Grassatores
| Grassatores | |
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| Podoctidae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Opiliones |
| Suborder: | Laniatores |
| Infraorder: | Grassatores Kury, 2002 |
| Superfamilies | |
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Grassatores (Kury, 2002) is the most diverse infraorder of the Laniatores. It includes over 3,500 species distributed mainly in the World Tropics (Kury, 2003). They are characterized by the male genitalia without musculature, operated by hydraulic pressure and by the double tarsal claws of posterior legs.
Superfamilies included
- Superfamily Epedanoidea Sørensen, 1886
- Superfamily Phalangodoidea Simon, 1879
- Superfamily Samooidea Sørensen, 1886
- Superfamily Zalmoxoidea Sørensen, 1886
- Superfamily Gonyleptoidea Sundevall, 1833
References
- Kury, A.B. (2003). Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, vol. especial monográfico 1: 1-337.
External links
- Classification of Opiliones A synoptic taxonomic arrangement of the order Opiliones, down to family-group level, including some photos of the families