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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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Distribution[]
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 subfamilies[]
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)
Gallery[]
![Ampycinae - Ampycus telifer Colombian Amazonia, male. Photo copyright © Arthur Anker [1] from flickr [2]. Used with permission.](/wiki/File:Ampycus_telifer_Colombian_Amazonia_by_ANker.jpg "Ampycus telifer Colombian Amazonia by ANker.jpg (784 KB)")
Ampycinae - Ampycus telifer Colombian Amazonia, male. Photo copyright © Arthur Anker [1] from flickr [2]. Used with permission.
Bourguyiinae - Bourguyia maculata (Roewer, 1930), male from Teresópolis. Photo copyright © AB Kury.
![Caelopyginae - Pristocnemus pustulatus Kollar, 1839, Photo Copyright © Enio Branco from flickr [3]](/wiki/File:Enio_Branco_Opili%C3%A3o_laranja_(Classe_Arachnida,_Ordem_Opiliones,_Familia_Gonyleptidae,_Genero_Pristocnemis.jpg "Enio Branco Opilião laranja (Classe Arachnida, Ordem Opiliones, Familia Gonyleptidae, Genero Pristocnemis.jpg (1,011 KB)")
Cobaniinae - Cobania picea (Bertkau, 1880) - Brazil - from Laboratory of arthropod behavior and evolution - cropped. Copyright © Glauco Machado
Goniosomatinae - Goniosoma calcar (Roewer, 1913) - Brazil - from Laboratory of arthropod behavior and evolution. Copyright © Glauco Machado
Gonyassamiinae - Trichominua roeweri, male from Teresópolis, photo by A.B. Kury
Gonyleptinae - Gonyleptes gonyleptoides (Soares & Soares, 1945). Adult male from Santa Teresa, ES. Photo Copyright © Pedro H. Martins.
Hernandariinae - Multumbo terrenus Roewer, 1927, male, from Nova Friburgo, RJ. Photo (c) AB Kury.
Heteropachylinae - Magnispina neptunus Mendes, 2011 male, Brazil - from Laboratory of arthropod behavior and evolution. Copyright © Glauco Machado
Mitobatinae - Mitobates triangulus Sundevall, 1833, male from Floresta da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Photo (c) AB Kury.
Pachylinae - Sadocus sp. - Chile - from flickr. Copyright © BernardoSegura
Pachylospeleinae - Pachylospeleus strinatii Šilhavý, 1974, from original description.
Progonyleptoidellinae - Leptocnemus sulphureus (Perty, 1833), male from REBIO do Tinguá, Nova Iguaçu, RJ. Photo copyright © AB Kury. Used with permission.
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Roeweriinae - Amazochroma carvalhoi, male from French Guiana. Photo copyright (c) Sébastien Cally
Sodreaninae - Sodreana sodreana Mello-Leitão, 1922 - Brazil - from Laboratory of arthropod behavior and evolution. Copyright © Glauco Machado'
Tricommatinae - Voriax popeye Kury, 2014, from Brazil, from original description.