Neopilionidae

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Neopilionidae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Opiliones
Superfamily: Phalangioidea
Family: Neopilionidae
Lawrence, 1931
Diversity
19 genera, 78 species

The Neopilionidae are a family of harvestmen.

It has a clearly Gondwanan distribution, with species found in Australia, South Africa and South America; they probably represent relicts of that time.

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The family members range in size from the small Americovibone lancafrancoae (0.9 mm) to over 4 mm in the Enantiobuninae. [1]

Some species of Enantiobuninae have blue pigmentation, which is rather unusual in harvestmen. [1]

The former family "Monoscutidae" has recently been subsumed within the subfamily Enantiobuninae. [2]

Name

The family name is a contraction of Ancient Greek neo "new" and Latin Opilio , a genus of harvestman.

Subdivisions

According to the Catalogue of Life, Neopilionidae includes 3 subfamilies, which contain a total of 27 genera and 81 species. [3]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Cokendolpher, James C. (2007): Neopilionidae Lawrence, 1931. In: Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2007: 121ff
  2. ↑ Taylor, C.K. 2011. Revision of the genus Megalopsalis (Arachnida: Opiliones: Phalangioidea) in Australia and New Zealand and implications for phalangioid classification. Zootaxa 2773: 1–65.
  3. ↑ "Neopilionidae Lawrence, 1931 | COL". www.catalogueoflife.org. Retrieved 2025-12-26.

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