Fauna of Afghanistan

Fauna of Afghanistan
Afghanistan. Location.
Continent	Asia
Realm(s)	Palearctic
Predominant harvestmen (from HarvEx)	Opilioninae; Phalangiinae
Diversity (Project WCO)	6 species (none endemic)
Central Asia	Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in South-Central Asia. Its territory covers 652,000 square kilometers and much of it is covered by the Hindu Kush mountain range. The north consists of fertile plains, while the south-west is primarily desert.

Afghanistan has the 131th most diverse opilionofauna in the world with less than 10 species recorded.

This category is for harvestmen officially recorded from Afghanistan, repositories of Afghan Opiliones and authors who worked on Afghan opilionofauna.