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 , a genus of harvestman.
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