Phalangioidea
| Phalangioidea | |
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| male Phalangium opilio | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Opiliones |
| Suborder: | Eupnoi |
| Superfamily: | Phalangioidea |
| Families | |
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Phalangioidea is a superfamily of the harvestman suborder Eupnoi with five recognized families and more than 1,500 species.
It is not to be confused with the similar spelled subfamily Phalangodoidea, which is also a harvestman superfamily, but within the infraorder Laniatores.
Families
- Monoscutidae (5 genera, 32 species)
- Neopilionidae (8 genera, 15 species)
- Sclerosomatidae (148 genera, 1273 species)
- Stygophalangiidae (1 species: Stygophalangium karamani Oudemans, 1933) (former Yugoslavia)
- Phalangiidae (49 genera, 381 species)