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 Magnispina neptunus Mendes, 2011 male, Brazil - from Laboratory of arthropod behavior and evolution. Copyright © Glauco Machado | |
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Gonyleptidae is a Neotropical family of harvestmen (Order Opiliones) with more than 820 species, the largest in the Suborder Laniatores and the second largest of the Opiliones as a whole. The largest known harvestmen are gonyleptids.
Diagnosis
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DistributionEdit
Recorded continuously from the southernmost tip of the South American continent (Southern Chile and Argentina), Falklands to Costa Rica, with one isolated species cited from Guatemala.
Included subfamiliesEdit
As of October 2014, Gonyleptidae comprises 15 subfamilies, 237 genera and 760 species:
- Gonyleptidae incertae sedis (1 genus; 4 species)
- Ampycinae (12 genera; 22 species)
- Bourguyiinae (2; 10)
- Caelopyginae (9; 32)
- Cobaniinae (1; 2)
- Goniosomatinae (6; 39)
- Gonyassamiinae (2; 3)
- Gonyleptinae (35; 142)
- Hernandariinae (5; 23)
- Heteropachylinae (3; 13)
- Mitobatinae (11; 44)
- Pachylinae (124; 396)
- Pachylospeleinae (1; 1)
- Progonyleptoidellinae (10; 17)
- Roeweriinae (3; 11)
- Sodreaninae (4; 5)
- Tricommatinae (5; 8)
