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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Opiliones |
| Family: | Taracidae |
| Genus: | Taracus Simon, 1879 |
Taracus is a genus of harvestman,[1][2] or Opiliones, typically found living in limestone and lava caves in the United States.[3] They grow to a size of 2.0–5.5 mm (0.08–0.22 in).[4]
Taxonomy
[edit]Taracus contains the following species, per World Catalog of Opiliones.[1] Of the 14 described species (as of 2023), almost all are found in the United States.
- Taracus aspenae Shear, 2018 (USA: Oregon)
- Taracus audisioae Shear, 2016 (USA: California)
- Taracus birsteini Ljovuschkin, 1971 (Russia: Primorsky Krai)
- Taracus carmanah Shear, 2016 (Canada: British Columbia)
- Taracus fluvipileus Shear, 2016 (USA: California)
- Taracus gertschi Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 (USA: Idaho, Oregon, etc; Canada: Alberta, British Columbia)
- Taracus marchingtoni Shear & Warfel, 2016 (USA: Oregon)
- Taracus packardi Simon, 1879 (USA: Colorado, New Mexico)
- Taracus pallipes Banks, 1894 (USA: Washington, Oregon, California)
- Taracus silvestrii Roewer, 1930 (USA: Oregon)
- Taracus spesavius Shear, 2016 (USA: Nevada)
- Taracus taylori Shear, 2016 (USA: Nevada)
- Taracus timpanogos Shear, 2016 (USA: Utah)
- Taracus ubicki Shear, 2016 (USA: California)
Elsewhere (as of 2023): For Taracus spinosus Banks, 1894 and its synonym Taracus malkini Goodnight & Goodnight, 1945 see Oskoron spinosus (Banks, 1894). For Taracus nigripes Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943 see as synonym of Taracus packardi Simon, 1879.
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Sabacon". Kury, A. et al. (2023). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- ↑ "Taracus". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-12-08.
- ↑ Shear, William A.; Warfel, Joseph G. (2016-11-02). "The harvestman genus Taracus Simon 1879, and the new genus Oskoron (Opiliones: Ischyropsalidoidea: Taracidea)". Zootaxa. 4180 (1:2). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4180.1.1. ISSN 1175-5326.
- ↑ Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha, Glauco Machado & Gonzalo Giribet, ed. (2007). Harvestmen: the Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-674-02343-7.
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