| Acropsopilionoidea Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Opiliones |
| Suborder: | Dyspnoi |
| Superfamily: | Acropsopilionoidea Roewer, 19231 |
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| Diversity | |
| 1 family, 3 genera | |
Acropsopilionoidea is a superfamily of harvestmen with 1 family and 3 genera, found in North America (USA, Canada, Mexico) and the Southern Hemisphere (Australia, New Zealand, plus Chile, Argentina and Brazil) (as of 2023).23
Description
The superfamily Acropsopilionoidea was described by Roewer, 1923,1 with the type genus as Acropsopilio Silvestri, 1904 by original monotypy.2
Taxonomy
Acropsopilionoidea contains the following families, per World Catalog of Opiliones.2 Of the 3 genera (as of 2023), the scheme below reflects Schönhofer (2013)4
- Acropsopilionidae Roewer, 1923
Likely associated with this Superfamily:
- †Halithersidae Dunlop, Selden & Giribet, 2016
- † Halitherses Giribet & Dunlop, 2005
- † Halitherses grimaldii Giribet & Dunlop, 20055 – Fossil: Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Burmese amber
References
References
- Roewer, C.F. (1923). Die Weberknechte der Erde. Systematische Bearbeitung der bisher bekannten Opiliones (in German). Jena, Germany: Gustav Fischer. p. 1116.
- "Acropsopilionoidea". Kury, A. et al. (2023). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones. Retrieved 16 Dec 2023.
- "Acropsopilionoidea". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
- Schönhofer, A.L. (2013). "A taxonomic catalogue of the Dyspnoi Hansen and Sørensen, 1904 (Arachnida: Opiliones)". Zootaxa. 3679 (1): 1–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3679.1.1. PMID 26146693.
- Giribet, G.; Dunlop, J.A. (2005). "First identifiable Mesozoic harvestman (Opiliones: Dyspnoi) from Cretaceous Burmese amber". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 272: 1007–1013. doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3063. ISSN 0080-4649. PMC 1599874.