Dromopoda

{{Short description|Subclass of arachnids}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Dromopoda

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| taxon = Dromopoda

| authority = Shultz, 1990{{cite journal |first=Jeffrey W. |last=Shultz |year=1990 |title=Evolutionary morphology and phylogeny of Arachnida |journal=Cladistics |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=1–38 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-0031.1990.tb00523.x|doi-access=free }}

| subdivision_ranks = Orders

| subdivision =

• Opiliones
• Pseudoscorpionida
• Scorpiones
• Solifugae

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Dromopoda is a proposed subclass of the arachnids, including the Opiliones (harvestmen), Scorpions, Pseudoscorpions and Solifugae ("camel spiders"). The latter three are sometimes grouped as Novogenuata. This taxon was first proposed by Jeffrey Shultz in 1990 based on morphological analysis. A combined morphological and molecular analysis in 1998 supported the monophyly of Dromopoda.{{cite journal |last1=Wheeler |first1=Ward C. |last2=Hayashi |first2=Cheryl Y. |title=The Phylogeny of the Extant Chelicerate Orders |journal=Cladistics |date=June 1998 |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=173–192 |doi=10.1006/clad.1998.0061}} However, subsequent molecular and combined analyses have not supported the monophyly of Dromopoda.{{cite journal |last1=Ballesteros |first1=Jesús A. |last2=Santibáñez López |first2=Carlos E. |last3=Kováč |first3=Ľubomír |last4=Gavish-Regev |first4=Efrat |last5=Sharma |first5=Prashant P. |title=Ordered phylogenomic subsampling enables diagnosis of systematic errors in the placement of the enigmatic arachnid order Palpigradi |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |date=18 December 2019 |volume=286 |issue=1917 |pages=20192426 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2019.2426|pmc=6939912 }}{{cite journal |last1=Ballesteros |first1=Jesús A |last2=Santibáñez-López |first2=Carlos E |last3=Baker |first3=Caitlin M |last4=Benavides |first4=Ligia R |last5=Cunha |first5=Tauana J |last6=Gainett |first6=Guilherme |last7=Ontano |first7=Andrew Z |last8=Setton |first8=Emily V W |last9=Arango |first9=Claudia P |last10=Gavish-Regev |first10=Efrat |last11=Harvey |first11=Mark S |last12=Wheeler |first12=Ward C |last13=Hormiga |first13=Gustavo |last14=Giribet |first14=Gonzalo |last15=Sharma |first15=Prashant P |title=Comprehensive Species Sampling and Sophisticated Algorithmic Approaches Refute the Monophyly of Arachnida |journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution |date=3 February 2022 |volume=39 |issue=2 |doi=10.1093/molbev/msac021|hdl=10072/416650 |hdl-access=free }}