Biology:Acropsopilionoidea
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Short description: Family of harvestmen/daddy longlegs
Acropsopilionoidea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Opiliones |
Suborder: | Dyspnoi |
Superfamily: | Acropsopilionoidea Roewer, 1923[1] |
Families | |
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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).[2][3]
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, 2005[5] – Fossil: Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Burmese amber
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roewer, C.F. (1923) (in de). Die Weberknechte der Erde. Systematische Bearbeitung der bisher bekannten Opiliones. Jena, Germany: Gustav Fischer. pp. 1116.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Acropsopilionoidea". https://wcolite.com.
- ↑ "Acropsopilionoidea" (in en). https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/552382-Acropsopilionoidea.
- ↑ 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." (in en). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 272: 1007–1013.. doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3063. ISSN 0080-4649.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q21214377 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropsopilionoidea.
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