| Troguloidea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Opiliones |
| Suborder: | Dyspnoi |
| Superfamily: | Troguloidea Sundevall, 1833 |
| Families | |
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| Diversity | |
| 4 families, several genera | |
Troguloidea is a superfamily of harvestmen with 4 genera (2 extinct), found mostly in Europe, Asia, and North America (as of 2023).12
Description
The superfamily Troguloidea was described by Sundevall, with the type genus as Trogulus Latreille, 1802 by original implicit etymological designation.1
Taxonomy
Troguloidea contains the following families, per World Catalog of Opiliones.1 Of the 6 genera (as of 2023), 2 of those are extinct. The scheme below largely reflects Schönhofer (2013).3
- Dicranolasmatidae Simon, 1879
- Nemastomatidae Simon, 1872
- Nipponopsalididae Martens, 1976
- Trogulidae Sundevall, 1833
- †Eotrogulidae Petrunkevitch, 1955
- †Nemastomoididae Petrunkevitch, 1955
References
References
- "Troguloidea". Kury, A. et al. (2023). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- "Troguloidea". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- 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. ISSN 1175-5326. PMID 26146693.
External links
External links
- Media related to Troguloidea at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Troguloidea at Wikispecies