Troguloidea is a superfamily of harvestmen with 4 genera (2 extinct), found mostly in Europe, Asia, and North America (as of 2023).[1][2]
| Troguloidea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Opiliones |
| Suborder: | Dyspnoi |
| Superfamily: | Troguloidea Sundevall, 1833 |
| Families | |
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| Diversity | |
| 4 families, several genera | |
Description
editThe superfamily Troguloidea was described by Sundevall, with the type genus as Trogulus Latreille, 1802 by original implicit etymological designation.[1]
Taxonomy
editTroguloidea contains the following families, per World Catalog of Opiliones.[1] Of the 6 genera (as of 2023), 2 of those are extinct. The scheme below largely reflects Schönhofer (2013).[3]
- Dicranolasmatidae Simon, 1879
- Nemastomatidae Simon, 1872
- Nipponopsalididae Martens, 1976
- Trogulidae Sundevall, 1833
- †Eotrogulidae Petrunkevitch, 1955
- †Nemastomoididae Petrunkevitch, 1955
References
edit- ^ a b c "Troguloidea". Kury, A. et al. (2023). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- ^ "Troguloidea". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- ^ 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. ISSN 1175-5326. PMID 26146693.
External links
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Data related to Troguloidea at Wikispecies
