Travuniidae
The Travuniidae are a small family of harvestman with little more than ten described species, within the suborder Laniatores.
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| Peltonychia leprieurii | |
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| Family: | Travuniidae Absolon & Kratochvíl, 1932  | 
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| 9 genera, > 10 species | |
Description
    
Travuniidae are at the most three millimeters long, with slender, unarmed legs and robust, strongly spined pedipalps.[1]
Distribution
    
Travuniidae have been found in Europe, Japan and the United States. Although some were described from Slovenia, these records proved to be erroneous.[1]
Relationships
    
Travuniidae are most closely related to Cladonychiidae; it is even possible that Travuniidae is paraphyletic in respect to this family.[1]
Name
    
The name of the type genus is derived from the Latin name of Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1]
Species
    
    Peltonychiinae
    
- Peltonychia Roewer, 1935
 
- Peltonychia leprieurii (Lucas, 1860) — Buco Dell'Orso (cave, northern Italy)
 - Peltonychia posteumicola (Roewer, 1935)
 - Peltonychia gabria Roewer, 1935
 - Peltonychia tenuis Roewer, 1935
 
Travuniinae
    
- Abasola Strand, 1928
 
- Arbasus Roewer, 1935
 
- Arbasus caecus (Simon, 1911) — southern France
 
- Dinaria Hadzi, 1932 — palearctic
 - Kratochvíliola Roewer, 1935 — palearctic
 
- Kratochvíliola navarica Roewer, 1935
 
- Speleonychia Briggs, 1974
 
- Speleonychia sengeri Briggs, 1974 — Washington
 
- Travunia Absolon & Kratochvíl, 1932
 
- Travunia jandai Kratochvíl, 1938 — Yugoslavia
 
incertae sedis
    
- Yuria Suzuki, 1964 — Japan
 
- Yuria pulcra Suzuki, 1964
 
- Yuria pulcra pulcra Suzuki, 1964
 - Yuria pulcra briggsi Suzuki, 1975
 
- Buemarinoa Roewer, 1956
 
- Buemarinoa patrizii Roewer, 1956 — Sardinia
 
Footnotes
    
- Kury, Adriano B. (2007): Travuniidae Absolon & Kratochvíl, 1932. In: Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2007: 237ff
 
References
    
- Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog: Travuniidae
 - Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Machado, G. & Giribet, G. (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press ISBN 0-674-02343-9
 
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