Review of Trichodamon Mello-Leitao 1935 and phylogenetic placement of the genus in Phrynichidae (Arachnida, Amblypygi)

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This work was supported by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Brazil ( http://cnpq.br/ , process number 135839/2011-4 ), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Brazil ( http://www.capes.gov.br/ , process number 8922-13-6 ), Museu Nacional graduate program “Programa de Pós Graduação em Zoologia do Museu Nacional”, Brazil ( http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/ppgzoo/ ), Research School in Biosystematics (ForBio), Norway ( www.forbio.uio.no ) and the SYNTHESYS Project ( http://www.synthesys.info/ ) which is financed by European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP7 “Capacities” Program ( DE-TAF-6158 and FR-TAF-5129 ). We are most grateful to Peter Weygoldt, whose pioneering work has been inspirational in different fields of Biology and is the scaffold to all current and future generations of arachnologists. Thanks also to Gabriele Uhl for organizing the special issue in honour of Peter Weygoldt and for comments that greatly improved the quality of the manuscript. We are also thankful to Maria Elina Bichuette for the donation and loan of material and for arranging an expedition to Chapada Diamantina to collect Trichodamon and to Fabio Bondezan for donating material to MNRJ. Thanks to Ivan Magalhães, Leonardo Carvalho, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira and Rogério Bertani for providing pictures of live specimens and to Kenneth Chapin for revising the English. We are indebted to all the curators who gently provided specimens to this study (listed in the Material and methods). Appendix A