Erginulus

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

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| image_caption = Erginulus subserialis

| taxon = Erginulus

| authority = Roewer, 1912

| type_species = Erginus serratipes

| type_species_authority = Roewer, 1912

| diversity = 29 spp. (see text)

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  • Euerginus {{Small|Roewer, 1912}}
  • Acromares {{Small|Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942}}
  • Bivonones {{Small|Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942}}

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Erginulus is a genus of harvestmen in the family Cosmetidae with twenty-nine described species (as of early 2025). The species are from eastern Mexico & Northern Central America, although a few have been described from outlying geographic regions.

Description

The genus Erginulus was described by Roewer, 1912 with the type species Erginus serratipes Roewer, 1912. The genus was later included in the subfamily Metergininae.

Species

These species belong to the genus Erginulus:

Etymology

The genus is masculine.

References

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{{Cite web|title=Erginulus|url=https://wcolite.com|website= Kury, A. et al. (2025). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones|access-date=25 February 2025|language=en}}

{{cite web|title=Erginulus|url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/7PDRY|website=Catalogue of Life|access-date=25 February 2025|language=en}}

{{cite web|title=Erginulus|url=https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/249216-Erginulus|website=iNaturalist|access-date=25 February 2025|language=en}}

{{Cite web| title=Erginulus|url=https://www.gbif.org/species/4660800|website=GBIF|access-date=25 February 2025|language=en}}

{{cite journal|last1=Medrano |first1=Miguel|last2=Kury|first2=Adriano Brilhante |last3=Mendes|first3=Amanda Cruz|date=2022 |title=Morphology-based cladistics splinters the century-old dichotomy of the pied harvestmen (Arachnida: Gonyleptoidea: Cosmetidae).|journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=195 |issue=2|pages=585–672|doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab043}}

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Further reading

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  • {{aut|Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Machado, G. & Giribet, G.}} (eds.) (2007). Harvestmen – The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press, USA. {{ISBN|0-674-02343-9}}
  • {{Cite journal|last1=Medrano|first1=M.|last2=Kury|first2=A.B.|last3=Martins|first3=P.H.|last4=Proud|first4=D.N.|date=2024|title=The first harvestman described from Bocas del Toro Archipelago: a new Poecilaemula (Opiliones: Cosmetidae) and notes about the genus|journal=Journal of Natural History|volume=58|issue=9-12|pages=311–329|doi=10.1080/00222933.2024.2314966|pmid= |s2cid=|issn=|doi-access=|language=en}}

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