Grassatores

Grassatores
Magnispina neptunus Mendes, 2011 (Gonyleptidae, Heteropachylinae)male, Brazil - from Laboratory of arthropod behavior and evolution. Copyright © Glauco Machado
Order	Opiliones
Suborder	Laniatores
Diversity	xxx

Grassatores Kury, 2002 is a infraorder of Laniatores which includes the Laniatores with hydraulic penis.

This name appeared for the first time as “Grassatores Kury” in Giribet et al. (2002), but the hypothesis of the Grassatores may be tracked back to Kratochvíl (1958), widely corroborated by Martens (1980), Giribet et al. (1999; 2002; 2010), Shultz (1998), Shultz & Regier (2001), Giribet & Kury (2007), Mendes (2009), and Sharma & Giribet (2011) ^[1].

Cladistic definitionEdit

The last common ancestor of Gonyleptes and Phalangodes, and all descendants of that ancestor^[1].

Superfamilies includedEdit

• Assamioidea Sørensen, 1884
• Epedanoidea Sørensen, 1886
• Gonyleptoidea Sundevall, 1833
• Phalangodoidea Simon, 1879
• Samooidea Sørensen, 1886
• Zalmoxoidea Sørensen, 1886

Incertae sedisEdit

In addition to the superfamilies listed above, there are nearly a hundred species of uncertain affinities that are listed as Grassatores Incertae sedis.

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