Taxobox
name = "Sabacon"
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image_caption = "S. cavicolens"
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Opiliones
subordo = Dyspnoi
superfamilia = Ischyropsalidoidea
familia = Sabaconidae
genus = "Sabacon"
genus_authority = Simon, 1879
diversity_link = Sabacon
diversity = c. 40 species
type_species = "Sabacon paradoxum"
type_species_authority = Simon, 1879
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range_map_width = 250px
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Sabacon cavicolens"
"Sabacon paradoxum"
:"others, see text"
"Sabacon" is a genus of the harvestman family Sabaconidae with about forty species.
Species of this genus have usually thickened pedipalps with stiff, fine hairs, which is unique among harvestmen. Although the small eye tubercle is usually not ornamented, there is a spine on one Nepalese species. Males have long, thin legs, females are stouter.[Shear 1975] ]The genus is widespread in the temperate northern hemisphere, even extending into the subarctic, with the most southern records from caves in the southeastern USA and high elevations in Nepal. The center of diversification seems to be in Asia, where many species were described from Japan, Korea and Nepal. Some species occur in Europe.While the Asian and North American species are easy to differententiate from one another by male genital traits, the few European species are very similar, and seem to be closely related to "S. cavicolens". "S. mitchelli", which, like the larger "S. cavicolens", occurs in the eastern US, is quite different from the latter, with males lacking cheliceral glands. Species from the western US seem most closely related to Asian forms. "S. astoriensis" is very similar to "S. dentipalpe" and "S. makinoi"; it was collected from dried seaweed and debris in beach dunes.Almost all "Sabacon" species prefer moist, cool microhabitats, and many species live in caves, but none are modified for cave life. Outside of caves they are often found in forests or shaded ravines.pecies
:* "Sabacon akiyoshiense" Suzuki, 1963:* "Sabacon altomontanum" Martens, 1983 (France):* "Sabacon astoriensis" Shear, 1975 (Oregon):* † "Sabacon bachofeni" Roewer, 1939 (fossil: Baltic amber):* "Sabacon briggsi" Shear, 1975 (California):* "Sabacon bryantii" (Banks, 1898) (southeastern coastal Alaska):* "Sabacon cavicolens" (Packard, 1884) (eastern US):* "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 (California, Oregon):* "Sabacon unicornis" Martens, 1972:* "Sabacon viscayanum" Simon, 1881::* "Sabacon viscayanum ramblaianum" Martens, 1983 (France)::* "Sabacon viscayanum viscayanum" Simon, 1881
Footnotes
References
*'s Biology Catalog: [http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Acari/Family/Sabaconidae.txt Sabaconidae]
* (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] (with description of "S. cavicolens", "S. mitchelli", "S. occidentalis", "S. siskiyou", "S. astoriensis" "S. briggsi", "S. bryantii")
