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Ischyropsalidoidea

Ischyropsalidoidea is a superfamily of harvestmen with 9 genera, found in Europe and North America.

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Ischyropsalidoidea
Temporal range:
Acuclavella shoshone
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Opiliones
Suborder: Dyspnoi
Superfamily: Ischyropsalidoidea
Simon, 1879
Families

Also see †Piankhi Shear, 1986

Diversity
3 families, 9 genera

Ischyropsalidoidea is a superfamily of harvestmen with 9 genera (1 extinct), found in Europe and North America (as of 2023).12

Description

The superfamily Ischyropsalidoidea was described by Eugene Simon,3 with the type genus as Ischyropsalis C.L. Koch, 1839 by original implicit etymological designation.1

Taxonomy

Ischyropsalidoidea contains the following families, per World Catalog of Opiliones.1 Of the 9 genera (as of 2023), 1 of those is extinct and remains of uncertain phylogenetic affinity within the Superfamily. The scheme below reflects Schönhofer (2013)4 plus subsequent amendments such as by Shear & Warfel (2016).5

Plus †Piankhi Shear, 1986 as "Ischyropsalididae incertae sedis"

References

References

  1. "Ischyropsalidoidea". Kury, A. et al. (2023). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  2. "Ischyropsalidoidea". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  3. Simon, E. (1879). Les Arachnides de France. Tome 7. Contenant les ordres des Chernetes, Scorpiones et Opiliones. Vol. 7. Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. pp. 1–332, pl. 17–24.
  4. 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.
  5. Shear, W.A.; Warfel, J.G. (2016). "The harvestman genus Taracus Simon 1879, and the new genus Oskoron (Opiliones: Ischyropsalidoidea: Taracidae)". Zootaxa. 4180 (1): 1–71. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4180.1.1. ISSN 1175-5326. PMID 27811667.
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