Metabiantes leighi

Familia: Biantidae
Subfamilia: Biantinae
Genus: Metabiantes
Species: Metabiantes leighi

Metabiantes leighi Pocock, 1903.

Type locality: South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal (Originally “S. Africa: Natal”).

Typus: Holotype [?], BMNH, legit G.F. Leigh.

• Hinzuanus [sic] leighi Pocock, 1903: 412. (Original combination, misspelling Hinzuanius Karsch, 1880)
• Biantes leighi (Pocock, 1903); Roewer, 1912: 177. Comb. nov.
• Spinibiantes leighi (Pocock, 1903); Roewer, 1915: 27. (Comb. nov. in new genus)
• Metabiantes leighi (Pocock, 1903); Lawrence, 1931: 356; Staręga, 1992: 327.

• Lawrence, R.F. 1931. The harvest-spiders (Opiliones) of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 29: 341–508. BHL Reference page. 
• Pocock, R.I. 1903. On some new harvest-spiders of the order Opiliones from the southern continents. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1902(2): 392–413. BHL . Reference page. 
• Roewer, C.F. 1912c. Die Familien der Assamiiden und Phalangodiden der Opiliones-Laniatores (= Assamiden, Dampetriden, Phalangodiden, Epedaniden, Biantiden, Zalmoxiden, Samoiden, Palpipediden anderer Autoren). Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Abteilung A 78(3): 1–242. BHL Reference page. 
• Roewer, C.F. 1915c. 106 neue Opilioniden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Abteilung A 81(3): 1–152. BHL Reference page. 
• Staręga, W.K. 1992. An annotated check-list of harvestmen, excluding Phalangiidae, of the Afrotropical Region (Opiliones). Annals of the Natal Museum 33(2): 271–336. Reference page. 

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