Amauropilio Explained

Amauropilio is an extinct genus of harvestmen in the family Sclerosomatidae.^[1] It is known from the Chadronian aged Florissant Formation in Colorado.^[2]

Species

• Amauropilio atavus (Cockerell, 1907)
• Amauropilio lacoei (Petrunkevitch, 1922) (note, this was later miswritten "Amauropilio lawei" in Mello-Leitão, 1937).^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Amauropilio. 28 Nov 2023. Kury, A. et al. (2023). WCO-Lite: World Catalogue of Opiliones.
2. Petrunkevitch. A.. 1922. Tertiary spiders and opilionids of North America. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 25. 3. 211–279. en.
3. Mello-Leitão. C.F.. 1937. Distribution et Phylogénie des Faucheurs Sud-Américains. Comptes Rendus du XIIe Congrès Internacional de Zoologie (Lisboa, 15–21 Sept. 1935). Arquivos do Museu Bocage. 6. 1217–1228. en.