Biology:Manaosbiidae

Short description: Family of harvestmen/daddy longlegs

Manaosbiidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Opiliones
Suborder:	Laniatores
Infraorder:	Grassatores
Superfamily:	Gonyleptoidea
Family:	Manaosbiidae Roewer, 1943
Genera
see text
Diversity
c. 30 genera, c. 50 species

The Manaosbiidae are a family of neotropical harvestmen within the suborder Laniatores.

Name

The name of the type genus is combined from Manaus and Ancient Greek bios "living".

Description

Body length ranges from about three to ten millimeters. Most species are dark brown with black mottling. Appendages are in general much lighter, often with dark rings.

Distribution

The Manaosbiidae occur south from Panama, with a southern limit in Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil). They inhabit lowland Amazonian rainforest up to submontane Andean forests, dry forests in Central America, and riparian forests in Brazil.

Relationships

The relationship of Manaosbiidae with other families within the Gonyleptoidea is unclear.

Species

Manaosbiinae

• Azulamus Roewer, 1957

• Azulamus scabrissimus Roewer, 1957 – Peru

• Barrona Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942

• Barrona williamsi Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 – Panama

• Belemnodes Strand, 1942

• Belemnodes scaber (Roewer, 1932)

• Belemulus Roewer, 1932

• Belemulus annulatus Roewer, 1932 – Brazil

• Bugabitia Roewer, 1915

• Bugabitia triacantha Roewer, 1915 – Panama

• Camelianus Roewer, 1912

• Camelianus fuhrmanni Roewer, 1912 – Colombia

• Clavicranaus Roewer, 1915

• Clavicranaus tarsalis Roewer, 1915 – Suriname, Brazil

• Cucutacola Mello-Leitão, 1940

• Cucutacola nigra Mello-Leitão, 1940 – Colombia

• Dibunostra Roewer, 1943

• Dibunostra ypsilon Roewer, 1943 – Venezuela

• Gonogotus Roewer, 1943

• Gonogotus areolatus Roewer, 1943 – Colombia

• Manaosbia Roewer, 1943

• Manaosbia scopulata Roewer, 1943 – Brazil

• Mazarunius Roewer, 1943

• Mazarunius oedipus Roewer, 1943 – Guyana

• Meridia Roewer, 1913

• Meridia palpalis Roewer, 1913 – Venezuela
• Meridia gracilis (Roewer, 1913) – Suriname

• Narcellus Kury & Alonso-Zarazaga, 2011

• Narcellus balthazar (Roewer, 1932) – Windward Islands
• Narcellus montgomeryi (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1947) – Trinidad

• Paramicrocranaus H. Soares, 1970

• Paramicrocranaus difficilis H. Soares, 1970 – Brazil

• Pentacranaus Roewer, 1963

• Pentacranaus niger Roewer, 1963 – Peru

• Poassa Roewer, 1943

• Poassa limbata Roewer, 1943 – Costa Rica

• Poecilocranaus Roewer, 1943

• Poecilocranaus gratiosus Roewer, 1943 – Venezuela

• Rhopalocranaus Roewer, 1913

• Rhopalocranaus albilineatus Roewer, 1932 – Trinidad
• Rhopalocranaus apiculatus Roewer, 1932 – Brazil
• Rhopalocranaus aspersus Roewer, 1932 – Brazil
• Rhopalocranaus atroluteus Roewer, 1913 – Colombia
• Rhopalocranaus bordoni Silhavy, 1979 – Venezuela
• Rhopalocranaus crulsi Mello-Leitão, 1932
• Rhopalocranaus festae Roewer, 1925 – Ecuador
• Rhopalocranaus gracilis Roewer, 1913 – Venezuela
• Rhopalocranaus limbatus (Schenkel, 1953) – Venezuela
• Rhopalocranaus marginatus Roewer, 1913 – French Guiana, Brazil
• Rhopalocranaus robustus Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 — Guyana
• Rhopalocranaus tenuis (Roewer, 1943) – Suriname
• Rhopalocranaus tuberculatus Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 – Guyana
• Rhopalocranaus ypsilon Roewer, 1913 – Colombia

• Rhopalocranellus Roewer, 1925

• Rhopalocranellus festae Roewer, 1925 – Ecuador

• Sanvincentia Roewer, 1943

• Sanvincentia tarsalis Roewer, 1943 – Virgin Islands, St. Vincent

• Saramacia Roewer, 1913

• Saramacia alvarengai Kury, 1997 – Brazil
• Saramacia annulata (Mello-Leitão, 1931) – Brazil
• Saramacia aurilimbata Roewer, 1913 – Suriname
• Saramacia lucasae (R. d. L. S. Jim & H. E. M. Soares, 1991) – Brazil

• Semostrus Roewer, 1943

• Semostrus tarsalis Roewer, 1943 – Colombia

• Syncranaus Roewer, 1913

• Syncranaus cribrum Roewer, 1913 – Brazil

• Tegyra Sørensen, 1932

• Tegyra cinnamomea Sørensen, 1932 – Peru

• Zygopachylus Chamberlin, 1925

• Zygopachylus albomarginis Chamberlin, 1925 – Panama

• unknown genus

• unknown genus calcar (Roewer, 1943) – Venezuela
• unknown genus albituberculatus (Roewer, 1943) – Guyana
• unknown genus strinatii (V. Silhavy, 1979) – Venezuela

References

• Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog: Manaosbiidae
• Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Machado, G. & Giribet, G. (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen – The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press ISBN:0-674-02343-9

Wikidata ☰ Q3285239 entry