Family of harvestmen/daddy longlegs
The Neopilionidae are a family of harvestmen .
It has a clearly Gondwanan distribution, with species found in Australia, South Africa and South America, and probably represent relicts of that time.
The family members range in size from the small Americovibone lancafrancoae (0.9 mm) to over 4 mm in the Enantiobuninae.[ 1]
Some species of Enantiobuninae have blue pigmentation, which is rather unusual in harvestmen.[ 1]
The former family "Monoscutidae " has recently been subsumed within the subfamily Enantiobuninae.[ 2]
Name
The family name is a contraction of Ancient Greek neo "new" and Latin Opilio
Subdivisions
According to the Catalogue of Life , Neopilionidae includes three subfamilies, which contain a total of 19 genera and 78 species.[ 3]
Enantiobuninae Mello-Leitão, 1931 (incl. Monoscutidae)
Acihasta Forster, 1948 Australiscutum Taylor, 2009 Forsteropsalis Taylor, 2011 Mangatangi Taylor, 2013 Megalopsalis Roewer, 1923 Monoscutum Forster, 1948 Neopantopsalis Taylor & Hunt, 2009 Pantopsalis Simon, 1879 Spinicrus Forster, 1949 Templar Taylor, 2008 Tercentenarium Taylor, 2011 Thrasychiroides Soares & Soares, 1947 Thrasychirus Simon, 1884
^ a b Cokendolpher, James C. (2007): Neopilionidae Lawrence, 1931. In: Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2007: 121ff^ Taylor, C.K. 2011. Revision of the genus Megalopsalis (Arachnida: Opiliones: Phalangioidea) in Australia and New Zealand and implications for phalangioid classification. Zootaxa 2773: 1–65.
^ "Neopilionidae Lawrence, 1931 | COL" . www.catalogueoflife.org . Retrieved 2021-11-11 .
References
Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog: Neopilionidae
Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Machado, G. & Giribet, G. (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press ISBN 0-674-02343-9
