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Sadocus

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Suborder

Laniatores

Superfamily

Gonyleptoidea

Family

Gonyleptidae

Subfamily

Pachylinae

Sadocus Sørensen, 1886 is a genus of Pachylinae comprising circa 15 species mostly recorded from Chile, but also from Argentina and Brazil.[1]

Type species[]

Sadocus vitellinosulcatus Sørensen 1886[2] (= Sadocus polyacanthus (Gervais, 1847).

Species[]

  • Sadocus allermayeri (Mello-Leitão, 1945) - Chile.
  • Sadocus asperatus (Gervais, 1847) - Chile.
  • Sadocus dilatatus Roewer, 1913 - Chile.
  • Sadocus funestus (Butler, 1874) - Chile.
  • Sadocus ingens (Mello-Leitão, 1937) - Chile.
  • Sadocus nigronotatus (Mello-Leitão, 1943) - Chile.
  • Sadocus polyacanthus (Gervais, 1847) - Chile.

References[]

  1. Kury, A.B. 2003. Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, vol. especial monográfico 1: 1-337.
  2. Sørensen, W.E. (1886) Opiliones. In: Koch, L. & Keyserling, E. von (Eds.), Die Arachniden Australiens nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet, vol. [Theil] 2 of two volumes & atlas, 1871–1889, fascicle [Lieferung] 33. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, pp. 53–86, plates 5–6.