Dendrolasma is a genus of harvestmen in the family Nemastomatidae with two described species (as of 2023).[1][2] Both species are found in the western coast of North America.[1][3][4][5] An overview of their taxonomy was provided by Schönhofer (2013).[6]

Dendrolasma
Dendrolasma mirabile
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Opiliones
Family: Nemastomatidae
Subfamily: Ortholasmatinae
Genus: Dendrolasma
Banks, 1894
Type species
Dendrolasma mirabile
Banks, 1894
Diversity
2 spp. (see text)

Description

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The genus Dendrolasma was described in 1894 by Nathan Banks[7] with the type species Dendrolasma mirabile. In the past, additional species were included but have since been placed in Asiolasma or Cladolasma.

Species

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These two species belong to the genus Dendrolasma:

Etymology

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The genus is neuter. The appropriate gender agreement was originally overlooked by Banks when describing "D. mirabilis", but the suffix was subsequently amended to the neuter "mirabile" by Martens (1978), and adopted by later authors.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Dendrolasma". Kury, A. et al. (2023). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  2. ^ "Dendrolasma". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  3. ^ "Dendrolasma". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  4. ^ "Dendrolasma". GBIF. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  5. ^ Schönhofer, A.L. (2013). "A taxonomic catalogue of the Dyspnoi Hansen and Sørensen, 1904 (Arachnida: Opiliones)". Zootaxa. 3679 (1): 1–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3679.1.1. PMID 26146693.
  6. ^ a b Banks, N. (1894). "The Nemastomatidae and Trogulidae of the United States. I." Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 7 (213): 11–12. doi:10.1155/1894/37947.}
  7. ^ Shear, W.A.; Gruber, J. (1983). "The opilionid subfamily Ortholasmatinae (Opiliones, Troguloidea, Nemastomatidae)". American Museum Novitates (2757): 1–65. ISSN 0003-0082.}
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