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Magnispina neptunus Mendes, 2011 male, Brazil - from Laboratory of arthropod behavior and evolution. Copyright © Glauco Machado | |
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Gonyleptidae is a Neotropical family of harvestmen (Order Opiliones) with more than 820 species, the largest in the Suborder Laniatores and the second largest of the Opiliones as a whole. The largest known harvestmen are gonyleptids.
Diagnosis[]
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Distribution[]
Recorded continuously from the southernmost tip of the South American continent (Southern Chile and Argentina), Falklands to Costa Rica, with one isolated species cited from Guatemala.
Included subfamilies[]
As of October 2014, Gonyleptidae comprises 15 subfamilies, 237 genera and 760 species:
- Gonyleptidae incertae sedis (1 genus; 4 species)
- Ampycinae (12 genera; 22 species)
- Bourguyiinae (2; 10)
- Caelopyginae (9; 32)
- Cobaniinae (1; 2)
- Goniosomatinae (6; 39)
- Gonyassamiinae (2; 3)
- Gonyleptinae (35; 142)
- Hernandariinae (5; 23)
- Heteropachylinae (3; 13)
- Mitobatinae (11; 44)
- Pachylinae (124; 396)
- Pachylospeleinae (1; 1)
- Progonyleptoidellinae (10; 17)
- Roeweriinae (3; 11)
- Sodreaninae (4; 5)
- Tricommatinae (5; 8)