''Banksula'' is a genus of

harvestman The Opiliones (formerly Phalangida) are an order of arachnids colloquially known as harvestmen, harvesters, harvest spiders, or daddy longlegs. , over 6,650 species of harvestmen have been discovered worldwide, although the total number of ext ...

in family

Phalangodidae The Phalangodidae are a family of harvestmen with about 30 genera and more than 100 described species, distributed in the Holarctic region. It is not to be confused with the harvestman family Phalangiidae, which is in the suborder Eupnoi. Nam ...

. Currently, ten species are described, all of them

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

, United States. The genus is named in honor of

Nathan Banks Nathan Banks (April 13, 1868 – January 24, 1953) was an American entomologist noted for his work on Neuroptera, Megaloptera, Hymenoptera, and Acarina (mites). He started work on mites in 1880 with the USDA. In 1915 he authored the first comp ...

, who described the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...

Species

* '' Banksula californica'' (Banks, 1900) * '' Banksula galilei'' Briggs, 1974 * ''

Banksula grahami ''Banksula'' is a genus of harvestman in family Phalangodidae. Currently, ten species are described, all of them endemic to California, United States. The genus is named in honor of Nathan Banks, who described the type species. Species * '' Ban ...

'' Briggs, 1974 * '' Banksula grubbsi'' Briggs & Ubick, 1981 * '' Banksula incredula'' Ubick & Briggs, 2002 * '' Banksula martinorum'' Briggs & Ubick, 1981 * ''

Banksula melones ''Banksula melones'' is a species of harvestman in family Phalangodidae. It is endemic to caves along the Stanislaus River of California, United States. This, with a body size of only slightly more than 2 mm, minute harvestman lives only i ...

'' Briggs, 1974 * '' Banksula rudolphi'' Briggs & Ubick, 1981 * '' Banksula tuolumne'' Briggs, 1974 * '' Banksula tutankhamen'' Ubick & Briggs, 2002

References

* 's Biology Catalog
Phalangodidae
Harvestmen Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Opiliones-stub