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Phalangiidae Latreille 1802

  • 1. The Laboratory of Invertebrate Ecology, The Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch Russian Academy of Sciences, Frunze Street 11, Novosibirsk 630091, Russia.
  • 2. The Laboratory of Systematics of Invertebrate Animals, The Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch Russian Academy of Sciences, Frunze Street 11, Novosibirsk 630091, Russia and Department of Zoology & Centre for Invasion Biology, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, 0950, South Africa.

Description

Family Phalangiidae Latreille, 1802

Only four species of harvestmen, except for the five species listed below, Homolophus asiaticus Gritsenko, 1979, Opilio parietinus (De Geer, 1778), Homolophus pallens (Kulczyński, 1901), and Scleropilio insolens (Simon, 1895), are known to date from Russian part of Altai-Sayan Mountain region (Tchemeris et al. 1999; 2015; Tsurusaki et al. 2000a).

Notes

Published as part of Trilikauskas, Laimonas A. & Azarkina, Galina N., 2021, The harvestmen fauna (Arachnida: Opiliones) of the Katunsky Biosphere Reserve and adjacent territories (South Siberia, Russia), with a description of a new species of Sabacon (Sabaconidae) and notes on Sabacon sergeidedicatum Martens, 1989, pp. 117-133 in Zootaxa 4990 (1) on page 119, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4990.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/4982969

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Latreille
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Opiliones
Family
Phalangiidae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Phalangiidae Latreille, 1802 sec. Trilikauskas & Azarkina, 2021

References

  • Gritsenko, N. I. (1979) A new genus of harvestmen (Opiliones, Phalangiinae) from the northern Tien-Shan and Western Altai. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 58 (2), 264 - 267.
  • Tchemeris, A. N., Logunov, D. V. & Tsurusaki N. (1999) A contribution to the knowledge of the harvestman fauna of Siberia (Arachnida: Opiliones). Arthropoda Selecta, 7 (3), 189 - 199.
  • Tchemeris, A. N. (2015) Taxonomic notes on Acanthomegabunus Tsurusaki, Tchemeris & Logunov, 2000 (Arachnida: Opiliones: Phalangiidae), with a description of a new species A. altaicus sp. n. from the Altai Mountains of Russia and NE Kazakhstan. Zootaxa, 3990 (4), 567 - 574. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3990.4.5
  • Tsurusaki, N., Tchemeris, A. N. & Logunov, D. V. (2000 a) Redescription of Scleropilio insolens from Southern Siberia with comments on the genus Scleropilio (Arachnida: Opiliones: Phalangiidae). Acta Arachnologica, 49 (1), 87 - 94. https: // doi. org / 10.2476 / asjaa. 49.87