Rhaucoides

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

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| taxon = Rhaucoides

| authority = Roewer, 1912

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| type_species = Rhaucoides ornatus

| type_species_authority = Roewer, 1912

| diversity = 7 spp. (see text)

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  • Erginus Simon 1879 (Junior homonym, nec Erginus Jeffreys, 1877)
  • Pararhauculus Mello-Leitão 1939 (Junior homonym, nec Pararhauculus Roewer, 1933)
  • Cumbalia Roewer 1963

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Rhaucoides is a genus of harvestmen in the family Cosmetidae with eight described species (as of early 2025). All species are from South America.

Description

The genus Rhaucoides was described by Roewer, 1912 with the type species Rhaucoides ornatus (Roewer, 1912).

Species

These species belong to the genus Rhaucoides:

Etymology

The genus is masculine. Genus name derives from apre-existing genus Rhaucus + interpreted masculine Latin suffix [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-oides#Latin -oides].

References

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{{Cite web|title=Rhaucoides|url=https://wcolite.com|website= Kury, A. et al. (2025). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones|access-date=8 March 2025|language=en}}

{{cite web|title=Rhaucoides|url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/7PXLR|website=Catalogue of Life|access-date=8 March 2025|language=en}}

{{cite web|title=Rhaucoides|url=https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/535767-Rhaucoides|website=iNaturalist|access-date=8 March 2025|language=en}}

{{Cite web| title=Rhaucoides|url=https://www.gbif.org/species/4654713|website=GBIF|access-date=8 March 2025|language=en}}

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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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