Cladonychiidae

{{Short description|Family of harvestmen/daddy longlegs}}

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| image = Opiliones, Laniatores, F. Briggsidae, Briggsus sp. (2404168737).jpg

| image_caption = Briggsus, Oregon

| taxon = Cladonychiidae

| authority = Hadži, 1935

| display_parents = 2

| synonyms =

Erebromastridae

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The Cladonychiidae are a small family of harvestman with about 33 described species, within the suborder Laniatores.

Description

Members of this family range from less than two to about four millimeters in body length, with robust, spined pedipalps and rather short legs, although the second pair can be as long as two centimeter. Most Cladonychiidae are reddish brown to dark brown, but cave-dwelling species are pale yellow. Not all species have eyes.{{aut|Briggs, Thomas S. & Ubick, Darrell}} (2007): Cladonychiidae Hadži, 1935. In: Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2007: 179ff

Distribution

The members of Cladonychiidae are found in Southern Europe and the United States.

Fossils

Proholoscotolemon was recently found in Baltic amber.

Relationships

The genera Peltonychia, Holoscotolemon, Erebomaster, Theromaster, Speleonychia, Briggsus, and

Isolachus from the family Travuniidae and the former family Pentanychidae have been transferred to Cladonychiidae. This left Travuniidae with three genera from the Balkan region of Europe, Travunia, Trojanella, and Dinaria.

Name

The name of the former type genus Cladonychium (now synonymized with Erebomaster) is derived from Ancient Greek "branched claw".

Species

These genera and species belong to the family Cladonychiidae:

(For Arbasus Roewer, 1935 see Buemarinoidae Karaman, 2019)

Footnotes

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{{Cite journal

| title = A stable phylogenomic classification of Travunioidea (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores) based on sequence capture of ultraconserved elements

| date = 2018

| last1 = Derkarabetian | first1 = Shahan

| last2 = Starrett | first2 = James

| last3 = Tsurusaki | first3 = Nobuo

| last4 = Ubick | first4 = Darrell

| last5 = Castillo | first5 = Stephanie

| last6 = Hedin | first6 = Marshal

| display-authors = 4

| journal = ZooKeys

| issue = 760| pages = 1–36

| url = https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/24937/

| doi = 10.3897/zookeys.760.24937

| pmc=5986891

| pmid=29872361

| doi-access = free

}}

{{Cite journal

| title = Familial nomina in harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones)

| date = 2018

| last1 = Kury | first1 = Adriano B.

| journal = Bionomina

| volume = 13| issue = 1| pages = 1–27

| url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331315868

| doi = 10.11646/bionomina.13.1.1

| s2cid = 92517624

}}

{{Cite journal

| title = Order Opiliones Sundevall, 1833. In: Zhang Z-Q (ed) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classif. and survey of taxonomic richness (Addenda 2013)

| date = 2013

| last1 = Kury | first1 = Adriano Brilhante

| editor-last1 = Zhang | editor-first1 = Zhi-Qiang

| journal = Zootaxa

| volume = 3703| issue = 1

| isbn = 978-1-86977-849-1

| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.7

}}

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References

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  • {{aut|Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Machado, G. & Giribet, G.}} (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press {{ISBN|0-674-02343-9}}

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Category:Harvestman families

Category:Extant Eocene first appearances

Category:Harvestmen