Metabiantes meraculus

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

Metabiantes meraculus (Loman, 1898)

Type locality: South Africa, [Eastern Cape], “Capland” (=three present provinces).

Typus: Syntypes, 4 Male ♂, 1 Female ♀ ZMAN (Original description says “Museum Lübeck”) legit Brady.

• Biantes meraculus Loman, 1898: 522, fig. 12. (Original combination); Roewer 1912: 177.
• Metabiantes meraculus (Loman, 1898); Roewer 1915: 27. Comb. nov.; Staręga, 1992: 327.

• Metabiantes maximus Lawrence, 1931: 356, figs 4a–c; Lawrence, 1937: 264. Junior subjective synonym of Metabiantes meraculus (Loman, 1898) in Staręga, 1992: 327.
  • Type locality: South Africa, Eastern Cape Province, Somerville
    • Typus: Holotype, Female ♀, "Type in Albany Museum, Grahamstown."

• Lawrence, R.F. 1931. The harvest-spiders (Opiliones) of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 29: 341–508. BHL Reference page. 
• Lawrence, R.F. 1937. A collection of Arachnida from Zululand. Annals of the Natal Museum 8(2): 211–273. Reference page. 
• Loman, J.C.C. 1898. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Fauna von Süd-Afrika. Ergebnisse einer Reise von Prof. Max Weber im Jahre 1894. IV. Neue Opilioniden von Süd-Afrika und Madagaskar. Zoologische Jahrbücher 11: 515–530. 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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