Acropsopilionoidea is a superfamily of harvestmen with 1 family and 3 genera, found in North America (USA, Canada, Mexico) and the Southern Hemisphere (Australia, New Zealand, plus Chile, Argentina and Brazil) (as of 2023).[2][3]

Acropsopilionoidea
Temporal range: Palaeogene–present
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Opiliones
Suborder: Dyspnoi
Superfamily: Acropsopilionoidea
Roewer, 1923[1]
Families
Diversity
1 family, 3 genera

Description

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The superfamily Acropsopilionoidea was described by Roewer, 1923,[1] with the type genus as Acropsopilio Silvestri, 1904 by original monotypy.[2]

Taxonomy

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Acropsopilionoidea contains the following families, per World Catalog of Opiliones.[2] Of the 3 genera (as of 2023), the scheme below reflects Schönhofer (2013)[4]

Likely associated with this Superfamily:

References

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  1. ^ a b Roewer, C.F. (1923). Die Weberknechte der Erde. Systematische Bearbeitung der bisher bekannten Opiliones (in German). Jena, Germany: Gustav Fischer. p. 1116.
  2. ^ a b c "Acropsopilionoidea". Kury, A. et al. (2023). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones. Retrieved 16 Dec 2023.
  3. ^ "Acropsopilionoidea". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Giribet, G.; Dunlop, J.A. (2005). "First identifiable Mesozoic harvestman (Opiliones: Dyspnoi) from Cretaceous Burmese amber". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 272: 1007–1013. doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3063. ISSN 0080-4649. PMC 1599874.
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