Megabunus

Megabunus
	Megabunus diadema
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Opiliones
Family:	Phalangiidae
Genus:	Megabunus ; Meade, 1855
Type species
	Megabunus insignis ; Meade, 1855
Species
	See text.
Diversity
	6 species

Last updated October 09, 2025

Megabunus is a genus of harvestmen in the family Phalangiidae.^[1]^[2] All occur in Europe, mostly in the vicinity of the Alps.^[2]

Name

The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek mega "big" and -bunus, which is a common ending for certain opilionid genera.

Species

There are eleven recognized species:^[1]^[2]

Megabunus armatus (Kulczyński, 1887) (Tirols, Slovenia)
Megabunus bergomas Chemini, 1985 (Italy)
Megabunus coelodonta Muster & Steiner, 2015 (Western Alps)
Megabunus cryptobergomas Muster & Wachter, 2015 (Northern Italy)
Megabunus diadema (Fabricius, 1779) (Western Europe)
Megabunus hadzii (Kratochvíl, 1935)
Megabunus lentipes Muster & Komposch, 2015 (Western Alps)
Megabunus lesserti Schenkel, 1927 (Germany, Austria, Switzerland; possibly a variation of M. armatus)
Megabunus pifkoi Murányi, 2008
Megabunus rhinoceros (Canestrini, 1872) (Swiss Alps)
Megabunus vignai Martens, 1978 (Italy)

Footnotes

1 2 "Megabunus Meade, 1855". Catalogue of Life . Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
1 2 3 Wachter, Gregor A.; Muster, Christoph; Arthofer, Wolfgang; Raspotnig, Günther; Föttinger, Petra; Komposch, Christian; Steiner, Florian M.; Schlick‐Steiner, Birgit C. (2015). "Taking the discovery approach in integrative taxonomy: decrypting a complex of narrow‐endemic Alpine harvestmen (Opiliones: Phalangiidae: Megabunus)". Molecular Ecology. 24 (4): 863–889. doi:10.1111/mec.13077.
↑ Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2007: 327

References

Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Machado, G. & Giribet, G. (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press ISBN 0-674-02343-9

External links

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[CoL-1] 1 2 "Megabunus Meade, 1855". Catalogue of Life . Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 8 October 2025.

[Wachter_et_al._2015-2] 1 2 3 Wachter, Gregor A.; Muster, Christoph; Arthofer, Wolfgang; Raspotnig, Günther; Föttinger, Petra; Komposch, Christian; Steiner, Florian M.; Schlick‐Steiner, Birgit C. (2015). "Taking the discovery approach in integrative taxonomy: decrypting a complex of narrow‐endemic Alpine harvestmen (Opiliones: Phalangiidae: Megabunus)". Molecular Ecology. 24 (4): 863–889. doi:10.1111/mec.13077.

[3] Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2007: 327

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