The Travuniidae are a small family 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 ...

with little more than ten described species, within the suborder

Laniatores Laniatores is the largest suborder of the arachnid order Opiliones with over 4,000 described species worldwide. The majority of the species are highly dependent on humid environments and usually correlated with tropical and temperate forest habit ...

Description

Travuniidae are at the most three millimeters long, with slender, unarmed legs and robust, strongly spined

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s. (2007): Travuniidae Absolon & Kratochvíl, 1932. In: Pinto-da-Rocha ''et al.'' 2007: 237ff

Distribution

Travuniidae have been found in

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, Japan and the United States. Although some were described from

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, these records proved to be erroneous.

Relationships

Travuniidae are most closely related to

Cladonychiidae The Cladonychiidae are a small family of harvestman with about 33 described species, within the suborder Laniatores. Description Members of this family range from less than two to about four millimeters in body length, with robust, spined pedipa ...

; it is even possible that Travuniidae is

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in respect to this family.

Name

The name of the type genus is derived from the

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name of

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Species

Peltonychiinae

* '' Peltonychia'' Roewer, 1935 :* '' Peltonychia leprieurii'' (Lucas, 1860) — Buco Dell'Orso (cave, northern Italy) :* '' Peltonychia posteumicola'' (Roewer, 1935) :* '' Peltonychia gabria'' Roewer, 1935 :* '' Peltonychia tenuis'' Roewer, 1935

Travuniinae

* '' Abasola'' Strand, 1928 :* '' Abasola troglodytes'' (Roewer, 1915) —

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:* '' Abasola sarea'' Roewer, 1935 —

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:* '' Abasola hofferi'' Silhavy, 1937 — Yugoslavia * '' Arbasus'' Roewer, 1935 :* '' Arbasus caecus'' (Simon, 1911) — southern France * '' Dinaria'' Hadzi, 1932 — palearctic * '' Kratochvíliola'' Roewer, 1935 — palearctic :* '' Kratochvíliola navarica'' Roewer, 1935 * '' Speleonychia'' Briggs, 1974 :* '' Speleonychia sengeri'' Briggs, 1974 —

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* ''

Travunia Travunia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Travunija, Травунија; el, Τερβουνία, Tervounía; grc, Τερβουνία, Terbounía; la, Tribunia) was a South Slavic medieval principality that was part of Medieval Serbia (850–13 ...

'' Absolon & Kratochvíl, 1932 :* '' Travunia jandai'' Kratochvíl, 1938 —

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

incertae sedis

* ''

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'' Suzuki, 1964 — Japan :* '' Yuria pulcra'' Suzuki, 1964 ::* ''Yuria pulcra pulcra'' Suzuki, 1964 ::* ''Yuria pulcra briggsi'' Suzuki, 1975 * '' Buemarinoa'' Roewer, 1956 :* '' Buemarinoa patrizii'' Roewer, 1956 —

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...

Footnotes

References

* 's Biology Catalog
Travuniidae
* (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. ''Harvard University Press'' {{Taxonbar, from=Q144140 Harvestmen Harvestman families