WCO-Lite hub

Scope and completion of WCO-Lite

Valid taxa: names complete until Dec 2019.

Invalid taxa: in progress.

Original citations for valid suborders to genera: complete.

Original citations for valid species: in progress.

Placeholders for all taxa were created by the original upload from Word to TW back in 2018. These placeholders are being gradually replaced in our database by full fledged entries with complete citations. However, due to a bug in the importation module of TW, authorship order was mixed-up. In the current version, only the species are not yet 100% fixed, but we are aware of the problem and working to repair everything.

Terminology of the Logonymy

The terminology used in the logonimies here in WCO-Lite (in the “Card” module) follows Dubois (2000; 2011): For a given taxon, there is only one “correct” nomen, which may be either the protonym or one of the aponyms of the kyronym.

Protonym. ● G: πρὣτος (protos), “first, earliest”; ὄνομα (onoma), “name”. ● Original spelling (protograph), rank (protohypse) and/or, if relevant, onymorph (protonymorph) of a nomen. ● Dubois 2000: 51. Protonym is the original morphonym of a nomen in the original publication where it was first made nomenclaturally available. Genuine synonymies should only list protonyms, as these are the nomina to which the author, date and onomatophore are attached.

Aponym. ● G: ἀπό (apo), “away from, far from”; ὄνομα (onoma), “name”. ● Any subsequent paronym of a protonym, modified in spelling (apograph), rank (apohypse) and/or, if relevant, onymorph (aponymorph). An aponym is established by its first-user. ● Dubois 2000: 52. Aponym is any morphonym resulting from a subsequent change, either justified or unjustified, introduced in a protonym after the original publication. Such changes may concern only spelling (following mandatory change, justified emendation, incorrect subsequent spelling), only onymorph (following new generic allocation, raising of subspecies to species rank, downgrading of species to subspecies rank, change in subgeneric status, taxonomic recognition of aggregates of species or subspecies, etc.), or both (e.g., mandatory change of ending of epithet following new generic allocation), or even simply the rank of the nomen without spelling change (e.g., when a generic nomen is downgraded to subgeneric rank, or when a family-series nomen is used with the same suffix as in a previous work but for a taxon of different rank).

Dubois, A. (2000) Synonymies and related lists in zoology: general proposals, with examples in herpetology. Dumerilia, 4 (2): 33–98.

Dubois, A. (2011) The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature must be drastically improved before it is too late. Bionomina, 2, 1–104.

WCO-Lite website patch 2.5.1

Launched 18 June 2023.

Minor adjustments. Added a new team member.

Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A.de A. Giribet, G., Cruz-López J.A., Longhorn, S.J., Medrano, M., Oliveira, A.B.R. de, Kury, I.S. & Souza-Kury, M.A. (2023) World Catalogue of Opiliones. WCO-Lite version 2.5.1. Online at: https://wcolite.com/.

WCO-Lite website release 2.5.0

Launched 23 July 2022.

Corrected persistent bug regarding non-Opiliones taxa which contain genera that have junior homonyms in Opiliones. Organized for the first time the logonymy in the hierarchic Dubois style.

Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A.de A. Giribet, G., Cruz-López J. A., Longhorn S. J., Medrano, M., Kury, I.S. & Souza-Kury, M.A. (2022) World Catalogue of Opiliones. WCO-Lite version 2.5.0. Online at: https://wcolite.com/.

WCO-Lite website release 2.4.0

Launched 15 January 2022.

Added "classified as" relationships. Checked minor mistakes.

WCO-Lite website release 2.3.0

Launched 14 July 2021.

Included year suffixes for citations in the logonymy and added first authors for aponyms. Added yet another team member.

Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A.de A. Giribet, G., Cruz-López J. A., Longhorn S. J., Medrano, M., Kury, I.S. & Souza-Kury, M.A. (2021) World Catalogue of Opiliones. WCO-Lite version 2.3.0. Online at: https://wcolite.com/.

WCO-Lite website release 2.2.0

Launched 10 July 2021.

Included info and authors of synonymies from TW API.

Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A.de A. Giribet, G., Cruz-López J. A., Longhorn S. J., Kury, I.S. & Souza-Kury, M.A. (2021) World Catalogue of Opiliones. WCO-Lite version 2.2.0. Online at: https://wcolite.com/.

WCO-Lite website release 2.1.0

Launched 25 June 2021.

Finally included the type-species of genera from TW API.

WCO-Lite website version 2.0

Launched 21 June 2021.

Total remake of the GUI; reached landmark of 6,700 valid species.

WCO-Lite website patch 1.5.4

Launched 26 May 2021.

Correction of bugs related to combinations, aponyms and protonyms and upper bound of taxa returned by the TW API.

Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A.de A. Giribet, G., Cruz-López J. A. & Longhorn S. J. (2021) World Catalogue of Opiliones. WCO-Lite version 1.5.4. Online at: https://wcolite.com/.

WCO-Lite website patch 1.5.1

Launched 24 May 2021.

Tree improvement: non-assigned taxa reunited under "incertae sedis" node.

Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A.de A. Giribet, G., Cruz-López J. A. & Longhorn S. J. (2021) World Catalogue of Opiliones. WCO-Lite version 1.5.1. Online at: https://wcolite.com/.

WCO-Lite website release 1.5

Launched 22 May 2021.

Code rewritten to extract info directly from the TW API.

Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A.de A. Giribet, G., Cruz-López J. A. & Longhorn S. J. (2021) World Catalogue of Opiliones. WCO-Lite version 1.5. Online at: https://wcolite.com/.

WCO-Lite website release 1.4

Launched 11 May 2021.

Proto-logonymy incorporated from csv tables.

Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A.de A. Giribet, G., Cruz-López J. A. & Longhorn S. J. (2021) World Catalogue of Opiliones. WCO-Lite version 1.4. Online at: https://wcolite.com/.

WCO-Lite website release 1.3

Launched 6 May 2021.

Code rewritten from C++ to JavaScript. Incorporated two new team members (Jesús Cruz-López and Stuart Longhorn) to the original website version.

Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A.de A. Giribet, G., Cruz-López J. A. & Longhorn S. J. (2021) World Catalogue of Opiliones. WCO-Lite version 1.3. Online at: https://wcolite.com/.

WCO: World Catalogue of Opiliones (version 2021-03-23)

Launched 14 April 2021.

First version of the harvestmen catalogue to appear in the "Catalog of Life". For the first time with 8 members.

Kury A. B., Mendes A. C., Cardoso L., Kury M. S., Granado A. de A., Giribet G., Cruz-López J. A., Longhorn S. J. (2021). WCO: World Catalogue of Opiliones (version 2021-03-23). In: Catalogue of Life, et al. (2021). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2021-04-05. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.

WCO-Lite website patch 1.2.1

Launched 19 December 2020.

Improved the drag-ability in the tree; corrected a faulty initial screen; changed mobile message.

Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A.de A. & Giribet, G. (2020) World Catalogue of Opiliones. WCO-Lite version 1.2.1. Online at: https://wcolite.com/.

WCO-Lite website release 1.2

Launched 11 December 2020.

Added bibliographic references to taxa (complete for suprageneric taxa, well in advance for generic taxa); established threshold date of exhaustive information included (up to December 2018); officially incorporated 6th team member (Gonzalo Giribet)

Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A.de A. & Giribet, G. (2020) World Catalogue of Opiliones. WCO-Lite version 1.2. Online at: https://wcolite.com/.

WCO-Lite website patch 1.1.1

Launched 9 November 2020.

Added debug to deal with missing data without crashing.

WCO-Lite website release 1.1

Launched 12 September 2020.

Added counter of valid species for all taxa; improved navigation capabilities within and among the three WCO-Lite modes (tree/card/table).

Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S. & Granado, A.de A. (2020) World Catalogue of Opiliones. WCO-Lite version 1.1. Online at: https://wcolite.com/.

URL = https://wcolite.com/

Coded by Ian Kury.

