Protolophus

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

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Protolophus

| authority = Banks, 1893

| image = Harvestman Opiliones grooming 2016-05-15.jpg

| image_caption = Protolophus sp.

}}

Protolophus is a genus of harvestmen in the family Protolophidae from the Western US.{{cite web |editor=Joel Hallan |url=http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Acari/Family/Sclerosomatidae.txt |title=Sclerosomatidae Species Listing |work=Biology Catalog |publisher=Texas A&M University |access-date=December 27, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141013064709/https://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Acari/Family/Sclerosomatidae.txt |archive-date=October 13, 2014 }}{{Cite web| title=Protolophus Report| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=1012875| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System| access-date=2018-02-23}}{{Cite web| title=Protolophus Overview| url=http://eol.org/pages/3187563/overview| website=Encyclopedia of Life| access-date=2018-02-23}}{{Cite web| title=Browse Protolophus| url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/d633315c3718e78702fdcc9819c18621| website=Catalogue of Life| access-date=2018-02-23}}

ITIS Taxonomic note:

• While Protolophidae has been nested within Sclerosomatidae by some workers, it has been traditionally recognized as a separate family (Giribet et al., 2010); although a recent treatment (Kury in Zhang, 2013) does not recognize the family Protolophidae, others do (Hedin et al., 2012; Kury website 'Classification of Opiliones' (2014)).{{Cite web

| access-date=2018-02-23

| last1 = Kury | first1 = A.B.

| date = 2014

| title = Classification of Opiliones

| url = http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/mndi/Aracnologia/opiliones.html

| publisher = National Museum of Brazil

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