Sabaconidae

Taxobox


image_caption = "Sabacon cavicolens"
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Opiliones
subordo = Dyspnoi
superfamilia = Ischyropsalidoidea
familia = Sabaconidae
familia_authority = Dresco, 1970
diversity_link = Sabaconidae
diversity = 2 genera, c. 45 species
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Sabacon"
"Taracus"

The Sabaconidae are a family of harvestmen with about 50 known species.

The species range in body length from 1.2 to 5.5 mm. The relatively small chelicerae are sexually dimorphic. In "Taracus" the chelicerae are strongly elongated. The characteristic, ofter relatively stout pedipalps are often longer than the body.aut|Gruber, Jürgen (2007): Sabaconidae Dresco, 1970. In: Pinto-da-Rocha "et al." 2007: 154ff]

Distribution

Sabaconidae appear in the Northern hemisphere: "Taracus" is only found in western North America and eastern Siberia. "Sabacon" occurs in southwestern Europe plus southern Wales, and temperate Asia, up to Japan, China and the Himalayan region.

Name

The name of the type genus is derived from "Sabacon", an Egyptian king.

pecies

* "Sabacon" Simon, 1879:* "Sabacon akiyoshiense" Suzuki, 1963:* "Sabacon altomontanum" Martens, 1983 (France):* "Sabacon astoriensis" Shear, 1975:* † "Sabacon bachofeni" Roewer, 1939 (fossil: Baltic amber):* "Sabacon briggsi" Shear, 1975:* "Sabacon bryantii" (Banks, 1898) (Alaska):* "Sabacon cavicolens" (Packard, 1884):* "Sabacon chomolongmae" Martens, 1972:* "Sabacon crassipalpe" (L. Koch, 1879) (Siberia, North America):* "Sabacon dentipalpe" Suzuki, 1949 (Japan):* "Sabacon dhaulagiri" Martens, 1972:* "Sabacon distinctum" Suzuki, 1974:* "Sabacon franzi" Roewer, 1953:* "Sabacon gonggashan" Tsurusaki & Song, 1993 (Sichuan):* "Sabacon imamurai" Suzuki, 1964:* "Sabacon iriei" Suzuki, 1974:* "Sabacon ishizuchi" Suzuki, 1974:* "Sabacon jiriensis" Martens, 1972:* "Sabacon jonesi" Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 (Alabama):* "Sabacon makinoi" Suzuki, 1949 (Japan)::* "Sabacon makinoi makinoi" Suzuki, 1949::* "Sabacon makinoi sugimotoi" Suzuki & Tsurusaki, 1983:* "Sabacon martensi" Tsurusaki & Song, 1993 (Sichuan):* "Sabacon mitchelli" Crosby & Bishop, 1924 (North Carolina):* "Sabacon okadai" Suzuki, 1941:* "Sabacon palpogranulatum" Martens, 1972:* "Sabacon paradoxum" Simon, 1879 (Pyrenees):* "Sabacon pasonianum" Glez-Luque, 1991 (cave in Spain):* "Sabacon pectiginosa" Simon, 1913 (Spain):* "Sabacon picosantrum" Martens, 1983 (Spain):* "Sabacon pygmaeum" Miyosi, 1942 (Japan):* "Sabacon relictum" Marten, 1972:* "Sabacon robusta" Simon, 1873 (Spain):* "Sabacon satoikioi" Miyosi, 1942:* "Sabacon sergeidedicatum" Martens, 1989 (Siberia):* "Sabacon sheari" Cokendolpher, 1984 (Oregon):* "Sabacon simoni" Dresco, 1952:* "Sabacon siskiyou" Shear, 1975 :* "Sabacon unicornis" Martens, 1972:* "Sabacon viscayanum" Simon, 1881::* "Sabacon viscayanum ramblaianum" Martens, 1983 (France)::* "Sabacon viscayanum viscayanum" Simon, 1881

* "Taracus" Simon, 1879:* "Taracus birsteini" Ljovschkin, 1971 (Russia):* "Taracus gertschi" Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 (Oregon):* "Taracus malkini" Goodnight & Goodnight, 1945 (California):* "Taracus nigripes" Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943 (Colorado):* "Taracus packardi" Simon, 1879 (Colorado):* "Taracus pallipes" Banks, 1894 (Washington):* "Taracus silvestrii" Roewer, 1930 (cave in USA):* "Taracus spinosus" Banks, 1894 (California)

Footnotes

References

* Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog: [http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Acari/Family/Sabaconidae.txt Sabaconidae]
* (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. "Harvard University Press" ISBN 0-674-02343-9