Neopilionidae

Pantopsalis listeri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Phalangioidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Opiliones Subordo: Eupnoi Superfamilia: Phalangioidea

Familia: Neopilionidae
Subfamiliae: Ballarrinae – Enantiobuninae – Neopilioninae

See also Martensopsalis

Name

Neopilionidae Lawrence, 1931: 473.

Synonyms

None. But see Enantiobuninae for Monoscutinae Forster, 1948: 313; treated as Monoscutidae Forster, 1948, per Crawford 1992: 9.

References

Primary references

• Crawford, R.L. 1992. Catalogue of the genera and type species of the harvestman superfamily Phalangioidea. Burke Museum Contributions in Anthropology and Natural History 8: 1–60. Reference page. 
• Forster, R.R. 1948. A new sub-family and species of New Zealand Opiliones. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 3(4&5): 313–318, plates 61–62. PDF Reference page. 
• Lawrence, R.F. 1931. The harvest-spiders (Opiliones) of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 29: 341–508. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Groh, S.S. & Giribet, G. 2014. Polyphyly of Caddoidea, reinstatement of the family Acropsopilionidae in Dyspnoi, and a revised classification system of Palpatores (Arachnida, Opiliones). Cladistics 31(3): 277–290. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12087 Reference page. 
• 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. Preview Reference page. 
• Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A. d. A., Giribet, G., Cruz-López, J.A., Longhorn, S.J., Medrano, M. & de Oliveira, A.B.R. 2023. World Catalogue of Opiliones (WCO-Lite version 2.5.1 - June 2023. Digital resource at wcolite.com). In: O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D.R. Hernández Robles, C.A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R.E. DeWalt, M. Keping, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, E.M. Adriaenssens, et al. Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2023-07-13). DOI: 10.48580/dfsy-4pt Reference page.  [accessed on December 23, 2023]

Links

• BHL bibliography
• Neopilionidae – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Neopilionidae.
• ION

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