Acropsopilionoidea

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Acropsopilionoidea
Temporal range: Palaeogene–present
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Opiliones
Suborder: Dyspnoi
Superfamily: Acropsopilionoidea
Roewer, 1923 [1]
Families
Diversity
1 family, 3 genera
adult Acropsopilio neozelandiae (dorsal) Acropsopilio neozelandiae dorsal.jpg
adult Acropsopilio neozelandiae (dorsal)

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]

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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]

Likely associated with this Superfamily:

References

  1. 1 2 Roewer, C.F. (1923). Die Weberknechte der Erde. Systematische Bearbeitung der bisher bekannten Opiliones (in German). Jena, Germany: Gustav Fischer. p. 1116.
  2. 1 2 3 "Acropsopilionoidea". Kury, A. et al. (2023). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones. Retrieved 16 Dec 2023.
  3. ↑ "Acropsopilionoidea". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
  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 . PMID   26146693.
  5. ↑ Giribet, G.; Dunlop, J.A. (2005). "First identifiable Mesozoic harvestman (Opiliones: Dyspnoi) from Cretaceous Burmese amber". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 272: 1007–1013. doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3063. ISSN   0080-4649. PMC   1599874 .
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