Amauropilio

Amauropilio
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Suborder	Eupnoi
Superfamily	Phalangioidea
Family	Sclerosomatidae
Subfamily	Leiobuninae

† Amauropilio Mello-Leitão, 1937 is a genus of leiobuninae sclerosomatidae with 2 species from Oligocene of Colorado.

Type species

Phalangium lacoei Petrunkevitch, 1922, by original designation.

Species

• Amauropilio atavus (Cockerell, 1907)
• Amauropilio lacoei (Petrunkevitch, 1922)

Etymology

Greek αμαυρός (dim, faint, uncertain, obscure, unknown) + Opilio. Gender masculine.

Placement

Petrunkevitch (1922) admittedly used the genus Phalangium very loosely, only to represent either Opiliones or Eupnoi. Mello-Leitão created the genus Amauropilio and assigned it with doubt to the Leiobuninae. Staręga (1976) placed A. lacoei in the Gagrellidae. Cokendolpher & Cokendolpher (1982) placed it in Leiobuninae.