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Magnispina neptunus Mendes, 2011 (Gonyleptidae, Heteropachylinae) male. Brazil - from Laboratory of arthropod behavior and evolution. Copyright © Glauco Machado. Used with permission. | |
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Gonyleptoidea (Sundevall, 1833) is the most diverse superfamily of the Grassatores. It includes around 2,000 species distributed in the Neotropics. They are characterized by the simplified male genitalia, with the glans free subapically in the truncus. [Kury 2003].
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The composition of the superfamily Gonyleptoidea often changes, one should refer to WCO-Lite for updated info.
As of June 2022, the Gonyleptoidea comprise the following subtaxa:
- Agoristenidae Šilhavý, 1973 (Neotropical – 75 species)
- Askawachidae Kury & Carvalho, 2020 (Amzonia - 3 species)
- Cosmetidae Koch, 1839 (Neotropical, Nearctic – 729 species)
- Cranaidae Roewer, 1913 (Neotropical – 169 species)
- Cryptogeobiidae Kury, 2014 (Neotropical - 54 species)
- Gerdesiidae Bragagnolo, Hara & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2015 (Neotropical - 6 species)
- Gonyleptidae Sundevall, 1833 (Neotropical – 760 species)
- Manaosbiidae Roewer, 1943 (Neotropical – 47 species)
- Metasarcidae Kury, 1994 (Neotropical - 22 species]
- Nomoclastidae Roewer, 1943 (Neotropical - 6 species)
- Otilioleptidae Acosta, 2019 (cave in Argentina - 1 species)
- Stygnidae Simon, 1879 (Neotropical – 104 species)
- Stygnopsidae Sørensen, 1932 (Neotropical – 40 species)
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- ↑ Kury, A.B. (2000 onwards) Classification of Opiliones. Museu Nacional/UFRJ website. Online at: http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/mndi/Aracnologia/opiliones.html
- ↑ Bragagnolo, C., Hara, M. R. and Pinto-da-Rocha, R. (2015), A new family of Gonyleptoidea from South America (Opiliones, Laniatores). Zool J Linn Soc, 173: 296–319. doi:10.1111/zoj.12207