Dromopoda

Dromopoda
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Subclass:	Dromopoda Shultz, 1990 [1]
Orders
Opiliones Pseudoscorpionida Scorpiones Solifugae

Dromopoda is a proposed subclass of the arachnids, including the Opiliones (harvestmen), Scorpions, Pseudoscorpions and Solifugae ("camel spiders"). The latter three are sometimes grouped as Novogenuata. This taxon was first proposed by Jeffrey Shultz in 1990 based on morphological analysis. ^[1] A combined morphological and molecular analysis in 1998 supported the monophyly of Dromopoda. ^[2] However, subsequent molecular and combined analyses have not supported the monophyly of Dromopoda. ^{[3] [4]}

References

1. Shultz, Jeffrey W. (1990). "Evolutionary morphology and phylogeny of Arachnida". Cladistics . 6 (1): 1–38. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.1990.tb00523.x .
2. Wheeler, Ward C.; Hayashi, Cheryl Y. (June 1998). "The Phylogeny of the Extant Chelicerate Orders". Cladistics. 14 (2): 173–192. doi:10.1006/clad.1998.0061.
3. Ballesteros, Jesús A.; Santibáñez López, Carlos E.; Kováč, Ľubomír; Gavish-Regev, Efrat; Sharma, Prashant P. (18 December 2019). "Ordered phylogenomic subsampling enables diagnosis of systematic errors in the placement of the enigmatic arachnid order Palpigradi". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286 (1917): 20192426. doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.2426.
4. Ballesteros, Jesús A; Santibáñez-López, Carlos E; Baker, Caitlin M; Benavides, Ligia R; Cunha, Tauana J; Gainett, Guilherme; Ontano, Andrew Z; Setton, Emily V W; Arango, Claudia P; Gavish-Regev, Efrat; Harvey, Mark S; Wheeler, Ward C; Hormiga, Gustavo; Giribet, Gonzalo; Sharma, Prashant P (3 February 2022). "Comprehensive Species Sampling and Sophisticated Algorithmic Approaches Refute the Monophyly of Arachnida". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39 (2). doi:10.1093/molbev/msac021.