Rhaucus (harvestman)

Rhaucus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Opiliones
Family:	Cosmetidae
Subfamily:	Cosmetinae
Genus:	Rhaucus; Simon, 1879
Type species
	; Simon, 1879
Species
	6 species (see text)
Synonyms
	Cynorta (in part) Goodnight & Goodnight, 1953; Megarhaucus Mello-Leitão, 1941; Neorhaucus Pickard-Cambridge, 1905; Pararhaucus Pickard-Cambridge, 1905;

Rhaucus is a genus of harvestmen in the family Cosmetidae. The genus is endemic to the Colombian northern Andes. There are currently six described species in the genus.^[1]^[2]

Taxonomy[]

There were previously more members of Rhaucus, but a 2017 taxonomic revision reduced to genus to a monotypic lineage and synonymized multiple previously described species with the five remaining species.^[1] A previously synonymized species, , was revalidated in 2018.^[2]

Rhaucus is named for an ancient Cretian town, Rhaucus.^[1]

Species[]

Rhaucus contains six species:^[1]

Garcia & Kury, 2017
(Simon, 1879)^[2]
Simon, 1879
(Mello-Leitão, 1941)
(Simon, 1879)
Simon, 1879

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d García, Andrés F.; Adriano B. Kury (2017). "Taxonomic revision of the Andean harvestman genus Rhaucus Simon, 1879 (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cosmetidae)". Zootaxa. 4338 (3): 401–440. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4338.3.1.
^ ^a ^b ^c García, Andrés F.; Ahumada-C, Daniela (2018-06-28). "Completing the puzzle: Another species of Rhaucus Simon, 1879 (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cosmetidae) from Colombia". Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. 42 (163): 200–206. doi:10.18257/raccefyn.611.

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[:0-1] García, Andrés F.; Adriano B. Kury (2017). "Taxonomic revision of the Andean harvestman genus Rhaucus Simon, 1879 (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cosmetidae)". Zootaxa. 4338 (3): 401–440. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4338.3.1.

[:1-2] García, Andrés F.; Ahumada-C, Daniela (2018-06-28). "Completing the puzzle: Another species of Rhaucus Simon, 1879 (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cosmetidae) from Colombia". Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. 42 (163): 200–206. doi:10.18257/raccefyn.611.

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