-
exceed 10,000. The
order Opiliones includes five suborders: Cyphophthalmi,
Eupnoi, Dyspnoi, Laniatores, and Tetrophthalmi,
which were
named in 2014. Representatives...
- The
Eupnoi are a
suborder of harvestmen, with more than 200 genera, and
about 1,700
described species. They
consist of two superfamilies, the Phalangioidea...
- Dyspnolaniatores,
which are
sister to
Eupnoi. This is in
contrast to the
classical hypothesis that
Dyspnoi and
Eupnoi form a
clade called Palpatores. Dyspnolaniatores...
-
revealed that
Tetrophthalmi are
derived members of the
living suborder Eupnoi (true daddy-longlegs). In the
early 1980s, a tiny
fossil was
extracted from...
- Li****oscorpionides from the
Early Jur****ic of Germany, of
uncertain placement.
Eupnoi harvestmen (Opiliones) are
known from the
Middle Jur****ic of China, including...
-
among leaf
litter or on the soil. The larvae, like many in the
suborder Eupnoi, have an egg tooth.
Males have 28 chromosomes. Stol 2005 Pinto-da-Rocha...
- present,
which is most
elaborate in the
harvestman suborder Cyphophthalmi.
Eupnoi and
Dyspnoi have the most
reduced muscular system. This
defensive behavior...
-
familial definition was
narrowed after restudy. They are part of the
suborder Eupnoi. They have
mostly a body
length between one and
three millimeters. Caddids...
-
plate derived from the
somite of the
first walking leg.
While large in many
Eupnoi and Dyspnoi, it is
small in most
Laniatores and
absent in Cyphophthalmi...
-
particularly well
developed in Cyphophthalmi, when
compared to the more
familiar Eupnoi and Dyspnoi.
Cyphophthalmi possess more
elaborate musculature ****ociated...
