Phalangioidea

Taxobox
name = Phalangioidea

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image_caption = male "Phalangium opilio"
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Opiliones
subordo = Eupnoi
superfamilia = Phalangioidea
superfamilia_authority =
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision = See text for list.

Phalangioidea is a superfamily of the harvestman suborder Eupnoi with five recognized families and more than 1,500 species.

It is not to be confused with the similar spelled subfamily Phalangodoidea, which is also a harvestman superfamily, but within the infraorder Laniatores.

Families

* Monoscutidae (5 genera, 32 species)
* Neopilionidae (8 genera, 15 species)
* Sclerosomatidae (148 genera, 1273 species)
* Stygophalangiidae (1 species: "Stygophalangium karamani" Oudemans, 1933) (former Yugoslavia)
* Phalangiidae (49 genera, 381 species)