Phalangodoidea

Phalangodoidea
Bishopella laciniosa (Phalangodidae)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Opiliones
Infraorder: Grassatores
Superfamily:
Families

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The Phalangodoidea are a superfamily of the harvestman infraorder Grassatores with three recognized families and 220 species. It is not to be confused with the similarly spelled subfamily Phalangioidea, which is also a harvestman superfamily, but within the suborder Eupnoi.

Families

  • Oncopodidae Thorell, 1876 (about 70 species)
  • Phalangodidae Simon, 1879 (about 100 species)
  • Pyramidopidae Starega (about 50 species)


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