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The Phalangiidae are a family of harvestmen with about 380 known species. The best known is Phalangium opilio . Dicranopalpus ramosus is an invasive species in Europe . It is not to be confused with the harvestman family Phalangodidae , which belongs to the suborder Laniatores.
Diversity. 5 subfamilies, ca. 50 genera. The Phalangiidae are a family of harvestmen with about 380 known species. The best known is Phalangium opilio. Dicranopalpus ramosus is an invasive species in Europe . It is not to be confused with the harvestman family Phalangodidae, which belongs to the suborder Laniatores .
- Phalangiidae, Latreille, 1802
- Arthropoda
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Feb 22, 2017 · Our analyses support the well-known division of Caddoidea (electronic supplementary material, figure S1b) and Phalangioidea (electronic supplementary material, figure S1c,d), which in turn divides into the Southern Hemisphere Neopilionidae and the mostly Northern Hemisphere families Phalangiidae, Sclerosomatidae and Protolophidae—although ...
- Rosa Fernández, Prashant P. Sharma, Ana Lúcia Tourinho, Gonzalo Giribet
- 2017
The Phalangiidae are a family of harvestmen with about 380 known species. The best known is Phalangium opilio. Dicranopalpus ramosus is an invasive species in Europe.
Phalangium opilio (also known as the common harvestman, brown harvestman and daddy longlegs) is a species of harvestman belonging to the family Phalangiidae. Taxonomy [ edit ] P. opilio is a member of the Eupnoi suborder of Opiliones .
- P. opilio
- Phalangium
Lolinae Kratochvíl, 1958. Maiorerus randoi (model) Texella reyesi. The Phalangodidae are a family of harvestmen with about 30 genera and more than 100 described species, distributed in the Holarctic region. It is not to be confused with the harvestman family Phalangiidae, which is in the suborder Eupnoi .
Phalangium opilio Linnaeus 1758. Size. Adult body ~3.5–3.9 mm, with males generally smaller than females. Identification. Males have a large spur/horn on the anterior surface of the first cheliceral segment. Males also tend to have long, thin pedipalps relative to those of other harvestmen.
