Prostygnidae

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

{{One source|date=March 2024}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range =

| image =

| image_caption =

| taxon = Prostygnidae

| authority = Roewer, 1913

| display_parents= 3

| type_species =

| type_species_authority =

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

| diversity_link = #Taxonomy

| diversity =

| range_map =

| range_map_caption =

|synonyms=

|title=

}}

Prostygnidae are a neotropical harvestman family of the Suborder Laniatores, in the superfamily Gonyleptoidea.

References

{{Reflist|refs=

{{cite journal|last1=Kury|first1=A. B.|year=1994|title=The genus Yania Roewer, 1919, and other presumed Tricommatidae from South American highlands (Opiliones, Cranaidae, Prostygninae)|journal=Revue Arachnologique|volume=10|issue=7|pages=137–145}}

}}

Further reading

{{refbegin}}

  • {{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}}

{{refend}}