Acropsopilio

Acropsopilio neozelandiae (lateral)

Acropsopilio neozelandiae (dorsal)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Acropsopilionoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Opiliones Subordo: Dyspnoi Superfamilia: Acropsopilionoidea

Familia: Acropsopilionidae
Genus: Acropsopilio
Species: A. australicus – A. boopis – A. chilensis – A. chomulae – A. neozelandiae – A. venezuelensis

Name

Acropsopilio Silvestri, 1904: 254.

Type species: Acropsopilio chilensis Silvestri, 1904, by monotypy.

Gender: masculine

Synonymy

• Zeopsopilio Forster, 1948: 139; Shear 1975: 75 (as junior subjective synonomy).
  • Type species: Zeopsopilio neozelandiae Forster, 1948: 139, by original designation [and monotypy].

References

Primary references

• Forster, R.R. 1948: A new genus and species of the family Acropsopilionidae (Opiliones) from New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 77(1): 139–141, pl. 10. PDF Reference page. 
• Silvestri, F. 1904. Descrizione di un nuovo genere di Opilionidi del Chile. Redia: Giornale di Entomologia, Firenze, 2: 254–256. BHL Reference page. 
• Shear, W.A. 1975. The opilionid family Caddidae in North America, with notes on species from other regions (Opiliones, Palpatores, Caddoidea). The Journal of Arachnology 2(2): 65–88. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Silvestri, F. 1906. Descrizione di un nuovo genere di Opilionidi del Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 10(1): 32–34. BHL Reference page. 
• Shultz, J.W. 2013. Significant range extensions for two caddid harvestmen in eastern North America, Caddo pepperella and Acropsopilio boopis (Opiliones: Eupnoi: Caddidae). Zootaxa 3637(1): 94–96. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3637.1.12 Reference page. 
• Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A. d. A., Giribet, G., Cruz-López, J.A., Longhorn, S.J., Medrano, M. & de Oliveira, A.B.R. 2023. World Catalogue of Opiliones (WCO-Lite version 2.5.1 - June 2023. Digital resource at wcolite.com). In: O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D.R. Hernández Robles, C.A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R.E. DeWalt, M. Keping, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, E.M. Adriaenssens, et al. Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2023-07-13). DOI: 10.48580/dfsy-4pt Reference page.  [accessed on December 23, 2023]

Links

• BHL bibliography
• Acropsopilio – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Acropsopilio.
• ION

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