''Bishopella'' is a genus of the
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 ...
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 ...
, with two described species. ''B. jonesi'' occurs only in
Alabama
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, while ''B. laciniosa'' is found in the southeastern
United States
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.
The genus is named in honor of
S. C. Bishop, 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 ...
, together with
C. R. Crosby.
Species
* ''
Bishopella jonesi''
Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942
* ''
Bishopella laciniosa''
(Crosby & Bishop, 1924)
References
* 's Biology Catalog
Phalangodidae
Harvestmen
Arthropods of the United States
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