Neopilionidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Phalangioidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Opiliones Subordo: Eupnoi Superfamilia: Phalangioidea

Familia: Neopilionidae
Subfamiliae: Ballarrinae – Enantiobuninae – Neopilioninae

Genera not assigned to subfamily: Martensopsalis

Name

Neopilionidae Lawrence, 1931: 473 (as 'Neopilioninae')

Type genus: Neopilio Lawrence, 1931

Synonyms

None. But see Enantiobuninae for Monoscutinae Forster, 1948: 313; treated as Monoscutidae Forster, 1948, per Crawford 1992: 9.

References

Primary references

Crawford, R.L. 1992. Catalogue of the genera and type species of the harvestman superfamily Phalangioidea. Burke Museum Contributions in Anthropology and Natural History 8: 1–60. Reference page.
Forster, R.R. 1948. A new sub-family and species of New Zealand Opiliones. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 3(4&5): 313–318, plates 61–62. PDF Reference page.
Lawrence, R.F. 1931. The harvest-spiders (Opiliones) of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 29: 341–508. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Giribet, G., Baker, C.M. & Brouste, D. 2021. Martensopsalis, a new genus of Neopilionidae from New Caledonia (Opiliones, Eupnoi). Pp 98–107 In Jäger, P., Shear, W.A. & Schwendinger, P.J., eds. A Festschrift honouring Prof. Dr. Jochen Martens on occasion of his 80th birthday. Zootaxa 4984(1): 1–384. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.1. Reference page. Zootaxa 4984(1): 98–107. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.9 full article pdf Reference page.
Groh, S.S. & Giribet, G. 2014. Polyphyly of Caddoidea, reinstatement of the family Acropsopilionidae in Dyspnoi, and a revised classification system of Palpatores (Arachnida, Opiliones). Cladistics 31(3): 277–290. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12087 Reference page.
Taylor, C.K. 2011. Revision of the genus Megalopsalis (Arachnida: Opiliones: Phalangioidea) in Australia and New Zealand and implications for phalangioid classification. Zootaxa 2773: 1–65. Preview Reference page.
Taylor, C.K. 2025. Further discussion of relationships within Australasian Neopilionidae (Opiliones: Phalangioidea), with description of two new species and eight new genera. Zootaxa 5631(1): 52–82. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.2. Reference page.
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