Euwintonius Explained

Euwintonius is a harvestman genus in the family Assamiidae, subfamily Dampetrinae. Members of this genus have an unarmoured eye pedicel, scutal areas 1-5 and the first three tergites also being unarmoured. The first scutal area is without a longitudinal groove and the palpal femur has one medial-apical spine..^[1]

Etymology

This genus is named after the town of Winton in central west Queensland, Australia, where the first specimen was found. ^[2] The type species is Euwintonius continentalis.

List of species

Four species are currently accepted as being members of this genus^[3]

• Euwintonius bismarckensis Ponting, 2015 from the Bismarck Archipelago
• Euwintonius continentalis Roewer, 1923 from Australia
• Euwintonius insulanus Roewer, 1940 from New Guinea
• Euwintonius thaiensis Suzuki, 1985 from Thailand

Notes and References

1. Roewer, C.F. (1935a) Alte und neue Assamiidae. Weitere Weberknechte VIII (8. Ergänzung der "Weberknechte der Erde" 1923). Veröffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Kolonial- und Übersee-Museum in Bremen, Bremen, 1(1), 1–168.
2. Roewer, C.F. (1923) Die Weberknechte der Erde. Systematische Bearbeitung der bisher bekannten Opiliones. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1116 pp.
3. https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3925.3.10 Ponting, J. (2015) Replacement name for Euwintonius insulanus Suzuki, 1982 (Opiliones: Laniatores: Assamiidae: Dampetrinae), primary junior homonym of E. insulanus Roewer, 1940. Zootaxa. 3925(3):450