Rhaucoides
{{Short description|Genus of harvestmen/daddy longlegs}}
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| taxon = Rhaucoides
| authority = Roewer, 1912
| display_parents= 3
| type_species = Rhaucoides ornatus
| type_species_authority = Roewer, 1912
| diversity = 7 spp. (see text)
|synonyms=
- Erginus Simon 1879 (Junior homonym, nec Erginus Jeffreys, 1877)
- Pararhauculus Mello-Leitão 1939 (Junior homonym, nec Pararhauculus Roewer, 1933)
- Cumbalia Roewer 1963
}}
Rhaucoides is a genus of harvestmen in the family Cosmetidae with eight described species (as of early 2025). All species are from South America.
Description
The genus Rhaucoides was described by Roewer, 1912 with the type species Rhaucoides ornatus (Roewer, 1912).
Species
These species belong to the genus Rhaucoides:
- Rhaucoides atahualpa {{small|Medrano, García & Kury, 2022}}{{snd}}Ecuador
- Rhaucoides devillei {{small|(Simon, 1879)}}{{snd}}Ecuador
- Rhaucoides marmoratus {{small|Roewer, 1947}}{{snd}}Ecuador
- Rhaucoides nasa {{small|Medrano, García & Kury, 2022}}{{snd}}Colombia
- Rhaucoides ornatus {{small|Roewer, 1912}}{{snd}}Ecuador
- Rhaucoides riveti {{small|Roewer, 1914}}{{snd}}Ecuador
- Rhaucoides virescens {{small|(Mello-Leitão, 1942)}}{{snd}}Ecuador
Etymology
The genus is masculine. Genus name derives from apre-existing genus Rhaucus + interpreted masculine Latin suffix [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-oides#Latin -oides].
References
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Further reading
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- {{aut|Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Machado, G. & Giribet, G.}} (eds.) (2007). Harvestmen – The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press, USA. {{ISBN|0-674-02343-9}}
- {{Cite journal|last1=Medrano|first1=M.|last2=Kury|first2=A.B.|last3=Martins|first3=P.H.|last4=Proud|first4=D.N.|date=2024|title=The first harvestman described from Bocas del Toro Archipelago: a new Poecilaemula (Opiliones: Cosmetidae) and notes about the genus|journal=Journal of Natural History|volume=58|issue=9-12|pages=311–329|doi=10.1080/00222933.2024.2314966|pmid= |s2cid=|issn=|doi-access=|language=en}}
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