Gonyleptoidea

Taxobox

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image_caption = "Metagonyleptes calcar" Roewer, 1913, from Brazil.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Opiliones
subordo = Laniatores
infraordo = Grassatores
superfamilia = Gonyleptoidea
superfamilia_authority = Sundevall, 1833
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision = See text for list.

Gonyleptoidea (Sundevall, 1833) is the most diverse superfamily of the Grassatores. It includes around 2,500 species distributed in the World Tropics. They are characterized by the simplified male genitalia, with the glans free subapical in the truncus.

Families included

* Agoristenidae Šilhavý, 1973
* Cosmetidae Koch, 1839
* Cranaidae Roewer, 1913
* Gonyleptidae Sundevall, 1833
* Manaosbiidae Roewer, 1943
* Stygnidae Simon, 1879

The following families were transferred to superfamily Assamioidea:

* Assamiidae Sørensen, 1884
* Stygnopsidae Sørensen, 1932