Arbasus is a monotypic genus of armoured harvestmen in the family Buemarinoidae with one described species (as of 2023) Arbasus caecus.[1][2] It is found in the Pyrenees of southern France.[1][3][4][5]

Arbasus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Opiliones
Suborder: Laniatores
Infraorder: Insidiatores
Superfamily: Triaenonychoidea
Family: Buemarinoidae
Genus: Arbasus
Roewer, 1935
Species:
A. caecus
Binomial name
Arbasus caecus
(Simon, 1911)

The genus was originally placed in the family Travuniidae, but later transferred to Cladonychiidae by Derkarabetian et al. 2018.[6] It has been subsequently transferred to Buemarinoidae by Karaman (2023).[7]

Species

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These species belong to the genus Arbasus:

References

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  1. ^ a b "Arbasus". Kury, A. et al. (2023). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Arbasus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Arbasus". iNaturalist. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Arbasus". GBIF. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  5. ^ "Arbasus Roewer, 1935 (under Travuniinae)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  6. ^ Derkarabetian, Shahan; Starrett, James; Tsurusaki, Nobuo; Ubick, Darrell; et al. (2018). "A stable phylogenomic classification of Travunioidea (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores) based on sequence capture of ultraconserved elements". ZooKeys (760): 1–36. Bibcode:2018ZooK..760....1D. doi:10.3897/zookeys.760.24937. PMC 5986891. PMID 29872361.
  7. ^ Karaman, Ivo M. (2023). "Arbasus caecus (Simon, 1911): A new member of the ancient family Buemarinoidae (Opiliones, Laniatores) and its relation to the known species". Biologia Serbica (45): 1–9.

Further reading

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  •   Media related to Arbasus at Wikimedia Commons
  •   Data related to Arbasus at Wikispecies