English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Alpha taxonomy, and specifically the delimitation of species, is becoming increasingly objective and integrative. The use of coalescent-based methods applied to genetic data is providing new tools for the discovery and delimitation of species. Here, we use an integrative approach via a combination of discovery-based multivariate morphological analyses to detect potential new species. These potential species are then used as  a priori  species in hypothesis-driven validation analyses with genetic data. This research focuses on the harvestmen genus  Sclerobunus  found throughout the mountainous regions of western North America. Based on our analyses, we conduct a revision of  Sclerobunus  resulting in synonymy of  Cyptobunus  with  Sclerobunus  including transfer of  S. cavicolens   comb. nov.  and elevation of both subspecies of  S. ungulatus :  S. ungulatus   comb. nov.  and  S. madhousensis   comb. nov., stat. nov.  The three subspecies of  S. robustus  are elevated,  S. robustus ,  S. glorietus   stat. nov. , and  S. idahoensis   stat. nov.  Additionally, five new species of  Sclerobunus  are described from New Mexico and Colorado, including  S. jemez   sp. nov. ,  S. klomax   sp. nov. ,  S. skywalkeri   sp. nov. ,  S. speoventus   sp. nov. , and  S. steinmanni   sp. nov.  Several of the newly described species are single-cave endemics, and our findings suggest that further exploration of western North American cave habitats will likely yield additional new species.

plos one

Integrative Taxonomy and Species Delimitation in Harvestmen: A Revision of the Western North American Genus Sclerobunus (Opiliones: Laniatores: Travunioidea)