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Fauna of France
FRA-loc
France. Location.

Continent

Europe

Realm(s)

Palearctic

Predominant harvestmen (from HarvEx)

Leiobuninae; Nemastomatidae; Oligolophinae; Trogulidae; Sabaconidae; Ischyropsalididae

Diversity (Project WCO)

120 species

France is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland and Italy to the east, and Andorra and Spain to the south. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.

France has the 19th most diverse opilionofauna in the world with more than 100 species recorded.

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

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