Neopilionidae

Life-forms

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: Eupnoi
Superfamilia: Phalangioidea

Familia: Neopilionidae
Subfamiliae: Ballarrinae – Enantiobuninae – Neopilioninae
Name

Neopilionidae Lawrence, 1931

Synonyms

Monoscutidae Forster, 1948

References

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. [Publication date: 20 December 1948] BUGZ

Additional references

Groh, S.A. & Giribet, G. 2014. Polyphyly of Caddoidea, reinstatement of the family Acropsopilionidae in Dyspnoi, and a revised classification system of Palpatores (Arachnida, Opiliones). Cladistics, DOI: 10.1111/cla.12087 Reference page. [See p. [11]]
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.

The Neopilionidae are a family of harvestmen.

It has a clearly Gondwanan distribution, with species found in Australia, South Africa and South America, and probably represent relicts of that time.

The family members range in size from the small Americovibone lancafrancoae (0.9 mm) to over 4 mm in the Enantiobuninae.[1]

Some species of Enantiobuninae have blue pigmentation, which is rather unusual in harvestmen.[1]

The former family "Monoscutidae" has recently been subsumed within the subfamily Enantiobuninae.[2]
Name

The family name is a contraction of Ancient Greek neo "new" and Latin Opilio, a genus of harvestman.
Subdivisions

According to the Catalogue of Life, Neopilionidae includes three subfamilies, which contain a total of 19 genera and 78 species.[3]

Ballarrinae Hunt & Cokendolpher, 1991
Americovibone Hunt & Cokendolpher, 1991
Arrallaba Hunt & Cokendolpher, 1991
Ballarra Hunt & Cokendolpher, 1991
Plesioballarra Hunt & Cokendolpher, 1991
Vibone Kauri, 1961

Enantiobuninae Mello-Leitão, 1931 (incl. Monoscutidae)
Acihasta Forster, 1948
Australiscutum Taylor, 2009
Forsteropsalis Taylor, 2011
Mangatangi Taylor, 2013
Megalopsalis Roewer, 1923
Monoscutum Forster, 1948
Neopantopsalis Taylor & Hunt, 2009
Pantopsalis Simon, 1879
Spinicrus Forster, 1949
Templar Taylor, 2008
Tercentenarium Taylor, 2011
Thrasychiroides Soares & Soares, 1947
Thrasychirus Simon, 1884

Neopilioninae Lawrence, 1931
Neopilio Lawrence, 1931

Footnotes

Cokendolpher, James C. (2007): Neopilionidae Lawrence, 1931. In: Pinto-da-Rocha et al. 2007: 121ff
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.

"Neopilionidae Lawrence, 1931 | COL". www.catalogueoflife.org. Retrieved 2021-11-11.

References

Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog: Neopilionidae
Pinto-da-Rocha, R., Machado, G. & Giribet, G. (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press ISBN 0-674-02343-9