since been re-formalised into other genera).
