Taracidae
Taracidae is a family of harvestmen in the order Opiliones. There are 4 genera and 23 described species in Taracidae.
| Taracidae | |
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| Taracus silvestrii | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Opiliones |
| Superfamily: | Ischyropsalidoidea |
| Family: | Taracidae Schönhofer, 2013 |
Species
There are currently 23 described species of Taracidae,[1][2][3] listed below. The genera Crosbycus and Hesperonemastoma are not considered to belong to the family by some,[2] though a new family has not yet been erected for those genera, so they are included here.
- Crosbycus Roewer, 1914
- Crosbycus dasycnemus (Crosby, 1911)
- Hesperonemastoma Gruber, 1970
- Hesperonemastoma kepharti (Crosby & Bishop, 1924)
- Hesperonemastoma modestum (Banks, 1894)
- Hesperonemastoma packardi (Roewer, 1914)
- Hesperonemastoma pallidimaculosum (Goodnight & Goodnight, 1945)
- Hesperonemastoma smilax Shear, 2010
- Oskoron Shear, 2016
- Oskoron brevichelis Shear, 2016
- Oskoron crawfordi Shear, 2016
- Oskoron spinosus (Banks, 1894)
- Taracus Simon, 1879
- Taracus aspenae Shear, 2018
- Taracus audisioae Shear, 2016
- Taracus birsteini Ljovuschkin, 1971
- Taracus carmanah Shear, 2016
- Taracus fluvipileus Shear, 2016
- Taracus gertschi Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942
- Taracus malkini Goodnight & Goodnight, 1945 (California)
- Taracus marchingtoni Shear, 2016
- Taracus nigripes Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943 (Colorado)
- Taracus packardi Simon, 1879
- Taracus pallipes Banks, 1894
- Taracus silvestrii Roewer, 1929
- Taracus spesavius Shear, 2016
- Taracus spinosus Banks, 1894 (California)
- Taracus taylori Shear, 2016
- Taracus timpanogos Shear, 2016
- Taracus ubicki Shear, 2016
References
- "A taxonomic catalogue of the Dyspnoi Hansen and Sørensen, 1904 (Arachnida: Opiliones)". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
- "The harvestman genus Taracus Simon 1879, and the new genus Oskoron (Opiliones: Ischyropsalidoidea: Taracidae)". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
- "Taracus aspenae, n. sp. (Opiliones: Taracidae) a new long-jawed harvestman from a cave in northeastern Oregon, U.S.A". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
Further reading
- Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.
- Jackman, John A. (2002). A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas. Gulf Publishing.
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