List of Cyphophthalmi species explained

See main article: Cyphophthalmi. This page lists all described species of the harvestman suborder Cyphophthalmi. Unless otherwise noted, information is taken from Giribet's 2000 taxonomic catalogue[1] and from Giribet et al., 2012.[2]

Boreophthalmi

Sironidae

Insetae sedis:

Stylocellidae[7]

Fangensinae

Leptopsalidinae[8]

Stylocellinae

Scopulophthalmi

Pettalidae

Sternophthalmi

Neogoveidae[19]

Ogoveidae[21]

Troglosironidae[22]

Incertae sedis

Parasironidae Karaman, Mitov & Snegovaya, 2024

Notes and References

  1. Giribet. Gonzalo. 2000. Catalogue of the Cyphophthalmi of the World (Arachnida, Opiliones). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología. 2. 49–76.
  2. Giribet. Gonzalo. Sharma. Prashant. Benavides. Ligia. Boyer. Sarah. Clouse. Ronald. de Bivort. Benjamin. Dimitrov. Dimitar. Kawauchi. Gisele. Murienne. Jerome. Schwendinger. Peter. 3. 2012. Evolutionary and biogeographical history of an ancient and global group of arachnids (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) with a new taxonomic arrangement. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 105. 1. 92–130. 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01774.x. free.
  3. Karaman. Ivo M.. 2009-06-01. The taxonomical status and diversity of Balkan sironids (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) with descriptions of twelve new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 156. 2. 260–318. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00446.x. 0024-4082. free.
  4. Giribet. Gonzalo. Raða. Tonći. Dreszer. Taras B.. 2015. Cyphophthalmus solentiensis sp. nov. (Cyphophthalmi, Sironidae), a New Endogean Mite Harvestman Species from Croatia, with an Application of Confocal Laser Microscopy to Illustrate Genitalia in Opiliones. Breviora. 543. 1. 1–15. 10.3099/MCZ18.1. 0006-9698.
  5. Merino-Sáinz. Izaskun. Benavides. Ligia R.. Giribet. Gonzalo. 2017-08-30. The systematics and biogeography of the mite harvestman family Sironidae (Arachnida : Opiliones : Cyphophthalmi) with the description of five new species. Invertebrate Systematics. en. 31. 4. 456–491. 10.1071/IS16086. 1447-2600.
  6. (2006): A new species of Cyphophthalmi (Arachnida, Opiliones, Sironidae) from Eastern Slovenia. Zootaxa 1330: 27-42. PDF
  7. Clouse. Ronald. 2012. The lineages of Stylocellidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi). Zootaxa. 3595. 3595. 1–34. 10.11646/zootaxa.3595.1.1. 1175-5334.
  8. Kury. Adriano. 2018. The correct spelling of Leptopsalidinae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi).. Arachnida – Rivista Aracnologica Italiana. 18. 40–43.
  9. Clouse. Ronald. Schwendinger. Peter. 2012. Leptopsalis foveolata sp. n., a new species of Stylocellidae from Thailand that displays a novel morphological feature in the suborder Cyphophthalmi (Arachnida, Opiliones). Revue suisse de Zoologie. 119. 529–546. 10.5962/bhl.part.150204.
  10. Schmidt. Stephanie. Clouse. Ronald. Sharma. Prashant. 2020. A new Miopsalis from Mindanao supports a biogeographic umbilicus between Borneo and the southern Philippines (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi: Stylocellidae). Zootaxa. 4779. 3. 379–390. 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.6.
  11. Boyer. Sarah. Giribet. Gonzalo. 2007. A new model Gondwanan taxon: systematics and biogeography of the harvestman family Pettalidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi), with a taxonomic revision of genera from Australia and New Zealand. Cladistics. 23. 4. 337–361. 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00149.x.
  12. Boyer. Sarah. Sharma. Prashant. Oberski. Jill. Coblens. Michelle. Popkin-Hall. Zachary. Jay. Katya. 2016-04-05. New species of Austropurcellia, cryptic short-range endemic mite harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) from Australia's Wet Tropics biodiversity hotspot. ZooKeys. en. 586. 37–93. 10.3897/zookeys.586.6774. 27199608. 4857030 . 1313-2970. free.
  13. Giribet. Gonzalo. 2003. Karripurcellia, a new pettalid genus (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) from Western Australia, with a cladistic analysis of the family Pettalidae. Invertebrate Systematics. 17. 3. 387–406. 10.1071/IS02014.
  14. de Bivort. Benjamin. Giribet. Gonzalo. 2010. A systematic revision of the South African Pettalidae (Arachnida:Opiliones:Cyphophthalmi) based on a combined analysis of discrete and continuous morphological characters with the description of seven new species. https://web.archive.org/web/20190226103610/http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7d11/88f81d4e9920293581a68e6f1c14f85555c3.pdf. dead. 2019-02-26. Invertebrate Systematics. 24. 4. 371–406. 10.1071/IS10015. 32628735 .
  15. Giribet. Gonzalo. Boyer. Sarah. Baker. Caitlin. Fernandéz. Rosa. Sharma. Prashant. de Bivort. Benjamin. Daniels. Savel. Harvey. Mark. Griswold. Charles. 3. 2016. A molecular phylogeny of the temperate Gondwanan family Pettalidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) and the limits of taxonomic sampling. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 178. 3. 523–545. 10.1111/zoj.12419.
  16. Sharma. Prashant. Giribet. Gonzalo. 2006. A new Pettalus species (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Pettalidae) from Sri Lanka with a discussion on the evolution of eyes in Cyphophthalmi. The Journal of Arachnology. 34. 2. 331–341. 10.1636/H05-33.1. 2019-09-10. 2020-10-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20201024203226/http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v34_n2/arac-34-2-331.pdf. dead.
  17. Sharma. Prashant. Karunarathna. Indika. Giribet. Gonzalo. 2009. On the endemic Sri Lankan genus Pettalus (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Pettalidae) with a description of a new species and a discussion of its diversity. Journal of Arachnology. 37. 1. 60–7. 10.1636/H08-56.1. 2019-09-10. 2021-04-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20210417124405/http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v37_n1/arac-37-01-60.pdf. dead.
  18. Staręga. Wojciech. 2008. The second species of Purcellia Hansen et Sørensen, 1904 (Arachnida: Opiliones: Pettalidae) from South Africa. Polish Journal of Entomology. 77. 1. 51–56.
  19. Benavides. Ligia. Hormiga. Gustavo. Giribet. Gonzalo. 2019. Phylogeny, evolution and systematic revision of the mite harvestman family Neogoveidae (Opiliones Cyphophthalmi). Invertebrate Systematics. 33. 1. 101–180. 10.1071/IS18018.
  20. Clouse. Ronald. Wheeler. Ward. 2014. Descriptions of two new, cryptic species of Metasiro (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi: Neogoveidae) from South Carolina, USA, including a discussion of mitochondrial mutation rates . Zootaxa. 3814. 2. 177–201. 10.11646/zootaxa.3814.2.2. 24943422. 1175-5334.
  21. Giribet. Gonzalo. Prieto. Carlos E.. 2003-12-31. A new Afrotropical Ogovea (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) from Cameroon, with a discussion on the taxonomic characters in the family Ogoveidae. Zootaxa. 329. 1–18. 10.5281/zenodo.156214.
  22. Book: Zoologia Neocaledonica. Sharma. Prashant. Giribet. Gonzalo. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. 2009. 9782856536186. 7. 205–245. The family Troglosironidae (Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) of New Caledonia. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232643583.