WCO-Lite website version 1.0 (pre-release)

Launched 5 September 2020. Included a taxonomic tree, a card/table system to visualize data: a list of all valid taxa in the order Opiliones with authorship complete up to Dec. 2018.

The experimental version 1.0 was short lived, and it was online only in the week preceeding the official launch.

Previously announced with Lascaux + Battle of Marathon imagery (both events happened in September 12).

Алексей Чемерис (Aleksey Chemeris), Jesús Cruz-López, Shahan Derkarabetian and Matthew Yoder provided feedback on the structure and navigation logic of the GUI, with valuable suggestions that we expect to implement as soon as possible.

Patrícia Guedes and Lucia Paiva contributed the costs of hosting the WCO-Lite website.

WCO-Lite version 1.0 eBook

Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S. & Granado, A.de A. (2020) WCO-Lite: online world catalogue of harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones). Version 1.0 — Checklist of all valid nomina in Opiliones with authors and dates of publication up to 2018. Self published, Rio de Janeiro. ii + 237 pp.

ISBN 978-65-00-06706-4

ZooBank register urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B40334FC-98EA-492E-877B-D723F7998C22

Also: Searchable PDF at AracnoLab

Original database: built with the fantastic open-source platform TaxonWorks (effusive thanks to the Species File Group team for their patience and attention).

Features: Complete list of valid taxon nomina of harvestmen from suborder to subspecies (website); exhaustive taxonomic survey up to December 2018 (website); mandatory nomenclatural corrections (eBook); extra taxonomy (eBook); lots of illustrious guests (eBook).

Future features: complete bibliographic sources and page numbers for all nomenclatural acts; indication of type-species for all genera as well as designation mode; indication of type-specimens for all species with repositories (museum holdings); cross-referenced invalid nomina (junior synonyms and homonyms); cross-referenced ID for people, works, taxa, such as ORCID, Wikidata, Life Science Identifiers (LSID) of ZooBank for authors of works; etymology and gender for all generic nomina; etymology and grammatical classification (if they are adjectives, participles, nouns) for all species epithets; asserted geographic distribution of species; indication of varied relationships among taxa; alternative spellings and combinations; updates regarding the literature analysed; migration of the database to the Catalog of Life.

Contents

Chapters 1 to 3 + Acknowledgments + Complete References to WCO: by the five authors

Chapters 4 to 14: contributions by external authors

Kury, A.B. (2020) Chapter 4. A ghost species of Metaphalangium (Eupnoi: Phalangiidae). In: A. B. Kury, A. C. Mendes, L. Cardoso, M. S. Kury, and A. de A. Granado (Eds), WCO-Lite: online world catalogue of harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones). Version 1.0 — Checklist of all valid nomina in Opiliones with authors and dates of publication up to 2018. Self published, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 39–40.

Carvalho, R.N., Kury, A.B. & Hara, M.R. (2020) Chapter 5. A Brazilian Daguerreia (Laniatores: Gonyleptidae). In: A. B. Kury, A. C. Mendes, L. Cardoso, M. S. Kury, and A. de A. Granado (Eds), WCO-Lite: online world catalogue of harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones). Version 1.0 — Checklist of all valid nomina in Opiliones with authors and dates of publication up to 2018. Self published, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 41–43.

Kury, A.B. & Ázara, L.N. de (2020) Chapter 6. New synonymies and combinations in the clade K92. In: A. B. Kury, A. C. Mendes, L. Cardoso, M. S. Kury, and A. de A. Granado (Eds), WCO-Lite: online world catalogue of harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones). Version 1.0 — Checklist of all valid nomina in Opiliones with authors and dates of publication up to 2018. Self published, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 44–47.

Caramori, L. & Kury, A.B. (2020) Chapter 7. On a tricommatine from Paraná described in two different families (Laniatores: Gonyleptidae). In: A. B. Kury, A. C. Mendes, L. Cardoso, M. S. Kury, and A. de A. Granado (Eds), WCO-Lite: online world catalogue of harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones). Version 1.0 — Checklist of all valid nomina in Opiliones with authors and dates of publication up to 2018. Self published, Rio de Janeiro, p. 48.

