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Bishop, S. C. 1949. The Phalangida (Opiliones) of New York, with special reference to the species of the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve, Rensselaerville, New York. Rochester Academy of Science. Proceedings 9: 159–235. Clingenpeel, L. W. and A. L. Edgar. 1966. Certain ecological aspects of Phalangium opilio (Arthropoda: Opiliones). Papers of the ...
Nov 17, 2023 · Explanation of Names. Opiliones Sundevall 1833. The common "Harvestman" name is because they are frequently encountered under trees during the harvest season. ( 1) Numbers. >6600 species worldwide arranged into ~45 families of 4 suborders (of which Laniatores is by far the largest, with >4100 species) ( 2)( 3)( 4) Size.
New Phalangodidae (Phalangida) from the United States. American Museum Novitates, New York, 1188: 1-18. Hedin M and S Thomas. 2010. Molecular systematics of eastern ...
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Many species of harvestmen are omnivorous, eating primarily small insects and all kinds of plant material and fungi; some are scavengers, feeding upon dead organisms, bird dung, and other fecal material. This broad range is quite unusual in arachnids, which are usually pure predators. Most hunting harvestmen ambush their prey, although active hunti...
Some troglobitic (cave dwelling) Opiliones are considered endangered if their home caves are in or near cities where pollution and development of the land can alter the cave habitat. Others species are threatened by the invasion of non-native fire ants. All troglobitic species (of all animal taxa) are considered to be at least threatened in Brazil....
An urban legend claims that the harvestman is the most venomousanimal in the world, but possesses fangs too short or a mouth too round and small to bite a human and therefore is not dangerous (Crawford 2005). (The same myth applies to the cellar spider, which is also called a daddy longlegs.) This is untrue on several counts. None of the known spec...
Harvestmen are a scientifically much neglected group. Description of new taxa has always been dependent on the activity of a few dedicated taxonomists. Carl Friedrich Roewer described about a third (2,260) of today's known species from the 1910s to the 1950s, and published the landmark systematic work Die Weberknechte der Erde (Harvestmen of the Wo...
Harvestmen are very old arachnids. Fossils from the Devonian, 400 million years ago, already show characteristics like tracheae and sexual organs, proving that the group has lived on land since that time. They are probably closely related to the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, and solifuges; these four orders form the clade Domopod. The Opiliones have ...
Crawford, R. 2005. Just plain weird stories: Daddy-longlegs. The Spider Myths Site.Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. Retrieved December 7, 2008.Giribet, G., and A. B. Kury. 2007. Phylogeny and biogeography. In R. Pinto-da-Rocha, G. Machado, and G. Giribet (eds.), Harvestmen: The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674023439.Hallan, J. 2005. Synopsis of the described opiliones of the world. Biology Catalog. Texas A & M University. Retrieved December 7, 2008.Opiliones Internet Discussion Group (OIDG). 2005. Answers to commons questions about harvestmen. Arachnology Home Page. Retrieved December 7, 2008.All links retrieved December 21, 2018. 1. Harvestman: Order OpilionesDiagnostic photographs and information on North American harvestmen 2. Harvestman: Order OpilionesDiagnostic photographs and information on European harvestmen 3. University of Aberdeen: The Rhynie Chert Harvestmen(fossils) 4. National Museum page Classification of OpilionesA syno...
Sep 21, 2021 · New York is characterized by rainfall and a temperate, warm climate. Its average annual temperature is 11.9°C (53.4°F) and its estimated rainfall per year is 1139 mm (44.8 inches per year). New York has the least rain during the month of November, while March has the most, averaging 106 mm and 4.2 inches.
MARCH 1894.) BANKS. PHALANGIDA OF NEW YORK. 41 Phalangium has one species P. cinerecum Wood, which doubtless occurs throughout the State, it belongs to the Boreal fauna, but it occurs as far south as Long Island. It is usually found near buildings. Leptobunus was erected for a Californian species, but two
The Phalangida of New York is an article from Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Volume 2. View more articles from Journal of the New York...
