Rhaucus | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
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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Species | |
7 species (see text) | |
Synonyms | |
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Rhaucus is a genus of harvestmen in the family Cosmetidae. The genus is endemic to the Colombian northern Andes. There are currently seven described species in the genus. [1] [2]
Many species were included in Rhaucus, until a taxonomic revision (in 2017) [1] 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]
Rhaucus is named for an ancient Cretian town, Rhaucus. [1]
Rhaucus contains seven species: [3] (after García et al. (2017) [1]
(Note: Rhaucus trilineatus is interpreted [3] 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).