Kury, A.B., Dunlop, J.A. & Mendes, A.C. (2020) Chapter 8. On the allocation of some Palaeozoic and Tertiary harvestmen. In: A. B. Kury, A. C. Mendes, L. Cardoso, M. S. Kury, and A. de A. Granado (Eds), WCO-Lite: online world catalogue of harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones). Version 1.0 — Checklist of all valid nomina in Opiliones with authors and dates of publication up to 2018. Self published, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 49–51.

Kury, A.B. & Cokendolpher, J.C. (2020) Chapter 9. A new family from the New World (Eupnoi: Phalangioidea). In: A. B. Kury, A. C. Mendes, L. Cardoso, M. S. Kury, and A. de A. Granado (Eds), WCO-Lite: online world catalogue of harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones). Version 1.0 — Checklist of all valid nomina in Opiliones with authors and dates of publication up to 2018. Self published, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 52–54.

Kury, A.B. & Carvalho, R.N. (2020) Chapter 10. Expansion of the MECO clade (Grassatores: Microsetata). In: A. B. Kury, A. C. Mendes, L. Cardoso, M. S. Kury, and A. de A. Granado (Eds), WCO-Lite: online world catalogue of harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones). Version 1.0 — Checklist of all valid nomina in Opiliones with authors and dates of publication up to 2018. Self published, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 55–56.

Kury, A.B. & Pinto-da-Rocha, R. (2020) Chapter 11. On two false South American Liogyndulus. In: A. B. Kury, A. C. Mendes, L. Cardoso, M. S. Kury, and A. de A. Granado (Eds), WCO-Lite: online world catalogue of harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones). Version 1.0 — Checklist of all valid nomina in Opiliones with authors and dates of publication up to 2018. Self published, Rio de Janeiro, p. 57.

Pessoa-Silva, M., Hara, M.R., Pinto-da-Rocha, R. & Kury, A.B. (2020) Chapter 12. Pachylinae at their southernmost extreme (Laniatores: Gonyleptidae). In: A. B. Kury, A. C. Mendes, L. Cardoso, M. S. Kury, and A. de A. Granado (Eds), WCO-Lite: online world catalogue of harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones). Version 1.0 — Checklist of all valid nomina in Opiliones with authors and dates of publication up to 2018. Self published, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 58–59.

Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C. & Hara, M.R. (2020) Chapter 13. Gonyassamiinae, Bristoweia, Eopachylus and Project 2559. In: A. B. Kury, A. C. Mendes, L. Cardoso, M. S. Kury, and A. de A. Granado (Eds), WCO-Lite: online world catalogue of harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones). Version 1.0 — Checklist of all valid nomina in Opiliones with authors and dates of publication up to 2018 . Self published, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 60–68.

Sabattini, B.S. & Hara, M.R. (2020) Chapter 14. False Gyndulus from Austral lands (Grassatores: Gonyleptidae). In: A. B. Kury, A. C. Mendes, L. Cardoso, M. S. Kury, and A. de A. Granado (Eds), WCO-Lite: online world catalogue of harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones). Version 1.0 — Checklist of all valid nomina in Opiliones with authors and dates of publication up to 2018 . Self published, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 69–70.

Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank several friends who contributed immensely to this project during various phases along many years, and especially: Janet Beccaloni, Ulisses Caramaschi, Aleksey Chemeris, Paula Cushing, Emmanuel Delfosse, Dmitry Dmitriev, Jason Dunlop, Neal Evenhuis, Anja Friedrichs, Jürgen Gruber, Mark Judson, Juliana "Yuckie" Machado, Alan Martin, Gustavo Miranda, José Luis Pereira, Abel Pérez-González, Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha, John Ponting, Nikolaj Scharff, Axel Schönhofer, Osvaldo Villarreal, Francisco Welter-Schultes, Matt Yoder, Miguel-Angel Alonso-Zarazaga, Chao Zhang.