Taracus

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

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| regnum = Animalia

|image=Taracus sp..jpg

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| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Arachnida

| subclassis = Dromopoda

| ordo = Opiliones

| familia = Taracidae

| genus = Taracus

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Taracus is a genus of harvestman,{{Cite web|title=Sabacon|url=https://wcolite.com|access-date=2023-12-08|website= Kury, A. et al. (2023). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones}}{{cite web|title=Taracus|url=https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/172237-Taracus|website=iNaturalist|access-date=2023-12-08|language=en}} or Opiliones, typically found living in limestone and lava caves in the United States.{{cite journal|last1=Shear|first1=William A.|last2=Warfel|first2=Joseph G.|title=The harvestman genus Taracus Simon 1879, and the new genus Oskoron (Opiliones: Ischyropsalidoidea: Taracidea)|journal=Zootaxa|ISSN=1175-5326|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4180.1.1|volume=4180|number=1:2|url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4180.1.1|date=2016-11-02}} They grow to a size of {{convert|2.0|-|5.5|mm|2|abbr=on}}.{{cite book |editor=Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha, Glauco Machado & Gonzalo Giribet |year=2007 |title=Harvestmen: the Biology of Opiliones |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-02343-7 |page=154 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pbdpSKHkKDIC&pg=PA154}}

Taxonomy

Taracus contains the following species, per World Catalog of Opiliones. Of the 14 described species (as of 2023), almost all are found in the United States.

Elsewhere (as of 2023):

For Taracus spinosus Banks, 1894 and its synonym Taracus malkini Goodnight & Goodnight, 1945 see Oskoron spinosus (Banks, 1894). For Taracus nigripes Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943 see as synonym of Taracus packardi Simon, 1879.

References

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Category:Harvestmen

Category:Arthropods of the United States

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