Phalangium

Taxobox
name = "Phalangium"

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image_caption = male "P. opilio"
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Opiliones
subordo = Eupnoi
superfamilia = Phalangioidea
familia = Phalangiidae
subfamilia = Phalangiinae
genus = Phalangium
genus_authority = Linnaeus, 1758
type_species = "Phalangium iberica"
type_species_authority = Schenkel, 1939
diversity_link = Phalangium (harvestman)
diversity = > 30 species
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text for list.
synonyms ="Cerastoma"

"Phalangium" is a genus of harvestmen, that occurs mostly in the Old World. The best known species is "Phalangium opilio", which is so common in many temperate regions that is is simply called "harvestman". [http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/predators/phalangium_opilio.html]

pecies

* "Phalangium aegyptiacum" Savigny, 1816 (Egypt)
* "Phalangium bilineatum" Fabricius, 1779
* "Phalangium cancroides" Müller, 1776
* "Phalangium clavipus" Roewer, 1911 (Majorca)
* "Phalangium conigerum" Sørensen, 1912
* "Phalangium coronatum" Fabricius, 1779
* "Phalangium crassum" Dufour, 1831
* "Phalangium cristatum" Olivier, 1791
* "Phalangium grossipes" Müller, 1776
* "Phalangium iberica" Schenkel, 1939 (Spain)
* "Phalangium incanum" C.L.Koch, 1839
* "Phalangium licenti" Schenkel, 1953
* "Phalangium ligusticum" (Roewer, 1923) (Liguria, Italy)
* "Phalangium lineola" Dufour, 1831
* "Phalangium litorale" Störm, 1762
* "Phalangium lupatum" Eichwald, 1830
* "Phalangium mamillatum" Gervais, 1844 (Spain)
* "Phalangium mesomelas" Soerensen, 1910 (Kilimanjaro)
* "Phalangium minutum" Meade, 1861
* "Phalangium mucronatum" Müller, 1776
* "Phalangium muscorum" Latreille, 1802
* "Phalangium opilio" Linnaeus, 1761 (holarctic)
* "Phalangium ortoni" Wood, 1869 (Ecuador)
* "Phalangium pallidum" Müller, 1776
* "Phalangium palmatum" Herbst, 1797
* "Phalangium punctipes" (L.Koch, 1878) (Armenia)
* "Phalangium pygnogonum" Müller, 1776
* "Phalangium riedeli" Starega, 1973
* "Phalangium rubens" Hermann, 1804
* "Phalangium rudipalpe" Gervais, 1849
* "Phalangium savignyi" Savignyi, 1826 (Egypt, Italy)
* "Phalangium spiniferum" Cantor, 1842 (Zhoushan, China)
* "Phalangium targionii" (Canestrini, 1871) (Mediterranean)
* "Phalangium tricuspidatum" Dufour, 1831
* "Phalangium uncatum" Hermann, 1804 (Austria)

References

*'s Biology Catalog: [http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Acari/Family/Phalangiidae.txt Phalangiidae]