Grassatores

Taxobox
name = Grassatores


image_caption = Podoctidae
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Opiliones
subordo = Laniatores
infraordo = Grassatores
infraordo_authority = Kury, 2002
subdivision_ranks = Superfamilies
subdivision = See text for list.

Grassatores (Kury, 2002) is the most diverse infraorder of the Laniatores. It includes over 3,500 species distributed mainly in the World Tropics (Kury, 2003). They are characterized by the male genitalia without musculature, operated by hydraulic pressure and by the double tarsal claws of posterior legs.

Superfamilies included

*Superfamily Epedanoidea Sørensen, 1886
*Superfamily Phalangodoidea Simon, 1879
*Superfamily Samooidea Sørensen, 1886
*Superfamily Zalmoxoidea Sørensen, 1886
*Superfamily Gonyleptoidea Sundevall, 1833

References

* (2003). Annotated catalogue of the Laniatores of the New World (Arachnida, Opiliones). "Revista Ibérica de Aracnología", vol. especial monográfico 1: 1-337.