Sabacon cavicolens

Taxobox
name = "Sabacon cavicolens"


image_caption = "S. cavicolens"
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Opiliones
subordo = Dyspnoi
superfamilia = Ischyropsalidoidea
familia = Sabaconidae
genus = "Sabacon"
species = "S. cavicolens"
binomial = "Sabacon cavicolens"
binomial_authority = (Packard, 1884)
synonyms ="Phlegmacera cavicolens"

"Sabacon cavicolens" is a species of harvestman.

Description

Males are a bit longer than 2 mm, females 5 mm.

Distribution

It was originally described from Bat Cave, Carter County, Kentucky and New Hampshire, and a year later found under rotten logs in a deep gorge at Ithaca, New York.Banks, 1894]

"S. cavicolens" is distributed over the eastern part of North America, south in the mountains of North Carolina. It is very closely related to "S. paradoxum" and other European species, but quite different from the other "Sabacon" species of the eastern US, the smaller "S. mitchelli".Shear, 1975]

Habitat

Most specimens will be found under wet rotting logs of conifer forests, or clinging to the underside of stones. They seem not to walk about during the day, and generally move rather sluggish. Adult specimens are found at the earliest in mid-autumn, and even later at higher elevations. As they depend on high humidity, it is difficult to transport them alive for further study.

References

*'s Biology Catalog: [http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Acari/Family/Sabaconidae.txt Sabaconidae]
* (1894): The Nemastomatidae and Trogulidae of the United States II. "Psyche" 7: 51-52. [http://psyche2.entclub.org/articles/7/7-051.pdf PDF]
* (1975): The Opilionid Genera "Sabacon" and "Tomicomerus" in America (Opiliones, Troguloidea, Ischyropsalidae). "Journal of Arachnology" 3(1): 5-29. [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v3_n1/JoA_v3_p5.pdf PDF]