Samooidea
| Samooidea | |
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| Pellobunus insularis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Opiliones |
| Infraorder: | Grassatores |
| Superfamily: | Samooidea Sørensen, 1886 |
| Families | |
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Samooidea is a large superfamily in the Grassatores group of harvestmen. It includes around 380 species distributed throughout the tropics.[1] They are characterized by the complex male genitalia, with eversible complementary sclerites.[1]
The Samooidea are closely related to Zalmoxoidea, although the exact relationships are not yet understood.[2]
Families included
[edit]- Biantidae Thorell, 1889
- Escadabiidae Kury & Pérez, 2003
- Kimulidae Pérez, Kury & Alonso-Zarazaga, 2007
- Podoctidae Roewer, 1912
- Samoidae Sørensen, 1886
- Stygnommatidae Roewer, 1923
(also with Neoscotolemon as incertae sedis).
References
[edit]- 1 2 Adriano B. Kury (2003). "Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones)". Revista Ibérica de Aracnología. especial monográfico 1: 1–337.
- ↑ Abel Pérez Gonzales & Adriano B. Kury (2007). "Taxonomy". In Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha, Glauco Machado & Gonzalo Giribet (ed.). Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press. pp. 88–246. ISBN 978-0-674-02343-7.
