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Phylogenomic re-evaluation of Triaenonychoidea (Opiliones : Laniatores), and systematics of Triaenonychidae, including new families, genera and species

Invertebrate systematics, 2021
. The Opiliones superfamily Triaenonychoidea currently includes two families, the monogeneric New Zealand–endemic Synthetonychiidae Forster, 1954 and Triaenonychidae Sørensen, 1886, a diverse family distributed mostly throughout the temperate Gondwanan ...
Shahan Derkarabetian   +4 more
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Further studies on harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) from Iran, with the descriptions of two new species.

Zootaxa, 2021
This paper deals with some new material of Iranian harvestmen accumulated during and after 2017. These recent collections yielded 11 species from six families, including five species that had previously been known from Iran, and two families and six ...
N. Snegovaya, J. Cokendolpher, A. Zamani
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Diversidad taxonómica de Opiliones en la vertiente occidental de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia

Boletín Científico Centro de Museos Museo de Historia Natural, 2021
Objetivo. Se evaluó la variación de la diversidad taxonómica y de especies de Opiliones en tres localidades, a diferente altitud, en la vertiente Occidental de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (SNSM): La Secreta (LS) (bosque seco tropical: 802 m), San ...
Natalia De Moya Guerra   +2 more
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Contributions to the taxonomy of some Amazonian Stygnidae (Opiliones: Laniatores: Gonyleptoidea).

Zootaxa, 2021
Some taxonomic changes are made in Amazonian Stygnidae, based on reinterpretation of generic boundaries: (1) the hitherto monotypic genus Jime Pinto-da-Rocha Tourinho, 2012 is newly recorded from Venezuela: Jime praecursor spec. nov. (Tobogán de la Selva,
O. Villarreal   +2 more
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Checklists of extant harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones) species for all the countries of the world.

Zootaxa
This study presents a comprehensive survey of the extant diversity of harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones), a pivotal taxon for biogeography and conservation studies, across Earth's geopolitical entities (here treated as "countries").
A. B. Kury   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the temperate Gondwanan family Triaenonychidae (Opiliones : Laniatores) reveals pre-Gondwanan regionalisation, common vicariance, and rare dispersal

Invertebrate systematics, 2020
. Triaenonychidae Sørensen in L. Koch, 1886 is a large family of Opiliones with ∼480 described species broadly distributed across temperate forests in the Southern Hemisphere.
C. Baker   +5 more
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Robustness to leg loss in Opiliones: A review and framework considerations for future research.

Integrative and Comparative Biology
Animals have evolved behavioral and morphological traits that allow them to respond to environmental challenges. However, these traits may have long-term consequences that could impact an animal's performance, fitness, and welfare.
Ignacio Escalante, Shannon L O'Brien
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Spider (Araneae) and harvestman (Opiliones) communities are structured by the ecosystem engineering of burrowing mammals

Insect Conservation and Diversity, 2020
Burrowing mammals through their digging activities are important ecosystem engineers and bioturbators in grassland ecosystems. Through habitat formation, they can have significant effects on other species in an ecosystem, structuring their abundance and ...
Peter Lindtner   +5 more
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The Neotropical harvestman genus Vima Hirst, with description of a new species from Colombia (Arachnida: Opiliones: Agoristenidae)

The journal of arachnology, 2020
. The harvestman genus Vima Hirst, 1912 is revised and newly diagnosed. A new species from Caquetá (Colombia), Vima panita sp. nov., is described and illustrated.
Andrés F. García, A. Kury
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Incorrect authorship assignments and repeated specific epithets: five cases of the use of homographs by Roewer in harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones)

, 2020
In the context of making a Catalog of World Opiliones accessible online, five vexing cases of incorrect authorship, dating and presumption of misidentification are herein treated, all in the suborder Laniatores. Pachylicus gracilis comb. nov. is proposed
A. Kury
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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