Holovonones Roewer 1912

Genus Holovonones Roewer, 1912 Holovonones Roewer, 1912: 21 [junior subjective synonym of Vonones Simon, 1879 by Goodnight & Goodnight (1953a); synonymy rejected by Kury (2003: 64)]. Type species by original designation: Paravonones compressus Pickard-Cambridge, 1904. Calicynorta Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943: 643 [junior subjective synonym of Vonones Simon, 1879 by Goodnight & Goodnight (1953a: 60); synonymy rejected by Kury (2003: 38)]. Type species by original designation: Cynorta bimaculata Banks, 1893. Syn. nov. Vononesta Roewer, 1947: 10 [junior subjective synonym of Vonones Simon, 1879 by Goodnight & Goodnight (1953a); synonymy rejected by Kury (2003: 86)]. Type species by original designation: Vononesta biangulata Roewer, 1947. Syn. nov. Diagnosis Scutum outline alpha-type, scutum flattened in lateral view, lateral border in posterior view following the general body curvature. Protoglyph guards are triangular. Mesotergal grooves are shallow, straight. Scutal areas I–IV are each armed with a pair of small flat tubercles which are white, sharply contrasting with the brown background, area V with a transverse row of a few such tubercles. Cheliceral hand is somewhat swollen in male, and the basichelicerite of male is clearly stouter, with a coarsely tuberculate posterior rim. Coxa IV with oblique orientation. Femur IV sexually dimorphic, clavate in males, in female thinner and curved proximally. Basitarsus I thickened in male. Tarsal counts: 5(3)/8–9(3)/6–7/7. Male genitalia: VP subrectangular. Wattle is complete. MS D1 is clearly smaller than C. Two long lateral patches of microsetae T4 without midfield. Etymology Holovonones from Greek ‘ὅλος’ (‘whole’, ‘entire’, ‘complete’) + pre-existing genus Vonones. Gender masculine. Calicynorta from ‘ cali -’, truncation of California (in spite of the type-species not actually occurring there) + pre-existing genus Cynorta. Gender feminine. Vononesta from pre-existing genus Vonones + Latin suffix ‘- esta ’. Gender feminine. Placement Originally in Cosmetinae, transferred to Cynortinae by Medrano et al. (2021). Included species Holovonones biangulatus (Roewer, 1947) comb. nov., Holovonones bimaculatus (Banks, 1893) comb. nov. nomen inquirendum and Holovonones compressus (Pickard-Cambridge, 1904). Combined distribution SE Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, with an isolated occurrence in Costa Rica.
Published as part of Kury, Adriano B. & Medrano, Miguel, 2023, Once upon a time in America: recognition of the species of Libitioides from USA, with comments on other American Cosmetidae (Opiliones, Laniatores), pp. 101-141 in European Journal of Taxonomy 875 (1) on pages 119-121, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.875.2143, http://zenodo.org/record/8064424
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